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What's New |
| Art Gallery Collections Database Brought Online
Gallery Benefits from Gifts of Art |
This development makes information about the entire collection by faculty and students much more accessible. Formerly, information about works of art in storage was available only by appointment with the curator.
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Three students were the recipients of this year's Art Gallery Purchase Award, a prize funded by an anonymous donor in honor of excellent teaching by the Art Department faculty. Each of the student's selected works become part of the Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery. At the donor's request, selections for the awards were made by Theresa Hammond, director & curator of the Art Gallery, and George Lorio, an associate professor of Art and also a member of the Gallery's advisory committee.
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The exhibition was organized by the German Historical Museum in Berlin and opened there in 1996. During the following two years, the exhibit traveled to 21 German cities, and recently, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has brought it to the United States for tour.
Quakers served Germans and those who were victims of the Germans. Major emphasis is given to the main theme: the large-scale Quaker relief and reconciliation programs after World War II and the Quäkerspeisung (Quaker feeding effort), which many Germans still remember today. The exhibit also explores Quaker work in Germany in the 1920's, when the civilian populace was on the verge of starvation and the country was suffering from the effects of isolation, punishing economic reparations, and world economic crisis. A third theme covers aid and rescue work during the Holocaust era when AFSC and British Friends provided humanitarian assistance to Jews and other persecuted people from a network of Quaker offices throughout Europe. "Quiet Helpers" uses a mix of artifacts and three-dimensional objects, documents, historical photos, and video to explore the exhibit themes. These straightforward, real-life items put a human face on the aid work and the people who were involved. A 30-minute documentary film, Love Amid the Ruins, uses newsreels and other historical footage, interspersed with interviews of volunteers who worked in Germany as well as people who were helped by Quakers. The exhibit opened in the Art Gallery atrium on Friday, September 8, with a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. On Saturday, September 23, three Guilford College alumni who participated in the Quaker relief efforts in Europe will speak about their experiences at 1:30 p.m. in the main gallery. These events are free and the public is cordially invited.
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Philip Harnden, an author, former publisher of The Other Side magazine, and an acquaintance of Eichenberg's, will present a talk titled, "The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg" on Wednesday, October 4, 2000 at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery. This event is free and the public is cordially invited. The exhibition is organized into seven thematic sections that correspond to important phases of Eichenberg's life and career: introduction to the artist; his years as a student and commercial artist in Germany; his early years in New York; his success in book illustration; his religious-themed work; large-scale prints and portfolio projects; and autobiographical work. This structure conflates a scheme of ten autobiographical chapters devised by Eichenberg in 1986 for his final exhibition at Associated American Artists gallery in New York, but never realized by Eichenberg because of the onset of Parkinson's disease. Each part joins Eichenberg's works of the period with a chronology of his life, excerpts from his unpublished autobiography, and relevant text concerning concurrent world events. This synthesis of materials gives viewers both a sense of the context from which Eichenberg's images emerged and an opportunity to reflect personally upon the political and social issues that he presents. Witness To Our Century was organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and curated by Robert Conway, Director of the Eichenberg Trust, and Walter Schatz. The exhibit is supported through through the generosity of the Louise Bullard Wallace Foundation; the Goethe-Institut Atlanta; and the Fritz Eichenberg Trust.
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