Cornell Council for the Arts

Nicole Castelli, apparel design major and BS '10 candidate, received the Edward M. Murray Committee on the Arts Scholarship in January 2010.

The Scholarship was established in 2000 by the Cornell University Council Committee on the Arts (COA), to raise awareness of Cornell's arts programs and increase the visibility of its cultural activities and resources. The scholarship is awarded annually to an enrolled Cornell University undergraduate student majoring in arts and culture-related programs, who has demonstrated exceptional promise in their field. The scholarship is administered by the CCA.

The scholarship is named in memory of Edward M. Murray, Cornell professor of music theory, conductor, composer and pianist.

For more information about this scholarship and Nicole Castelli

February 11, 2010, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, Andrea Inselmann, curator of contemporary art, H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, will lead a discussion on the exhibition JAMES SIENA: FROM THE STUDIO

JAMES SIENA, BFA '79, has been named the 2009 - 2010 Cornell University Eissner Artist of the Year Award recipient by the Cornell Council for the Arts and Committee on the Arts of the University Council Office.  Mr. Siena will return to campus to meet with students, receive the artist  award, give a gallery talk, and present works in an exhibition at the H.F. Johnson Museum of Art.

EXHIBITION – JAMES SIENA: FROM THE STUDIO
January 16 - April 18, 2010, H.F. Johnson Museum of Art
An intimate look into Siena's studio practice, including early works, works by other artists he traded for, and sketches.

OPENING RECEPTION FOR SPRING EXHIBITIONS - H.F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART
February 12, 2010, 5:00 PM

GALLERY TALK + EISSNER ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD PRESENTATION
April 16, 2010, 4:30 PM, reception to follow (open to the public), H.F. Johnson Museum of Art

Cornell Chronicle announcement
Cornell Alumni Magazine
 

     
James Siena
Base Three, 1997
Enamel on aluminum
19-1/4" x 15-1/8" (48.9 cm x 38.4 cm)
Photo courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York
© James Siena, courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York


James Siena is one of the most inventive, independent, focused and prolific artists working today.  Siena received a BFA from Cornell in 1979, and has emerged as one of the art world's internationally respected leaders whose work is widely regarded and critically acclaimed.

Siena has received prestigious awards and residencies including Artist-in-Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2004); Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2000); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award, New York (1999); and Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York (1994).

Siena has been represented since 2004, by PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, one of the most respected art galleries internationally.  In 2004 his work was included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Since 1981, his work has been included in more than 120 individual and group exhibitions internationally.  He has lectured and taught at leading institutions, including the Cleveland Institute of At, Cooper Union School of Art, Massachusetts College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Visual Arts, Rutgers University, The New School, and Yale University.

His work is included in public and private collections, including Yale University Art Gallery; Whitney Museum of American Art; UCLA-Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell; and other notable venues.

February 15 - 19, 2101, Tjaden Gallery
AUSTIN + MERGOLD present The Grand (and other) Resources, a series of musings on the theme of legacy infrastructure, energy sources in cities, agro-industrial complex, construction waste, and joyous wooden decks.

www.austin-mergold.com

Mann Library Gallery / March 2, 2010

[re] order explores two extremely different visions of nature and order. These visions are taken on by two Landscape Architecture student artists who [re]interpreted certain events seen in nature and converted them to art.

aloe [poly]flection–art installation by I. Maria Calderon (BA '10), probes the elemental compositi on of the Aloe polyphyla plant, its generative patterning, skeletal framework and perseverance of the Fibonacci Sequence as a basis for understanding its poeti c att ributes. Aloe [poly]fl ecti on unfolds into the fl oor space and reveals the elegance of the Aloe polyphyla plant through refl ecti ve constructi on materials that create a piece amenable to the human scale.

apocalypse–an exhibition of images by Eammon Coughlin (MLA '11 candidate), combines visual works with the writt en word to bridge various disciplines of philosophy, art and design. The text, drawing on social and ecological criti cism, att empts a criti que of sustainability and environmentalism through the lens of "apocalypse."

8PM, Barnes Hall
Contemporary music performed by the Momenta Quartet (Erik Carlson and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; and Joanne Lin, cello), a New York City-based string quartet. With Wendy Richman, a leading new music violist and founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Compositions by Philip Glass, Kee Yong Chong, Arthur Kampela and Gordon Beeferman.

Momenta Quartet

5:15 PM, H.F. Johnson Museum of Art
In conjunction with exhibition THE IMAGE WROUGHT, artist France Scully Osterman wiill visit campus to speak about her work in an artist talk titled, "Serendipity and Exquisite Manipulation," and offer a wet-collodion workshop for Cornell students.  Osterman is photographer, teacher and guest scholar at the George Eastman House.

The exhibition (January 30 - March 28, 2010), exmaines the paradox of contemporary photographers embracing archaic photographic practices in today's digital age, presenting contemporary images alongside vintage examples of their 19th century predacessors.

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

8PM, Barnes Hall
The Momenta Quartet will perform new works by Cornell graduate composers Charles Cacioppo, Taylan Cihan, Ryan Gallagher, Christopher Stark, and Zach Wadsworth.

Conference and concert festival relating to the eighteenth-century musicologist Charles Burney.
CONFERENCE: Speakers will present papers relating to Burney’s career as travel writer,
historian, composer, and pedagogue. This scholarly event will be accompanied and enriched
by several live musical and theatrical performances.

THREE CONCERTS at Risley Great Hall
MARCH 12, 8:30PM
March 13, 8:00PM
March 14, 8:00PM
A short opera in its entirety: Burney’s English translation and adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famous comic opera Le Devin du village (translated as The Cunning Man). This work, now unjustly fallen into obscurity, was immensely popular in its day. It features an appealing comic tale of love and trickery, and original music by Burney and Rousseau.
Organized by Ellen Lockhart and Dorian Komanoff Bandy; featuring Les Petits Violons, conducted by Dorian Komanoff Bandy, with a cast including Stephen Lavonier as "The Cunning Man" himself (many with remember Lavonier, who played the title character in the November 2008 Don Giovanni).