Maria Tomasula named as Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist
Maria Tomasula, professor emeritus and faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame, will speak at Goshen College's annual Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist event on Sept. 18.
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Broadway set designer Karl Eigsti to be visiting artist at Goshen College
Karl Eigsti, a Tony Award-nominated set designer, will share his experience later this month at Goshen College as a visiting artist.
Sculptor Bob Emser to explore fascination with flight in 2015 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Bob Emser, a sculptor and aviation enthusiast, is the Goshen College Art Department’s 2015 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist and will deliver a public lecture on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall, with a reception immediately following in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.
Clay artist Scott Dooley offers 2014 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Born and raised in Kansas, Scott Dooley discovered a love for clay as a senior in college, and has been a potter ever since.
Japanese artist Michiko Itatani offers 2012-13 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Born in Japan, artist Michiko Itatani lives and works in Chicago as a professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Seattle metalsmith Andy Cooperman offers 2011-12 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Jewelry has been Cooperman’s primary art focus, though he also makes small sculptures, architectural details, hollowware and tableware. From commissioned rings to one-of-a-kind brooches and neckpieces, all of his work is forged, fabricated and cast in his Seattle studio.
Texas ceramist Juan Granados offers 2011 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Throughout his childhood, Granados traveled with his family as migrant farm workers throughout the southern United States. As he cultivated the earth, he observed the interdependence and importance of nature. Granados is connected to his background of working with land through his use of clay as his artistic medium, and aims to create work that is organic. Through his ceramics, he tries to express his past and share the message of human sustainability.
Terry Evans, Chicago photographer, offers 2010 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Evans has worked with aerial and ground photography to capture the prairies and plains of North America. More recently, she has explored the steel industry and working steel mills, as well as using photographs of the Greenland ice sheet to examine the scale of climate change.
Internationally-acclaimed Chinese artist Hung Liu offers 2008-09 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist Lecture
Liu’s unusual biography infuses her work with a unique richness; her paintings are steeped in Chinese culture, contemporary and ancient. While she has a foot in both cultures – Chinese and American – her art is born of a traditional Chinese art education. She fuses images from seventh century Tang tomb mural paintings of princes and princesses with Western.
Indiana native and artist Carol Ann Carter offers 2007 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist lecture
Carter’s creative work began in intaglio printmaking and advanced to mixed media painting and fiber construction in 1984 after she went to Nigeria to study Hausa men’s traditional weaving and embroidery. “The energy and exaggeration of life there made it imperative to me, and subsequently to my work, to respond with like energy. Nigeria was the catalyst for the shift in my art’s direction,” Carter said in the book “Mixed Blessings.” She is currently working in multimedia installation – performance, mixed media and digital imaging and video. Carter is also interested in collaboration across cultures and disciplines in the arts.