THIS EARTH-What She Is to Me, is a new (mid-covid) collaboration by ANDREA BOWERS AND SUZANNE LACY honoring the work of eco-feminist poet Susan Griffin in a collective reading from the 1978 book, Woman and Nature, The Roaring Inside Her.
Katya Grokhovsky was born in Ukraine, raised in Australia and is based in NYC. She is an artist, independent curator, educator and a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
Laura Elkins graduated from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1974 (the first UVa class to admit women), where she also studied figure painting and drawing. Having had her fill of the institutional sexism that dominated UVa at the time, Elkins opted out of attending graduate school in art and, instead, returned to Oxford, Mississippi, her hometown, to develop her painting practice.
Born in Chicago, Karen Finley received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, she has presented her work worldwide in various venues such as The Bobino in Paris, The ICA in London and Lincoln Center in NYC.
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae.
Cindy Sherman is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history.
Blake Shirley lives and works in CT. His works had been exhibited nationally and internationally. Most recently at CICA Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, Art Space in Hartford, CT, and Eli Center for contemporary art in New Haven, CT.
Brad Guarino has been an actively exhibiting artist for the past 20 years. He received a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, an MFA from the University of Connecticut, and did postgraduate study at Bulgaria’s National Academy of Art on a Fulbright Fellowship.
Neal Parks is an artist, designer and teacher. Parks specializes in client collaborations creating site-specific work, both as an artist and design/build carpenter.
Rebecca Moran is a professor of Digital Art and Design and Fine Art at Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of Connecticut, respectively.
Mark Gerard McKee is originally a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his works focus upon perception as well as those experiences that define us as thinking, feeling entities.
Professor Qimin Liu, born in Heilongjiang Province, China, received a Teaching Certificate from Haerbin Normal University (1985), Bachelor of Fine Arts from Institute of Chinese Traditional Drama (1991), major in stage design.
Andy Jones was born near Raleigh, N.C. and spent 20 years teaching painting and drawing in the Art & Art History department at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Painter Karen Bartone earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Connecticut State University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Northern Vermont University.
It’s interesting that many people imagine that Eastern holds works by Frida Kahlo. When I made the original pitch for Be The ArtWork or Do it Yourself, I did not expect an incredible surprise that Amanda has created. I am happy to share it with you….
Be the Artwork or Make it Yourself is an invitation to create a new work of art inspired by Eastern’s permanent collection. Amanda Ouk, 21 made Queen of the Rose Gardens. Portrait of Grandma inspired by the tondo forms of Karen Bartone’s works.
Eastern Connecticut State University students in the Graphic Design History class have created digital artwork to spread awareness about how to stay safe during the COVID-19 outbreak.
CLAIRE GALVINCHRONICLE STAFF WRITERWINDHAM/WILLIMAN-TIC — A small, but powerful, art gallery on Eastern Connecticut State University’s campus allows students, faculty and the public to enjoy a rotating collection of local and international art-work. The ECSU Art Gallery is located in Room 112 of the Fine Arts Instructional Center.
Reynold Clérisier is a Haitian artist who learned sequin art from the masters and then departed to represent broader themes of Haitian culture. A main theme of his work tends to be animal interactions as seen through artistic eyes. Clérisier’s work is a dazzling application of the sequined art medium to universal themes."
After a process of joint ideation for a new piece, Clyatt sculpts a streamlined head-and-shoulders bust following traditional European forms. Drawing on one of her signature series, the "Pantéon," Cybil then contextualizes the piece with cultural markers, ornamentation, hair and more, drawing on diverse influences. The resulting piece retraces some of the transformations in venerated archetypes of the Haitian pantheon, such as Erzulie, the goddess of Love. The process provides the artists a sort of laboratory, a place for palpating historical narratives, producing cultural mashups, practicing living with how that feels
