The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) is now accepting applications for the 2011 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Awards (http://www.istc.illinois.edu/info/govs_awards.cfm). 2011 marks the 25th year of this prestigious award!
The deadline for application submittal will be the close of business on May 27, 2011. Applications will only be accepted electronically. Details can be found on the website.
The award ceremony will be held in Champaign on October 27, 2011.
Many Illinois libraries have been doing things to advance environmental sustainability in their communities. Apply for an award this year, you deserve recognition for all of your hard work.
An informal tour of the exhibition “Bridging the Past: Paul Sargent’s Coles County” will be the topic of an EIU Academy of Lifetime Learning Lunch & Learn program. The gallery talk will be presented Friday, May 6, noon, at the Tarble Arts Center by Tarble Director Michael Watts.
Admission is free to this luncheon lecture with participants invited to bring a “brown bag” lunch. For information contact the Academy office in the School of Continuing Education at (217) 581-5114 or offcampus@eiu.edu.
Eastern Illinois University students to receive awards for the 2011 Undergraduate All-Student Show and honors selected by the Art Department faculty will be announced at a public awards reception 2-4pm on Sunday, February 27, at the Tarble Arts Center. The awards presentation begins at 2:30pm. Admission is free and the public is invited. The All-Student Show will remain on exhibition at the Tarble through March 27.
The Spurlock Museum, Urbana, is pleased to announce the presentation of the workshop Through Indian Eyes: Evaluating Books and Media for Stereotypes by award-winning storyteller and author Dovie Thomason of the Lakota and Kiowa Apache Nations. The workshop will be held at the Museum from 9-11:30 am on February 5th.
Applications are invited for grants from the Ruth and Vaughn Jaenike Access to the Arts Fund. Activities in music, theatre arts and the visual arts are eligible for Jaenike Fund grant support for up to half of the overall costs. The next application deadline is February 15 with notification on March 1. The fund is administered by the Tarble Arts Center for the College of Arts & Humanities at Eastern Illinois University.
The purpose of the fund it to encourage the presentation of arts performances, exhibitions, lecture/demonstrations, and related programs to new or underserved audiences, with a priority on serving the east-central Illinois area (roughly within a 50 mile radius from Charleston).
Grant requests will be accepted from schools, non-profit organizations, divisions of Eastern Illinois University and Lake Land College, and artists or ensembles. Grants are not awarded for the purchase of equipment or to individual artists to support the creation of works of art. Activities supported by the Jaenike Outreach Fund must be directed to a primarily non-college/university audience, although college/university faculty and students may be included as audience members or as participants.
For a grant application for or more information contact Michael Watts, Tarble Arts Center, at 217/581-2787, tarble@eiu.edu.
Documentary photographer Paola Gianturco will be on the Eastern Illinois University campus January 12 and 13 to talk about her work as a photographer, author, and advocate for women’s rights world-wide.
A talk about her book Women Who Light the Dark is Wednesday, Jan. 12, 7pm, in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall. A talk about her book Celebrating Women is Thursday, Jan. 13, 4pm, in the Tarble Arts Center Main Galleries. And the exhibition Celebrating Women is on show at the Tarble through Jan. 30.
Book-signings will follow the lectures, and an informal reception will be held after the Wednesday lecture at the Doudna. Admission to all programs is free but donations are welcomed to help fund organizations championed by Gianturco.
Celebrating Women, an exhibition of photographs by noted author and documentary photographer Paola Gianturco, will be on view January 8-30 at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University. Child taking part in Swaziland wedding ceremony; photograph by Paola Gianturco
Celebrating Women presents documentary photographs taken at seventeen festivals in fifteen countries on five continents. The festivals honor women’s roles, rites of passage, attributes, accomplishments and spiritual lives. The exhibition Celebrating Women is based on Gianturco’s book of the same title.
The exhibit includes images from: Swaziland’s Reed Dance, a festival that salutes the country’s beautiful young virgins; Poland’s Noc Świętojańska Festival where young women float wreaths of wildflowers on lakes and rivers, by tradition, to induce men fall in love with them; India’s Kali Puja festival in homage to Kali, a ferocious manifestation of the Goddess Durga; Sweden’s Festival of Sankta Lucia who, in the 4th century, brought light and help to early Christians; Brazil’s Festival of Boa Morte (Good Death) where women descendants of African slaves praise their liberation in tribute to abolitionist women slaves; and Morocco’s Marriage Festival of the Berber tribes, an annual mass wedding.
Adam Parker Smith is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes sculpture, mixed media, photography, film and installation; sound, lights, and movement; humor, irony, pop culture, and an occasional literary reference.
Smith will be at Eastern Illinois University’s Tarble Arts Center to complete an art installation titled Thriller and to present a lecture about his art.
The artist’s talk is Thursday, December 2, at 7pm, at the Tarble Arts Center. Admission is free and the public is invited. The program may also include a preview of the Thriller installation. Thriller is scheduled to open December 4 and will remain on exhibition through February 20 in the Tarble’s eGallery.
Noted Illinois artist Harold Boyd will talk about his art at a free public lecture starting at 7pm on Monday, November 1. The lecture will be held at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.
Boyd is best known for his paintings, drawings and original prints, but has also created sculpture in a variety of sizes. His favorite subject is the human figure, and he has portrayed people in many settings and situations. While some of his figures are well known – Adlai Stevenson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi – and some are comic, all are poignant and say something about human nature and the human condition.
His art has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. Recent solo exhibition venues include I-Space (Chicago, IL), Conduit Gallery (Dallas, TX), and Perkinson Gallery (Millikin University, Decatur, IL). Other museums that have exhibited his work include the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art (Kansas City).
In spite of being practically walled off from the outside world, the Tarble Arts Center remains open on the campus of Eastern Illinois University.
For nearly a month a continuous mound of dirt over eight feet high, running parallel between the center and 9th Street, has nearly cut the Tarble off from the outside community. The giant earth-work is part of EIU’s Renewable Energy Center construction project.
“It’s been a challenge, to say the least,” says the Tarble’s director, Michael Watts. “We have worked to make adjustments as the Energy Center’s tunneling project has progressed. We just didn’t anticipate being cut off this much for this length of time.”
Watts said that he has been informed that the Tarble probably won’t be back to normal until the second week of November, with the tunnel trench filled in, the 9th Street sidewalk replaced, and Tarble’s drop-off lane reopened.
