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Item Call & Response 2015: Lineage Exhibition Catalog(Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries, 2015-10) Smith, Anne; Mack, M.; Martinez, Marcos; Wang, Qinglan; Irvin, Sarah; Batcheller, Sarah; Bever, Benjamin; Brezner, Benjamin; Brugnoli, Nikki; Busch, Meaghan; Cook, Melody; Creightney, Anya; Epstein, Marianne; Goldenthal, Ariel; Graham, Madeline; Hamidaddin, Noor Y.; Han, Ah-reum; Harwick, Ariel; Hendrickson, Kelly; Hill, Melissa; Holly, Mason; Kerfoot, Brittany; Lafreniere, Justin; Loda, Nathan; Luman, Douglas; Mack, M.; Martinez, Marcos L.; Patton, Lina; Pears, Sean; Quatrochi, Alice; Smith, Anne; Walton, Michael; Wang, Qinglan; Whipkey, Josh; Yun, CarinaCURATOR’S STATEMENT Call & Response 2015: Lineage "The picture on my wall, art object and art process, is a living line of movement, a wave of colour that repercusses in my body, colouring it, colouring the new present, the future, and even the past, which cannot now be considered outside of the light of the painting." --Jeanette Winterson, "Art Objects" "Lineage," applied to the conversation between art, literature, culture, and self, asks the question: what is the legacy of art and speech in our everyday lives? In society? How does artistic expression in and alongside social movements result in a solidarity of tradition, a larger communal identity? Starting in 2009, Susan Tichy and Helen Frederick have curated an annual exhibition in collaboration between the MFA program in creative writing and the School of Art. The exhibition is up during the Fall for the Book literary festival in September. The exhibit has been a themed Call and Response since 2010. Call and Response: a succession of two distinct phrases played or sung by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as direct response to or commentary on the first. Common to African, African-American, American folk, and Indian classical traditions. Pervasive in military cadences. In West Africa: also a mode of democratic participation in ritual, and in public discussion of civic affairs. Call & Response: a collaboration between writers and visual artists, in which one calls and one responds. The result is a set of paired works, resonating with each other, demonstrating the interplay of artistic media, and speaking of our times. Call & Response 2015: Lineage is curated by Anne Smith, M. Mack, Marcos Martínez, and Qinglan Wang.Item Ties That Bind(2015-08-19) Loda, Nathan; Loda, Nathan; Crawford, PaulaI started this series with a question, what is my identity? This led me to look at my childhood influences -- playmobil toys, adventure films, and my outdoor experiences – all of which started to inform the subject matter for the paintings. These influences led me to research more about the subject’s history and in turn, my own history. From a trove of artifacts, letters, photographs and family lore, I started using stories about ancestors as the narrative in my paintings, while continuing to use my childhood toys as symbolic representations. So began my series of paintings that explore the ties that bind people, places, and histories together. The paintings create open-ended and sometimes fictitious narratives that are derived from my ancestors’ stories. For example, a number of paintings follow the life of my fourth great grand father Cornelius K. Stribling. After forty years of service in the United States Navy, he had to cope with the death of his son, John Maxwell, who had left the Union to die in the Confederate Navy. Or my great great grandfather Ebenezer Lee Perry whose brother, Grant, went west in 1893 to work for the abolitionist American Missionary Association on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Some of the recurring symbols and characters in the paintings, such as the little feathered doll I call the trickster, suggest that there is more than meets the eye, and perhaps things are not as they appear. Part of the reason for painting images or objects from the past is to call into question my own perceived understanding of history and perhaps imagine a different one. My hope is that these paintings offer an opportunity to examine the history of a country and culture that is continuously learning who it is through conflicting interpretations of shared histories.Item Verbal/Visual(Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries, Mar 2015) Smith, Anne; McInturff, Ceci Cole; Hendrick, Jay; Hill, Melissa; Loda, Nathan; Smith, Anne; Warshaw, RayWhat do artists read? Certainly there are favorite books, audio recordings, and DVDs—ones that influenced an artist’s thinking, or that changed the course of an inquiry altogether. Although their practice is primarily a visual one, artists also engage in a verbal practice of reading, writing, and listening that in turn informs the making. With this in mind, Fenwick Gallery is pleased to exhibit Verbal/Visual: The Texts and Influences Behind Mason’s MFA Artists. On view through May 4th, 2015, the exhibit showcases work by six visual artists in Mason’s MFA program in the School of Art alongside the books that have most informed the work. All of the artists in this exhibit are graduating in Spring of 2015 and have, over their time in the MFA program, developed a strong studio practice that includes both making and reading. Each artist has selected a few books that have had a profound impact on their work. Visit the gallery to discover their visual work and reveal some of their greatest influences found right here in the Mason Library’s collection. In this exhibit are works by: Ceci Cole McInturff Jay Hendrick Melissa Hill Nathan Loda Anne Smith Ray Warshaw