The Valpo Core

BRAUER MUSEUM OF ART

Student Coffee Hour & Teacher Workshop
with John Ruff

VU Professor John Ruff will talk about the current exhibitions
and ways to incorporate them into the classroom.

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 pm
Brauer Museum of Art

Everyone is welcome to attend.
Admission is free.
This event has been approved for CORE 5th hour credit.

Brauer Museum of Art

Opening Reception for the current exhibitions:

Selections from the Robert and Ellen Haan
Collection of Historic Indiana Art
Curated by Dr. Laurette McCarthy

Left Behind: Native American Artifacts
from the Robert Schoon Collection
Curated by Patricia Korzeniewski

Friday, August 28, 2009, 7pm

Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome to attend.
This event has been approved for CORE 5th hour credit.

The Brauer Museum is located in the Center for the Arts (VUCA).

Brauer Museum of Art

Opening Reception

BSFA Student Exhibition

featuring Renee Brozo, Adam Hager and Patrick Lay

Friday, April 24, 2009 7 pm

Refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Flyer: BSFA Opening Reception

The Valparaiso University Art Department is proud to present a slide presentation and artist’s talk by internationally celebrated painter Don Kimes.  Don Kimes has exhibited his work in galleries and museums worldwide and has received numerous grants and honors throughout the course of his career.  He is a Professor of Art at American University in Washington, DC and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Don also taught and served as the program director for the New York Studio School and was a 2001 finalist for the chair position of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001.

Don will discuss the evolution of his artwork as well as the events that have shaped him as an artist.  Themes such as nature, time, memory, loss and birth, which have always been present in Don’s work, became particularly relevant when in 2003, a flood destroyed his home and art studio along with 50 years of his artwork, and family artifacts.  His recent work explores the challenges of having to rebuild both his studio and his family history from what remained after the floodwaters receded.

Don Kimes will speak in the Duesenburg Recital Hall in the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts on Thursday, February 12th at 7:00pm.

We’re on the cusp of the VU poets’ Wordfest reading–it’s tonight!  Don’t forget to come out for some word and image!

Come see and hear Profs. John Ruff, Ed Byrne, Kathleen Mullen, Catherine Tufariello, and Allison Schuette-Hoffman read from their work!

Brauer Museum
Tues, Jan 27th
7 p.m.

Find out what they’ve been up to when they’re not in their classrooms or behind their desks.

Refreshments will be served.

Please note that the Accabellas will not be singing at this event, contrary to what was previously stated.

As part of Wordfest’s participation in the 150th anniversary of VU, we’re tooting our own horns and showcasing talent from within the faculty and staff.  Come out…

to the Brauer Museum
on Tues, Jan 27th
at 7 p.m.

and find out what John Ruff, Ed Byrne, Kathleen Mullen, Catherine Tufariello, and Allison Schuette-Hoffman have been up to when they’re not in their classrooms or behind their desks.

Refreshments will be served and the event is 5th hour approved.

The Accabellas will be warming the place up, so come early to catch their music and browse the art work.

Student Coffee Hour
with
Collector Jay Christopher

Mr. Christopher will speak about the exhibition “The Christopher Railroad Collection:
The Art of Dining on Rails” and his experiences forming his collection.

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009, 7 pm

Everyone is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

ALSO

Brauer Museum of Art

Gallery Talk
with Railroad Historian Charles G. Kratz, Jr.

Kratz will talk about five designers for the railroads and their influence on not only the china
patterns but also their role in the graphic arts movement.

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2009, 7 pm

Everyone is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

The film version of the Core text Persepolis will be screened tonight (10/21) at 7 pm in Neils Science Center 234 as the latest installment in VU’s International Film Festival. It is a 2007 French film, directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year.

The film is free to VU students, faculty and staff, but you will need a ticket. Tickets are available at the Union Information Desk (219-464-5415). Free refreshments will be served and there will be a discussion of the film led by Prof. Timothy Tomasik (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures).

More info on the film Persepolis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/
More info on the International Film Festival: http://www.valpo.edu/foreignlang/filmfestival.html

Next week we will screen the film Good Will Hunting (1997, dir. Gus Van Sant) for all Core students. It is required that all Core students see this film as part of the course syllabus. Please plan to attend one of the screenings listed below.

Screening schedule (all screenings take place in Neils Science Center 234):

Tues, 10/14, 8 pm
Thurs, 10/16, 8 pm
Sun, 10/19, 3 pm
Sun, 10/19, 8 pm

Please note the film’s rating, given by the Motion Picture Association of America: “Rated R for strong language, including some sex-related dialogue.”

As always, be respectful of others around you during the film screenings. This includes turning off your cell phones, not opening them up during the screening (the bright light is distracting), and refraining from conversation while the film is showing. The film is a course text. Therefore we expect you to take the screening as seriously as you would your normal classroom time. You may be asked to leave if you do not uphold this standard.

You will receive a notecard or small piece of paper as you enter the auditorium. Use this to record your name, your professor’s name, and a question, observation, or quote from the film that you think would serve as a good point of discussion in class. If your professor gives you more specific instructions, you should of course follow those. Leave the card/paper with one of the professors present or on the table just inside or outside the auditorium doors.

For more information on the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/