Oglethorpe University Museum of Art Fall Exhibits (thursdays)
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From the venue:
The Gaze
July 12 – December 1, 2024
“If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” – Nietzsche
OUMA starts a year-long celebration focused on the creative work of Deaf and disabled artists by hosting a group exhibition entitled The Gaze, which is presented by Atlanta based Art Curator, Aleatha Lindsay, founder of The Ikouii Creative.
This Ikouii Creative invitational exhibition highlights people who live with visible and invisible disabilities. The exhibition explores ingrained, internalized ableism and inclusion, acceptance and advocacy within the disability community. Individual and collaborative works of art as well as works of art by disability-identified and non-disabled artists are included in this exhibition. This presents a unique opportunity for people to view work where disability, accessibility and ableism intersect.
“As a culture, we are at once obsessed with and intensely conflicted about the disabled body. We fear, deify, disavow, avoid, abstract, revere, conceal, and reconstruct disability – perhaps because it is one of the most universal, fundamental of human experiences. After all, we will all become disabled if we live long enough. Nonetheless, in representing disability in modernity, we have made the familiar seem strange, the human seem inhuman, the pervasive seem exceptional.” – Disability Scholar, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson
Curated by Aleatha Lindsay for The Ikouii Creative
exhibit here
OUMA Collects 2024: Focus on Asia
Hirado porcelain bottle-form Vase Japanese, Mikawachi kilns, late Edo/early Meiji period ca. 1865 underglaze cobalt decoration on hard-paste porcelain. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Davidson, 2024.5.6 Permanent Collection of Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
August 23 - December 1, 2024
This fall, the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (OUMA) turns its focus eastward, showcasing rare pieces from its permanent collection of objects from the Asian continent. From August 23 to December 1, visitors can enjoy a special selection of artworks from Japan, China, India, and South Korea.
The collection entitled OUMA Collects 2024: Focus on Asia includes a late Edo period Japanese screen of the Kano school, a 19th-century South Korean taenghwa (thangka), a 14th-century Chinese bronze of Pu Hsien/Samantabhadra (known as the All-Good Buddha), and other exquisite objects.
Our newest acquisition, a remarkable 19th-century vase, is one of nineteen Japanese porcelain pieces gifted by Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Davidson. The Davidsons meticulously curated this exceptional collection of Japanese pieces over many years before donating it to the OUMA. This gift aims to benefit students, faculty, staff, and the wider community.
“At OUMA, we use these artworks as educational tools and catalysts for undergraduate research,” says John Daniel Tilford, OUMA’s curator of collections and development associate. “The newly established Museum Studies Minor will also make use of such invaluable donations, with the museum serving as an expanding classroom for future museum professionals.”
Feel the Music: Deaf Creatives in OUMA
Myles de Bastion, Cymatic Star I, Portland Museum of Art, 2016 – 2017
September 21 – December 1, 2024
This fall, OUMA continues to celebrate accessibility, disability pride and wellbeing with a dynamic exhibition of the work of eight artists. All artists are inspired by and utilizing music/vibration/sound in their work, and all are Deaf. This highly technical exhibition includes five screens continuously showing performances with listening/experience booths alongside photographs of the artists in action. Video, photography, paintings, and light installations fill Skylight Gallery in this completely immersive experience.
A highlight of the exhibition is Cymatic Star II, a large light/sound display with haptics by Portland based artist Myles de Bastion. As the visitor approaches this installation, any sounds they produce are displayed by LEDs across triangles which spread across the wall. As described by the artist, “A spectrum of colors shows the sound’s dynamics. Softer, higher frequency sounds are cooler colors and louder, lower frequency sounds are warmer colors. The dynamics, loudness or softness, of environmental sound are analyzed by micro-electronics. A visual representation of these sound-waves ripple outward, across the triangles at 1/100th the speed of sound.”
The Opening Day Celebration will be Saturday, September 21 from 1 – 4 p.m., including performances at 2 p.m. by Robbie Wilde (thatDEAFdj) and Briana Johnson (Beautiful the Artist). Video/Listening booths will be active. Grab some headphones and join the “silent disco” with music by Robbie Wilde and equipment provided by Black Out Experience. ASL/BASL interpreters provided by the SOS Agency. Additional support provided by the Georgia Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.