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Date	Title	Description
January 22 - Febuary 14 2008	MFA Graduate Exhibition	Master of Fine Arts student exhbitis
Febuary 19 - April 10 2008	Folk Art Is	Description taken from the Southern Arts Federation Website: (Folk) A.R.T. IS* is an artifact-based exhibit that features the work of 21 self-taught artists from nine Southern states. Through various media including painting, textiles, and woodcarving, these individuals illustrate their artistic vision and spiritual journeys, document social and political issues, and share memories of family and home. Their work is often referred to as "visionary" or "outsider" art because it does not typically fall within the parameters of fine or contemporary art. Through text panels and photographs, exhibit visitors will learn about the artists' inspiration, and the context in which they work.
Febuary 26 - March 13 2008	Aurora Pope "Inside, Outside, and Inbetween"	MFA student exhibit Description of this exhbit: Exploring the significance of boundaries, it is directly related to the experienes of home and belonging. Description of her work,taken from her website: In my work, I am compelled to express a sense of time. My inspiration comes from dusty artifacts, lost traditions, ancient materials, and abandoned spaces. I want to express the essence that a memory would - the words that just escape us or the scent we can’t quite place. Laying on and scraping off paint is like removing the veils of Time, in a continuous drive to remember. The piece becomes a signpost of the past and a relic of the present; the image surface becomes a tablet to scratch in our terrible need to make marks. It is both metaphor and aperture. It is and it connects. It should be, autonomous in itself; and it should indicate, or signify.
March 17 - May 1 2008	Daniel Marinelli "One, And The Same"	MFA student exhibit. The exhibition presents the artist's experimentation and exploration into a variety of different materials, namely wood, steel, paper, linen thread, and milk paint.
June 3 - August 28 2008	Rasmussen	Curated by Kevin O'Donnell Rasmussen devoted her writing and photography skills to publicizing miner's health and safety issues, shoddy treatment by coal operators, and corruption in the UMWA. Her essays on mining and miners appeared in such publications as Mountain Life and Work, Miner's Voice, and the Charleston Gazette, while her photographs appeared in regional newspapers and in such national publications as Harper's, Newsweek, the Washington Post and Mountain Life and Work. Rasmussen also photographed other aspects of Appalachian life. Portraits of the men, women, and children of Appalachia, and photographs of Appalachian landscapes were subjects for Rasmussen's photography. These photographs were both published and exhibited regionally and nationally. Fifteen of Jeanne Rasmussen's photographs were included in the traveling exhibition, "Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Labor Movement, 1824-1976," created by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. This exhibit opened in the National Portrait Gallery and toured the United State from 1975-1977
June 3 - August 28 2008	Mountain Messages	Biennual exhbit from the Tennesse Quilters Guild. This years theme is "From these Hills"
September 1 - September 26 2008	SiGraph Digital Media	Artwork that expands awareness of people and nature. Illuminates the role digital media play in shaping, extending, and reflecting world views and cosmologies. Explores ecological, social, and political issues in imaginative and innovative ways. And fosters respect, tolerance, and empathy among people and nations.
September 15 - October 10 2008	Tri State Sculptors Annual Sculpture Conference	Description from the ETSU website: This annual conference provides regional sculptors, students of sculpture, and teachers of sculpture the opportunity to meet, share knowledge and skills, exhibit work, and give one another guidance and support. The sculptors who attend this conference represent an incredibly broad range of technical skills, expressive possibilities, conceptual directions, and philosophical and aesthetic attitudes. While many of the sculptors may be teachers and professors, a larger number are working artists and students, allowing for a distinctly lively exchange of opinion and experience. Sculptors who have attended past conferences have pursued everything from large outdoor commissions, to site specific temporary installation, to classical figurative sculpture, to work that is ephemeral and time based; materials used in exhibited work have included wood, steel, stone, bronze, resin, wax, digitally created art, fiber, clay, found objects, and so on. The artists who attend have exhibited their work regionally, nationally, and internationally, and are incredibly active, and great advocates for the relevance of sculpture in contemporary art. This year’s keynote speaker is Steve Tobin, a remarkable sculptor who has worked with a range of materials, from glass, to bronze cast in termite mounds in Africa, to ceramics shaped by explosives, to massive outdoor steel sculptures. Steve’s work has been shown internationally, and he is currently working on sculpture that will be shown at Stonehenge in summer 2008. Please see his website for images and video of his work: www.stevetobin.com. We would especially like to encourage students to attend this year’s conference, stressing the “Education” in our organization’s title! We have lowered the registration fee for students (now $20.) and will not be charging a late fee for student registrations. Please see the registration form on this site. At this time, a small group of volunteers is developing the schedule for the conference; when details are firmed up, this site will be updated. Planned events for the 2008 Conference include): * TRISTATES SCULPTORS MEMBERS EXHIBITION: CARROLL REECE MUSEUM, ETSU * STUDENT MEMBERS EXHIBITION: SLOCUMB GALLERIES, ETSU * ETSU SCULPTURE ALUM SHOW: SLOCUMB GALLERIES, ETSU * ETSU STUDENT SCULPTURE SHOW: NELSON FINE ART, DOWNTOWN * KEYNOTE SPEAKER:Steve Tobin * Tristates Student Awards presentationprior to the keynote Workshops and panels on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11: • Paper clay and sculpture • Digital sculpture (panel) • Casting with hot glass • Giant Machines/ Milling Metal • Coppersmithing • Environmental sculpture (outdoor hands on) • Molten metal (iron, aluminum) • Smooth-On mold materials rep. • Photographing sculpture: From studio to disc • MEMBERS SHOW THEIR STUFF: 5 minute slide/digital presentations by members about their work/ ongoing • Table with postcards, show announcements, etc. • Friday night, Oct. 10: RECEPTIONS FOR ALL SHOWS: FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 5- 8 pm. • Friday Night: Acoustic Coffee House “Next Door” music space, 8 pm- midnight. Live music and birthday cake for TriStates 30th anniversary. • Saturday afternoon, Oct. 11, tour of recently opened Gray Fossil Site Natural History Museum, home of the largest collection of tapir fossils in the world. Mold making demo and tour of the dig. • Saturday night, Oct. 11, dinner/ keynote with Steve Tobin, Gray Fossil Site. • Board meeting, Ball Hall Auditorium, Dept. of Art and Design Sunday Oct. 12, 10 a.m. • Pick up sculpture from the exhibitions Sunday morning, 8 am- noon. Items listed above are subject to tweaking! Please contact Catherine Murray, murrayc@etsu.edu, or 423-439-8303, for info. Website will be updated with registration form and exhibition prospectus in mid- January 2008.

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