Fine Arts Announcements

Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts Announcement:
Watson Lecture Series, Regina Miller Gallery opening, Carson Lecture

Tonight ___________________________________________________________________

Carnegie Mellon¹s Jill Watson Lecture Series Features Renowned Architects David Adjaye and Elizabeth Diller, Jan. 19­20

The Jill Watson Distinguished Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon University will present talks by internationally acclaimed architect David Adjaye on Friday, Jan. 19; and architect, artist and theorist Elizabeth Diller on Saturday, Jan. 20. Both lectures are free and open to the public and will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Avenue.

Adjaye¹s lecture takes place in conjunction with his exhibition ³Gritty
Brits: New London Architecture,² which runs from Jan. 20 through June 3 at the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

A reception will immediately follow each lecture. After the Adjaye lecture, the Carnegie Museum of Art will host a reception at the Heinz Architectural Center. Following the Diller lecture, the College of Fine Arts will host a reception in the Carnegie Museum of Art¹s Hall of Architecture. Both receptions are free and open to the public.

For more information on the lecture series or the Jill Watson Endowment Fund, visit www.cmu.edu/cfa/watson/ or contact Eric Sloss at 412-268-5765 or ecs@andrew.cmu.edu.

John Carson Lecture _______________________________________________________

Carnegie Mellon University¹s School of Art will kickoff it¹s spring lecture series with speaker John Carson, head of the School of Art. The lecture will be held Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 5 p.m. in McConomy Auditorium in the University Center.

Carson provocatively explores the interface between high and low culture, while seeking to widen the audience for contemporary art. He has exhibited and performed internationally and has made works for television and radio.
In the late 1980s he toured with a set of autobiographical stories, songs and slides which examined some of the cultural conundrums of his Northern Irish background. Often using popular songs so as to question their meaning, symbolism and the emotional investment, he is best known for projects such as ³I¹d Walk from Cork to Larne to See the Forty Shades of Green² and ³A Bottle of Stout in Every Pub in Buncrana.² He has worked as a curator and educator, most notably with the pioneering public art agency Artangel in the late 1980s, then at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London where he was External Projects Coordinator then Course Director of BA Fine Art. In 1999 he published ³Out of the Bubble: Approaches to Contextual Practice within Fine Art Education.² Carson was also a lecturer in fine art and photography at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and a visiting artist and lecturer at various schools and colleges in Britain, Ireland, Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Since September 2006 he has been Head of the School of Art.

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery ______________________________________________

Carnegie Mellon University¹s Regina Gouger Miller Gallery will open a new show, Tides, an exciting exhibition of installations, photographs, paintings, sculpture, videos and performances by nine of the most innovative artists currently working in Northern Ireland. The exhibition opens at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on Thursday, January 25, and runs through March 30, 2007. A free opening reception open to the public will be held on Thursday, January 25, from 5-8 p.m. Sandra Johnston will be giving a performance on Friday, January 26 at 12:30 p.m.