Paper Quilt Exhibit Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Junior

David Smith                          Watercolor and Pen and Ink

“Our goal is to create a beloved community and 
this will require a qualitative change in our souls 
as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The fabric of a community is made by its people.  Each member adds to the fabric of the community in which they live.  It is the actions of the residents that make a community functional, diverse, and rich. 

Our communities create the fabric of our region. Our regions create the fabric of our states. The states creates the fabric of our country. Our countries create the fabric of our world.

Our children are our future.  If they can begin to connect with the social fabric in which we live, and find inspiration from great leaders like Dr. King, then there is hope for a better world.

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     How I've made My Community a Better Place to Be

At the Perspective Gallery  January 20 - February 20, 2015. 8 paper quilts created by over 100 children and teens from the New River Valley exploring the theme inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his spirit of building community through positive action:

Gallery hours:

 12 - 9 Tuesday through Saturday
 1 - 5 Sunday
 Closed Monday

Reception Friday January 23 4:30 - 6:30 with baked goods created by Beyond Homemade; Soda Bar by the "Cool Kids" and live music by  Anna and David Smith on violin and cello.  

~ Free and open to the public.

Fact,Fiction, Life, Death: Photographs by Robert Sulkin

Robert Sulkin's photographs are on display at Perspective Gallery through December 13 2014, and although that may seem like a long time, you really should come by now because it is my guess you'll want to come back, several times.

I say this because his work requires that you study it.  Full of imagined machines that may or may not work, worlds that we know of but have never really seen, and discarded bits and pieces assembled into something mad-scientist-like, there reamins a nagging sense of "something" as you look at these photos.

That something is there for you to discover.  A story waiting to be extracted.  A message waiting to be read.

Robin Scully Boucher

Roanoke Times Article on Medical Avatar Exhibit

                                                                           
View the article written by Mike Allen for the Roanoke Times on the Medical Avatar Exhibit.  

http://www.roanoke.com/arts_and_entertainment/columns_and_blogs/columns/arts_and_extras/arts-extras-blacksburg-native-seeks-to-understand-pain-healing-through/article_f5f54dc8-499f-52fa-9131-2975c9609ead.html

Can a Selfie Make You Healthy?

Alchemy                                       Print on Metal                                Virgil Wong

                               Can a selfie make you healthy?

Time travel self-portraits may change how people think about their health.

A multidisciplinary exhibit at Virginia Tech’s Perspective Gallery illustrates how art and technology can combine to help people visualize how their health choices affect their physical being. Virgil Wong’s Medical Avatar: Time Travel Visualizations for Transformative Health explores the imaging of health data and its influence on patient-physician interaction and behavior change.

The exhibit is a collaboration of the Perspective Gallery and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, with funding from the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

Medical Avatar: Time Travel Visualizations for Transformative Health is on display through Thursday, October 18, at the Perspective Gallery on the second floor of the Squires Student Center. The Perspective Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 noon to 9 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. The gallery is closed Mondays. The exhibit will also be on display at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.in Roanoke, Virginia, from Thursday, November 20, to late March, 2015. A reception to meet the artist will be held at Perspective Gallery Friday August 29, 2014 from 5 to 7 p.m. All events are free an open to the public.

Medical Avatar: Time Travel Visualizations for Transformative Health includes digital self-portraits of people with chronic diseases based on their self-tracked symptom data. Using a mobile app developed by Wong, patients create personalized avatars and medical timelines to more effectively communicate their medical histories to their doctors. These technological self-portraits, including shapes of various sizes and colors to represent specific symptoms over time, capture what the patient feels in his or her body and display those emotions for others to see.

                Symptom Portrait #1   Epilepsy          Print on Metal                    Virgil Wong              

Wong is a New York City-based artist and cognition technology researcher at Columbia University. His research suggests that patient visualizations of the future effects of smoking and obesity can motivate patients to change their health behavior. The exhibit also includes art based on broader epidemiological data from southwest Virginia and regression analyses that predict possible states of future health.

Gallery visitors are given the opportunity to track their own health information and paint their own medical time travel self-portraits based on this data.

The exhibit is curated by Robin Boucher, Student Centers and Activities arts program director. Boucher was Wong’s high school art teacher in 1990 and is pleased to welcome him back to southwest Virginia for his exhibit.

The partners:

·         Operating at the nexus of arts, design, engineering, and science, the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) is composed of faculty and student researchers from multiple disciplines coming together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection. This unique research environment supports ICAT’s mission to forge a pathway between trans-disciplinary research and artistic output, scientific and commercial discovery, and educational innovation.

·         The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute leverages Virginia Tech’s world-class strength in basic sciences, bioinformatics, and engineering with Carilion Clinic’s highly experienced medical staff and rich history in medical education. Virginia Tech Carilion improves human health and quality of life by providing leadership in medical education and biomedical and clinical research.

·         Perspective Gallery is committed to exhibiting the finest quality fine art with a special interest in providing art viewing opportunities which pique curiosity and create bridges within the academic and world community. The Perspective Gallery enriches the college experience by exhibiting artwork which expands a student’s conceptual world.

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Time travel self-portraits may change how people think about their health.

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http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2010/11/111010-cfa-strategicplan.html

http://www.vt.edu/arts/index.html

http://www.vt.edu/arts/galleries.html

Written by Sandra Broughton Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications VT DSA

Great Studio Tour in Floyd

I highly recommend the open studio event listed below. An open studio is created for the general public to visit an artist's working space.  It is a great way to learn about the local art scene, and meet artists who create work you are interested in.

Robin Boucher


Open Studio and Sculpture Trail at Charlie Brouwer's studio "Out There" in Floyd Co.

Aug. 15, 16, 17 - 11am - 6pm

See recent and past work in the studio and walk the trail that winds through 

the surrounding fields and woods to see over 30 sculptures (8 of them new in the past year)

DIRECTIONS: (use GPS with caution!)

- From Floyd: take Rt. 8 north for 4.3 miles & turn left on Ridge View Rd. - in 6.5 miles turn right on Alum Ridge Rd. - in 0.5 miles turn left on Sawmill Hill Rd. & find "Out there" 1/3 mile on the left

- From Interstate 81: At exit 114 (near Christiansburg) take Route 8 South towards Floyd

Continue on Rt. 8 for about 12 miles and turn right on Alum Ridge Rd.
Take Alum Ridge about 6 1/2 miles and turn right on Sawmill Hill Rd. (gravel Rd.)
In 1 mile turn right on Akers Rd. – we are on the left in about 1/3 mile

Directions can also be found on my website: http://charliebrouwer.com

Contact me with any questions!

I hope to see you "Out Here",

Charlie

Prints from All Traditions

Devon Johnson

Geronimo

Printmaking Revered, The Perspective Gallery’s current exhibition, gives us the chance to experience different styles of printmaking (from etching to woodblock) from a variety of different artists. In this exhibition, so many artistic visions are realized through printmaking, everyone is sure to find a piece that speaks to them.

 

Night Rider

Included in this exhibition are four prints by Woody Crumbo, which all resonate strongly with me.  Crumbo, a Patowatomi American Indian grew up in Oklahoma in the 1920s and attended art school at the Wichita American Indian Institute where he studied mural technique, watercolor, painting, and drawing.

  

Rainbow Horse

But Crumbo didn’t limit himself to the visual arts. He began playing Kiowa—ceremonial wooded flute—at age 17. While formally studying art, Crumbo also supported himself as a Native American dancer, and in the 1930s, he traveled the US collecting and teaching traditional dances. In his later years, Crumbo became a philanthropist devoted to preserving traditional American Indian art and culture.

Crumbo’s background as an American Indian visual artist and a musician and dancer lend his work an additional dimension of depth. American Indians in traditional garb, as well as nature scenes are frequent subjects of his work, which has been displayed at the Smithsonian and the Met. Happily you don’t have to go that far to see Crumbo’s prints—four small etchings, depicting horse riders and deer, are on display through mid August at the Perspective Gallery.

Winter on the Reservation

                                                                                 

Along with the Woody Crumbo etchings, prints by more than forty other artists are also on display. This exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a vast array of printmaking techniques and unique artistic visions. For each artist represented, there is a new story and imagination, and a new chance to fall in love with prints. Come live a part of printmaking history through this extensive collection and get to know Woody Crumbo—and many, many others!

Devon V. Johnson
Virginia Tech Class of 2014 (fall)
English, Professional Writing

Devon Johnson is a gallery assistant at Perspective Gallery and is guest blogging for us this semester until she graduates.

-Robin Scully Boucher, Director

Robert Miller to give talk at gallery on July 9 and 23

Robert Miller will speak at Perspective Gallery Wednesday July 9 and July 23rd from 6 - 7 p.m. about his print collection currently on exhibit at the gallery. This event is FREE and open to the public. 

Robert is a Virginia Tech Alumnus and became a founding member of the Blacksburg art scene in 1974 when he and some friends opened Block Prints Gallery in downtown Blacksburg. He currently is the owner of Miller off Main Street Gallery in downtown Blacksburg., where he houses his extensive art collection, sells regional and international art, runs a framing shop, and makes his home.

Robert is extremely knowledgeable about art of many genres, but his passion for prints will be at the center of this talk tomorrow and in two weeks.

Robin Boucher, director