art beat / By Jennifer Savage

Art (and Craft) for Art’s Sake

The lovefest at CR continues Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Creative Arts Gallery with the opening of the 2009 Art Faculty Exhibition. A public reception for the artists takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. Having all 17 artists together in one exhibition, according to the press release, offers students and the community “a unique opportunity to meet their instructors outside of the classroom, as artists, and to view new ideas and ways of working independently and creatively… as well as catch a glimpse of what it looks like to continue being an artist outside of the structured environment of an art class.”

The talent of CR’s art faculty should not be underestimated: as a group, the amount of national and international attention achieved is especially impressive. The show includes ceramicists Kit Davenport, Mary Mallahan, Shannon Sullivan,and Dave Zdrazil, newcomers to the drawing department Alastair Bolton and Mark Soderstrom, department head Cindy Hooper with her new series of art films, “Anthropogenic Aquascapes,” photographic works of Michael Jenner and Bruce Van Meter, the aforementioned Garth Johnson, drawing instructor Dean Smith, painters and drawing instructors, Claire Joyce, Erin Whitman and Julie McNiel, Michael Edwards with an investigation of the fine line between art and craft that his chosen medium of jewelry so often walks, monumental drawings by Becky Evans and, finally, Emily Silver, who teaches watercolors. More information at 476-4558.

On Monday, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m., Accident Gallery hosts artist Packard Jennings, perhaps best known for his line of “fallen rapper” Pez dispenser prototypes. (The Pez company did not, surprisingly, get on board.) Or maybe you’ll recognize his 16-page pamphlet on how to overthrow your office and turn it into a neo-commune collective. In any case, the one-time billboard modifier and constant culture jammer should be well worth the trip into Eureka. Accident Gallery is located at 213 C St.

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