Spring Semester 2024 Programming
LECTURE SERIES: JOBS IN THE ARTS
What is collections management?
The Martin Art Gallery is pleased to continue its Jobs in the ArtsLecture Series in the spring of 2024. Rachel Fugate will begiving a public lecture on collections management as a careerpath. She will discuss why she was interested in it as avocation, the education and training she received, and what it'slike to work as a collections manager and registrar. Fugatejoined LUAG at Lehigh University in 2022 as the CollectionsManager/Registrar. For the past ten years she worked with artand historic collections in a range of museums and historichomes including university art museums. In addition to amuseum career, Rachel has taught college-level art history, arttheory, and humanities courses at institutions around thecountry. Rachel graduated from Syracuse University with aMaster of Arts in the History of Art in 2012; and, in 2009 sheearned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Birmingham-Southern College.
February 1, 2024 from 5-6PM in MAG
ART WORKSHOP
Terri Yacovelli Encaustic Workshop
Terri Yacovelli is an encaustic and mixed media artist. Herrichly textured encaustic paintings embody abstractcharacteristics in which the interplay of shape, color and lineexplore physical and spiritual journeys. In her workshop,Yacovelli will present a brief introduction to encausticpainting (painting with wax) and discuss how her work relieson the psychological and healing aspects of color. Thestudents will then have an opportunity to create their ownsmall painting focusing on a single color. In addition to beinga practicing artist, Yacovelli is a studio art teacher andadjunct professor of art. She holds a MLA from McDanielCollege, Westminster Maryland, and a BSE from MillersvilleUniversity of Pennsylvania.
January 24, 2024 from 4-5:30PM in MAG
Image: Terri Yacovelli, Soul Path in Gold, n.d., encausticon panel
Artist Talk:
Amber Cowan
Amber Cowan's sculptural glass work is based around the use of recycled, upcycled and second-life American pressed glass. She uses the process of flameworking, hot-sculpting and glassblowing to create large-scale sculptures that overwhelm the viewer with ornate abstraction and viral accrual. With an instinctive nature towards horror vacui, her pieces reference memory, domesticity and the loss of an industry through the re-use of common items from the aesthetic dustbin of American design. The primary material used for her work is glass cullet sourced from scrap yards supplied by now defunct pressed glass factories as well as flea markets, antique stores and donations of broken antiques from households across the country.
April 10, 2024 from 5–6 p.m.
Baker Center for the Arts, Room 166
