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A Woman's Place is in the Gallery : Guerrilla Girls, 1985-2015
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
This exhibition celebrates 30 years of Women & Gender Studies at Augustana College through a celebration of 30+ years of Guerrilla Girls' actions, reminding us of the role that art can take in protest, activism and conversation around issues of gender, racial and economic justice. It featured works from Augustana Teaching Museum of Art's recent purchase of the Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat, as well as archival materials from Augustana's Special Collections on the Women & Gender Studies program.
This exhibition was curated with Sami Turner, a student at Western Illinois University's Museum Studies Program. Ms. Turner and I worked to choose works from the Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat, and write accompanying interpretive materials that encompassed their decades-long practice, situated the works within their historical moment, and connected these works to the contemporary moment and to our own community.
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Battle/Dress: Camouflage as a Metaphor for Passing and Other Works by Kiam Marcelo Junio
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Kiam Marcelo Junio (preferred gender pronoun: "they/their/them”) is a Chicago-based visual and performance artist. Their research and art work center around queer identity, Philippine history and the Filipino diaspora, American imperialism, and personal and collective healing through collaborative work and individual WERQ. Kiam served seven years in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. They were born in the Philippines, and have lived in the U.S., Japan, and Spain.
#QueeringCamouflage
"Camouflage as a Metaphor for Passing is a body of work that articulates the specific intersections of my identities as a queer, Filipino American immigrant, and US Navy veteran. I associate camouflage’s use in nature, and the camouflage pattern in military and contemporary art history, and investigate how they collide with ideas of Filipino and Asian visibility in the context of postcolonial studies." -Kiam Marcelo Junio, "exhibition essay"
Junio's exhibition not only included work from Camouflage as a Metaphor for Passing, but also included a reflective essay, tying together their biography and work, as well as video work from other projects including Filipino Fusions, Porn Again (a collaboration with Sofia Moreno), and Sacred Skin.
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Art Above 66° 33'
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
66˚ 33' is the latitude of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, and this exhibition considers these geographic areas as inspiration for the visual arts. In addition, it utilizes the visual arts as a mode by which to encourage viewers to more deeply engage with the planet’s most northerly and southerly regions. It considers the issues, history and environment of the regions, spanning media, process and subject – from the figural to the abstract, tactile to sound, analog to digital.
This exhibition was a collaboration with the Augustana Center for Polar Studies.
#ArtAbove66
ARTISTS: Michael Bartalos, Cape Dorset Prints from the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art collections, Lisa Goren, Jonathan Harris, Morten Hilmer, Ben Huff, Andrea Polli, Oona Stern, William Stout
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4 Artists, 4 Visions
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
An exhibition of four artists invited by members of the Augustana Art Department: Oscar Jay Gillespie, Claire Hedden, Tom Lundberg, and Joseph Patrick.
Photos courtesy of the Augustana Photo Bureau
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2017 Senior Art Exhibition
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
This exhibition features the Senior Inquiry projects of the Augustana College studio art and graphic design majors of the Class of 2017:
Jorge Ambriz, Paris Edwards, Chloe Gale, Giselle Gaztambide, Emily Kathleen Grooms, Ginger Hamilton, Olivia Havens, McKee Jackson, Emily Johnson, Jordan Peklo, Henry Roderick, Glen Williamson
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