Annual Art Research Articles

AMTC 2004 Cincinnati

AMTC 2004 Cincinnati

Creating Community: Macnas's Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000

The theater and community-arts company Macnas overwhelms the city of Galway in a two-hour fantasy each summer during a parade for the annual Galway Arts Festival. 1 Built on the labor of volunteers, the event provides a platform for the employees as well as a few hundred volunteers to be part of a community event with a local and international audience numbering from fifty to a hundred thousand people annually. These theatrical parades confront the borders of genre by incorporating aspects of procession with elements of drama and spectacle, and so place Macnas—Irish for playfulness and frolic—in the avant-garde of Irish theater.

Riverfest: Managing Risk and Measuring Performance at Little Rock's Annual Music and Arts Festival

This case is based on the experience of one of the authors as executive director of Riverfest, Arkansas' largest annual music and arts festival, held in Little Rock on Memorial Day weekend. The case provides an opportunity to identify business process risks, evaluate and consider improvements to controls for those risks, and develop ways to measure elements of Riverfest's operations that can help improve or monitor the organization's performance. This case demonstrates how managing business risks and measuring business performance are critical for all types of organizations, including those not driven by profitability objectives. The case centers on Merle Flowers, a CPA who specializes in business process measurement and risk management for major events. Merle has been hired to provide Riverfest with suggestions on how to improve risk management and performance measurement for its key processes, including entertainment, cash management and security, sponsorship arrangements, vendor and beverage arrangements, physical security, and budgeting and reporting. This engagement is a value-added service that Merle is providing Riverfest, which has been successful in the past but is looking for continuous improvement opportunities in the future.

Second Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

Second Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

ON THE COVERThe Application of Preventive Medicine to the Control of ViolenceHelping Medical Students Help Survivors of Domestic ViolencePhysician Groups and the War in Kosovo: Ethics, Neutrality, and InterventionismDisintegrating Health Services and Resurgent Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: An Example of Structural ViolenceYouth Violence Prevention: The Physician's RoleSecond Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

ON THE COVERThe Application of Preventive Medicine to the Control of ViolenceHelping Medical Students Help Survivors of Domestic ViolencePhysician Groups and the War in Kosovo: Ethics, Neutrality, and InterventionismDisintegrating Health Services and Resurgent Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet Tajikistan: An Example of Structural ViolenceYouth Violence Prevention: The Physician's RoleSecond Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

Second Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

Second Annual Arts Contest for Medical Students

95/04568 Reflections on 100 years

Reflections: 25 years on, is a body of artworks by Gail Mabo reflecting on her artistic development. For Gail Mabo, 2017 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of two significant events. On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia upheld the land rights claim led by her father, Eddie Koiki Mabo. The significance of these events is enhanced by occurring 50 years after the 1967 referendum that succeeded in removing from the constitution two references discriminating against indigenous Australians. Gail’s exhibition of new works and earlier pieces are a reflection of the changes witnessed over this passage of time in a broader sense, but also of her own personal growth as an artist. The Eddie Koiki Mabo Library Art Exhibition is held on the anniversary of the naming of the University Library on the Townsville Campus after Eddie Koiki Mabo (b. June 29, 1936 - d. January 21, 1992). Eddie Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander man from Murray Island (traditional name, Mer) and a long-time resident of Townsville. He is well-known as a land rights activist and was the lead plaintiff in what has become known as the Mabo Cases I and II. In 1982, he and several other Mer Islanders - Sam Passi, David Passi, Celuia Mapo Salee and James Rice - started a legal action that lasted 10 years. On June 3, 1992, a decision was handed down in the High Court of Australia in favour of the plaintiffs. This overturned the concept of terra nullius (no man’s land) that underpinned the Crown’s claim to own all the land of Australia. Sadly, Mr Mabo passed away five months before the decision was made. Eddie Koiki Mabo was one of the most important historical figures to have spent time at the University. Employed at JCU as a groundsman, he was also a student, guest lecturer, and colleague and friend of JCU staff and students. Several catalyzing moments that led to the Mabo cases are acknowledged to have occurred at the University. These include conversations with his friends, the historians Henry Reynolds and Noel Loos; and a 1981 conference where he delivered a speech that sparked the interest of lawyers (Butt, Eagleson & Lane, 2001; Loos & Mabo, 2013; Screen Australia Digital Learning, 2008; Sharp, 1996). In 2008, JCU Vice-Chancellor, Sandra Harding noted that the naming of the library will “forever commemorate the link between the man who changed the land laws in Australia and James Cook University.” The Art Exhibition: An exhibition of the artworks of Gail Mabo, his daughter, was held on the first anniversary of the naming of the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library. Library and Information Services staff endeavour to hold an annual Indigenous art exhibition in commemoration from May 21st for three weeks to coincide with National Sorry Day (May 26), National Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3), and Mabo Day (June 3). The event enables Library and Information Services staff, students and visitors the opportunity to participate in the JCU Reconciliation Action Plan in a broad public manner. As a vibrant celebration, the exhibition enlivens our public space and generates conversation not only about the art but also the building name, the man behind it, the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to recognise and value cultural diversity as an asset which enriches the life of the university community. On May 21, 2008, JCU launched its Reconciliation Statement and, to give effect to the University’s commitment to reconciliation, the University named the University Library on the Townsville Campus after Eddie Koiki Mabo. The Hon Jenny Macklin MP, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs unveiled the commemorative plaque that bestows his name on the library where he spent many productive hours reading, studying and researching law and land rights.

Bad Girls Looking for Money - Maenad Making Feminist Theatre in Alberta

It’s not as if we hadn’t always been bad girls; it was just that nobody really noticed until we brought an American bad girl in to play ... After two shows by New York lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes (6 and 7 June 1994), Kelley Charlebois, executive assistant to the Minister for Alberta Community Development, said: “I don’t think that’s something the Government wants to be funding” (Calgary Sun, 26 June 1994: 12). Charlebois’s comment came after several enraged Tory MLAs suggested that the provincial government pulled the $16 million annual arts budget if controversial shows continued to be funded. For Maenad Theatre, who in the last financial year received about 0.06% of this provincial arts funding allocation (and this was one of our more successful years!!), it was more than a little baffling to be perceived as a threat to family values. For Holly Hughes, this was tired news: she, after all, had been defunded in 1991 by the NEA since, as then-Chairman John E. Frohnmayer said, her work was “heavily of the lesbian genre” (Hughes, Village Voice, 21 June 1994: 7). What seems most telling in this story, however, is that when Maenad Theatre’s Exposure One and Two performance events were held up to public scrutiny, all they could see from the two nights, showcasing performances by ahdri zhina mandiela, Molly Chisakaay, Lori Weidenhammer, Nancy Cullen, Diane Kooch, Suzette Mayr, Laurie Montemurro and Alexandria Patience, was the only American – Holly Hughes.

Mainie Jellett and the modern movement in Ireland

Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland examines one of Ireland's most highly respected 20th-century exponents of Irish art. The book is being published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, which runs from 9th December 1991 to 28th February 1992. Virtually unknown outside her own country, Mainie Jellett created a modern movement based on Cubist Abstraction which revolutionised art in Ireland. She gathered round her a school of like-minded artists, and turned them into a powerful influence on painting, design and thought; she established a regular annual art exhibition for the showing of modern paintings and sculpture, and she developed a vital and positive attitude in the country towards art during a period of isolation, difficulty and political torpor. Jellett came from the school of Cubist Abstraction which was led in France by Albert Gleizes and which is still only partly understood and appreciated. In contrast with the slow development of abstract painting in Britain, she regularly exhibited and sold abstract works in Dublin for ten years before the same kind of work was shown in London. Bruce Arnold's examination of the work of Mainie Jellett raises questions about 20th-century painting, about the roots of abstraction, and about misconceptions over the history and later development of Cubism. He offers insights into Albert Gleizes and his followers which will undoubtedly provoke further debate and research.

The Art curriculum from an Art educator's viewpoint

At the first art seminar held in 1965, a number of art topics was discussed and there were practical sessions featuring demonstrations by local artists and craftsmen. Unfortunately the findings of that seminar were never published although much work was put into the writing of the report. However, one happy outcome did result and that was the founding of the Singapore Art and Crafts Education Society which together with the Ministry of Education is responsible for the present art seminar. The SACES has been very active doing its bit enthusiastically since its inception to arouse interest in art amongst school children, parents and teachers. Its annual Spot Art competition has become a regular feature on the local art calendar.

Reports on the 64th annual college art association meeting

The 64th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association of America was held February 1–4, 1976, at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago. As a whole this was an extremely successful event. The weather was cold, below zero at some times, and the “Windy City” was windy. But the severe winter weather that blasted us in Cleveland and Baltimore years ago was, happily, absent.

Arts Festival in Western State

of them find foreign ways of life preferable to their own. Often, for the young Nigerian, the greater the number of foreign dance steps he can display, the greater is his claim to being civilized, although he might lack all knowledge of Nigerian music. Because of this trend toward westernization, the Federation governments are making active attempts to support the traditional culture of the people. One such attempt is the annual Arts Festival organized by the Western State. Other States have sponsored similar festivals; however, the Western State has been unique in its encouragement of the youth's participation in the event. As Brigadier Adeyinka Adebayo has said, They are to immortalize our traditions. At the 1970 Festival, the Governor spoke on the need for the propagation of Nigerian culture, and stated his government's willingness to spend any amount of money to achieve this aim, as evidenced by the fact that the Western government's expenditures for the 1970 Festival exceeded those

A Call to the Brush

Do you believe that chemists and chemical engineers are as broadly cultured as physicians and surgeons? This question is posed by Harry N. Holmes of Oberlin, a past ACS president and, of course, known by so many ACS members that he needs no introduction in any gathering of the chemical profession. Dr. Holmes supplies an emphatic yes as the answer to his question. He then proceeds to point out in his communication to the editor that The American Medical Association has for years held an annual art exhibit in connection with its national meetings while chemist-artists have hidden their light, and paintings, under a bushel. Not so with the doctors. Life magazine once featured their art show, with reproductions in color. We leave it to the viewers of this art show as to whether Dr. Holmes has proved his point. He continues: Why can't we put on a successful exhibit in connection with one of ...

The University of Nebraska Art Collection

A Lively interest in art has been maintained continuously in Nebraska since it became a state in 1867. In Lincoln, the state capital, art organizations have flourished and cooperated with each other more effectively than in most cities of similar size. One such organization, the Haydon Art Club, founded in 1888, started immediately to sponsor annual art exhibitions.