Nebraska National Exhibition opens Sept. 4 at Eisentrager-Howard Gallery
calendar icon27 Aug 2015
The exhibition opens Sept. 4 and continues through Sept. 25 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. There will be a First Friday opening reception on Sept. 4 from 5-7 p.m. with the awards announced at 6 p.m.
Each year, three different media disciplines are featured in the exhibition. This year’s show includes sculpture, painting and drawing.
Four Howard Awards of Excellence will be presented: $1,000 Best of Show Drawing, $1,000 Best of Show Painting, $1,000 Best of Show Sculpture and a $1,500 Grand Prize.
“The idea for this exhibition was two-fold. One, we wanted to bring the best undergraduate art in the country here and put it on display to let students across the country have a good venue for display and to make sure our students would see that work,” said Department of Art and Art History Chair Pete Pinnell. “And second, this department is particularly strong in its traditional disciplines (painting/drawing, ceramics sculpture, printmaking, photography, etc.), and we call ourselves that. Having the show be discipline-specific celebrates that at other schools.”
This year’s jurors are Ebony Patterson for sculpture and Deborah Zlotsky for painting and drawing.
“We tie this show to our Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Scholar Program,” Pinnell said. “So we hire two people to be visiting artists and scholars, and they jury the show and judge it. They’ll present workshops for the students.”
Patterson (http://ebonygpatterson.com/), who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, received an honors diploma in painting from Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts and an M.F.A. in printmaking/drawing from Sam Fox College of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis. Her recent exhibitions have included “En-Mas” at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, “Us, We+Them” at the Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and “Cheap and Clean: The Masculinities Interrogation Project,” a multimedia interactive installation that was shown in Trinidad, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda and Kentucky.
Zlotsky (http://deborahzlotsky.com/home.html) has exhibited across the country, and her drawings are in the curated flat files of Pierogi Gallery and The Boston Drawing Project at Joseph Carroll and Sons Gallery. Her recent and upcoming projects include solo exhibitions at Robischon Gallery in Denver; the SACI Gallery at Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy; and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York City. Zlotsky holds a B.A. in the History of Art from Yale University and a M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of Connecticut.
Participating students in this year’s Nebraska National Exhibition include:
Miller Aubrecht, University of Georgia
Maggie Avolio, The College of Saint Rose
Madelin Beattie, Kutztown University
Amanda Bialk, University of Cincinnati
Marissa Boyer, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Jacob Clausen, Luther College
Courtney Cone, Texas State University
Chelsea Dappen, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Carly Ellefsen, Luther College
Ally Frame, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Mary Gordon, Kansas State University
Courtney Greathouse, University of Mary Washington
Makaela Harder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sam Hardewig, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Katharen Hedges, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Travis Jarrells, University of Mary Washington
Hannah Jennings, Kansas State University
Yu Jin, Rhode Island School of Design
Elizabeth Katt, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Cortland Kerwin, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Heather Latch, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Phoebe Little, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Kristin Mahan, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Anthony Marx, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Megan Maslonka, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Megan McCoy, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Matthew Meserve, University of Massachusetts
Pat Nelsen, Hastings College
Erika Neumann, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Dan Ney, Kansas State University
Jolie Ngo, Rhode Island School of Design
Victoria Norton, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Zach Nutt, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Trent Pechon, Southeastern Louisiana University
Alina Perez, Rhode Island School of Design
Alessandra Pozzuoli, Rhode Island School of Design
Amanda Pulcine, Pennsylvania State University
Katie Samson, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Margaret Schmiegelow, University of Central Missouri
Kelsey Smith, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Elisa Wolcott, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Admission to the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Richards Hall is located at Stadium Drive and T sts on the UNL city campus. For more information, contact the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522.