We’ll get to the May doing at The Arts Center, or TAC, but first, let’s talk about Cynthia Spencer.
On June 30, Spencer passes the executive director’s torch. She has played a pivotal role in stabilizing TAC during her 10-year tenure. She’s also progressed the TAC into the spaces where art meets contemporaneous social reflections and movements. Intuitive and insightful, she has been someone that embraces change and challenge in the arts.
Now, to honor Spencer’s 40 years serving the arts community, the TAC Board of Directors and Lead Donors have launched a TAC Endowment Campaign, pledging $150,000 toward a $300,000 Campaign Goal. Click here to learn more.
And now, here’s what’s happening at The Arts Center for May…
MAIN GALLERY: Glint, Glimmer, Glow, Kathryn Cellerini Moore
Kathryn Cellerini Moore’s dynamically immersive exhibition, Glint, Glimmer, Glow, will be exhibited in the Main Gallery for six weeks. The exhibit is inspired by solar wind physics, with moving images, micro-organisms, landscape vignettes, and undulating light, projected onto banded tapestries of chainmail, to mimic aurora shapes.
This will be TAC’s first zero-emission exhibit thanks to a robust collaboration with students of The Design for Social Impact Initiative at OSU. They are an engineering team that has designed, prototyped, and built the renewable energy system that will power the show and be a visible part of the exhibit.
Cellerini Moore and members of the OSU engineering team joined TAC curator, Jennie Castle, for a conversation on TAC Makes: A Podcast, on Monday, May 6 – it’s on Spotify and YouTube.
You can read more about this exhibit on the TAC website.
- Exhibit runs May 16 – June 29, 2024
- Reception on Thursday, May 16, 2024, 5:30 – 7 pm
- Panel discussion on Thursday, May 16, 2024, 6 pm
CORRINE WOODMAN GALLERY: Confluence II, OSU Art & Science Fellows: Nicole Fronda, Ethan Makinster, Henry Pitts
Confluence II, features the final projects of three 2024 OSU Art and Science Fellows. Arts-Sci Initiative Fellowships offer students an interdisciplinary creative or journalistic project informed by active engagement with research in science or engineering at Oregon State University. Click here for more info.
- Runs May 7 – June 1, 2024
- Reception, Thursday, May 16, 2024, 5:30 – 7 pm
Summer Arts Adventures for Youth – Registration is OPEN!
TAC offers a fun, creative outlet for your kids this summer. Full and half-day art classes will engage youth ages 4-18 in a variety of media such as clay, zines, game making, and bookmaking! Click here for more information.
- Runs July 8 – August 9, 2024
Benton Community Foundation Philanthropic Awards
The Benton Community Foundation, or BCF, invites Oregon artists to submit proposals for their 6th Annual Awards Event. One selected artist will create 10 original artworks and receive $4,000, professional promotion from the BCF, and a ticket to the Awards Event in November. Application Deadline July 24, 2024. Click here for more information.
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