CONWAY, Ark. (April 5, 2021) – The Windgate Museum of Art
at Hendrix College in Conway announces the opening of its spring student exhibitions.
The senior art student exhibition (Virtually) Unstoppable, and a senior
curatorial exhibition No Man’s Land: A Feminist Reimagining are
available for viewing April 16, 2021 – May 14, 2021. The Intermediate Mixed
Media 3D class sculpture exhibition Shaping Up! is available for viewing
April 8, 2021 – May 19, 2021. Open hours are 12 noon – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.
COVID-19 protocols for visitations and virtual programming for each exhibition are
found on the museum website: https://windgatemuseum.org.
(Virtually)
Unstoppable (Neely
Gallery, Biggs Gallery) features artwork that reflects students’ year-long
senior capstone study and the culmination of their studio art experience. Dylan
Hicks (Guy, AR) graduates with a BA
in Studio Art: Photography and a minor
in English: Film Studies. Hicks’ films have been screened at the Hendrix
College Red Brick Film Festival, the 2019 Kaleidoscope LGBTQfest, and in a campus
student art exhibition. Hicks is exhibiting nine photographs. Greta Kresse
(Little Rock, AR) graduates with a BA in Studio Art: Painting and a minor in
Business. A self-described plen air painter, Kresse considers her work a
documentation of a relationship with her subject, refining aesthetic details
later in the studio. She has exhibited in group shows in Arkansas, New York,
and Pennsylvania. Kresse is exhibiting twelve oil paintings. Myca Treat
(Mountain Home, AR) graduates with a BA in Studio Art: Painting and a minor in Art:
Art History. Treat’s artwork is heavily influenced by the Classical,
Renaissance Baroque, and Rococo periods. Greek mythology informs her portraits
of close friends and family. Treat is exhibiting eight oil paintings. Arthur
Trickett-Wile (San Antonio, TX) gradates with a BA in Studio Art:
Photography. His emphasis is photojournalism. Trickett-Wile is exhibiting an
installation of framed photographs and a video montage documenting protests in
Barcelona related to the Catalan independence movement, demonstrations associated
with the Black Lives Matter movement, and political activity related to the
2020 U.S. presidential elections. Additional information about the Studio Art
program at Hendrix College is available at www.hendrix.edu/art.
No
Man’s Land: A Feminist Reimagining (Wilcox Todd Gallery) features work by eleven female artists whose
work examines representations of women’s bodies and encourages the often-contradictory
discussions that surround the concept of embodiment. Participating artists have
ties to Arkansas, and include LaToya Hobbs, Lisa Krannichfeld, Louise
Mandumbwa, Hannah McBroom, Milkdadd, Grace Mikell Ramsey, Katherine Rutter, Katherine
Strause, Behnaz Sohrabian, Rachel Trusty, and Melissa Wilkinson. The exhibition
is curated by Rebecca Jolley, a Museum Associate in Curatorial Research with
the Windgate Museum of Art. This capstone exhibition project completes a senior
year of thesis study, curatorial research and writing, and communications with artists
and commercial and individual lenders. Jolley graduates with a BA in English:
Literary Studies and a minor in Art History & Gender. Virtual programs in association
with this exhibition include:
- April 19 lecture by artist Hannah
McBroom on transgender art as a history;
- April 21 LGBTQ+ artists panel
discussion with Leeanne Maxey, Rachel Trusty, and Melissa Wilkinson,
moderated by Darci McFarland of PTSFeminist;
- April 28 lecture by artist and art
historian Rachel Epp Buller titled Breasts, Baby Bumps, and Beyond:
Maternal Bodies in Art History;
- May 3 Daughters of the Dust film
screening and panel discussion featuring Ahmad Ward of Historic Mitchelville
Freedom Park and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch of Arkansas State University.
More
information about these programs is at https://www.windgatemuseum.org/events.
Free and open to all, registration for virtual programs is by email to windgatemuseum@hendrix.edu.
SHAPING
UP! Intermediate Mixed Media 3D class sculpture exhibition presents sculptures created by studio art students and Visual
Arts Adjunct Instructor Andy Huss. The eighteen works featured in the Window
Gallery include 3D PLA prints, a fabric construction, and bronze and aluminum
casts of original models. The exhibition is accompanied by a didactic display in
the WMA lobby explaining the steps of printing, casting, and finishing a three
dimensional work of art. Additional information about the Studio Art program at
Hendrix College is available at www.hendrix.edu/art.
The art@hendrix!
online exhibit continues through
May 15, 2021. Dedicated to celebrating the College’s artistic life in the pre-Windgate
Museum era, the exhibition includes 94 pieces of artwork created or collected
by alumni and former and current faculty and staff, as well as significant works
from the Hendrix permanent collection and artworks courtesy of the Historic
Arkansas Museum. This exhibition is online at https://www.windgatemuseum.org/exhibition/art-at-hendrix
with recordings of past virtual programs at https://www.windgatemuseum.org/wmvideo.
For
more information about exhibitions and programs, follow @windgatemuseum on
Instagram and @WMAatHDX on Facebook, or contact Amanda Cheatham at 501-328-2383
or cheatham@hendrix.edu.
About the
Windgate Museum of Art
The Windgate Museum
of Art is the new art museum located on the campus of Hendrix College. With a
vision to be the premier teaching art museum in Arkansas, the WMA presents
outstanding art exhibitions, compelling educational programs, and invigorating
social activities for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campus. Free
and open to all, the museum uses hands-on experiences to train students in all
facets of museum work, including curatorial research, collection management,
educational and social programming, marketing and communications, as well as
all aspects of exhibition research, planning, installation, and evaluation. The
Windgate Museum of Art is made possible with the generous support of the
Windgate Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.