"Young Country" Interview Project

Wednesday, February 15
University Gallery at Fulton Hall

Curator Maiza Hixson conducts a live media research project in which she interviews members of the gallery audience on images of the rural life in contemporary art and culture.

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Young Country

Curator Maiza Hixson Lecture Wednesday, February 22 Fulton Hall 111, 5 p.m.

Hixson is the Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. She has extensive museum and curatorial experience, having worked for the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia as well as serving as associate curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and curatorial fellow in the Contemporary Art Department at the J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY. Her curatorial work is currently featured in the People’s Biennial, a nationally traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International and curated by Jens Hoffman and Harrell Fletcher. She has recently curated such exhibitions as: Young Country: Rural Themes in Contemporary Art, and Masters of the Visual Universe: An M.F.A. Biennial. She organized solo exhibitions on artists Marilyn Minter and C. Spencer Yeh and curated American Idyll: Contemporary Art, Karaoke; Oh Boy! Men and Masculinity;and Curatorial Investigations of the Mutant Sublime. Hixson is currently organizing an exhibition of new work by two Philadelphia-based artists, The Dufala Brothers, as well as a thematic group exhibition on the use of devices in contemporary art titled Contraption.

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Visiting Artist Talk, Rick Silva: A Rough Mix

Thursday, March 1 TETC 152, 5 p.m.

Silva’s art has been shown in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Transmediale (Germany), Futuresonic (U.K.) and Sonar (Spain). His art and research have been supported through grants and commissions from places such as Turbulence, Rhizome and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He has performed live multimedia works in London at E:VENT Gallery, Tokyo at The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, and throughout North America, including  the Software Cinema Festival in Houston, TX. Media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian UK, Liberation, El Pais and CBS Evening Newshave recognized his art. Most recently, the author of the book Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves regarded Silva as “a recognized pioneer in New Media Art.”

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Experimental Art Video Game Workshop: Unity 3D

Friday, March 2 TETC  352, Noon

Contact Preston Poe (pdpoe@salisbury.edu) for details.

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Visiting Artist Talk, Joshua Wade Smith

Wednesday, March 7 Fulton Hall 111, 5 p.m.

Raised on the mesquite-speckled borderlands of South Texas, Smith spent his formative years running barefoot on blacktop, stacking blocks and staring at the sun. After receiving his B.F.A. from Texas Southern University: San Marcos, Smith moved to Baltimore to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later received his M.F.A. from the Mt. Royal School of Art, at MICA. Smith is a Fellow with Hamiltonian Artists and has shown/performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD; Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA; and Gallery Lombardi, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX. He recently completed a Vermont Studio Center residency and was a Walters Graduate Traveling Fellowship finalist. Smith’s work is in private collections throughout Texas, Maryland and New York.

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