The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will be an accessible and vital contemporary arts venue for the University and the local community and will exhibit and promote the creative research of Art Department faculty and students.
Objective
Exhibit Art From Around The United States
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will host exhibitions of contemporary art in a variety of medium by artists from diverse backgrounds from all over United States. The exhibitions will be open to the public. University faculty, staff, students and members of the local community will be encouraged to attend.
Indicator
Gallery Committee Will Review Proposals
The Gallery Committee of the Art Department is composed of 3-4 art faculty members and a staff member from Visual Resources. The committee will distribute an open call for exhibition proposals to artists through a variety of publicly available sources. These will include, but are not limited to the "Opportunities" board on College Art Association website, the "Call for Entries" board on the Glasstire website, and an advertisement in the magazine Art List. Submissions will be reviewed by the Gallery Committee. Artists will be chosen on the basis of • quality of work • exhibition history and experience • representation of a cohesive body of work • relevance to the art department curriculum • relevance and benefit to the local community Artists will be grouped in exhibitions of 3 to 4 artists whose work has a relationship thematically and/or explores issues related to a particular medium.
Criterion
Group Exhibitions
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will host 3-4 exhibitions of nationally recognized artists annually.
Finding
3 Exhbitions Of Work By 8 Artists
The Gallery committee received applications from 101 artists from around the United States in response to a nationally advertised call for entries. From these applications the gallery chose 8 artists to exhibit in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery. "Cosmic Theater" Paintings by Michico Itatani of Chicago Oct 1-29, 2009 "Realitease" featuring Paintings and drawings by Benjamin Duke, Michigan; Karina Hean, Montana; and Dawn Hunter, South Carolina, Nov.9-Dec.3, 2009. "Death and Taxidermy" featuring Photography by Dick Lane and Vaughn Wscovich, Texas: Cara Thompson, New York; Kimberly Witham, Florida, April 12-29, 2010.
Action
Schedule Exhbitions For 2010-2011
The Gallery committee will advertise a call for entries from artists throughout the United States and schedule 4 exhibitions from these proposals in 2010-11.
Objective
Faculty Exhibitions
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will exhibit and promote the creative research of Art Department faculty.
Indicator
Faculty Exhibitions
Art Departrment Faculty will exhibit art works that are the result of their current creative research.
Criterion
Annual Exhibitions
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will host an annual exhibition of recent works by all art department faculty. The art works will be the results of the faculty's current creative research. The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will host an exhibition of works by new faculty in their first year of employment in the Art Department. Both exhibitions will be promoted and open to the university community and the public at large.
Finding
2 Faculty Exhbitions
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery exhibited works by Diana Salles, Annie Strader, and Anthony Watkins in the "New Faculty Spotlight" exhibition Sept. 8-24, 2009. "50th Annual SHSU Art Faculty Exhibtion" included works by 20 current art faculty members Jan. 19-Feb. 11, 2010.
Action
Faculty Exhibition In Spring 2011
The 51st Annual SHSU Art Faculty Exhibition will be held in Spring 2011. All current Art Faculty will be encouraged to participate.
Objective
Student Exhibitions
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will exhibit and promote the work of students in the Art Department.
Indicator
Graduating Senior Exhibition
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will exhibit the work of graduating seniors. The student work will demonstrate and be used to evaluate:
• a proficiency in skills and techniques related to the medium used in the artwork. • the student's ability to produce a cohesive body of work. • the student's ability to express a concept through a work of art. • an awareness of contemporary art and its relation to art history.
Criterion
Graduating Senior Exhibition
The Graduating Senior Exhibition will be held twice annually, at the end of the fall and spring semester.
Finding
2 Exhibitions Held
Exhibitions of work by Graduating Seniors were held at the end of each long semester. 19 students senior exhibited work December 14th-19th 2009. 32 exhibited work May 10-14, 2010. In the first of these exhibitions, students were given few if any guidelines in terms of exhibition requirements and little advanced notice of the exhibition. In the second, held at the end of the spring semester, the exhibit was organized by students in Art 496 Museum and Gallery Practices. The students contacted the graduating seniors early in the semester and curated the exhibition from a body of work submitted by each graduating senior. The second exhibition was a more useful tool for evaluating the students work. however, the large number of students made it difficult to exhibit a significant quantity of work by each student. The Graduating Senior Exhibition is useful way to promote the work of all of the graduating art students, but an ineffective means of teaching the skills needed for an artist to mount an exhibit of their work and for faculty to evaluate this.
Indicator
Juried Exhibition
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will bring an nationally renown arts professional who is an artist, a curator, gallerist, or museum director to judge student work. Every full time art student will be allowed to submit up to 3 artworks in any medium. The juror will choose artworks to be in an exhibition. Awards will be given to Best of Show, Best 2D Artwork, Best 3D Artwork, Best Animation, Best Graphic Design. The artwork will be selected based on • craftsmanship • originality • content • other criteria determined by the juor
Criterion
Juried Student Exhibition
A juried student exhibition will be held annually, in the spring semester. The works in the exhibit and awards will be selected by a juror from outside the university.
Finding
11th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
The 11th Annual Juried Student Exhibition was held April 12-29, 2010. Works by 70 students were included in the exhibition which was juried by Sharon Kopriva, a nationally recognized artist from Houston. $5,650 were awarded to students for Best of Show, Best 2-D, Best Photography, Best 3-D, and Best Animation, as well as 2nd, and 3rd place awards in each catergory.
Action
Continue To Exhibit And Promote Student Work
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will continue to hold exhibitions of work by graduating seniors at the end of the fall and spring semesters. The Art Department will develop guidelines of exhibition requirements and make these available to all students. The 12th annual juried student exhibition will be held in the Spring semester 2011.
Objective
Visiting Artists And Professionals
The gallery will host visiting artists and professionals to lecture, curate exhibitions, demonstrate media and methods, and critique student work.
Indicator
Visiting Artists And Professionals
The gallery will invite visiting artists to campus. Visiting artists will give lectures and/or demonstrations that are open and promoted to University faculty, staff, students and to the community at large. The Visiting Artists will be selected by the Gallery committee in conjunction with exhibition proposals and from faculty recommendations. Artists will be chosen based on: • national reputation. • perceived benefit to Art Department students. • perceived benefit to the local community in terms of enhancing awareness of contemporary art.
Criterion
Visiting Artists And Professionals
The gallery will host four or more visiting artists annually to give public lectures.
Finding
9 Guest Lecturers
The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery hosted lectures by 9 visiting artists in conjunction with the exhibitions in the Gallery. 2 artists lectures were given by artists not related to exhibitions. The lectures were advertised in local media outlets and campus wide and were open to the public.
Action
Promote Visiting Artists
The Gallery committee will invite all of the guest artists who exhibiting in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery in 2010-2011 to visit the Art Department and give a public lecture on their work. The committee will also seek more student interaction with the artists by inviting them to participate in critiques of student work in classes related to their expertise and to give workshops on techniques when appropriate.