The Department of Art in the College of Liberal Arts invites applications for a 75 percent-time Ceramics Technician (Job ID: 326640) to begin semester 2019 (08/26/2019). This is a 75 percent-time position providing health and safety and technical support for the ceramic facilities in the Department of Art. With this position, we seek to strengthen the Department of Art’s newly formed area of Sculpture and Ceramics with a technician who brings a broad perspective informed by active engagement with ceramics, knowledge of technical equipment, materials and processes used in the field of ceramic art, and experience working with undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in a university setting. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical ceramics background with experience in maintenance, repair, design, and construction of ceramic equipment and can provide instruction on ceramic equipment and health and safety methods and processes.

Paul Shambroom, Associate Professor in Photography and Moving Image, discusses his Nuclear Weapon series (1992-2001), which he spent hours each day researching weapons policy and navigating government administration to get the clearance needed to take his photographs. The images from this series picture bunkers and weapons that had previously been classified.

Alum Brittany Kieler (MFA '18) presents her solo exhibition Female Reader. The show will adjoin two meanings of the term spread, referring both to the anatomy of a book and to the anatomy of a female. Various forms of printed matter will engage with the history of information gathering, propagation, and circulation. Join Brittany for the opening reception on Saturday, September 15th from 8-11pm. On view through October 14, 2018.

Faculty Laura Stack and Jeff Milliken are exhibiting work in Pulchra Scientia: The Aesthetics of Discovery: a nationally juried exhibition of works by contemporary artists that communicate current scientific developments. Join Laura and Jeff for the opening reception on Saturday, September 14th from 5-7 pm. On view through January 20, 2019.

The Department of Art seeks an artist with expertise in contemporary sculpture practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical and theoretical foundation, as well as an expansive approach that embraces the changing role of contemporary art and considers its role in a global society. We seek an energetic colleague with a strong professional record and the ability to teach across the curriculum, working with non-majors, BA, BFA, and MFA students.

As the CEO and founder of a company that facilitates finance for renewable energy projects, Jeremy Kalin (BA ‘00, art) uses his liberal arts background to solve problems in his everyday work that have "a component of public good" to them. He says CLA gave him an ongoing drive to look at the world creatively and strive to be a service to the world.

“In Berlin, at the opening there were people lined up down the block for blocks to see this exhibition. It’s been really spectacular... it’s kind of taken on a life of its own," says Lukkas.

Underbelly is a selection of sculpture and video that explores the materiality of human and non-human bodies. The work uses materials such as plaster, carpet padding, plastic, resin, silicone, fabric and LCD screens to create abstract forms that bulge beyond borders, slide over edges, and seep through cracks. This exhibition holds tension between the bounded form of a body’s perceived exterior and an unknowable interior world; between control and unruliness. From newfound knowledge of the bacteria that lives in our gut, to medical devices implanted in bodies, to the phones in our pockets, our experience of the world is increasingly hybrid. The contemporary body is a liminal entity; a cyborg, a chimera, a network. It may be thought of as a site of marvel, anxiety and contestation because it blurs categories of human and non-human, inside and outside, organic and synthetic, singular and multiple, sensing and non-sensing. This exhibition reflects Casanova’s ongoing engagement with the Posthuman body as she creates an expanded view of corporeal experience.

The Valley is a series of photographs that use regional terrains and simple interventions to tread cautiously into that gray area where we waver between attraction and repulsion. These large, dark photographic landscapes confine viewers and challenge our fears, asking us to confront what we think we understand.