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New campus sculpture: Artificial Rock #119

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October 21st, 2021

When you leave the classrooms in E. Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center, stop by the Mauzé Family Terrace, where you will encounter our new campus sculpture 假山石 119号 / Artificial Rock #119 by Beijing-based artist Zhan Wang.  Installation in Progress This sculpture is part of the artist’s ongoing series of sculpture Artificial Rocks, which have been collected by numerous institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The DeYoung Museum and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and the British Museum, London. The series consists of fabricated stainless steel sculptures replicating the “scholar’s rock” (假山石), which were naturally-eroded rocks traditionally placed...
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Returning Intern: Alice Berndt

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October 20th, 2021
Meet Alice Berndt, one of the returning interns on staff at the Van Every/Smith Galleries! Alice Berndt is a Senior studying English and Art History at Davidson College from Maplewood, New Jersey. Learn more about Alice: What has been your favorite exhibition during your time at Davidson? "'The American Library' by Yinka Shonibare in 2018!" Check out the exhibit here: https://www.davidsoncollegeartgalleries.org/dcag-exhibitions/yinka-shonibare-mbe-the-american-library/ What is your favorite thing about working in the gallery? "Getting to learn about all the amazing artworks that the college owns and interacting with artists!" What are you most excited to do this semester in the art gallery or...
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Seen in Storage: Edward Hopper

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October 19th, 2021

Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, etching
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)Night Shadows, 1921Etching Regarding the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, Hopper explains “It’s probably a reflection of my own, if I must say, loneliness. I don’t know. It could be the whole human condition.” [1] Loneliness shadowed Edward Hopper and was a visibly present theme throughout his artistic career. Night Shadows is a bird's eye view of solitude, thematically similar to Nighthawks (probably his most recognizable and representative oil painting), but created twenty years prior. Hopper began a concentration in printmaking in 1915 which lasted until 1923. The date of this work is...
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Reading List for New Exhibition

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October 12th, 2021
Dr. Rose Stremlau is an Associate Professor of History at Davidson College specializing in the study of the Indigenous South; American Indian women, gender, and sexualities; families and kinship; federal Indian policy; and sexual violence in American History. Her book Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation, was published by the University of North Carolina Press and won the 2012 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women's Historians. Dr. Stremlau has kindly provided a reading list in conjunction with Nicholas Galanin's exhibit Dreaming in English. The readings provide historical background and context to many of...
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Request for Qualifications

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October 12th, 2021

Yinka Shonibare Wind Sculpture (SG) I
Commemorative Site for Enslaved and Exploited People PROJECT BACKGROUND  Davidson College is a liberal arts institution dedicated to cultivating humane instincts and disciplined, creative minds. Our community touchstone is the Reformed Tradition of the Presbyterian Church, a tradition rooted in the belief that all lives are valuable, equal, and deserving of dignity.  Founded in the American South in 1837, less than thirty years before the Civil War, Davidson College recognizes our participation in slavery and responsibility for the pain and mistreatment of enslaved and exploited people throughout our history.  In 2017, Davidson College embarked on a study of our institution’s...
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