Department of Art + Design,
Art History, Art Education
Galleries
The Center for the Arts houses three galleries, including the Holtzman
M.F.A. Gallery, the Asian Arts Gallery, and the Center for the
Arts Gallery. The Center of the Arts Gallery is a premier exhibition space, rivaling many museum spaces. Curator, Susan Isaacs, and Gallery Director, Christopher Bartlett, schedule several exhibitions each year and summer. Exhibitions include important living artists of the past forty years, as well as emerging artists, and students. The Holtzman M.F.A. Gallery exhibits new work by graduate students, invited students, guests from other institutions, and nationally and internationally recognized artists. The gallery serves as a catalyst for creating dialog in the classroom and the community. Openings and receptions are coordinated with the Center for the Arts Gallery. Students have opportunities to work in the gallery, as they do in the other galleries. The
Holtzman and Center for the Arts Galleries exhibit internationally-known
artists, such as Alison Saar, Creighton Michael, Sam Giliam,
Nancy Jurs, and Wendell Castle, as well as student work. Many
of the artists exhibiting also lecture and critique student work
as guest artists during their exhibitions. The Asian Arts Gallery
presents international exhibitions of contemporary and traditional
arts from Vietnam, Korea, China, Japan, and many other countries.
All galleries are considered as teaching resources. Undergraduate and graduate
students work in the galleries and enroll in courses in exhibit
design. The galleries are open to the public.
Undergraduate and graduate students create opportunities to exhibit outside of the Towson University campus, with the assistance of art faculty. One site that has supported student exhibitions for several years is the Towson Commons Gallery, located in downtown Towson.
Visit the Center for the Arts Calendar for a complete listing of current exhibitions.
The Center for the Arts and Holtzman MFA galleries are CLOSED Tuesday, November 23—Monday, November 29 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Call for entry: Ron Cubbison Alumni Exhibition and Travel Awards
The Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education of Towson University seeks undergraduate and graduate alumni of former professor Ron Cubbison for exhibition of their work and the awarding of travel fellowships. Professor Cubbison, who died in 2008, taught at Towson University for thirty years, from 1966 to 1996. He was a firm believer in the individual vision of his students and in the power and impact of travel abroad as an inspiration for creativity. With this belief in mind, he created a one-time fellowship award for his former students to be used for travel abroad. All students who studied with Professor Cubbison and who are still actively making art should apply to take part in a juried exhibition to take place in the Center for the Arts, September 13, 2012—October 7, 2012. Five of his former students whose works are juried into this exhibition will then be chosen to receive substantive travel abroad fellowships. Upon return home from their travels, these travel award winners will participate in a second group exhibition of their new works. The second exhibition of work by the fellowship winners will take place in 2014. Jurors are artists Fran Bull and Mary Ann Krutsick.
To be considered for the Ron Cubbison Alumni Exhibition please either send a CD with jpgs of 8-10 works created since 2006 or use a service such as YouSendIt.com. Please indicate the works that are available for exhibition. DVD entries of new media are also acceptable. Please include a copy of your resume, an artist statement, list of works (with title, medium, size, and date), and if you want to be considered for the travel scholarship, a copy of your transcripts that indicates the courses that you took with Professor Cubbison (highlight in yellow the specific courses you took with Professor Cubbison).
Please make sure to indicate whether you were an undergraduate or graduate student when you studied with him. Send all documents digitally either through Yousendit.com or snail mail a CD with all files. Please make sure that your CD and DVD operate on both MAC and PC computers. Postmark date: December 31, 2011. Send or drop off this information to: Professor J. Susan Isaacs, Curator of the Center for the Arts Gallery, Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252; sisaacs@towson.edu
For further information or questions contact: sisaacs@towson.edu or cindyrehm@gmail.com
Current TU faculty who studied with Ron Cubbison may submit work for exhibition but they will not be considered for a travel fellowship.
Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Center for the Arts, Room 3103 (map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 410-704-2808
Fax: 410-704-2810
E-mail: artdepartment@towson.edu
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