{"id":40903,"date":"2010-03-14T23:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=40903"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:31:11","slug":"weber-states-dova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/weber-states-dova\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber State’s DOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month in the Higher Education column, we travel north to Ogden and Weber State University. Weber\u2019s\u00a0Department of Visual Arts\u00a0(DOVA) has started 2010 with a successful juried student show in their own Shaw Gallery, followed immediately by an art talk with performance artist Angela Ellsworth.|1|<\/strong>Ellsworth was brought in jointly between DOVA and the\u00a0Central Utah Art Center<\/a>\u00a0(CUAC), the most recent collaboration between the two institutions. Even though they are separated by about 150 miles, they have found these collaborations very successful. They alleviate some of the financial pressure on both sides and help increase attendance at both the talks and the shows. CUAC board member\u00a0Adam Bateman<\/a>\u00a0is very enthusiastic about these collaborations and believes they’ll help continue to bring world-class artists to the state of Utah and provide a special opportunity for students at the schools willing to work with the CUAC. He is excited to continue these programs and looks forward to more collaboration this coming fall. If you missed Ellsworth\u2019s lecture, it is available in its entirety on CUAC\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

One reason DOVA collaborates so well with the CUAC is that one of their most active faculty members,\u00a0Matthew Choberka<\/a>, is on the CUAC board. Choberka started a dedicated\u00a0Facebook Page for the DOVA<\/a>\u00a0so that students (already spending too much time on there anyway) can keep up with events at the DOVA, look for calls for entry, and check out links to current events in the art world that Choberka and other faculty members share. Students can also RSVP for events like the upcoming lecture by San Francisco-based painter,\u00a0Seth Curcio<\/a>.|2|<\/strong>\u00a0The talk is this Thursday, March 4th, and will discuss recent studio, curatorial and publishing projects. Curcio is the founder of the popular art blog,\u00a0DailyServing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in learning more about performance art, local and internationally recognized performance artist\u00a0Kristina Lenzi<\/a>\u00a0currently includes six weeks on the subject in her Studio Art class for non-art majors.|3|<\/strong>\u00a0She is getting an enthusiastic response from students and hopes to continue the curriculum in the fall. Images of students\u2019 performance pieces can be seen on the DOVA\u2019s Facebook page. Lenzi recently performed two pieces from her “7 Deadly Sins” at the\u00a0Idyllwild Arts Academy<\/a>\u00a0in California and is off to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to perform \u201cClumsy Cakes Returns\u2019 at the\u00a0Meme Gallery.<\/p>\n

Choberka\u2019s work was recently chosen to be included on the\u00a0Drawing Center\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>artist registry and his work, \u201cPosition Papers,\u201d can be seen this month at\u00a0Universe City Gallery\u00a0in Ogden.|0|<\/strong>\u00a0Make sure to check it out if you are out and about this Friday on First Friday\u2019s Art Stroll in Ogden.<\/p>\n

Another painter and professor at DOVA,\u00a0William Emerich<\/a>\u00a0is enjoying a new situation in his teaching experience.|4|<\/strong>\u00a0He usually teaches Design: 2D and Drawing I, so rarely sees how his students evolve. But this semester he has had the chance to teach figure drawing and get students from his earlier classes. \u201cI am pleased to see how far they have come. They are starting to take responsibility for their education and are developing into articulate artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recent graduate Tyler Hackett came to the DOVA as a transfer student when his wife began graduate work at the University of Utah.|5|<\/strong>\u00a0He chose Weber because he felt a connection to the faculty and department. It was somewhere he \u201cwould want to be on a daily basis.\u201d He believes his successful growth as an artist came about because of this connection (and to his first school, Fort Lewis College), and he was very active in his education taking away valuable information from critiques and other subjective discussions. He looks at his BFA as preparation for pursuing an MFA and having a successful career as an artist. Hackett most recently had a solo show at\u00a0A Gallery<\/a>\u00a0and is currently learning to balance being a stay at home dad and full time artist.<\/p>\n

Upcoming events at the DOVA will include the 5th Annual Northern Utah High School Art Exhibition in March, and in April, the BFA Thesis exhibit. For current events and to keep up with the DOVA, please check out\u00a0their Facebook page<\/a>.
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\nIf readers have any information on art in the colleges and universities they would like to pass on please feel free to email Amanda Moore at\u00a0aelvisj@mac.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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