Thursday, September 3, 2009 9:32 AM CDT
Krehbiel lecture to kick off fall season at Tarble Arts Center
CHARLESTON — The Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University will kick off its fall season next week with three new exhibitions, a public reception, and an artist’s lecture.
Artist Jim Krehbiel will talk about his digital prints at a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The talk opens his exhibition in the Brainard Gallery, titled “Sightlines and Site Lines: Art and Archaeoastronomy.” The Krehbiel lecture and exhibition are presented in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy. The exhibition continues through Oct. 11.
The 2009 Art Faculty Exhibition will be celebrated with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 10. Entertainment will be provided by the Staff Blues Band. The Art Faculty Exhibition, in the main galleries, will continue until EIU’s Homecoming weekend, Oct. 17.
And in the eGallery is the painting installation “stone black heart murmur” by Icelandic artist Anna Jóelsdóttir. The installation will remain on exhibition through Oct. 9.
All events are free and the public is invited.
Krehbiel is a Charleston native and chairman of art at Ohio Wesleyan University. His composite digital art prints are based on his decades-long exploration, research and photography of the architecture, art and astronomy of the ancestral Pueblo peoples of the southwestern United States. Some of the prints created have up to 150 layers of imagery.
At his lecture Krehbiel will talk about his historical archaeoastronomy work to date, and how his artwork helps to unravel the anthropological and scientific puzzles of the remote sites and astronomical alignments.
He also will discuss some of the archaeological implications of his findings, including a summer solstice photo sequence taken at an ancient astronomical viewing shrine this past summer. More information on archaeoastronomy is available online at http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/pathfinder.html.
Said Krehbiel: “This work is part of a bigger response to experiencing the (700- to 1,000-year-old) sites first hand, reading archeological surveys, site reports and studies about the area, finding historical artifacts and signatures left by early explorers and archaeologists, and discussions with scholars, friends, and modern Pueblo Indians.”
The Krehbiel program is co-sponsored with the EIU art department, and is funded in part by the EIU College of Arts & Humanities’ Excellence in Fine Arts Visiting Artist Fund and Tarble Arts Center membership contributions.
The Tarble Arts Center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus. Open hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; closed Mondays.
For information call 581-ARTS (-2787) or e-mail tarble@eiu.edu.
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