Juno in July

Visiting artist to offer lectures, workshops in July: "Visiting artist Violet Juno will be on campus July 2-27 with a series of 25 events, including lectures, performances and workshops. The series, called 'Campo Truth Charmer: An Interdisciplinary Performance Expedition,' is meant primarily for artists of all types, from musicians to writers to painters to dancers, and for the 'art-curious' in any discipline.

Juno is an arts learning activist for the Alameda County, Calif., Office of Education. She is also a performance artist, having participated in exhibitions in more than 30 cities over the past 17 years, including a premier performance at SIUC's Kleinau Theater of "Swallowed Whole: Stories from Inside the Painting," an exploration of her work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Juno was born in Germany, but raised in Normal, Ill., where, according to her biography, she learned to recognize the "absurd masquerading as the mundane." She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Washington University and a master of fine arts at the University of California-San Diego.

Juno's visit here is funded in part by the Student Fine Arts Activity Fee. All of her events are open and free of charge. Each week has a theme. The schedule is given in the press release."

Aftermath 2002, and other Plochmanns on display

The Southern Illinois Art Gallery at Rend Lake will be displaying the paintings of Carolyn Plochmann's Gift, a selection of paintings and drawings from the 1940s through 2005. The highly distinguished Carbondale artist, Plochmann, gifted the work to the Illinois State Museum in 2006, many of which are being shown for the first time.

May 20 - September 9, 2007.

Six miles north of Benton, Illinois, just west on Exit 77.

Can you Duhigg it?

Artdaily.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net: "ST. LOUIS - The annual Kranzberg Exhibition Series opens June 8, 2007 with an exhibition featuring the work of Thad Duhigg titled, Assumptions Mediated and will run through September 2, 2007.

Currently professor of sculpture and the Chair of the Art and Design department at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, Duhigg will fill the indoor galleries at Laumeier with his bold, probing and provocative work. The exhibition includes sculpture, installations, prints and drawings. Duhigg’s most recent work questions and provokes as it focus on issues of identity, race and current events. . . .

Duhigg received his B.F.A. from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale "