Saturday, November 15 10am-2pm Anita Purves Nature Center 1505 N. Broadway, Urbana FREE
Join the recycling celebration! Although the event will take place indoors, this year's theme focuses on bicycles! During the event, kids will have the opportunity to make some creative decorations for their bikes using repurposed items.
Make your own creation from reused or repurposed materials at home before the event, and enter to win an award in the Creative Reuse Competition. Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome. A panel of judges will score each entry for usefulness, reused/recycled content, ability to be recycled, creativity, and complexity. See here for competition rules and a complete list of recyclable items that can be dropped off during the event. Bring in the most of any one of the recyclable items above and win a prize! Questions about the event or the competition? Contact Savannah Donovan at 217-384-4062 or sydonovan@urbanaparks.org.
This event is always a great time. Staff from U-Cycle and the I.D.E.A. Store will also be at the event. Stop by any time from 10am to 2pm to enjoy the festivities. We look forward to seeing you there!
As a student working on my MS in Environmental Education and Interpretation, I recently took a course on Education for Sustainability (EfS). The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education offers a framework of EfS Standards & Performance Indicators, and I was pleased to discover that the Museums at the Crossroads consortium is an excellent example of EfS in our community!
Several years ago all of the museums in Champaign County, IL, banded together to form the Museums at the Crossroads (MAC) consortium in an effort to more effectively advertise community recreational and educational opportunities. Together, eleven museums (including the Anita Purves Nature Center where I work) celebrate cultural diversity and facilitate “collaboration between consortium members and related cultural institutions.” These museums also work together to create new joint programs and events for the public. They cross-promote for each other and encourage community-wide exploration of museums as hands-on learning institutions for natural and cultural education.
The criteria for sustainability from the Cloud Institute’s framework that are demonstrated by MAC include having Multiple Perspectives, Cultural Preservation, and a Strong Sense of Place. Visiting different types of museums encourages looking at the world from different vantage points and varying cultural perspectives. This is vital to working effectively with diverse stakeholders and making fair and consensual decisions. It promotes the appreciation of diversity and the expansion of perspectives from local to global. Experiencing such a wide array of museums--specializing from airplanes to art to astronomy--in one county nurtures a strong sense of community, sense of place, and lifelong learning. Visitors “recognize and value the interrelationships between the social, economic, ecological, and architectural history of that place and contribute to its continuous health”. Regular visitors to museums engage in hands-on, minds-on experiences that improve critical and consequential thinking. Often, visits are by families and by people of a wide array of ages, making museum exploration a multigenerational experience. Diverse exhibits and programs offer multiple entry points and perspectives, and they promote global-mindedness and empathy.
Who would have known that our eleven museums--when working together--can form such a strong network for Education for Sustainability!
It's been a crazy several weeks at the Spurlock. We're opening a new exhibit this afternoon, with the celebration this weekend; we've jumped into school programs with both feet; and there have been numerous publication deadlines to meet. We're all incredibly tired, but so happy with all we are able to accomplish. On days when our brains are fried and we don't think we can add another thing to the schedule, we get something wonderful like the evaluation we received yesterday on "An Afternoon in Ancient Rome," a program we piloted a couple of weeks ago.
The evaluation was written by a parent who had attended with an 8th-grade daughter. It was obvious they had a great time. Some of the comments addressed aspects of the program we had been concerned about: Did we have enough stations to keep everyone busy? Yes. Had we given the volunteers running the stations enough information to be comfortable talking to the participants? Yes. Had we given the participants enough information before and after their arrival to understand how the program would run? Were we smiling and welcoming to everyone? Yes and Yes. The parent even took the time to make thoughtful suggestions for improvement. The title of this blog was one of our favorite parts of the evaluation!
I wrote a news story for the Spurlock webpage once on how much we love to get thank-you letters. Evaluations are some of the best thank-you letters. Even if the comments are not all positive, they let us know the person appreciated our effort enough to help us make our work even better the next time. For that, we say thank you.
Mon. June 16 - Thur. July 24 (closed for Independence Day on
July 3)
Reception: Thu. June 19, 6–8pm, Gallery Talk by Lisa
Costello and Laura O’Donnell
Music by Big Blue Stem
Additional Gallery Talk: Tue. June 24, 1pm, Jennifer Hain Tepper, Velde
Preservation Librarian and Associate Professor, University Library from UIUC
entitled “Preservation and Conservation Approaches for Historic Paper and
Photograph Collections”
Since 1971, Parkland’s Fine and Applied Arts Department has
purchased artworks from the annual Art & Design Student Juried Exhibition.This collection, which has grown and evolved
over the years, consists of two-dimensional art and provides a visual history
of the breadth of the Art and Design program.
The selected works that will be on exhibit this summer in
the Giertz Gallery at Parkland College exemplify just a few of the many artworks
that have been collected over four decades.
Summer gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10am - 6pm
and the gallery will be closed July 3 for Independence Day. To find the
gallery, we suggest using the M6 parking lot on the north corner of the campus.
Enter through any door and follow the ramps uphill to the highest point of the
first floor, where the gallery is located. The gallery windows overlook the
outdoor fountain area.Parkland is a
section 504/ADA-compliant institution. For accommodation, call 217/351-2505.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Mon. June 16 - Thur. July 24 (closed for Independence Day on
July 3)
Reception: Thu. June 19, 6–8pm
Gallery Talk by Lisa
Costello and Laura O’Donnell
Music by Big Blue Stem
Additional Gallery Talk: Tue. June 24, 1pm, Jennifer Hain Tepper, Velde
Preservation Librarian and Associate Professor, University Library from UIUC
entitled “Preservation and Conservation Approaches for Historic Paper and
Photograph Collections”
Since 1971, Parkland’s Fine and Applied Arts Department has
purchased artworks from the annual Art & Design Student Juried Exhibition.This collection, which has grown and evolved
over the years, consists of two-dimensional art and provides a visual history
of the breadth of the Art and Design program.The selected works that will be on exhibit this summer in
the Giertz Gallery at Parkland College exemplify just a few of the many artworks
that have been collected over four decades.
Summer gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10am - 6pm
and the gallery will be closed July 3 for Independence Day. To find the
gallery, we suggest using the M6 parking lot on the north corner of the campus.
Enter through any door and follow the ramps uphill to the highest point of the
first floor, where the gallery is located. The gallery windows overlook the
outdoor fountain area.Parkland is a
section 504/ADA-compliant institution. For accommodation, call 217/351-2505.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
The Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried
Exhibition will be on display at the Parkland Art Gallery Monday, May 12
through Thursday, June 7. A reception honoring the students will be held on
Wednesday, May 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery lounge with an awards
ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m.
As with all events in the handicapped-accessible gallery,
the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
To coincide with the exhibition, a gallery talk has been
scheduled for Thursday, May 15 at 1pm. Gretchen Wieshuber, who teaches
Typography at Parkland College and also owns her own design studio called
Studio 2D, will present a talk “Designers and the Creative Process” and will
expand upon the idea of harnessing the power of the creative process.
“Designers are paid to be creative day in and day out. We can't wait around for
inspiration to hit when deadlines loom, so we have a process that leads us
dependably to creative solutions to problems. Anyone can use this process for
any problem
Parkland Art Gallery spring hours are Monday through
Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday from 10a.m. to 3p.m., and Saturday from
12p.m. to 2p.m. The gallery will be closed May 26 in observance of Memorial
Day. To find the Gallery when classes are in session, use the M parking lots,
enter through any door, and follow the ramps uphill to the highest point, where
the gallery is located. This program is partially supported by a grant from the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. For more information, call Parkland Art
Gallery Office at 217/351-2485 or visit our website at
www.parkland.edu/gallery.
Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6–8 p.m., gallery lounge,
with awards ceremony at 7 p.m.
Musical performance by the Parkland Guitar Ensemble
The 2014
Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition will be held April 14
through May 3 in the Parkland Art Gallery. Audiences will enjoy an impressive
body of student work in photography, painting, drawing, metals, sculpture,
three-dimensional design, two-dimensional
design, color theory, and ceramics.
For this
year’s exhibit, Parkland Art and Design faculty will select approximately 200
works from among 400+ entries. Many of these earn artistic awards, which will
be announced during the exhibit’s reception on Thursday, April 17. Students
taking art classes in the current academic year, beginning with summer 2013, are
eligible to submit artwork.
“What I enjoy most is seeing the variety of artwork that our
students produce,” said Craig McMonigal, an instructor in photography, art appreciation,
and history of photography. McMonigal is one among many Parkland faculty and students who look forward to this
event each spring. “As a faculty, we each only see a microcosm of what
our students can do, and this exhibit shows their diversity and
professionalism. I love the fact that we get to show off to the community our
talented students.”
As students planning on a profession in the arts begin their
career path at Parkland, this exhibition allows them to showcase their
extensive talent as well as the exploration processes they have experienced
throughout their studies in Art and Design, according to gallery director Lisa
Costello.
“It introduces them to professional practices they will
encounter in their field as well, such as working with a gallery, preparing
their work for exhibition, and engaging in the jurying process that is essential
for an emerging artist,” Costello said. “This is a necessary component for
resume building and establishing themselves as practicing artists once they
graduate or transfer to a four-year college.”
During
the April 17 reception and awards ceremony, scheduled in the Parkland Art
Gallery lounge from 6 to 8 p.m., Jordan
Kay and the Parkland Guitar Ensemble will provide music.
The 7 p.m. awards ceremony will highlight students whose artwork showed distinction.
Student artists will receive gifts made possible by the generosity of private donors.
Among these are Merit Awards, Purchase Awards, The Parkland President Award,
The David M. and Shirley A. Jones Student Art Award, The Metals Award for Jewelry/Metalsmith,
The Fine and Applied Arts Chair Award, the Parkland Art and Design Faculty
Award, The Blair Kling Memorial Art Award, The Library Purchase Award, and an
Art Coop supplies award.
Parkland
Art and Design students are eligible to earn scholarships, which are also
announced during the reception; these include the Don Lake Art Scholarship, the
Underwood-Alger Scholarship, and the Robert Ralph Ford Memorial Art Scholarship.
Finally, the winner of the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship will
be announced.
Merit
awardees, scholarship recipients, and certificate winners retain possession of
their work, while purchase awards become part of the Parkland College Permanent
Collection.
All events in the handicapped-accessible gallery are free
and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–7
p.m., Friday 10 a.m.–3 p.m., and Saturday, noon–2 p.m.
To find the gallery when classes are in session, we suggest
using the M parking lots. Enter through any door and follow the ramps uphill to
the highest point, where the gallery is located. The gallery windows overlook
the outdoor fountain area. This exhibit is partially supported by a grant from
the Illinois Arts Council, A state agency. For more information, call Lisa
Costello, gallery director, at 217/351-2485or
visit the gallery website at www.parkland.edu/gallery.
The Parkland College Graphic Design Student Juried
Exhibition will be on display at the Parkland Art Gallery Monday, May 12
through Thursday, June 7. A reception honoring the students will be held on
Wednesday, May 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery lounge with an awards
ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m.
As with all events in the handicapped-accessible gallery,
the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
The juried exhibit highlights work completed by students in
the current academic year, beginning with summer 2013. Jury members include the
Graphic Design faculty and local industry professionals who generously
volunteer their time. This year’s judges are Teresa Ellis, Senior Design
Director at Surface 51, and Jan Troutt, Vice President of Publishing Services
at Precision Graphics.
Works in the exhibit showcase the creative solutions to
design problems that students are presented with throughout the year.
Traditional print media, website design, animation and motion will be featured
in the Gallery. These projects are all portfolio samples created in the graphic
design studio classes, which might include logos, branding, packaging, menus,
books, publications, posters, brochures, websites, video, film title graphics
and TV commercials, to name a few examples.
During the May 14 reception, an awards ceremony honoring
2014 Graphic Design student achievements will take place at 7 p.m.A number of monetary awards will be given at
that time; Graphic Design Program Director Paul Young will present the awards.
Local clients often contribute funds for these awards; in
this way, the exhibit highlights the service learning that is an important
element of Parkland's Graphic Design curriculum. Monetary awards include the
Dr. David M. and Shirley A. Jones Student Art Award for a work of outstanding
artistic achievement; the Graphic Design Best of Show Award; the Fine and
Applied Arts Department Chair Award; Parkland College Marketing and Public
Relations Department Award of Excellence; and the President's Award for
Excellence. Other awards are given by clients and supporters of the Design
program and include the Electric Pictures Award of Excellence, Surface 51 Award
of Excellence, Studio 2D Design Strategy Award, Six Demon Studio Award for Excellence in Web Design, Viktoria
Ford Award of Excellence, Larry Ecker Award for Typographic Excellence, Public
Art League Award of Excellence, and the Presence Covenant Medical Center Award
for Excellence in Design, among others.
“This year's exhibition will be a nice mix of traditional
print projects and new digital media experiments. Expect to see creative work
in branding, advertising, illustration and packaging as well as unique web
sites, kinetic motion graphics and dynamic interactive design” Young said.
“Our faculty jury seeks out the most imaginative, inspiring,
distinctive, innovative, unusual and memorable pieces for display in the
gallery. Considering that the work comes from a two-year program, we're
constantly impressed by the energy, dedication and drive of our students.”
To coincide with the exhibition, a gallery talk has been scheduled
for Thursday, May 15 at 1pm. Gretchen Wieshuber, who teaches Typography at
Parkland College and also owns her own design studio called Studio 2D, will present
a talk “Designers
and the Creative Process” and will expand upon the idea of harnessing the power
of the creative process. “Designers are paid to be creative day in and day out.
We can't wait around for inspiration to hit when deadlines loom, so we have a
process that leads us dependably to creative solutions to problems. Anyone can
use this process for any problem.”
Parkland Art Gallery spring hours are Monday through
Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday from 10a.m. to 3p.m., and Saturday from
12p.m. to 2p.m. The gallery will be closed May 26 in observance of Memorial
Day. To find the Gallery when classes are in session, use the M parking lots,
enter through any door, and follow the ramps uphill to the highest point, where
the gallery is located. This program is partially supported by a grant from the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. For more information, call Parkland Art
Gallery Office at 217/351-2485 or visit our website at
www.parkland.edu/gallery.
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