Wishing all a "Merry and Bright 2021"

 Winter Solstice (Christmas/Hannukah/Yule) looks like this in the Taylor/McCusker household. Merry and bright!

C.M. Lume Exhibition at HCA

Images from the Charles Matson Lume exhibition at the Hearst Center for the Arts, Dec. 2021: hearing it get dark (for William Faulkner). Such a beautiful, brilliant show!

 

Last Show of 2021

 B.F.A. Group Exhibition, UNI Gallery of Art, Fall 2021: Bentzen, Hennigar, Lilly, and Tamang.

A Busy, Sometimes Anxious November 2021

 

"Vertigo A-GoGo: A Night of Performance Art," UNI Gallery of Art, Nov. 18, 2021.

 

Mark (Ace) feeds the birds and girds for the Iowa winter, Nov. 20.

 

Rend Lake in Illinois at sunset, Nov. 21.

 

Mama, post-surgery, holds a beautiful Angel Trumpet flower the day before a frost, Nov. 22.

 

With Mama and the Musgraves clan in Nashville, Nov. 22.

Friends Group Project #4

I delivered three objects from the UNI Permanent Art Collection to the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC) on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. MACC will create treatment proposals and begin work on our Hofmann painting on paper, our Vandenberge ceramic sculpture, and our one-and-only Renaissance oil on canvas. All this with the blessing and support of the Friends of the PAC&G.

Rainy, sleety day on the road, but all arrived safely.

Ceramics Alumni Exhibition at UNI

UNI Gallery of Art

JoAnn Schnabel and UNI Ceramics Alumni 1990-2021

October 15 – November 6, 2021

Curator and Professor of Art JoAnn Schnabel will retire from teaching at the conclusion of 2021. Exhibition participants include the following: Bryan Coons, Lori Dale, Thaddeus Erdahl, Allison Fretheim, Sarah German, Travis Gingerich, Matt Kelleher, Rylie Lawrence, Caitlin Mary Margarett, Lisa McClurg, Nicholas Meyer, Daniel Orr, Jesse Parrott, Wade Scheel, Chris Singewald, Kelsey Sorensen, Denae Statzer, Brad Travis, Dallan Troyer, Madalyn Loring Vorrie, Amythest Warrington, Leah Mayer Wesley, Chad Wolf, and the curator herself.

 

Autumn 2021 Photocollage

 Fungi and galls on lichen, homage to autumn 2021.

The Breder Memorial

 The Memorial Service for Hans and Barbara Breder, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, IA, on Sept. 4, 2021.

Pridefest 2021

 Cedar Valley Pridefest 2021

The Earth Is a House of Stories

The Earth is a House of Stories: Works from the Permanent Art Collection by Native Artists is a UNI Gallery of Art exhibition based on objects from the Collection. Other objects were borrowed from UNI Museum, the Waseskuk family, and the YoungBear family.

"The title is taken from a line in N. Scott Momaday’s book, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land. 

This exhibition highlights works of art housed in the UNI Gallery of Art Permanent Collection and the UNI Museum by historical and contemporary Native artists. Showcasing these works is part of a university-wide effort to adopt a Land Stewardship Statement this fall while continuing to build and honor respectful and nourishing partnerships with the Meskwaki Nation and Native people in Iowa"

- Angela Waseskuk (UNI alumna, 2003)

The lower 2 images are objects I loaned to the Gallery for this exhibition.

 

Image courtesy of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.

"Present / Tense" at the Gallery

A new exhibition at the UNI Gallery of Art, Present / Tense: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings by Tom & Malayka Gormally, Aug. 23 - Sept. 25, 2021. The show is a "both a meditation on the extended family and an exploration of the contemporary challenges of human connection in this cultural moment of political division and environmental concerns."

 

Tom Gormally

 

Malayka Gormally

Return of the Irish (Fest)

 A record of the 2021 romp.

 

DIY Gingers

 

 

Good Eats

 

 

Our Lewks

 

Scythian, Celtic Storm, and McCusker Antics

 

Consenting Adults

 

A Family Portrait

 

"The Boys" at the Fair

My Darlings in Buffalo

With Matt at Canalside - BOATS!

Gorgeous, delicious Matt-made meals (Japanese and Korean cuisine).

 

 

The new apartment on Richmond Ave. / The historic Hotel Lenox (my second stay there).

 

That face!

 

 

Public Art in Delaware Park, site of the 1901 Pan Am Exposition.

 

Two views of the walk on Bird Island Pier, Broderick Park.

 

Swallowtail Caterpillars on Kimber's dill.

 

 

The lovely couple, Kimber Streams and Matt Aytch Taylor. Ice cream is dangerous.