OUTSTANDING MIDWEST ARTIST SERIES
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: A MARGARET WHARTON RETROSPECTIVE
February 14 – April 25, 2010
Curated by John Cain
South Shore Arts is pleased to present the third in its Outstanding Midwest Artist Series, this time featuring renowned sculptor Margaret Wharton. Ms. Wharton is a Chicago-based artist who received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. She was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, a cooperative for women artists, in 1972. She has had solo exhibits at the Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago, where she has been represented since the mid-1990s, at the Evanston Art Center, Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California, the Rockford College Art Gallery in Rockford, Illinois, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, the Zolla-Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, the Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago and New York, and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
Ms. Wharton was the subject of a one-woman show at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art curated by Mary Jane Jacob in 1981, which subsequently traveled to the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, Texas, and the University of South Florida Art Galleries in Tampa. Nearly 30 years after that exhibit, Ms. Jacob has written the essay for the South Shore Arts exhibit catalogue. Commenting on the artist’s work in 1981, she wrote, “In her process of disassembly and reconstruction, as in an assemblage technique, Wharton alters a found object with a previous life and brings it into an art context. But unlike most assemblage constructions, Wharton’s art is not the joining together of disparate elements, but the restructuring of parts form a single source.
Above: Heart, 9” x 12”, Photograph, Valentine’s Day, late 1970s, Private Collection, Courtesy of Jean Albano Gallery
South Shore Arts presents
Puppeteer Jim West in "AESOPS'S FABLES II"
March 9-12, 2010
on stage at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Two performances daily at 9:30 & 11am for children in grades K-6
Tickets are $6 each for students and adults
Att'n Teachers:
FREE follow-up classroom workshop when you book your performance date!
Make your reservations today! Call 219/836-1839, ext. 100,
or email South Shore Arts Administrative Assistant Kelly Freeman.
FREE MONTHLY CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CROWN POINT!4th Friday Arts is an eclectic mix of fine art, music and interactive cultural fun, running each fourth Friday of the month from 6-9 pm. More information can be found at the official 4th Friday Arts Web site.
CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Since the inception of its everykid program in 1995, South Shore Arts has developed many successful partnerships with schools and organizations in an effort to provide creative opportunities to over 17,000 students and their families annually. Find out more about the everykid program!
ART INSTRUCTORS
South Shore Arts is accepting applications for instructors to teach classes in drama, dance, music, and the visual arts, such as drawing, painting and more for its Youth Outreach Program.
South Shore Arts is also accepting applications for daytime pre-school art instructors.
Instructor Application Form (13K pdf)For further information visit our Educational Outreach and Art Classes pages.
South Shore Arts is designated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
South Shore Arts programs are provided with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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