7.00 pm Callicott Auditorium

Lauren Kalman

Metal artist, sculptor, performance and installation artist

Tributaries artist at the Metal Museum

Lauren Kalman is a visual artist whose practice is invested in installation, video, photography and performance. Through her work she investigates perspectives of beauty, body image, value and consumer culture. Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed her MFA in Art from the Ohio State University and earned a BFA in metals from the Massachusetts College of art. She exhibits internationally.
Her current work replicates and transforms illness and trauma through performance, video, objects and photography. Diseases like acne, cancer, herpes, elephantiasis or physical trauma like amputation and facial reconstruction surgery, are presented as jeweled infections, fabric growths or wearable instruments. They are hybridizations of the grotesque or undesirable aspects of the body and objects we associate with beauty, status, health or wealth.

Hard Wear (Tongue Guilding), 2006, gold leaf

Hyde Gallery – Nesin Graduate School

For more information call 901-272-5100 or visit www.mca.edu

Image above: Untitled
Reception: Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 2-4 pm
Nathan and Dorothy Shainberg Gallery
The Memphis Jewish Community Center
6560 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN
www.jccmemphis.org

Transformation, featuring new paintings, opens on April 29 and will continue on view through June 7.

Emily Chaplain, Untitled

Evan Hoffman, Corrosive PolliNATION

You are invited to the premiere of The Art Academy: A History of Memphis College of Art at Studio on the Square, Wednesday, May 2nd, 7:30 pm. An art exhibit and auction of original works created for the film will be on display in the lobby from 12 noon to 10 pm, with an informal reception at 6pm, prior to the screening. Sales of artwork will support the artists, and a portion of proceeds will benefit MCA.

Tickets $12. Seating is limited. Buy now at theartacademy.eventbrite.com. For more details, visit www.truestorypictures.org.

Reception: Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 5-8 pm
A2H
3009 Davies Plantation Road
Lakeland, TN

Domestic, an art exhibit about the balance between art and life, times ten will be on view through June 4.

Image above: Jasper, AL
President’s Hall Art Gallery
Santa Fe College
3000 NW 83rd Street
Gainesville, FL 32606

So Much for the Morning opens on April 20 and will continue on view through May 24, 2012. This solo exhibition will feature paintings, drawings and mixed media works.

The Department of Education has a handy tool when it comes to student loan repayments and options. Not sure what plan might be the best for you? Is is better for you to stay under the the standard repayment plan or go under the income-based repayment plan? These are questions that you will face once you have graduated but it’s not too early to start getting answers to some of these questions. Visit the calculator through the link above to put in some of your student loan figures and see what a loan payment might or will be.

Don’t know how much you have borrowed at this point? You may visit the National Student Loan Data System any time you would like to see how much you and your parents (with the PLUS) have borrowed.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has taken student finance in a different direction. They have set up a Student Money Management Center that is an excellent resource for any financial related to college students. More information is best could be easily related to this school. Check out their website and see questions and subjects from student loans to credit card tips to breaking bad money habits (see their ezine for a sample).

As always, if you have questions, comments, or concerns, please let us know.

Image above: Landscape of Memory 1

The Landscape of Memory is on view from April 12 through May 12.

From the Artist: “This series of work combines my film-based images with digital scans. The work explores the desire to recall the past. Memory is vague, unreliable, often clouded by dreams and visions. I have attempted to capture these qualities of reminiscence in my images.”

Jeanne Seagle, BFA 1972, AVA

with Carol Sams

Image above: Road Through Trees, oil pastel on paper

New paintings by two painters exploring the subject of “Trees,” on view from April 13 through May 5 at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, 1500 Union Avenue, Memphis.