{"id":50279,"date":"2018-04-03T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50279"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:14:10","slug":"three-exhibits-this-week-for-visual-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/three-exhibits-this-week-for-visual-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Three exhibits this week for Visual Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a busy week for exhibitions under Brock\u2019s Department of Visual Arts (VISA).<\/p>\n<p>From April 2 to 6, students in the VISA department are presenting three exhibitions: <em>CORE<\/em>, <em>SITE-SEER<\/em>, and <em>(un)hidden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now open in the Rodman Hall Art Centre is the exhibit <em>CORE<\/em>. VISA students will have their smaller works in Rodman Hall\u2019s Flex Space, which will be imagined as a larger site and a centre from where the work branches out to the other destinations in the show. <em>CORE<\/em> is open to view at Rodman Hall from now until April 13. Gallery hours can be found on their <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/rodman-hall\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> and admission is by donation, but free for members and students. Visitors to Rodman Hall are encouraged to check out another VISA exhibition, J<i>ust Resting my Eyes,<\/i>\u00a0also currently on display there.<\/p>\n<p>The second exhibit, <em>SITE-SEER<\/em>, is an extension of the first. <em>SITE-SEER <\/em>is a one-night exhibition being held Wednesday, April 4 from 4 to 9 p.m., where the downtown area of St. Catharines will serve as gallery space. Students from Donna Akrey\u2019s Advanced Art Practices course are taking their creations from the <em>CORE<\/em> exhibit and dispersing them throughout downtown St. Catharines in hopes that their pieces will lure locals into seeing sites in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>Participating artists for both <em>CORE<\/em> and <em>SITE-SEER<\/em> include: Hani Ahmed, Jess Angelevski, Teresa Badgley, Jessica Bradley, Tom Denton, Isabella Domaradzki, Kylie Haveron, Emma Hutchison-Hounsell, Laura Levesque, Avery Mikolic-O\u2019Rourke, Amanda Misale, Anna Podvalni, Victoria Reid, Kourtney Spadoni and Desiree Veino.<\/p>\n<p>Maps with more information about the artworks, their locations and times will be available at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts on Wednesday night when <em>SITE-SEER<\/em> is held.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50282\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/image004.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50282\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-seenandheard wp-image-50282\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/image004-300x232.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Change, a contemporary exploration of Hidden Mother photography. One of many polaroid emulsion lifts featured in the upcoming show (un)hidden by Amber Lee Williams.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A third show, <em>(un)hidden <\/em>by Brock Visual Arts student Amber Lee Williams, opens in the Visual Arts Exhibition Space of the MIWSFPA on Thursday, April 5 with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Williams is both a student and a mother of two, who gave birth to her second child while preparing for this exhibit. She is now in the process of installing her show while carrying her two-month-old baby in a sling.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>(un)hidden <\/em>exhibit, Williams presents photographs, sculptures and installations investigating motherhood, relationships within the family and loss. <em>(un)hidden <\/em>will be open at the MIWSFPA until Saturday, April 28. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a busy week for exhibitions under Brock\u2019s Department of Visual Arts (VISA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,1,4],"tags":[6478,480,5861,46,1330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50287,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50279\/revisions\/50287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}