Newkirk will unveil a mixed media sculptural installation alongside a collection of Valentino's photography entitled "India's Sacred Sites". The show opens with a reception on Saturday, September 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the Second Saturday Evening Stroll, and runs through Saturday, October 5 during the Ozone Film Festival's opening night "art crawl".
Dale Newkirk has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States and abroad. Recent exhibitions include two video installations at Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington Indiana, Gardens of Pleasure at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Art 2000, Diekhoff Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana; The Land/an Art Site, a site-specific land based art exhibition, Mountain Air, New Mexico. His public sculpture entitled Sky Ribbon was recently installed at Indiana University/Purdue Universities campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mr. Newkirk has curated numerous fine art and video art exhibitions and has organized four national symposiums on different fine art topics such as public art and installation art. With 20 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate fine art education, Newkirk has taught at New Mexico State University, Indiana University and Southeastern Louisiana State University. He was designer and manager of the curatorial department of the Terra Museum of Art in Chicago for two years and designed several of the permanent exhibitions for the Chicago Children's Museum. Newkirk has also developed teacher education programs in the university and museum environments.
John Valentino has exhibited his traditional and digital artworks in New York, Texas, Ohio, Connecticut, Georgia, and is has most recently exhibited his work in Houston, Raleigh, Tallahassee Florida, North Carolina and Mobile, Alabama. His commercial images have appeared in magazines such as TV Guide (Manhattan edition) Telegraph Magazine in London, the Photo Review in Philadelphia, Ryuko Tsuchin in Japan and DNA Magazine in Australia.
Before entering Southeastern Louisiana University to teach Digital Art,Valentino was the Associate Director of the Arts in Education Institute of Western New York (A Lincoln Center affiliate institute) where he developed partnerships with pre-K through grade twelve educators to create experiential units of study focusing on works of art, including dance, music, theater, visual arts, and architecture. Mr. Valentino worked as a free-lance journalist for the Associated Press and as a photojournalist at the Syracuse Post-Standard and the Ithaca Times.
Professor Valentino has spoken on digital issues, the Visual Arts, and Educational issues at the Society for Photographic Education, NYS Art Teachers Association 1998 Annual Convention, Capitalize the Arts Cultural Conference in Buffalo New York, and a Common Ground for Learning, Arts in Education conference at Syracuse University.
The Department of Visual Arts at SLU serves the Southeastern Louisiana region by developing and refining committed students to pursue careers in the visual arts and art education. Integrating traditional media and the latest technologies with contemporary ideas, the program enables students to develop and express their own creative visions.
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http://blog.nola.com/staa/2007/09/sacred_sites_photography_exhib.html
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