Happy Birthday

to Roy Lichtenstein! He was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, and studied with artist Reginald Marsh (1898–1954) at the Art Students League in 1939. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School in New York City, he entered Ohio State University. However, in 1943 his education was interrupted by three years of army service, during which he drew up maps for planned troop movements across Germany during World War II.

Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Lichtenstein-Roy.html#ixzz0VC7G9eIU

Happy Birthday

to Pablo Picasso!!! Mr. Picasso was born in 1881 and remains, to this day, one of the most influential artists in history. You can read more about him in this biography. Meanwhile, here are some Picasso quotes:

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things."

Art and Design Gallery Exhibition

October 20- November 20, 2009

Visiting from Qingdao, China: Daqing Zhang and Yake Xu

Exhibit will be open November 6, from 6:00- 10:00 pm for Downtown Springfield's First Friday Art Walk

Located at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Walnut.

Happy Birthday

to Robert Rauschenberg! This American artist was born in 1925, and unfortunately passed in 2008. You can read more about him here.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Rauschenberg!!! :)

Meeting: October 7, 2009

At the meeting we did little talking and lots of creating.

1) The mural for the Police Station has been cancelled due to circumstances at the station. There is, however, an Elementary School that is interested in having us paint a mural in their building. When we get details on that we will be sure to let you know!

2) T-shirts are in!!! If you would like to purchase one they are only $10.00! We are going to try to put in another order just as soon as we can, so be collecting orders and money from your friends and family who "support the arts in schools". :)

3) We are currently awaiting contact from a representative at the Downtown YMCA. On Halloween night they are putting on an art event that we could volunteer at. The only details we have right now are that it is on Halloween evening and is located at the Downtown Y on Jefferson Street. If you are interested in volunteering, leave a comment or email msuart09@gmail.com and we'll make sure to give you the specifics on the event!

4) A big thanks to those of you who came to the meeting and made bottle cap jewelry!!! We got so many bottle caps made and can't wait to put them all together. They look great!

If any of you have any ideas on fundraising ideas, community events, or any ways to improve NAEA, please let us know!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Becca

Student Exhibition Center Schedule Fall 2009

Hey, everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that there are two exhibitions left for this semester at the Student Exhibition Center (SEC) located downtown Springfield across from the University Plaza Hotel.

1) October 27 to November 14

Art & Design Department- Art Club Competitive Exhibition

November 6: First Friday Reception- 6:00 to 10:00 pm

2) December 1 to December 10

Art & Design Department- BFA in Studio Art Exhibition

December 4: First Friday Reception- 6:00 to 10:00 pm

*Center hours are 1:00 to 5:00 pm, Tuesday to Saturday

417.836.6999

838 East Walnut Street

Springfield, MO

sec.missouristate.edu

Lynda Johnson, Director- 417.836.6996 LyndaJohnson@missouristate.edu

Alec Soth Lecture

Wow. Talk about a last minute reminder...

Renown photographer, Alec Soth, will be giving a lecture tonight at the Meyers Library on the Missouri State University campus. It is in the auditorium behind Kaldi's. It starts at 7:00 pm (like I said... last minute reminder) and I'm sure he will deliver mounds of inspiration and enlightenment. Thanks to the Photographic Society for bringing him in and hosting him!

You can find his website here and this is a little sneak peak of some of his work...

Hope to see you there!

Update: the lecture was awesome! Alec was hilarious and gave a fresh (at least for me) perspective on the art of photography in his lecture. His main point: be honest with your photography. Do what you feel like doing. Make connections, let one thing lead to the next. Photographers aren't narrative story tellers, they give points in a story and let the viewer put the story together themselves (connect the dots).

Here is a picture of Jessie and I with Alec Soth... he's easy on the eyes as well, might I add? Hehe.

Dearest Earlene:

Hehehe...

Sorry again about the meeting tonight. It has been rescheduled for this Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm in the Art Annex.

Hope you have a great night! :)

Becca

Upcoming Meeting

There's an NAEA meeting!!!

We are going to meet in the Art Annex, on campus, at 6:15 pm this Monday, October 5, 2009.

We'd really love to see all of you there!

If you need a ride or have any questions leave a comment or email us at msuart09@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Becca

photo credit

T.SHIRTS

Hey, everyone!

I hope your week was awesome. Just wanted to let you know that we went and picked up our t-shirts a couple nights ago. They turned out really well. We are super pleased with them. I've been wearing mine for the past two days... they're really comfortable and are an awesome (gender neutral) green color that goes with just about anything. I've worn it with jeans, black comfy pants and even to bed (hence the wearing it two days in a row... haha).

They are only $10.00!!!

This is one of our fundraisers for NAEA. We can also wear them, as a group, to events, other fundraisers (like the Art Day) and to conference.

If you are interested in buying one, let us know your name, size and how we can get ahold of you (phone, email...). You can leave a comment or email us at msuart09@gmail.com. If you live in Springfield/go to MSU then we can get it to you for $10.00. If we need to send it to you, it will probably be just a bit more because of shipping costs (we do need the money before we can get you the shirt).