curated by Matt Selsor, Director, Anderson Gallery

Friday, January 29, 2010 – Friday, February 26, 2010

Opening night reception: Friday, January 29, 5-7pm

Gallery Walkthrough: Scott Robert Hudson

Friday, January 29, 6pm in the gallery

Interdisciplinary Forum on Visual Art and the Environment, featuring Professors Amahia K. Mallea, Ph.D, Thomas Rosburg, Ph.D, and Lisa West, Ph.D.: Thursday, February 4, 5pm, Fine Arts Center 336

As the journalist Scott London writes in The Politics of Place, “The connection between language and landscape is a perennial theme of American letters.” But while the language-landscape connection has been deftly explored and embodied in the works of Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and the like, its relation to art and the visual culture has been, to date, less thoroughly explored. The unspoiled frontier of the American West as depicted by Bierstadt, Leutze, and Cole may be a distant memory. And yet, its potential for bridging the divide between language, landscape, and the visual tradition is no less grand. To Know the Land, an exhibition of selected works by artist and sculptor Scott Robert Hudson, seeks to do just that in creative and dynamic ways, marrying the production of contemporary art with the oral tradition. Part art, part storytelling, To Know the Land is at once meditative, thought-provoking, and visually stunning.

Saturday, March 6 – Sunday, March 28, 2010

Opening night reception: Sunday, March 7, 11-1pm

Award ceremony begins at 12pm in the lobby of the Fine Arts box office. Awards presented by Dean Joseph Lenz of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Friday, April 2 – Friday, April 16, 2010

Opening night reception: TBD

Friday, April 23 – Friday, May 7, 2010

Opening night reception: Friday, April 30, 5-7pm

Students exhibiting: Michael Carbaugh ‘10, Meredith Gallivan ‘10, Ashley Machecek ‘10, Diane Pummill ‘10