From the Inside Out: ADW Gallery SIUE

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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Art and Design West Gallery

Department of Art and Design

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

75 South Circle Drive

Edwardsville, IL 62026

SIUE Campus Core Map Art building just above the word circle, lower left.
SIUE whole campus
Edwardsville/St. Louis Regional Map
Scroll down for a satellite view and some tips on parking.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Elizabeth's and my alma mater, generously stepped forward and allowed us to slot our show into their calendar in place of the annual faculty exhibition, after our original gallery cancelled our show. We are forever in their debt.

We installed our exhibit From the Inside Out at the gallery in August 2014 opening on the 18th with a reception on August 22, 2014.

This is the view from the gallery entrance.

Looking north west from the entrance you can see the alcoves we created with the moveable walls in the gallery.

In March 2013 SIUE officially opened the new Art & Design West Building during a ribbon cutting ceremony. The renovation and addition is its own work of art. The joining of the renovated existing building, built in 1991, and the new addition bring the studio arts together with art history, art education and art therapy under one roof for the first time. The new, LEED certified addition, includes an art gallery, 96-seat auditorium and lecture hall, and painting/drawing studios oriented to bring in northern light. (this text and photo was borrowed from the SIUE Facebook page)

SIUE Art & Design Building Receives AIA Architecture Award

Chancellor Julie A. Furst-Bowe dedicates ADW

A large crowd of students, faculty, retired professors, alumni and people from the community attended the dedication ceremony which also included the opening of a beautiful exhibit of Cuban art donated to the University Museum.

Art & Design. Foreground: stack by Robert Harrison, Helena, MT.

Art & Design West building which houses the gallery.

For those of you who've never been to SIUE, this satellite map will help. The campus is huge--about 2600 acres, but the core of classroom and administration buildings are all located within Circle Drive which connects to University Drive which in turn connects to I-270 to the south. The core campus is surrounded on the south and west by several dormitories. Click on the map to enlarge and read the tips.

The Inside Scoop

From the Inside Out will have many interpretations as each artist brings her own ideas into this overarching theme; e.g. Rio, has a new body of rust print work, Core, that involves imagery evoking the core of the earth, or the core of the inner self. Elizabeth's handmade paper constructions attempt to capture the essence and remnants of the 19th century tin mines and china clay pits as seen still today from the air, through the earth and across the moors.

From the Inside Out also describes how eco printing and rusting processes work. Pat’s shibori rust fabrics are pipe wrapped, with string being the last item added. The rust prints outward from the surface of the pipe up through multiple layers of silk over a period of time. Similar things happen with eco dyeing as leaves and flowers, etc. are buried deep inside tightly folded bundles; or shibori stitched into felt, then steamed or simmered and finally cured for a few weeks before opening as Irit does. Irit's bark texture felt is an homage to the transplanted eucalyptus trees that have put their roots deep into the soil of Israel. The imagery is buried and waiting, like Fabienne’s memories and emotions, to bubble to the surface.

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