You've Got Mail: Artists' Postcards
Date/Time: | Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm |
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Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
Cost: | Free |
URL: | http://www.design.iastate.edu/gallery.php |
Contact: | April Katz |
Phone: | 515-294-3363 |
Channel: | College of Design |
Categories: | Lectures |
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Worthen will begin with a brief look at the origin of postcards in the 19th century and will consider the artist's postcard in the first part of the 20th century as a revolutionary, intentionally subversive, Dada art form. She will discuss the late 20th century's revival of the artist's postcard as a contemporary form of communication and collaboration that exists apart from the commercialization of art. Finally, she will show a selection of submissions to the 2010 postcard exchange and comment on the participating artists' rich variety of responses to the theme of X, as well as the range of these printmakers' responses to the postcard form itself.
Worthen oversees the Des Moines Art Center's permanent collection of works on paper, identifies acquisitions and plans permanent collections and loan exhibitions. She has organized and collaborated on more than 50 exhibitions on the history of prints and drawings.
A practicing engraver, Worthen has had more than 50 solo exhibitions, and her work has been included in more than 200 juried and invitational exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Brunnier Art Museum at Iowa State University.