You've Got Mail: Artists' Postcards

Date/Time:	Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
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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Printmaker and scholar Amy Worthen is curator of prints at the Des Moines Art Center. She will present a lecture in conjunction with Postcards X: 10th Annual Postcard Print Exchange Exhibition at the ISU College of Design. This will be followed by an opening reception for the exhibition in the college's Gallery 181.

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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.