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Hiram Van Gordon Gallery celebrate African Art Call and Response: TSU asked Nashville artists and fourth-graders from McKissack Elementary School to view, examine and absorb the university's permanent Collection of African Art. 

The exhibit includes their responses shown alongside items from the permanent collection. On view through Feb. 29 as part of Black History Month. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb. 4-8, 11-15, Tennessee State University, Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, 3500 John Merritt Blvd.; free; 963-1599.


TSU art hiram van gordon galleryAfrican art inspires community response in new exhibit

INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN MARX, found at tennessean.comOn view Feb. 4-29 at Tennessee State University's Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, the exhibit Call and Response presents a rare opportunity to view African artifacts from the school's permanent collection. But as curated by gallery director and university instructor Jodi Hays, the show also serves as a forum for further discussion, with the "response" coming in the form of artworks from members of the community. Hays explains:

When I envisioned this exhibition, I wanted the community to see our permanent collection of African art and artifacts, but I also wanted to include a contemporary conceptualization of the collection — I wanted a specifically Nashville-centered way to look at this work. I'm not an expert in African art, but I knew what I could do was raise questions: What is this collection? How should we respond to it? I wanted to open up the collection and have other people internalize the objects included.

I invited several artists or groups of artists that point to different demographics to answer these questions. This exhibition exists through the support of TSU's Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, which supports faculty members at TSU that integrate service in academic pursuits. To that end, I invited Su Williams' fourth-grade class from McKissack Elementary, which is literally in the back yard of TSU, a neighbor to the gallery. They came in and studied the masks, discussing the art with me and a few art students. After learning more about Africa and some traditional ceremonial objects, they made their own masks from contemporary materials.

I also invited a Nashville artist, Ash Lusk, who graduated from TSU last May, to view the collection and make his own work in response to what he saw. He's made paintings and drawings working with archetypes, such as the soldier, and he has taken an approach that speaks to the violence currently going on in Sudan and throughout other parts of the large African continent. He's interested in teasing out notions of identity through institutions, specifically military institutions.

Sabine Schlunk TSUCOURTESY OF HIRAM VAN GORDON GALLERY, TSU
For her contribution to Tennessee State University's Call and Response exhibit, local artist Sabine Schlunk made this multimedia sculptural installation out of mesh, thread and rocks.

Another artist, Sabine Schlunk, is originally from Germany and lives in Nashville. She has responded to the TSU collection through an ethereal, site-specific installation that speaks to a spiritual relationship with the land and earth. Her work more conceptually comments on the spiritual motivations in the African work, as many pieces were originally used for religious ceremonies or worship.

TSU professor Samuel Dunson, who is a painter, is also participating. I expect him to use iconography from the collection, and to digest that history in his work.

This project, which asks pointed questions on the "use value" of a collection, is a way for us to think about our history. It is also a way for us to ask what it means to share a history with objects from around the globe, considering that we all share a city. There are so many levels to how we understand African art, and I am actively learning alongside all the artists. I feel strongly that this isn't just African history, or African-American history — it's our collective history.

End of interview



Hiram Van Gordon Gallery celebrates Black History Month

Call and Response
February 4-29, 2008

TSU's Department of Art and Watkins College of Art
partner for an Art Crawl and Opening Reception
Feb 8, 3-5pm (TSU), 6-8 (Watkins)

Community Responses to Tennessee State University’s
Permanent Collection of African Art
(African Artifacts from the Ruth Witt Collection
and Dr. Richard and Mrs. Sharon Edwards Collection)


What is a collection?
What role does context play in viewing a collection?
How do we comment on the past through the present?


In music, a call a response is composed of two distinct phrases, usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is a direct response to the first. This tradition is found in West African cultures as a form of democratic participation. Africans brought this to the New World, as seen today in the roots of gospel, blues, and jazz (to name only a few).

Tennessee State University's Hiram Van Gordon Gallery has invited, or issued a “call” to two Nashville artists, TSU Art Professor, Sam Dunson and students at McKissack Elementary. The call was to view, examine, and absorb our permanent Collection of African Art. Community Artists-In-Residence, Ash Lusk (TSU Alum) and Sabine Schlunk, and children from Su Williams' Fourth grade class, along with select art faculty have made responses to the gallery’s call, a visual contextualization of the collection. The exhibition includes their work shown alongside items from the permanent collection.

Jodi Hays, Curator, Hiram Van Gordon Gallery

3500 John Merritt Blvd., PO Box 9562

Nashville, TN  37209 USA

(615) 963-1599    gallery@tnstate.edu    http://www.tnstate.edu/gallery/feb08.html 

 

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