Faculty Friday Events for Sept. 9

Faculty Friday Events for September 9:

This week’s Faculty Friday will feature open office hours with the Associate Provost, Faculty Dining in the Private Dining Room at University Commons, and a gallery talk and reception celebrating the work of Hartford Art School Faculty Jeremiah Patterson, Kasey Ramirez, Power Booth, Carol Schwartz, Cat Balco, and Stephanie Lanter.

From 9:30-11:30, Associate Provost T. Stores will hold open office hours in CC331.

From 12-2, the Private Dining Room in University Commons has been reserved for faculty use. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch at the Commons, and join your faculty friends and colleagues.

From 2-3:30 p.m. in Joseloff Gallery, all are invited to a talk and reception honoring new work by six faculty of the Hartford Art School, each of whom has work displayed in this year’s Faculty Art Show.

Professor Jeremiah Patterson's paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely throughout the country and can be found in more than 100 private and corporate collections, including Art Overseas, Art & Interiors, Inc., Canson, Inc., Galman-Lepow Associates, Inc., and Norfolk Southern Co. Two articles about his still-life paintings were published in Watercolor magazine, and a major article on his plein-air landscapes was published in the February/March 2014 issue of Plein-Air Magazine. Since 2000, he has served as co-director of Summer Workshops in Italy.

Professor Power Booth’s work can be found in many public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the New Britain Museum, and the Florence Griswold Museum in Connecticut. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting. He previously served as dean of the Hartford Art School (2001–10), director of the School of Art at Ohio University (1998–2001), and co-director of the Mount Royal Graduate School of Art at the Maryland Institute (1993–98), where he received a Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence.

Assistant Professor Kasey Ramirez’s recent exhibitions have been at Rosewood Art Gallery (Dayton, OH) and Tarble Arts Center (Charleston, IL). Her work has been included in several group exhibitions, with recent showings in Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado and New Jersey. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be presented at Western Illinois University Gallery and the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Lubbock, TX). She has held several artist residencies, including the Hambidge Center, GA; Collar Works Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, NY; and Guanlan Original Printmaking Base Residency in China. She is the recipient of the Artists 360 Project Grant, Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, The Built Environment (First Prize) and Instructional Enhancement Grants from the University of Arkansas.

Associate Professor Stephanie Lanter has been an artist and educator working in clay, fiber, mixed media and words since 2000. Prior to her arrival in Connecticut, she taught in Kansas for 15 years, at Emporia State, Washburn and Wichita State Universities. She was a founding resident artist at the Red Lodge Clay Center, and has also had residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont’s Pentaculum, the LH Project, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Mendocino Arts Center. She was the first Jentel/Archie Bray Foundation Critic at the Bray. Along with exhibiting her sculptural ceramic work to an international audience, she has given numerous workshops and presentations, including for ArtAxis National Clay Week Conversations in 2018, CAA and more. She has written for and been featured in journals such as Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics, Art and Perception. In 2010, she received a Kansas Arts Commission Collaboration Grant to support the interdisciplinary installation and publication series, The Waiting Room Projects, directed by Marguerite Perret, and exhibited across the country and in the Netherlands. 

Assistant Professor Carol Schwartz is inspired by nature, as an observer and as an artist. This is evident in her 60 picture books, largely nonfiction, about nature. Her work has also been seen in countless magazines and publications for companies such as Procter & Gamble, National Geographic Society, and The Washington Post. Carol’s work has been selected for exhibitions throughout the United States, including The Society of Illustrators in New York and Focus on Nature XIV and XV. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, Maine multiple times.

Professor Cat Balco has shown her paintings, murals, and collaborative projects widely. Recent venues include Real Art Ways in Hartford, Conn., The Painting Center in New York, and the University Gallery in Sacramento, Calif. She served as a visiting artist at the Maine College of Art, Swarthmore College, Pratt Institute at the Munson Williams Proctor School of Art, and Yale University, where she is an associate fellow. Balco has received residencies and awards from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Weird Farm Trust, and the Albers Foundation. 

Each artist will discuss their new work featured in the Faculty Show and answer questions. The talk and reception on September 9 are open to all members of the University of Hartford community and the general public. The Hartford Art School Faculty Art Show will remain open from September 1—October 8 in the Joseloff Gallery.

Contact Ann Brown (annbrown@hartford.edu) for more information.