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Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception
Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United StatesCelebrate the opening of the Tarble’s Fall 2024 exhibition cycle with a reception for our 3 concurring exhibitions: An Other World, Touch Me: A Flat File Exhibition, and Famous Black Americans: The Dolls of Ida Roberta Bell.
An Other World
Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United StatesAn Other World marks the Tarble’s first major reinstallation of artworks from the permanent collection in five years. Reintroducing patrons to the institution’s dynamic and growing collection, the exhibition includes both familiar masterpieces and significant recent acquisitions. As regional folk art selections commingle with works by acclaimed contemporary artists, shared images of absurdist realities and speculative worlds emerge to present a unique perspective […]
Art Speaks! w/ Mike Schuetz
Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United StatesVisiting artist Mike Schuetz will give an evening presentation on his studio practice. Mike Schuetz is an artist/designer who lives and works in Waco, Texas. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin during the golden age of the town's manufacturing industry, Schuetz grew up in a nurturing, loving family. Being part of the TV generation, and influenced by […]
Art Speaks! w/ Lauren dela Roche
Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United StatesVisiting artist Lauren dela Roche will give an evening presentation on her studio practice. Lauren dela Roche is a self-described queer punk feminist artist whose autodidactic approach integrates a broad range of references, including zines, European modernisms, and autobiography. While largely self-taught, her consumption of visual culture and art history allows her to draw upon […]
Untitled (Cut)
Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United StatesFollowing themes of cutting and pasting, the Tarble will recreate a monumental, site-responsive earthwork by Carl Wilen (1933-2018), a Professor in the Department of Art + Design from 1965 to 1994, titled Untitled (Cut). Though his practice was rooted in surrealist painting and drawing, the conceptual art movements of the 1960s profoundly influenced him, and his […]