Alvin Lucier’s Vespers: A Collaborative Performance

Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United States

The public is invited to perform Vespers, a 1969 work by the late experimental composer Alvin Lucier that encourages participatory echolocation across the gallery. The performance will be led by students enrolled in the EIU Pine Honors College’s Exploration Seminar Who Speaks for the Oceans? taught by Jennifer Seas. Supplies will be provided.   

Free

2023 Camille Compo Lecture: Amber Hawk Swanson

Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United States

The Tarble is proud to partner with EIU’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program to host the Camille Compo Lecture Series with 2023 guest speaker Amber Hawk Swanson.     Amber Hawk Swanson is the Creative Director and one of three co-creators of The Harmony Show. She teaches in the sculpture department of Rhode Island School of […]

Free

Do Whales Dream of Electric Human? Performance by Miho Hatori

Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United States

Musician and artist Miho Hatori will perform a sonic work commissioned especially for the exhibition Who Speaks for the Oceans? Inspired by Philip K. Dick, Roger Payne, and her recent experiences of offshore free diving, Hatori asks, “What does it feel like to swim alongside a whale?”   Miho Hatori is an artist/music producer/vocalist/improviser, formerly of the legendary […]

Free

Art Speaks! W/ Hadley Clark

Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United States

Visiting artist and program collaborator Hadley Clark will give an evening presentation on her studio practice.      Hadley Clark gives presence to absence; gives new purpose to old discards; and gives form to thought. With an education in Painting (BFA, University of Kansas, 2001) as well as in Garment Design and Construction (BFA in Fashion Design […]

Free

Fall Exhibition Cycle Opening Reception & Live Performance

Tarble Arts Center 2010 9th Street, Charleston, IL, United States

Celebrate the opening of the Tarble’s Fall 2023 exhibition cycle with a reception and live performance by Dr. Bradley D Decker, Instructor of Music Composition and Technology. 

Free