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Saga Vol.87 / 2023-24, Lainey Terfruchte, Megan Yarusso

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Saga Vol.86 / 2022-23, Carly Davis, Blake Traylor

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Saga Vol.85 / 2021-2022, Sarah Luepkes, Blake Traylor

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Saga Vol.84 / 2020-2021, Megan Hoppe, Sarah Luepkes

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Saga Vol. 82 / 2018-2019, Melissa Conway, Stephanie Tillman

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Material Conversations, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

This exhibition focuses on recent work by the studio and graphic design faculty at Augustana College. Their practice is as varied as their media - from conceptual to process-based - and belies the breadth of teaching embodied by the art faculty. The varied approaches to art-making is a strength of the program, and provides for our students a multiplicity of perspectives from which to approach their own learning about theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing).

This exhibition includes works by:

Kelvin Mason, Vickie R. Phipps. Megan Quinn, Trew Schriefer, Rowen Schussheim-Anderson, Corrine Smith, Ronda Wright-Phipps, Peter Tong Xiao

2018 Senior Art Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

This exhibition features the Senior Inquiry projects of the Class of 2018 graphic design and studio art majors:

Bailey Driscoll, Brianna Jepson, Brock McNinch, Christine Marchi, Comet Blecha, Grace Iaquinta, Kate Schreader, Madalynne Russell, Rebecca Kelly, William Lawrence

Photos courtesy of Ashleigh Johnston and Claire Kovacs.

Saga Vol. 81 / 2017-2018, Alina Lundholm, Michele Hill, Melissa Conway

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Organize Your Own: The Politics And Poetics Of Self-Determination Movements, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

Organize Your Own, curated by Daniel Tucker, features work by contemporary artists that responds to the history of multiracial coalitions organizing against racism, poverty, and oppression. The ATMA was the first stop on OYO's six-leg tour between 2017-2019. For this travelling exhibition, my work focused on two areas: providing more framework in the reading area around the Young Lords, and organizing programming that was specific to our venue.

#Yarnbombqc, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

#YarnBombQC brought the sculptor Carol Hummel the the Quad Cities to work with our communities to create crocheted, site-specific, community-based public art on trees in three locations: Augustana College, the Figge Art Museum, and Longfellow Liberal Arts School. This project, like much of the art by Hummel, draws diverse sectors of communities together in a positive, celebratory way to help create major pieces of art for the people, by the people. Well over 100 community members participated by creating crocheted circles, which the artist and her assistants stitched together and installed on the trees. Participants included students from Augustana College, …

4 Artists, 4 Visions, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

An exhibition of four artists invited by members of the Augustana Art Department: Oscar Jay Gillespie, Claire Hedden, Tom Lundberg, and Joseph Patrick.

Photos courtesy of the Augustana Photo Bureau

2017 Senior Art Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

This exhibition features the Senior Inquiry projects of the Augustana College studio art and graphic design majors of the Class of 2017:

Jorge Ambriz, Paris Edwards, Chloe Gale, Giselle Gaztambide, Emily Kathleen Grooms, Ginger Hamilton, Olivia Havens, McKee Jackson, Emily Johnson, Jordan Peklo, Henry Roderick, Glen Williamson

Saga Vol. 80 / 2016-2017, Alyssa Froehling, Elena Leith, Emma Smith

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Witness, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

What does it mean to bear witness?

How does this idea manifest itself in the visual arts?

From tourism to war to social critique, at the local, regional, national, or international level, the concept of bearing witness through the arts provides a means by which one can better understand a place, an issue, or a person. It can undermine the powerful, or serve as a tool of propaganda. It can retell the stories that we have heard before, or make space for new voices and new stories.

Visual works, such as the photograph on the right, can play a vital …

Herbarium Tales, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2017-2018

Herbarium Tales features scientific specimens of the herbarium of Augustana, and invites the visitor to explore the intersections between the study of plant biodiversity, art, and the history of the College.

Battle/Dress: Camouflage As A Metaphor For Passing And Other Works By Kiam Marcelo Junio, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

Kiam Marcelo Junio (preferred gender pronoun: "they/their/them”) is a Chicago-based visual and performance artist. Their research and art work center around queer identity, Philippine history and the Filipino diaspora, American imperialism, and personal and collective healing through collaborative work and individual WERQ. Kiam served seven years in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. They were born in the Philippines, and have lived in the U.S., Japan, and Spain.

#QueeringCamouflage

"Camouflage as a Metaphor for Passing is a body of work that articulates the specific intersections of my identities as a queer, Filipino American immigrant, and US Navy veteran. I …

A Woman's Place Is In The Gallery : Guerrilla Girls, 1985-2015, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

This exhibition celebrates 30 years of Women & Gender Studies at Augustana College through a celebration of 30+ years of Guerrilla Girls' actions, reminding us of the role that art can take in protest, activism and conversation around issues of gender, racial and economic justice. It featured works from Augustana Teaching Museum of Art's recent purchase of the Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat, as well as archival materials from Augustana's Special Collections on the Women & Gender Studies program.

This exhibition was curated with Sami Turner, a student at Western Illinois University's Museum Studies Program. Ms. Turner and I worked to …

Sweeney Todd, Jay Cranford, Michelle Crouch

2010-2019: All Shows

Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to 19th century London seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up, and the carnage has only just begun!

New Departures 2016 : Senior Studio Art + Graphic Design Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2015-2016

2016 Senior Studio Art + Graphic Design Exhibition featuring works by Lauren Becker, TJ Clifford, Sydney Crumbleholme, Nathan Gray, Tyler James, Bailey Kerschieter, Katie Knauft, Ryen Merhar, Holly Scholl, and Jacob Soukup.

Plantbot Genetics Presents: The Moth Project, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2015-2016

PlantBot Genetics Inc. presents an engaging overview of second shift pollinators such as the moth, along with recent advances in self-pollinating robo-plants. The Moth Project highlights inspired responses to the decline of the honeybee and the hope that Moths and PlantBots will step in and save the day.

As consumers, we no longer know the real price of our food. Present food distribution systems are so complicated that it is unrealistic to expect consumers will make responsible choices based on the knowledge at hand. We encourage people to think more about their food, where it comes from, and where it …

Saga Vol. 79 / 2015-2016, Alyssa Froehling, Elena Leith

SAGA Art & Literary Magazine

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Getting Out, Jeff Coussens

2010-2019: All Shows

Released from prison "Arlene" returns to a rundown apartment in Louisville, intent on starting her life over. Rebellious and disruptive as a young girl, she has found strength in religion and wants to put her youth (as "Arlie") behind her. But her struggle to find her way in the present (as "Arlene") is counterpointed by flashbacks of her past (as "Arlie"), her two personalities being represented by two performers, who sometimes appear on stage simultaneously. We meet the guards and prison officials with whom "Arlie" waged a running battle; and the unfeeling, slatternly mother, the lecherous former prison guard, the …

Guerrilla Girls At Augustana, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

Guerrilla Girls at Augustana

Art Above 66° 33', Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2016-2017

66˚ 33' is the latitude of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, and this exhibition considers these geographic areas as inspiration for the visual arts. In addition, it utilizes the visual arts as a mode by which to encourage viewers to more deeply engage with the planet’s most northerly and southerly regions. It considers the issues, history and environment of the regions, spanning media, process and subject – from the figural to the abstract, tactile to sound, analog to digital.

This exhibition was a collaboration with the Augustana Center for Polar Studies.

#ArtAbove66

ARTISTS: Michael Bartalos, Cape Dorset Prints from the …

Machinal, Jennifer Popple

2010-2019: All Shows

The play's title means "automatic" or "mechanical" in French and is based loosely on the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd Gray, who together murdered Snyder's husband. Convicted of murdering her husband, Snyder later received the electric chair. A woman's role during this era in history is confined and regimented to wife, mother, housekeeper, and sexual partner. Love is considered unnecessary, and thus many women are trapped in their dependent status, living a hellish life in a loveless marriage. The relationship between Helen Jones and her husband, George H. Jones, is no different. However, when a man …

What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2015-2016

What (is) a Relief?

Relief printmaking was the first printmaking process invented, and has its origins in seals in China around 255 BCE. At its most basic, one can think of a stamp as a relief print. The artist uses tools to cut away portions of the matrix (a wood block, linoleum sheet, Styrofoam, etc.), leaving behind a raised image area, which is then printed on a substrate (paper, fabric, etc.). To this day, relief printmaking is still the most accessible form of printmaking because a press is not required to make a print – just the matrix, ink, pressure …

Pinocchio Commedia, Jackie Wynes Mccall

2010-2019: All Shows

This Harlequinade version of Pinocchio is one of his theatre’s most successful productions. Simons uses the original Italian commedia names, such as Arlecchino, who later became the French Harlequin. The name “Pinocchio” may be spoken with its Italian pronunciation as pee-no-kee-o. In true commedia fashion, this wild and uninhibited play begins with a troupe of strolling players exploding into the theatre with their noisy props and crude scenery. Arlecchino plays a Cricket; Pantalone plays Geppetto; Razullo, a fox; Beltrama, a cat; Pulcinella, the wicked puppet master; Pedrolina, a donkey and a fool; Columbina, a spirit and Pinocchio plays himself. The …

As You Like It, Jennifer Popple

2010-2019: All Shows

Comic twists and turns abound when a disguised Rosalind seeks refuge after being wrongfully banished by her uncle. Her unfortunate exile is transformed into a charming adventure when she encounters some of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters - colorful fools, witty rustics, and the handsome, lovesick Orlando. A clandestine, gender-bending courtship ensues, in Shakespeare’s timeless comedy about love, transformation and the roles we play.

A Place Called Home: Frank Lundahl And The Quad Cities, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2015-2016

Frank Lundahl (1858-1932) was a Swedish-American artist born in Rock Island. A painter of interior murals by trade, his works in Augustana’s collections focus on the world around him, calling our attention to the everyday beauty of our region, this place we call home.

Reflecting On The Past, Stefanie R. Bluemle, Sarah M. Horowitz, Jamie L. Nelson

Reflecting on the Past

150 years of Augustana stories