Three lectures will be offered in connection with this exhibition, which is the third in a year-long series of events featuring UNI Department of Art alumni, titled Time is Ripe. The lectures are scheduled as follows: Bruce Charlesworth at 7:00 pm on Monday, November 1; Dawn Gettler and Tom Mueske at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, November 2. Both lectures will be held in the Kamerick Art Building South, Auditorium, Room 111. Artist’s receptions will follow each presentation. All events are free and open to the public, and are sponsored in part by the Florence Hartwig Foundation and the UNI Alumni Association. Action Is Eloquence is a thematic invitational exhibition about desire, intention, and direction. The title itself derives from a scene in Shakespeare’s play Corialanus in which the protagonist is coached in public presentation. More importantly, however, in this scene we are made to see the complex relationship between the viewer and the viewed. Exhibition participants include: Bruce Charlesworth (BA '72); Dawn Gettler (BFA '03); Karla Hackenmiller (BFA '93); and Tom Mueske (BFA '05).  Bruce Charlesworth is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, video, photography, performance and installation. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in Postmodern photography and interactive installation art. His feature-length experimental film titled "Private Enemy–Public Eye" was adapted into a book published in 1989, which later was the basis for a retrospective of his work at the International Center of Photography in New York City. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. He is assistant professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and during 2009-10 he was a Fellow of the Center for 21st Century Studies. Printmaker Dawn Gettler received her MFA from Ohio University in Athens OH, where she also served as a graduate assistant, teaching advanced printmaking and foundations courses. Most recently, she completed artist in residence programs at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha NE and Spiro Arts in Park City UT. In her short career as a practicing artist, her work has been exhibited in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Idaho, Georgia, and Florida. In 2011, she will present a solo exhibition at the Janalyn Hanson White Gallery at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. Karla Hackenmiller is associate professor and chair of the Printmaking Program at Ohio University at Athens. Her etchings and collages have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notable at the Mesa Art Center in Arizona and the Czech Museum of Fine Art in Prague. She is co-founder and co-director of the annual "Inkahoots!" event, an outdoor collaborative printing festival at Ohio University, and in 2006, she was co-organizer of the Mid America Print Council (MAPC) biennial conference, "Forging Connections." Los Angeles-based artist Tom Mueske received his MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute where he received a Graduate Fellowship Award. In 2006, he was both guest artist at California State University in Long Beach and recipient of an artist’s grant from the renowned Vermont Studio Center. In 2008, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, the establishment currently representing his work. This year, the artist’s work was accepted into the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach CA. UNI Gallery of Art Action Is Eloquence November 1 - November 30, 2010
 
PAST EXHIBITION contact calendar events exhibitions home collections publications opportunities Gallery hours are 9 am to 9 pm, Monday through Thursday; 9 am to 5 pm, Friday; and noon to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday. The Gallery is located at the northeast corner of Hudson Road and West 27th Street, Cedar Falls, on the main floor of Kamerick Art Building South. Events and exhibitions at the UNI Gallery of Art are open to the public throughout the academic year with no charge for admission. Bruce Charlesworth, Prodigy. Chromogenic print, 2005. Dawn Gettler, Silence Will Speak for Her. Suspended wooden frame, sewn paper, vertical osillating fans; and A Sweet Disposition. Cut text cast in sugar, 2010. Karla Hackenmiller, Liminal Interplay No. 2. Etching, 2009. Tom Mueske, Two Hand Boogie. No. 2. Marker and ink on museum board, 2007.