Lon Hall
Monday, August 22 – Sunday, October 2

Gallery Tour: Sunday, September 11 @ 1:30 pm before FREE 3 pm Music Showcase (Chorale, Wind Ensemble, Butler Symphony Orchestra, and Jazz & Percussion Ensembles) concert

Sunday, October 2 @ 1:30 pm before FREE 3 pm Wind Ensemble concert

Lon is a nonrepresentational painter, although he does not respond unfavorably to the designation ‘abstract painter’, a designation which most people seem to understand better. He is concerned with the fundamental issues of two dimensional image-making and bases his work on the investigation of the uses and nature of line, area, color and form. For the purposes of his own work, he is skeptical of any imagery which would be viewed as representational, symbolic, metaphorical, allegorical, etc. His approach to art has been frequently termed ‘formalism’, an aesthetic which emphasizes structure and de-emphasizes content.

Butler Creates - An Alumni Art Exhibit will return for a second year. Butler alumni artists were encouraged to submit their original artwork, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography or other forms to be considered. This year’s show will begin October 4 and run through Butler’s Homecoming, October 21-23, 2011. Concurrently the University’s Art + Design students will have their work on display next door in Lilly Hall.

JD Nolan
Tuesday, October 25 – Sunday, December 18

Gallery Tour: Sunday, October 30 @ 1:30 pm before FREE 3 pm Wind Ensemble

Sunday, November 13 @ 1:30 pm before FREE 3 pm Butler Symphony Orchestra

JD Nolan started his career in photography late in life after spending years in the entertainment business, which included six years at Clowes Hall.  He took his first class at the Indianapolis Art Center, went on to study by himself, and finally finished up by meeting and studying with three men who worked with Ansel Adams.  He works in black & White and in Sepia tones.  He still shoots film, processes the film and negatives in a wet darkroom.  He shoots with a 4 x 5 large format camera.  He describes his shooting as "filming the soul of what he sees."

Gallery Tour: Friday, January 13, 5:30 – 8:30

Painting is as essential for Gayla as air and water.  As long as she can remember she has been driven to create.  It is a fundamental way she can inwardly express her feelings, connect with herself on a deeper level and nourish her soul. Creating is her way of connecting with people in a positive way.  Environment influences Gayla but her intuition is her guide.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Exhibit
Tuesday, February 14 – Sunday, February 26

Gllery Tour: Sunday, February 26 @ 11 am before Award Ceremony and FREE 3 pm Butler Symphony Orchestra

For Group Gallery Tours call or email James Cramer at jcramer@butler.edu or 317.940.9697

The exhibition “Visions and Voices” is a sample of the winning entries from our region. The Gold Key winners will be forwarded to the National level for adjudication. Last year 2,325 seventh – 12 grade students from our region entered. Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University in cooperation with the Hoosier Writing Project at IUPUI is host to the Central and Southern Indiana region of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

 Since 1923, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have encouraged more than 13 million students; recognized more than 2.5 million young artists and writers; and distributed more than $25 million in awards and scholarships.

An early, undated statement of purpose articulates the founding vision of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as: “To give those students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills.”

Warren’s style is influenced by his graphic design experience and his admiration of the Bauhaus movement, Russian Constructivism, Modern Art and Pop Art. He works with acrylics on large canvas. He uses strong lines and bold colors to make his paintings pop.

Warren’s deafness is the inspiration of his art. His art explores his feelings about the deaf experience as well as deaf history and culture.

The exhibition complements the annual performing arts fundraiser, SPOTLIGHT: One Night, One Stage, One Reason to raise money for the Indiana AIDS Fund and HIV/AIDS education and prevention. All artists have agreed to donate a portion of their sales to the fundraiser. The exhibition theme of Courage and Hope is relevant to all, and especially to those living with HIV and those who work to prevent the future spread of the disease.

Katherine Lee Finch
Wednesday, May 9 – Saturday, June 16

Gallery Tour: Friday, May 18, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

Katherine developed a wonder of nature and the world around her at an early age, and it's never left her. She has been capturing images since she bought my first single-lens reflex camera, a Mamiya NC1000, when she was 14 years old. Katherine is a friendly and outgoing person and when asks permission to take a picture, often comes away with a new friend as well as a photograph. She sees things differently, and uses her camera as a tool that allows her to share her unique perception with others. When Katherine captures an image she likes to create a puzzle for the viewer. The viewer can then have the pleasure of experiencing an “aha!” moment. She prefers to print her images as she finds them, with minimal editing or post-processing. Her goal is to open the awareness of people to the everyday things around them by presenting ordinary objects or things in an extraordinary way. Katherine likes to remind people that as they travel from point A to point B there are many visual “roses” along the way to be noticed and appreciated.