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Exhibit Calendar      2009/2010 Season

Most exhibits have original works of art available for sale at the conclusion of exhibit dates. Prices available upon request.
 


May 2009
Charles B. Goddard Center's
Permanent Collection

The Goddard Center's Permanent Collection includes over 300 original works of art. This outstanding collection features works from regional, nation and international artists. Selected pieces will be on display during the month of May.

"Grandmother Moorehead's Aromatic Kitchen"
 by Leanora Carrington

Sculptures by Susan Budge - May 2009

The Center is pleased to have entered into a collaboration with San Antonio ceramicist, Susan Budge, whose brightly colored and often mysterious sculptures compliment and add a new perspective when viewing surrealist paintings from the Center's permanent collection.

For more information
on Susan Budge
visit her website at www.susanbudge.com


Goddard Center's 40th Annual Juried Exhibit
June 2009

Registration for the exhibit will be June 2-5, 9:00am to 4:00pm & June 6, 1:00-4:00pm. A public reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, June 13, from 2:00-4:00pm. For more information please click here Annual Juried Exhibit Information.

Each year, artists from Oklahoma and surrounding states submit hundreds of entries to the Goddard Center's Annual Juried Exhibit. Regional artist, Paul Walsh, will jury this year's annual exhibit. Works by Paul Walsh will be exhibited in our lobby at this time. For more information on Paul Walsh please visit his website at www.blueriverart.com/index.htm

All artists are invited to participate. For more information please contact the Center at (580) 226-0909.

3rd Annual Arte de Cuba
July 1 - August 1, 2009

The Goddard Center is proud to present our 3rd Annual Cuban Art Exhibit, a collection of contemporary paintings from Eastern Cuba. This exhibit from the Orient region is unique because it is rarely accessed by outsiders and is geographically isolated from the rest of Cuba. New paintings have recently arrived from Florida on loan from the Cuban Cultural Exchange. A gallery reception is scheduled for July 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Worley Faver - Pottery Exhibit
August 22 - November 7, 2009

Inspired by the ancients, this Floridian artist travels regularly to Sante Fe, exploring Pueblo history and encouraging his deep desire...his call to create. His hand-building and polishing techniques, akin to those of the Anasazi Indians (pre 14th century) assure that each one will be different. A reception for Mr. Faver will be held on November 20th. Mr. Faver will also teach an adult pottery workshop in the Center's Art Studios. Call for date and time (580) 226-0909.

Steven Poster - Photographer
August 22 - November 7, 2009

Steven Poster, current President of the International Cinematography Guild, creates striking photographs that reveal the pathos and humor in everyday life. As a Director of Photography, Poster has filmed a wide variety of motion pictures; including the cult favorite Donnie Darko, Stuart Little 2, Daddy Day Care, Rocky V, The Cemetery Club, Life Stinks and Opportunity Knocks. He was also Second Unit Director of Photography on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner. He received an ASC nomination for Best Cinematography for Ridley Scott's Someone To Watch Over Me. A reception for Mr. Poster will be announced at a later date. His reception will include a lecture and screening of his work.

Myths & Magic
October 2009

 

Featuring works by:

Betty Dolman
&
Rudy Ellis

(Etching by Dolman)

 

The Center welcomes Ardmore natives Betty Dolman and Rudy Ellis whose lobby exhibition, Myths & Magic, will feature the chimerical creations of their unchecked imaginations. Ms. Dolman's work will include her most recent project from her book of etchings on Greek mythology. This will be the first showing of Mr. Ellis' recently completed series, which is based on the historical symbolism and mysticism found on tarot cards.


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USAO Seven State Biennial Juried Exhibition
December 8 - January 10, 2010

The Center has partnered with The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma to bring the University's Fifth Seven State Biennial Juried Exhibit to Ardmore. The exhibit will be juried by Sara Waters (MFA), Professor in Sculpture from Texas Tech University. A closing reception for the artists, sponsors and public will be held in January.

Annual All Schools Exhibit
April 2010

Each year the Goddard Center showcases the artwork of students from area schools in its Annual All Schools Exhibit. This event is always a community favorite. In keeping with its mission of providing art education for the youth of south central Oklahoma, over seventy are education scholarships are awarded annually during this exhibit. Receptions are held for elementary, middle and high school art students, which are highly attended by hundreds of parents, grandparents and numerous family members.

John Kingerlee Exhibit
July - September 2010

The Gathering
by John Kingerlee

Paintings are touchstones, a myriad of paint strokes, each with their own specific gravity, valence, and charge. From this magical contact, from this continual return, an image emerges, as if rising from the surface like a mirage. This simple miracle of the painter's art, of the material passing into the phenomenal, like the body transfigured into spirit, is at the heart of John Kingerlee's work.

This exhibit will feature a special presentation by Dominique Nahas who is a noted are critic and independent curator based in Manhattan. A newly elected member of the board of Association International des Critiques d'Art, he is currently the Interim Director of the Neuberger Museum and former museum curator at Everson Museum.
 

Jack Dowd’s Last Call
Fall 2010

 


Jack Dowd’s show, Last Call, at the Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida drew 40,000 visitors and the opening was the best-attended in the museum’s history.  Dowd was born in New York in 1938, and attributes the influence of the great American films of the post-war world with igniting his imagination and firing his quest for adventure.

The Goddard Center will present excerpts from Robert de Warren’s contemporary ballet, “Last Call” which brings to life Jack Dowd’s art installation exhibit of the same name.  Dancers from around the country will depict the characters found in Dowd’s exhibit minutes before closing time in a typical New York City bar.  The performance of “Last Call” will coincide with the opening of Jack Dowd’s exhibit in the Goddard Center’s galleries in September of 2009.  The Goddard Center is thrilled to have this ballet kick off the 2009/2010 Performance Season 

 

 

 

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