McDonough Museum of Art announces four exhibits to open fall season
August 18, 2023
The McDonough Museum of Art has announced four exhibits that will open their fall 2023 season beginning Tuesday, September 5 and running through Saturday, November 4. The exhibits will feature the works of Shona Macdonald, the #notwhite collective, Betsy Stirratt, and three artists from the Short Shorts Festival.
An opening reception for all artists will take place Friday, September 8 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the museum.
Macdonald’s exhibit “Flash of Light Illumines a Dark Landscape” will be available to view September 5 – November 4. Known both nationally and internationally, Macdonald’s work has appeared in solo shows in New York and New Zealand and in numerous group shows in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. She currently serves as a professor of studio art at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She will give a lecture on her exhibit Friday, September 8 at 5:30 PM in the McDonough Museum of Art lecture hall (room 3000).
The #notwhite collective’s exhibit “#notwhite collective” will be open to the public September 5 – November 4. The collective is made up of 13 female artists who use art to investigate history, expose reality, and reject oppression, with a specific focus on discussing imperialism and its effect on bi- and multi-racial and cultural individuals. Members of the collective will give a walking tour of their exhibition Wednesday, September 20 from 6:30 – 8:00 PM.
Stirratt’s “Embedded Histories” will be available to view September 5 – October 20. Through photographs, books, paintings, and videos, she explores natural and social histories to create narratives about the interactions of humans and nature. Stirratt is the founding director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University – Bloomington, where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Solo exhibitions of her work have been displayed in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York. Stirratt will join the Department of Art Lecture Series (DALS) and give an artist talk on her exhibit Wednesday, October 4 at 5:30 PM.
The museum is also featuring the Short Shorts Festival, which will highlight the work of Ilena Finocchi, Illya Mousavijad, and Michael Schmidt October 23 – November 4. Finocchi will present her first animated short “Creatures in My House;” Mousavijad will show a computer animation film and video piece “Between a Lost Home and a Losing Destination” that was made using 3D scanning and photogrammetry; and Schmidt will present two stop-motion animations titled “Passages” and “Collapse.” A viewing party for all three works will be held Wednesday, October 25 at 5:30 PM.
The exhibitions and reception are free and open to the public. The McDonough Museum of Art is open 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday.