EXAGGERATE! Adirondack Theme Exhibition

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Visual Work Deadlines
Deadline for shipped artwork: April 23
Deadline for Hand Delivered Artwork: May 1

Writing Deadlines
Writing must be submitted both digitally and framed.
Deadline to receive shipped framed writing: April 23
Deadline to Submit Writing Digitally: April 26
Deadline to submit Framed Writing by hand: May 1

Artists lay it on thick in this open exhibit of Amazing two and three dimensional artwork, and larger-than-life written works. The BIG idea is to exaggerate!

This is an out of proportion, overblown, not entirely accurate exhibition of photography, painting, pastel, graphics, drawing, fiber, sculpture, and ceramics as well as short written works: poetry and tall tales, all themed around the idea of exaggeration. All work will be displayed and judged for awards. It is a chance for artists to express feelings rather than facts, and it will transport viewers beyond the bounds of reason. Explore our fascination with what we know is too good to be true. Exaggerate! is the greatest exhibition you will ever see!

Juror of Written Works: Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac is the author of over 100 books ranging from collections of his own poetry and retellings of traditional Native American tales to short stories and historical novels. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background his Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished.

With his wife, Carol, Bruchac is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications, including American Poetry Review, National Geographic, Parabola and Smithsonian Magazine. Some of his many honors include a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship for Poetry, the Cherokee Nation Prose Award, the Knickerbocker Award, and both the 1998 Writer of the Year Award and the 1998 Storyteller of the Year Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

As a professional teller of the traditional tales of the Adirondacks and the Native peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Joseph Bruchac has performed widely internationally, and has been a storyteller-in-residence for Native American organizations and schools throughout the continent.  An Adirondack native, he resides in the home he was raised in by his grandparents in Greenfield Center.  Bruchac is a member of the Adirondack Liars’ Club, a folklore society that tells the tall tales that are part of our region’s heritage.

Juror of Visual Art: Katharine Kuharic

Katharine Kuharic's paintings combine iconic American kitsch and contemporary concerns of gender, race, celebrity and the status quo, simultaneously presenting nostalgia and cynicism. Kuharic's meticulous work has been described as “march(ing)a pack of strange curios across a jingoist stage, marrying effortlessly impressions of conventional and counter-culture.”

Katherine’s work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in the US and abroad including Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Stockholm, London, and Amsterdam. She has had fourteen solo exhibitions, including seven at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York, which represents her work. Katherine Kuharic’s work has been reviewed in several artist magazines and mainstream publications including Tema Celeste, The Village Voice, The New York Times, the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Time Out.

Kuharic completed her BFA in Painting and Drawing at Carnegie Mellon University, and then moved to New York City where she studied at the School of Visual Arts with Louise Bourgeois and Robert Storr.

Katharine Kuharic was named the first Kevin Kennedy Professor of Art at Hamilton College.  She has served as critic and Painter-in Residence at the Yale University, Yale Norfolk program in Norfolk, CT. Before coming to Hamilton, she was Associate Professor and Coordinator of the painting program at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Katherine has held positions at the School of Visual Arts, the New School, Parsons and the Yale University School of Art. She has served on a number of panels and has lectured extensively at universities and museums: the Brooklyn Museum of Arts, the St. Louis Museum of Art, Yale University, Columbia University, NYU, the Core program at the Glassell School of Arts, the Hartford School of Arts, Otis and the University of Notre Dame.

If you would like more information, contact Exhibition Coordinator Linda Weal at lweal@artscenteroldforge.org