87 Past Events at Art and Journalism Building, Ball State University

January 8-30, 2025

Reception: January 15, 4-6 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.

About the Show

A two-person exhibition featuring work by Michael Lorsung, Assistant Professor of Art (Sculpture) at Ball State University, and Duane McDiarmid, Area Chair and Professor of Sculpture & Expanded Practice at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Lorsung works in craft-based media (metalsmithing, glass, ceramics, wood working) to incorporate those methodologies into contemporary forms of digital fabrication, time-based initiatives, installation, and kinetic work. He views the use of new technologies and methods as extensions of existing fields and modes of (art) making rather than expecting those newer processes to supplant tradition and history. Lorsung was previously employed as a Studio Coordinator of Sculpture at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

McDiarmid constructs sculptures, designs performances, and initiates social intersections in fine art venues, digital communities and within remote landscapes. He has worked collaboratively with communities and individual artists. For example, he created a blanket dispenser for the homeless in New York City; fed the public ice cream from a solar work embellished with high-tech interactive gizmos in remote deserts across the American southwest; and bathed in used motor oil for an audience of animals in a Maryland wetland swamp. His recent projects have involved wearing a towering French-court inspired wig of script describing the pleasures of powers and luxury while traversing mountain passes with a Mr. Coffee pot and an entourage of minions; in London he dressed as a “Gimp Skunk” to discuss American foreign policy and personal failings; and he outfitted an Arabian horse in western saddle gear reconfigured into ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ inspired garb. With the support of the Santa Fe Art Institute, he made custom-designed ritual objects for squatter communities in derelict buildings. McDiarmid’s work has been supported by grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation, NY; and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY, as well as numerous academic institutions.

This year’s exhibition will be open from February 12 through March 15. The reception will be Saturday, February 22 from 6PM – 8PM in The Ned and Gloria Griner Gallery.

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Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.

The School of Art and The Griner Gallery invites the public to the 90th Annual Student Art Show, a competitive juried show honoring the School of Art's outstanding student artists. Come view the work of our talented students for free!

The show is juried by a professional artist from outside Ball State, resulting in an exhibition that includes a broad range of artworks, media, and styles. This annual event is a great opportunity to see the exciting art produced by the students in the School of Art, and a must-see event for anyone who appreciates contemporary art. We hope you can stop by and check out this exciting exhibition!

All students currently enrolled in classes in the School of Art are eligible to enter artwork for the juror’s consideration. Work from all areas of study in the School of Art are eligible for entry, including animation, ceramics, drawing, game art/design, glass, graphic design, graphic arts management, illustration, metals + jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video and new media. Approximately $5000 in awards are given each year.

Kaleena Sales is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Tennessee State University, an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) in Nashville, TN. Her research and writing are rooted in racial justice and equity, with a specific focus on the ways culture informs aesthetics. Kaleena is co-author of the book, Extra-Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guild for Graphic Designers, and editor of Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

The School of Art invites the public to attend as Master of Fine Arts degree candidates present their thesis exhibitions from March 25-April 11 in The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery. Artwork being displayed is by Mary Vozenilek (ceramics), Anna Grabowski (glass), and Michelle Pokorny (glass). A reception will be held on April 3rd from 4-6pm in the gallery, AJ101. This is a great chance to see the exciting art being made by some of our seniors!

Show Titles:

Mary Vozenilek: “You Are Not Alone”
Michelle Pokorny: “Conversations About Conservation”
Anna Grabowski : “I Can’t See Through My Thoughts”

Political, technological, academic, and economic shifts since the 1970’s have changed the gallery model that most artists, established and emerging, function within. These changes require diverse approaches to a career in the arts that may look different than the romantic picture painted by media. Successful artist studios are small businesses that manage inventory, marketing, and HR. Through the lens of his own praxes, Artist / Educator / Administrator / Curator Michael Endo, will discuss the multiple and diverse practices and skills that are often necessary to create a stable career in the arts.

About the Artist

Michael Endo was born in Portland, Oregon in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, in 2009 and a B.A. from Portland State University, Oregon in 2005. Endo’s studio work has been included in national and international exhibitions at venues such as The National Glass Centre (Sunderland, UK), Disjecta (Portland, Oregon), Yuan Yuan Art Center (Jinan, China), and Bullseye Projects (Portland, Oregon and Mamaroneck, New York). Endo is currently the curatorial consultant at Bullseye Projects, organizing exhibitions at The Byre and assisting with traveling exhibitions and art fairs. In 2019, Endo moved to Yucca Valley, California where he founded High Desert Observatory with his partner Emily Endo. Michael is currently the Artistic Director at Pilchuck Glass School. 

The School of Art invites the public to attend as Master of Fine Arts degree candidates present their thesis exhibitions from March 25-April 11 in The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery. Artwork being displayed is by Mary Vozenilek (ceramics), Anna Grabowski (glass), and Michelle Pokorny (glass). A reception will be held on April 3rd from 4-6pm in the gallery, AJ101. This is a great chance to see the exciting art being made by some of our seniors!

Show Titles:

Mary Vozenilek: “You Are Not Alone”
Michelle Pokorny: “Conversations About Conservation”
Anna Grabowski : “I Can’t See Through My Thoughts”

Nancy Floyd has been a visual artist for over 40 years. Her interests include the aging female body, the passage of time, barren landscapes, and trees. She uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. Floyd has received numerous grants and awards including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2019 International Center of Photography / GOST Books First Photo Book Award, a 2018 Aaron Siskind Photography Fellowship and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship.

Floyd holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is Emerita Professor in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta and lives in Bend, Oregon.