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December 01, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University

 
Art Changes Lives at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University. Admission is free courtesy of JCSM Business Partners. Plan your visit at www.jcsm.auburn.edu.

On Sunday, December 1 at 1:30 p.m., a docent will guide visitors through current exhibitions.

Now on view:

Out of the Box: An Outdoor Juried Sculpture Exhibition features ten works of contemporary sculpture to represent ten years of service to Auburn University and community. The artists’ work will be displayed on the museum grounds in a yearlong observance of the anniversary until October 3, 2014. More than 120 submissions from across the United States were submitted and selected by Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse.

JCSM@10: A Decade of Collecting is a broad selection of the distinctive art acquired by the museum between 2003 and today. Including works by Old Masters and Impressionists; artists of local and international renown; contemporary painters, photographers, potters, and sculptors; self-taught and academically trained—our collection continues to expand, enabling us each year to educate and more fully relate the story of art. The exhibitionJCSM@10 serves not only to illustrate the coming of age of an important regional asset, it salutes the benevolent spirit of a caring community that gave it birth and nurtured JCSM to this milestone.

Breath of Identity, organized for JCSM, addresses the concept of artistic collaboration and the nature of a melded identity that is inherent in the work of Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse. Featuring a series of large paintings with related drawings, prototypes and engineering studies for recent sculpture projects, and sequential photographs of the Hunter Museum installation, the exhibition offers insight into Mickett and Stackhouse’s shared creative process.

Audubon in the Arboretum focuses on native plants represented in The Birds of America, which are present in Auburn University’s Donald E. Davis Arboretum. Celebrating its 50th year, the Davis Arboretum was begun in 1963 as a collection of native trees of the Southeastern United States. Over the years, this collection has been expanded, not only increasing the number of tree species, but also native shrubs and herbaceous plants. The Arboretum has also established areas of native habitats that represent various ecosystems in Alabama. As the plantings and diversity have increased, so has the diversity of the bird population.

The 2014 1072 Society Exhibition features three-dimensional works in a range of media, historical periods, and styles. All of the sculptures in the exhibition were chosen for consideration because of the new and important dimensions they would bring to the museum’s expanding art collection.