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GUEST ARTIST LECTURE February 11, 2008 - Fargo, N.D. - The NDSU Department of Visual Arts is pleased to announce that a podcast of Jonathan Pellitteri's public lecture, recorded live at the NDSU Downtown campus on January 24, is now available. This 36 minute broadcast, consisting of photographs and audio, is best viewed using iTunes. To view the photographs while using iTunes, be sure the artwork and video viewer (lower left corner, a box with an arrow in it) is expanded. Double click on the image to enlarge it on a seperate screen. The photographs will automatically change as Mr. Pellitteri discusses each image. Listen/view
the podcast. # # ROSENQUIST FELLOW AWARDED SWISS RESIDENCY February 2008 - Fargo, N.D. - Jonathan Pellitteri, the 2008 James Rosenquist Artist in Residence at North Dakota State University , has been awarded the International Sculpture Center (ISC) Sculpture Residency in Switzerland with sculptor Heinz Aeschlimann. Pellitteri was selected through a competitive process to participate
with Aeschlimann, and his wife Gertrud, art advocate, collector and art
patron in an inter-cultural experience. The program is designed to allow
the selected sculptor up to six weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Aeschlimann at
their home/studio in Zofingen , Switzerland . The residency will provide
an opportunity to work directly with Heinz Aeschlimann at his studio.
Additionally, the Aeschlimanns will provide support in the creation of
Pellitteri’s work while in residence. The experience will culminate
with an exhibition of work created by Pellitteri during the residency. As the current James Rosenquist Artist in Residence at NDSU, Pellitteri will spend the semester interacting with students, holding public lectures and opening his studio to visitors. His focus as a sculptor is to reach the public with works representing his observations of the world around him. Using his experiences as a mason and carpenter, Pellitteri handles various mediums and processes to introduce new materials and methods into his work. According to Pellitteri, his goal is not to be the impetus for global change, but to quietly intrigue viewers with his sculptures and impart a curiosity of the objects that fill lives and inspire individual evaluations of how they are influenced by them. An exhibit of Pellitteri’s works will be held at the NDSU Downtown Gallery, April 8-24, 2008 . The James Rosenquist Artist in Residency Program for Visual Arts at NDSU honors James Rosenquist. Born in Grand Forks , N.D. , Rosenquist is considered one of the greatest living artists of the Pop Art movement of North America . His work and career are internationally known. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from North Dakota State University in May 2005. # # SCULPTOR NAMED JAMES ROSENQUIST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Dec. 4, 2007 – Fargo , N.D. – The
Department of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University has announced
that Jonathan Pellitteri, Baton Rouge, La., has been named the James
Rosenquist Artist in Residence at NDSU. Pellitteri will work spring semester
2008 in the studio dedicated for the program at NDSU’s Downtown
Visual Arts Department, interacting with students, holding public lectures
and opening his studio to visitors. Pellitteri’s focus as a sculptor is to reach the public with works representing his observations of the world around him. He notes that each time he works in a fresh place, his artwork develops in unexpected and exciting directions. Pulling from his experiences in construction as a mason and carpenter, Pellitteri handles various mediums and processes and introduces news materials and methods into his work. “The ability to pass my research on to students of the university as I create a new body of work is an alluring part of this residency,” said Pellitteri. He will exchange his ideas on processes, materials and the creation of a cohesive body of work in his studio at the NDSU Downtown campus, culminating the semester with an exhibit and the donation of a piece of his work to the James Rosenquist Artist Residency Collection. “The Artist Residency program at NDSU continues to offer students and the community an opportunity to learn unique artistic methods,” said Thomas Riley, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at NDSU. Pellitteri received his master of fine arts degree in studio art at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He holds a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His travels have included study abroad in Cortona, Italy. Pellitteri’s work has been exhibited in The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, as well as galleries in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia and Connecticut . The James Rosenquist Artist in Residency Program for Visual Arts at NDSU honors James Rosenquist. Born in Grand Forks, N.D., Rosenquist is considered one of the greatest living artists of the Pop Art movement of North America. His work and career are internationally known. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from North Dakota State University in May 2005. NDSU introduced the James Rosenquist Artist in Residency Program in 2006 with its inaugural artist, Hedi Schwöbel, of Ludwigsburg, Germany. One of her artistic installations included sculpted salt blocks placed in area pastures with cattle near Casselton and Leonard, N.D. Some area farmers curious about her work engaged in an impromptu conversation about art during a visit by Schwöbel and NDSU faculty in May to the Leonard, N.D., Café. “People in the café were really excited to meet Hedi because her project was of great interest and amazement in the general area,” said Kris Groberg, an assistant professor who accompanied the group. The unscheduled art discussion was so well-received that the group was invited back to the Leonard Café for a return trip this fall. “The Rosenquist Artist in Residency Program allows NDSU to show its dedication to the arts,” said Philip Boudjouk, vice president for research, creative activities and technology transfer, which is funding the program. “The initial success of the program illustrates its benefits to students, as well as to area communities.”
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