Kirkwood Fine Arts show highlights collaboration of two UI Arts professors
Creative works in three different media from two artists are all part of one exhibit at Kirkwood Community College. Professors Sue Hettmansperger and Lawrence Fritts of The University of Iowa will present oil paintings, electronic music and collaborative videos. The exhibit in Kirkwood’s Iowa Hall Gallery will run from Nov. 16 through Dec. 12.
The exhibition will include a public art mural of paintings that personify stated principles of Kirkwood Community College: technology and innovation, lifelong learning, creative critical thinking, social sciences and human culture. This public art project and events are supported in part by the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sue Hettmansperger is a Professor of Art at the University of Iowa, and a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Painting. She has had exhibitions of her artwork at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, the Hyde Park Art Center, Evanston Art Center, and numerous exhibits in galleries and museums across the country.
Lawrence Fritts teaches composition at the University of Iowa, where he has directed the Electronic Music Studios since 1994. His compositions for instruments and electronics have been heard in festivals and conferences throughout the world. Recently Fritts has explored compositions that combine instruments and voice with electronic enhancements. The Kirkwood compositions are some of the latest of his works.
Kirkwood will welcome the artists for a reception on Friday, December 11 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free of charge and the public is welcome to attend.
Kirkwood and the Iowa Arts Council have arranged for an extended life of the exhibit after the late-fall showing. “This exhibit invites viewers to contemplate congruencies of image and sound,” Hettmansperger said. “My four paintings form a mural grid that reflects some of the many disciplines taught at Kirkwood. When the exhibit closes, the mural will be sited in an atrium space that connects different learning areas at the college, much as the mural reflects a bridge between different ideas and areas of knowledge.”
Sue Hettmansperger is available for interviews at:
sue-hettmansperger@uiowa.edu