OPEN-ENDED FESTIVAL OF TIME-BASED MEDIA
Solvent Space, Richmond, VA , February 28- March 1, 2008
Curated by Jeremy Drummon and Elizabeth Schlatter http://www.artandhybridity.com/open_ended.html

Hybridity, identity, and the New Cosmopolitanism - these three "open-ended" concepts informed the basis of our curatorial choices for this festival, which is the concluding event in the University of Richmond's 2007-2008 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts. Our final selection of works was culled from more than 100 videos submitted from our call for participation and from international video art distributors, with the culmination of the festival consisting of the screening of Coco Fusco's "Operation Atropos." We derived the festival's purposely nebulous title early on to allow us leeway when deciding what work to include. But the title became prophetic as the chosen videos examine these overlapping themes from extremely varied perspectives. When determining the order of the programs for the first two nights, we created four loose groupings within which each video contributes another facet to the subject.

Identity Construction: Social, Political, and Personal
The New Cosmopolitanism: Civilization, Urbanism, and Isolation
Hybridity: Dislocation, Separation, Change, and Fear
Hybridity: Global Citizenship, Curiosity, and Confusion

Seen in totality, we hope that the videos in this festival present creative interpretations of these inter-related ideas relevant to contemporary society and examined throughout the entire Tucker-Boatwright Festival.

Artists Included:Martin Brand, Blake Carrington, Koken Ergun, Jeroen Kooijmans, Minette Lee Mangahas, Gracce Ndiritu, Miyuki Nishiuchi, Jennifer Schmidt, Semiconductor, John Smith, Michael V. SMith, Casper Stracke, Mike Stubbs, Ryan Trecartin, Mary Billyou / Annelisse Fifi, Sue Challis, Richard Fung, Sagi Groner, Sonali Gulati, Goutam Kansara, Steve Reinke, Manuel Saiz, Shelly Silver, John Smith, Vagner M. Whitehead, Coco Fusco.

2007-2008 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts
Department of Art & Art History & University Museums
University of Richmond, Richmond VA

DRAWING THE LINE: 20TH DRAWING SHOW
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, November 16, 2007- January 6, 2008
Curated by Magdalena Campos Pons http://www.bcaonline.org , http://www.tiil.us/mills/

BOSTON – The Boston Center for the Arts is proud to announce its 20th Drawing Show at the Mills Gallery November 16, 2007 - January 13, 2008. Begun in 1979 as an annual event, and a biannual exhibition since 1991, the Drawing Show is a tradition of the Boston Center for the Arts, and a widely anticipated hallmark of the BCA’s visual arts programming.

The culmination of a juried process, this year’s Drawing Show “Drawing the Line” is rethinking the traditional approach to drawing as a medium. Guest Juror, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and the Mills Gallery have carefully selected 25 talented artists from over 500 submissions.

The 20th Drawing Show “Drawing the Line” has attracted artists at an international level for the past few years. This year the Mills’ guest juror has selected a feature artist, Rosanna Castrillo-Diaz based in San Francisco, California. Rosanna’s delicate and intimate work presents an alternative approach to expand the notion of drawing.

Juror’s Statement “Drawing the Line”: During the last decade, drawing has regained center stage in the contemporary discourse of visual language. This shift is due in part to the efforts of several institutions which have fostered and encouraged the practice, as well all to artists themselves who have ventured into magnificent lineal investigations to develop new work. These artists have re-defined the possibilities of drawing by exploring new materials, by engaging in social and civic discourse, and by challenging the constraints of traditional venues to expand the possibilities of drawing outside “the white cube.” Provocative examples of drawing are to be found in architecture and design, performance arts and new media, as well as in seductive rendering made by using more traditional approaches. With this premise in mind I feel both enthusiastic and privileged to be invited as the juror for the 20th Drawing Show “Drawing the Line” at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Artists Include: Cree Bruins, Lana Z. Caplan, Matthew Cleary, Mark Epstein , Gonzalo Fuenmayor, A. Jacob Galle, Jenine Haard, Annie Heisey, Robert Hernandez, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel, Jason La Croix, Jeffrey Marshall, Lior Neiger, Bob Oppenheim, Dave Ortega, Marilyn Pappas, Mia Pearlman, Evelyn Rydz, Michelle Samour, Pat Shannon, Jennifer Schmidt, Leslie Schomp, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, Nancy Murphy Spicer, Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship.