BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Turchin Center for the Visual Arts - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Turchin Center for the Visual Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20250910T145804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250929T174505Z UID:10001505-1759510800-1759518000@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:"Different Johns" Film Screening and Discussion DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening celebration of the life of multi-talented musician\, filmmaker\, photographer\, musicologist\, anthropologist\, and educator\, John Cohen (1932 – 2019) in conjunction with the exhibition Image & Music: John Cohen on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts through December 13\, 2025.  \nDifferent Johns\, a FRUITBAT/FOLKSCARE film directed by Robert Carr highlighting the many facets of John Cohen’s life will be screened during the First Friday events on October 3 at 5pm in the TCVA lecture hall.  \nFollowing the film screening\, artist and educator Tom Hansell and musician and music scholar Becks Lipshultz\, will respond to the film and answer questions from the audience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Portrait of John Cohen by Ed Grazda \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Artist’s Biography courtesy of L. Parker Stephenson Photographs and the John Cohen family.  \nBorn in Queens\, New York\, John Cohen (1932-2019) was a true polymath. Among his many talents were photography\, filmmaking\, writing\, music\, folklore\, and ethnomusicology.  \nCohen studied painting at Yale University under Josef Albers and photography with Herbert Matter; receiving an MFA in the 1950s. Cohen also researched indigenous Andean weaving in Peru. His photographs of Peru would be the first photographic exhibition held at the Yale University Art Gallery\, shown alongside textiles by Anni Albers. Parallel with his research in Peru\, Cohen’s interests in old-time music led him to make numerous field recordings in Appalachia. These recordings are an important document of rural culture\, contemporaneous with those collected by Alan Lomax and Harry Smith\, now held by the Library of Congress.  \nCohen was a founding member of the famed New Lost City Ramblers in 1958\, which began a long career as a performer. His photographs of Roscoe Holcomb\, Woody Guthrie\, Muddy Waters\, Elizabeth Cotten\, a young Bob Dylan\, and many other notable musicians\, provide a visual window into this rich aural world. His 1962 film\, High Lonesome Sound\, became synonymous with that music. Cohen performed regularly with the Downhill Strugglers and was often called upon as a resource for ethnomusicologist scholars and researchers alike. \nHerbert and Mercedes Matter would provide introductions for Cohen to the nascent artistic communities in downtown Manhattan when he moved to East Ninth Street and Third Avenue in 1957. The location would be fortuitous: dirt-cheap rents adjacent to the bars and artists’ clubs in Greenwich Village\, and the scene of numerous artist-run galleries and performance spaces. Cohen lived next door to Mary and Robert Frank\, who would ask Cohen to photograph Frank’s first film\, Pull My Daisy (1959)\, co-directed with painter Alfred Leslie and narrated by Jack Kerouac. Cohen emphasized the ambience and mood among the cast and crew\, which included Larry Rivers\, Delphine Seyrig\, Allen Ginsberg\, Gregory Corso\, David Amran\, Richard Bellamy\, and Alice Neel.  \nJohn Cohen began making photographs in 1954 when the only work for a photographer was in photojournalism or advertising\, neither of which he wanted to do. Rather\, he made personal photographs\, documenting things which were important to him: mostly artists and musicians. His photographic inquiries lead him to the Andes and to Appalachia\, where he photographed traditional musicians in their homes. In addition to gaining fine art notoriety\, his images were used on record covers\, in television and movie productions\, and later informed his film projects. With his long-time publisher\, Steidl\, Cohen published several photography books.  \nCohen was featured in over forty solo exhibitions across the US; his work was central to group exhibitions presented at the Pompidou Centre in Paris\, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University\, the Museum of the City of New York\, the Corcoran Gallery of Art\, among others. His photographs are in the permanent collections of twenty institutions and his ninth monograph\, Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road\, was released in September 2019. Invested in the future of the field\, Cohen started the photography program at SUNY Purchase in 1972 where he taught for 25 years. His photographic estate is represented by L. Parker Stephenson in New York. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Additional resources\n \n \n \n \n \n Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TRDwKW45w  \nMore information about the independent film:  \nhttps://differentjohns.com/ \n  URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/different-johns-film-screening-and-discussion/ LOCATION:TCVA Lecture Hall CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ed-Grazdas-portrait-of-John-Cohen-Medium.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20250910T160404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T214556Z UID:10001506-1762534800-1762538400@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:ARTtalk: Jake Eshelman: Telling of the Bees DESCRIPTION:Join us for an ARTtalk by internationally recognized writer\, visual researcher\, and photo-based artist\, Jake Eschelman as he discusses his creative research into the interspecies dialogue between bees and humans. Eschelman actively invites his audiences to imagine what the bees may tell—or ask of—us. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the artist\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jake Eshelman (b. 1989\, USA) is a photo-based artist and visual researcher exploring the complex relationships between people\, our environment\, and everyone we share it with. \nWorking to transcend the notion that humanity is somehow separate from—or superior to—the natural world\, his work creates opportunities to address anthropocentrism and(re)consider our ecological kinships. \nEshelman has exhibited work internationally\, most notably at Vantaa Art Museum Artsi in Helsinki\, Finland; Contemporary Calgary in Alberta\, Canada; Houston Center for Photography \nin Houston\, TX; The Centre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University\, UK; Rhode Island School of Design in Providence\, RI; The Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland\, OH; The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington D.C.; Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool\, UK. His work is in the permanent collections at Harvard University and the Chicago Design Museum.  \nHis photographs have been included in independently published photo books\, collaborative artist books\, and even a children’s book by Simon & Schuster encouraging aspiring creatives to pursue artistic careers. He has also been featured in numerous publications including National Geographic\, Texas Monthly\, The World Sensorium/Conservancy\, Trouvé Magazine\, and Then There Was Us\, among others. He is a recent recipient of the city’s Initiative Grant administered by Houston Arts Alliance\, as well as the Idea Fund individual artist grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and administered by DiverseWorks\, Aurora Picture Show\, and Project Row Houses. \nComplementing his creative practice\, Eshelman is also a writer and emerging scholar. In addition to his recent publications through the Sophia Centre Press and the University of Reading\, Jake also serves as the Contributing Editor of Ecological Thinking with Plantings Journal. Beyond the written word\, he thoroughly enjoys conversing and lecturing about the issues he explores in his work as well as the value and validity of artistic research practices. To date\, he has lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, University of Wales Trinity Saint David\, University of Houston\, and other conferences\, symposia\, and gatherings beyond academia. \nEshelman is currently pursuing his MA in Ecology & Spirituality from The University of Wales\, Trinity Saint David\, where he has undertaken the first study of its kind exploring the beliefs\, rites\, and experiences of beekeepers who nurture spiritual relationships with bees. He holds a BA in Classical Literature\, with a concentration in mythology\, hermeneutics\, and reception theory from Trinity University in San Antonio\, TX\, as well a minor in Studio Art and Art History. Jake is also a member of The Fairy Investigation Society. He is currently based in Houston\, TX\, but conducts his academic and artistic research internationally. URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/arttalk-jake-eshelman/ LOCATION:TCVA Lecture Hall CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Jake-Eshelman-An-Offering-Medium.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20251124T171059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T171540Z UID:10001527-1772132400-1772137800@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:ARTtalk: SR Lejeune DESCRIPTION:Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions \ncontributing structure\, on display in Gallery A through April 4\, 2026. \nSR Lejeune (b. 1994\, Boston\, MA) is an artist currently based in Pine Plains\, NY. They received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015)\, were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). SR was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné and has been an artist in residence at the Dirt Palace (2016)\, lower_cavity (2023-24)\, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (2024)\, and Women’s Studio Workshop (2025). In Summer 2026 they will be a Bemis Center Artist in Residence and a Visiting Artist at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. Recent solo exhibitions include “sky light” at CHAMBER lower_cavity (Holyoke\, MA) and “witness marks” at the Dieu Donné Jordan Schnitzer Gallery (Brooklyn\, NY). They have taught workshops at the Penland School of Craft\, Women’s Studio Workshop\, Dieu Donné\, the Yucca Valley Materials Lab and Bard College. In 2025 they received an Arts Mid-Hudson Arts & Culture Project Grant for the collaborative Hudson Valley Paper School\, which they co-facilitate with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. They have upcoming solo exhibitions at The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College (January 2026) and the Delaware Valley Artist Alliance (May 2026). They are currently a Windgate Artist in Residence at the School of Art + Design at Purchase College and are building out a manual machine shop in Amenia\, NY. \nhttps://www.sarahroselejeune.com URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/arttalk-sr-lejeune/ LOCATION:TCVA Lecture Hall CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SR-Lejeune-photo-by-Margo-Greb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20251124T192601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T152508Z UID:10001530-1772816400-1772827200@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:NEW DATE: ARTtalk and Awards: 23rd Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition DESCRIPTION:An ARTtalk panel will begin at 5:00pm\, followed by the presentation of awards.  The audience is then invited upstairs to a DJ set from 7:00-8:00pm with Ty Murray/DJ Soularia. \nThis year’s exhibition will be juried by Ty Murray\, artivist and Director of Art & Communications at The Bottom\, a nonprofit cultural organization in Knoxville\, TN\, who chose\, “I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings” as this year’s exhibition theme.  \nIn Appalachia\, where memories move through mountains and stories echo through hollers\, joy can be an act of devotion or defiance. This year’s theme invites photographers to tune into the moments that heal\, harmonize\, uplift and unburden.  \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE JUROR \nA Renaissance woman rooted in the Appalachian South\, Ty Murray views herself first and foremost as a storyteller. Whether behind the lens\, spinning vinyl\, shaping clay\, or simply bearing witness to the world around her\, her practice dances at the intersections of creativity and critical thought. Grounded in artivism\, her work invites you to feel\, think\, and move\, sometimes all at once. \nPhotography\, for Ty\, is an act of presence and praise. With a deep reverence for both scenery and identity\, she crafts visual narratives that celebrate the beauty of land\, body\, and culture. Led by innate curiosity\, she seeks to explore\, interact\, document\, and uncover “the overlooked”. Inspired by the spirit of Expressionism\, she photographs in living color\, producing images that convey movement\, vibrance and soul. \nBeyond the lens\, Ty serves as a community worker\, tradition bearer and art director for The Bottom in Knoxville\, TN. She curates sensory experiences that honor the past and envision liberated futures. Across all her creative practices\, Ty honors art as a force for connection\, empowerment\, and communal healing. URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/arttalk-and-awards-23rd-annual-appalachian-mountain-photography-competition/ LOCATION:TCVA Lecture Hall CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AMPC-Header-Image_Ty-Murray-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20251124T171828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T171828Z UID:10001528-1776445200-1776448800@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:ARTtalk: Gretchen Ernster Henderson DESCRIPTION:Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions \nDear Body of Water\, on display in Mayer Gallery December 5 through May 2\, 2026. \nGretchen Ernster Henderson is a body of water\, an intermedia artist\, and the Spence L. Wilson Distinguished Professor in Humanities at Rhodes College near the Mississippi River in Memphis\, TN. Her fifth book\, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea (Trinity University Press 2023)\, has been seeping from deserts of the West into intermedia publications\, exhibitions\, performances\, and field practices\, including the participatory prompt of Dear Body of Water (with the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center\, and national coalition of Poets for Science): inviting people to share their relationships with bodies of water. Through WaterWays\, she cultivates community-engaged repertoires that blend restoring and restorying watersheds. Gretchen is grateful for recent artist fellowships from Fallingwater\, Lucas Artist Program at Montalvo Arts Center\, the University of Wyoming’s Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity and the Arts\, and Leopold Writing Program. In 2025-2026\, she is the Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellow at Harvard University. Recent work has appeared in Ecotone\, Brevity\, Arnoldia\, Orion\, Landscape Architecture Plus/LA+\, TSLL\, and Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands. Gretchen is interested in acoustic ecologies and communal practices that sound gaps of cultural and institutional histories to facilitate participatory spaces for exchanging ways of knowing to collectively support our human and more-than-human world. Upstream and downstream\, she is grateful to continually learn from and with bodies of water: the lifeblood of our shared planetary home.  \nhttps://www.gretchenhenderson.com/ URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/arttalk-gretchen-ernster-henderson/ LOCATION:TCVA Lecture Hall CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Gretchen-Ernster-Henderson-courtesy-of-Rhodes-College-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T164030 CREATED:20251124T173037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T130847Z UID:10001529-1781283600-1781287200@tcva.appstate.edu SUMMARY:ARTtalk: John Shorb\, Dieu Donné DESCRIPTION:  \nHear from the artists behind the exhibitions \nSculpting with Paper: Hand Papermaking at Dieu Donné\, on display in Hodges and Community Galleries February 6 through August 8\, 2026. \nJohn Shorb currently serves as Strategic Advisor to Dieu Donné. He was previously the Executive Director at Dieu Donné and has worked for non-profits for the past 20 years\, specializing in organizational strategy and culture. He first took an introductory class years ago at Dieu Donné\, experiencing the expertise and excitement of the studio first-hand. John is also an artist\, having completed residencies at Blue Mountain Center and Penland School of Craft.  \nSculpting with Paper: Hand Papermaking at Dieu Donné highlights innovative sculptural works—all crafted by paper—created by artists from around the world. Featuring selections from the renowned Dieu Donné residency program\, the exhibition showcases the incredible versatility of paper as a medium. Together\, these works celebrate experimentation\, materiality\, and the global community of contemporary papermaking. \nhttps://www.johnshorb.com/ \nhttps://www.dieudonne.org/ URL:https://tcva.appstate.edu/event/arttalk-john-shorb-dieu-donne/ LOCATION:Community Gallery CATEGORIES:ARTtalk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tcva.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/John-Shorb-Bio-Pic-small.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR