OCTC "Ebb & Flow" Art Exhibit
Owensboro, KY (08/19/2021) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Dayman Gallery's first art exhibition of the 2021-22 season is Ebb and Flow, a two-person collaborative exhibition by painter/photographer Betsy Stirratt, and printmaker/photographer Tracy Templeton.
The artists have explored Southern Indiana for the last several years, searching for and documenting little known places where water is central to the landscape and culture. The beauty and hidden history of these sites in culturally rich, rural areas is revealed in these artworks. Ebb and Flow captures some of the waterways and mineral springs in the region.
Some images address the history of these sites, with objects related to late 19th/early 20th century industry of the area mineral springs, while others look at the history of tourism in these locations. Stirratt and Templeton's creative careers have often focused on historical elements - from archived materials to landscape. A first for the two artists working together, Ebb and Flow combines their interests and expertise to create a unique, collaborative vision of southern Indiana's rich geography and culture.
Betsy Stirratt is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has exhibited with at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and White Columns and Art in General in New York among many others. She is the recipient of Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and awards from the Indiana Arts Commission and the American Craft Council.
Canadian-born Tracy Templeton is coordinator of printmaking at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her work has been widely exhibited across the United States and Canada as well as around the world, including more than 150 exhibitions in countries such as Mexico, England, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, China, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea. Her prints appear in nearly fifty different collections worldwide, and her work has been published in more than a hundred different books, magazines, catalogs, and journals.
The exhibit is free and open to the public, it will be on display from August 23 - October 3, 2021. The Dayman Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Learning Resource Center on OCTC's main campus. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information contact David Wilson at 270 686-4626 or davidd.wilson@kctcs.edu.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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