Art Notes

Mary Miss to visit

architecture school

Mary Miss is coming to Charlottesville for a talk at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.

She will speak at 5 this afternoon in Campbell Hall, Room 153.

For more than four decades she has been reshaping the boundaries between sculpture, landscape architecture, architecture, photography, drawing, installation art and urban design, while securing herself a place as one of America’s most influential artists.

Making environmental and social sustainability into tangible experiences within the public realm is a primary goal in projects as diverse as a temporary memorial around the perimeter of Ground Zero, marking the predicted flood level of Boulder, Colo., and revealing the history of the Union Square Subway station in New York City.

In Virginia, she is currently working on the Arlington County Water Pollution Control Plant in Arlington.

Miss is the recipient of the Centennial Medal from the American Academy in Rome, an honorary doctorate degree from Washington University, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an artist’s residence at the American Academy in Rome.

For more information, call 924-7019.

Local fiber artist earns design award

Cynthia Harrison received the award for surface design at the second Tribute to Fiber Art at the Black Rock Center for the Arts.

Harrison is an artist, art therapist and teacher living at Lake Monticello.

She transforms paintings on silk into studio art quilts through the use of stitch, collage and embellishment.

Her award-winning piece, “Nocturne/Crape Myrtle,” will be a part of the juried exhibition through April 9 at the Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Md.

The competition was open to artists from Washington, Virginia and Maryland.

For more information, call (301) 528-2260.

Kluge-Ruhe will host McConvell lecture

Patrick McConvell will discuss “Dreamings and Language in Indigenous Australia” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection.

Using examples from the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory, including analysis of a painting, McConvelI will talk about the endangerment of languages and child language acquisition project findings.

McConvell is a research associate in linguistics at the School of Language Studies at Australian National University.

He has worked on Australian Indigenous languages, especially in the west of the Northern Territory and the Kimberleys and Pilbara of Western Australia.

His research interests are Gurindji Grammar and Dictionary compilation, linguistic prehistory of Australia and investigating the past with the aid of linguistic evidence, and traditional relationships to land in the Victoria River District NT and North Queensland.

Reservations are required for his lecture. Call 244-0234.

The Kluge-Ruhe Collection is at 400 Worrell Drive, off U.S. 250 east at Pantops.

From staff reports