“1:1 – Contemporary Large-Scale Drawings from the West Collection”
A new exhibit at the Pollock Gallery will feature contemporary drawings from the West Collection, normally located near Philadelphia.
Former Meadows Division of Art Graduate Lee Stoetzel will guest curate the exhibition, which features drawings from Loan Linder, Daniel Zeller, Dawn Clements and Graham Dolphin.
All of these artists work with a 1:1 scale – hence the name of the exhibition. The drawings are on display starting today and will be on exhibit until March 14 in the Pollock Gallery, located in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. The exhibit is free. For more information call 214-768-4439.
“Photographs From DeGolyer Library”
Highlights from SMU’s DeGolyer Library’s 500,000- plus photographs will be on display in the Mildred Hawn Gallery of the Hamon Arts Library in Meadows.
The exhibit, which correlates with the yearly meeting of The Society for Photographic Education in Dallas, will contain around 80 images by photographers such as Civil War photographer Timothy O’Sullivan; landscape artists Carleton Watkins, Andrew J. Russell, Charles Roscoe Savage, William Henry Jackson and John K. Hillers; Indian portraits by Edward Curtis and many more. The exhibition will be open from 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. to midnight on Sunday. The exhibit is free to the public. For more information call 214-768-2661.
“An Illuminated Manuscript of the Heavenly Ladder: Spiritual Ascents Through Art”
Father Justin, librarian of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, will deliver a free lecture tonight at 5 p.m. in the Bob Smith Auditorium in the Meadows Museum. Father Justin is working to digitize the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century, ancient Christian Bible that includes the oldest complete New Testament in the world. His lecture will focus on relationships between the text of St. John Climacus’s “Ladder of Divine Ascent” and its artwork. For more information call 214-768-2698.
