ARTIST WORKSHOP
LEARN ABOUT THE PROCESS OF BRONZE POURING FROM BARRY BADGETT
Thursday, March 7, 2024

5:30 p.m. Meet at Dr. Sam & Jacqui Kouri Collection Study Center
6 p.m. Presentation at WSU Henrion Hall Sculpture Studio

Join us for our first Ulrich Artist Workshop, in conjunction with Fully Dimensional: Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection. Join WSU Associate Professor of Sculpture Media Barry Badgett for an intimate presentation on the process of bronze pouring. This workshop is limited to 25 participants, and space is no longer available.

We are so excited about your interest in this series! Two Ulrich Artist Workshops are planned for Fall 2024 and we'll share information about them in this newsletter later this year.

MUSEUM NEWS
ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHT: DINORÁ JUSTICE

We hope you'll enjoy our first installment of Acquisition Highlight, a feature designed to introduce you to works that have been recently added to the Ulrich Museum's permanent collection.
 
Brazilian-American multimedia artist, Dinorá Justice, creates colorful, highly textural, and conceptually rich works that combine interpretations of the natural world with exploration of cultural and social identity, and human rights advocacy. Her body of work includes paintings, drawings, collage, sculpture, and installations. 
 
The Ulrich's painting, after Matisse's "Odalisque with a Turkish Chair" is part of Justice's Portrait series, which began in late 2016 and is ongoing. The series interrogates biases regarding traditional associations of nature with the feminine, which, in feminizing the environment, gives our patriarchal system permission to extend its logic of subjugating and exploiting women, to nature, with disastrous consquences. Each piece reflects iconic female figures of the Western canon by male Masters, such as Matisse and Ingres, from periods in their careers in which they were fascinated with odalisques, who were quasi-enslaved women kept in seclusion. 
 
In the artist's words: "In my paintings I substitute trees, plants and flowers for drapery and furniture, forcing a visual relocation of the female form from the realm of the intimate to that of the universal."
 
She is currently based in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COLLECTION ON THE MOVE

Ever wonder where your favorite piece in the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection has gone? The works in this award-winning collection are sometimes moved due to changes on campus, or disappear for a time while they receive conservation services. We'll keep you posted with an occasional update.

• When the Fully Dimensional exhibition closes, Barbara Hepworth's Figure (Archaean) will be reinstalled in LOVE's former location, near the front of the Heskett Center.
• Kenneth Armitage's Mouton Variation has been relocated to the front lawn of Woodman Alumni Center.
• Louise Nevelson's Night Tree has moved to a new location south of the Geology Building.
• Hank Willis Thomas's Ernest and Ruth (the version near the Ulrich) moved to the southeast corner of the museum.
• Robert Indiana's LOVE will soon be reinstalled in front of the museum.

Take advantage of the lovely spring weather and plan a tour of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection. Use this interactive map with a filter that shows the location of each of the pieces to plan your visit.

Have you shared your Ulrich memories with us yet?

Our 50th anniversary is right around the corner (in 2024) and we're planning lots of great exhibitions and events to celebrate the Museum's excellence. One thing we are working on is collecting memories from folks who have been connected to the Ulrich over the years. Whether you are a present or past employee, a donor, volunteer, student, or general visitor, we'd love to hear your favorite memories of the Ulrich. We've created this webpage, which has a form on it, to help you share your stories. The memories we collect will be shared throughout our 50th anniversary celebrations and might even end up in a book we're putting together. We'd love to hear your stories.

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