Plowhaus "Out of Here" Jan 26-Mar 2, 2008

The Plowhaus is moving on to bigger and better adventures in East
Nashville!! Please join us for the last Plowhaus show in the old
space. In the spirit of where we came from and where we are going the
show title is:

'OUT OF HERE'
Closing party Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

And from out of here came:
* Emerging Artists
* The Spirit of A Cooperative
* A Gathering Place for Local Artists
* Growing a Community of Artists
* Developing Young Artists through School Programs
* Experiencing Workshops
* A Creative Collaboration with other Artists
* Acquiring of Knowledge and Skills
* The Community's Appreciation of the Local Artist
* Involvement in East Nashville's Community Events
* Special Events for Special Children.

And Now We're Moving *Out of Here....to a bigger and better place...
so we can continue to do what we do....in a bigger and better way...

The Show will open on Sat. Jan. 26th. and Close Sun. Mar. 2nd

For information, directions and more:
www.plowhaus.org

FRESH! at Memphis Marsha's

Join us for the next Opening Reception: Friday February 29, 5-8 pm CT.
Andee joins eight other artists for "Fresh!"
Heather Boehler
Howard Margolis
Michaele Ann Harper
Neil Peterie
Marsha Heidbrink
Delaire Rowe
Sandra Heller
Kim Soule
and Andee Rudloff

In conjunction with Bowling Green's FIRST EVER Gallery Hop: Ten places open at the same time, free to the public & free shuttle service stops to each place!
Pick up your brochure at Memphis Marsha's.

Show continues on regular gallery days through March 29.

524 E 12th Ave, Bowling Green, KY 42101
(between State & Chestnut Streets)
270-843-1726, or Toll Free: 1-877-640-7973
Memphis Marsha's is open Thursday-Saturday, 10a-4p CT, or by appointment
e-mail: marsha@memphismarshas.com

Artist Joseph D. Downing, 82, dies

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Artist Joseph D. Downing, 82, dies
Museum of his work set for Bowling Green
By Paula Burba
pburba@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

Joseph Dudley Downing, a Kentucky native who became an expatriate artist in France -- never returning for more than brief visits -- has died at the age of 82.

Downing died Saturday in Menerbes, a village in the Provence region of France where he'd lived more than half a century. He also maintained an apartment and studio in Paris.

The cause of his death was not immediately available yesterday, although it was believed to be natural causes, according to friends and the funeral home handling arrangements.

"He's one of Kentucky's major lights in contemporary arts," Owensboro Museum of Fine Art director Mary Bryan Hood said yesterday. "In time, he will be recognized as a major influence in European art, but also certainly a major American artist."

She had talked to Downing in recent weeks as he planned to return to the United States for the spring opening of the Joseph Dudley Downing Museum in Bowling Green.

"I'm still in a state of shock," said Bowling Green businessman Jerry Baker, a collector who has organized and built the museum to exclusively house his collection of about 1,000 of Downing's works.

Yesterday Baker received a letter from Downing about his art, as well as information about a new book he had written.

"I do know we need to go on with the opening," Baker said. "I guess it will be more of a dedication than an opening. … And a memorial to his life."

The Owensboro museum commissioned Downing to do the principal works for its 1993 expansion. Six of his paintings and an obelisk are now featured in the postmodern atrium, Hood said, all done on cowhide.

Revered for his abstraction and experimentation with different formats, Downing had created oil paintings on terra cotta roof tiles, linen bed sheets and rustic barn doors.

"He has a lot of original work, things that nobody else has ever done," said Baker, who met Downing in 1992.

Downing commonly did not date his works, and exhibits where hung with no regard to chronology -- reflecting his focus on places and states of being over time, according to one art critic.

"I have always thought that my work has been a daily dreaming of the dream that living has been," Downing once told a French critic.

Born in Tompkinsville, Downing grew up on a tobacco farm in Horse Cave. As a child, he explored the caves of the region, which he often cited as an influence on his style.

After graduating from Horse Cave High School, he served in the Army during World War II. Returning home, he enrolled at Western Kentucky University and studied art. A neighbor suggested Downing try optometry and offered to share a practice.

Downing earned his optometry degree in 1950 from the Northern Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, where he met writers, artists and actors who inspired him to take classes at the Chicago Art Institute.

"Gradually, bit by bit, the painting devoured the optometry," Downing said, "and I knew I would never fit glasses."

His first major one-man show in America was in 1962, at the old Art Center in Louisville. By then, he'd already had 10 one-man shows in Europe.

Working as clerk at a law firm during his first decade or so in Paris, Downing invented the art form known as stapleage -- collages made from office supplies and assembled with staples.

Downing has works in the Louvre (Museum) in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Seattle and Cincinnati Art museums and the Speed Art Museum, as well as numerous other museums in Europe. His art has also been exhibited in Canada and Mexico.

Downing's critical success has often been traced to 1952, when Pablo Picasso visited one of the earliest displays of Downing's work and pronounced it "Well done."

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I was able to talk to Dudley in 2000 during his exhibition at the Kentucky Museum. We enjoyed sharing stories about odd surfaces that we had both painted on and how art found us. It was really great fun talking to him.

Last year, I was able to assist a family in selling several of Mr. Downings' works. This was a great honor. All of the works remain in collections in Kentucky.

Lastly, I was looking forward to the new museum and the exhibition in the spring with great anticipation. I am still in shock, but hopeful that all will go forward.

NEW Frist Center Educator for Outreach

Andee Rudloff has been named the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' NEW Educator for Outreach in Nashville, TN. The position is in the department of education. Andee will work with the Frist Center's Community Partners and the talented team at the Frist Center to continue an already successful outreach program.

You may contact Andee directly at:

Andee Rudloff
Educator for Outreach
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 744-3351
Fax (615) 744-3965
www.fristcenter.org
arudloff@fristcenter.org

Art Education...why?

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art means, it helps them feel they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have an experience we can't have from any other source.
Through such experiences we discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
The position of art in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Art & Invention - Holiday Show

THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, December 1st, is the exciting opening of the Holiday Show at Art & Invention Gallery from 6pm - 10pm.
Andee, along with a bunch of other artists, have lots of affordable pieces that would make GREAT gifts for everyone on your list.

*If you can't make it to the opening reception, don't worry, the show will continue every day through December 24th (M-Sat, 10am - 6pm / Sun, noon - 5pm).

Art and Invention is located in East Nashville at 1106 Woodland Street (just off Five Points) right next to Cloud 12 Art Gallery, which conveniently will also be having their reception on the same evening. It's also entirely possible that "I Dream Of Weenie", located next door in the old VW Bus, will be open as well. They were recently voted "Best Hot Dog in Nashville" in the Scene Reader's Poll. So really, I just can't think of a reason NOT to come :)

East Nashville Rocks.

Tell a buddy. Bring a friend.

andee rudloff
www.chicNhair.com

Campus for a Cure event-THIS WEEK

Join Andee, author Chuck Beard and hundreds of other artists and community members as we CELEBRATE LIFE and raise money to support research at leading universities to find a CURE for CANCER.

Saturday, December 1st
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Van Meter Auditorium
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101

For tickets, go to: www.CampusforaCure.org
or email: info@CampusforaCure.org

Andee in the Tennesean

THANKS to Plowhaus' Festivus show, Andee had her first portrait picture in the Tennessean on November 21st.
Pictured above with the following caption: Works by Andee Rudloff will be among those displayed at the last show of 2007 involving Nashville's only artists' coop. Come and find one-of-a-kind originals and many gift items found nowhere else in the city. This show is a cash and carry event with art priced $100 or less, and runs six weekends. (LAVONDIA MAJORS / FILE / THE TENNESSEAN)

Read the complete story at the following link:
http://my.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071121/MICRO020601/711210348/1480/MICRO020601

Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Open House

The Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Open House is to celebrate their newly established Gift Shop
Tuesday, November 20th from 4-6:00pm

The Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is located at 352 Three Springs Road in Bowling Green, KY.

You are invited to come celebrate!

Original art will be on display from area artists. Andee will have Limited Edition prints of her haystack paintings.

The Holiday Open House includes:
Pictures with Santa
Door Prizes
Ornament Making
Refreshments
and the debut of the 2007 Landmark Ornament

Please call with questions: 270-782-0800
Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
www.visitbgky.com

Festivus at Plowhaus

The Plowhaus Artists' Cooperative in East Nashville
Image: Hot Dogs (dogs in footie PJs) by andee

Presents its 6th Annual
Holiday Art and Gift Show

"FESTIVUS"

November 17th through December 24th
With an Artist's Reception on Nov. 17th from 7pm to 11pm

Ah, Festivus! The holiday for the rest of us! Gather 'round the Festivus Pole, air your grievances, oh– and pick up a little something for the poor schmucks still stuck in that other holiday grind!
Nashville's only artists' co-op returns for the last show of 2007, spreading cheer and goodwill towards all things artful. Come and find one-of-a-kind originals and many gift items found nowhere else in the city.

On November 17th, join the artists for holiday drinks, cakes and cookies and festive music! What a great opportunity to find unique items during the gift giving season! This show is a "Cash and Carry" event with Art $100 or less and runs six weekends ending on December 24th


Spend an evening with artists: Beth Seiters, Tiffany Denton, Carrie Mills, Landry Butler, Jane Lee Tracy Ratliff, Denny Adcock, Lynne Carter, Toni Swarthout, Marlynda Augelli, Jan Kendy, Belinda Yandell, Stacey Klinger, DJ Justice Stephen McClure, Lois Moreno, Franne Lee, Andee Rudloff, Stacey Irvin, Jonnie Downs, John Holland, Jodi Reeves, John Barcus


Plowhaus Hours during "Festivus" :

Saturdays: 11am to 6pm
Sundays: 1-5pm
Also open during the Lockeland Springs "Tour of Homes", December 8th and 9th!

Plowhaus Artists Cooperative
211 S. 17th Street
Nashville, TN. 37206
info@plowhaus.org

Interest in Public Art?

I am organizing a forum to discuss Public Art and its purpose in Kentucky and Tennessee. The forum will also include a discussion concerning the most efficient Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Qualifications (RFQ) requirements and formats. Please let me know of your interest in attending or participating in this upcoming forum.

"Public art is a mirror that reflects the local environment, cultural values, and artistic vitality of the community in which it exists. At its best, public art is more than just art installed in public places. It is a community-based process of dialogue, involvement, and participation. Public art enhances the quality of life for citizens by encouraging a heightened sense of place, enhancing a community's prestige, and enlivening the visual quality of the built environment. Successful public art is site-specific and responds to the concept of place-making."

-- Lake Douglas, former director at the Arts Council of New Orleans and now a public art consultant

Beshear for KY-Vote TODAY!

Kentucky...today is the day to VOTE for the future and Steve Beshear/Dan Mongiardo!!!
As an artist, I have never had more fun participating in a campaign. I offered to travel the Commonwealth to paint for Beshear and it was great to see and talk to people. I enjoyed feeling just a portion of the positive feedback Beshear is getting!

Please take the time to vote Tuesday, November 6th!

Thanks for the memories Kentucky!
-andee

Best Artist of Bowling Green

Andee Rudloff was nominated, along with two other local artists, by the readers of the Daily News and the Amplifier as Best Artist in Bowling Green, KY. On Friday, November 2nd, the winners were announced...and Andee won!!
What an HONOR! Thanks to all of the friends who voted!

CMA Awards

On November 7th, the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards will be presented live on ABC. Buy tickets or watch on ABC to see which musicians and songwriters WIN CMA Awards in Nashville at the Sommet (old GEC) Center.
Andee will be working behind the scenes, so tune in to see if she finds herself on stage as a background dancer...heee heee

For more on the awards and for tickets, visit: www.cmaawards.com

Day of the Dead Show

Plowhaus celebrates their 6th Annual Day of the Dead show October 27th through November 11th. Stop in to celebrate and share in the memories.

To get directions and learn more about Plowhaus, visit: www.plowhaus.org

Tomato Art Fest mural 2007

During the 2007 Tomato Art Fest, Andee (with help from people in the community) created to a new mural behind the post office on Woodland Street in Nashville, TN. The mural depicts people in the community as tomato-like characters all hanging out in the alley. The mural has been credited for decreasing crime, theft and littering in the alley.

For more the Tomato Art Fest visit: www.tomatoartfest.com

Curb Records' Johnny Cash Collection

Curb Records is the owner of an impressive collection of Johnny Cash's personal items, awards, pictures, hand-written lyrics and fan memorabilia. Andee currently serves as the curator of the temporary exhibition for Curb. The exhibition is for "private viewing only" at this time, but there are high hopes that this exhibition will encourage a future Johnny Cash Museum.

Murals for Beshear/Mongiardo and Apple Fest

Andee completed murals for the Democratic Party's parade float in Paintsville, KY. The float and murals were so popular, they will be shown in other areas of eastern Kentucky.

For more about Beshear/Mongiardo visit: www.stevebeshear.com
For more about the Apple Fest visit: www.kyapplefest.org

Mona Lisa's Birthday party

Stacey Irvin and Andee celebrated Mona Lisa Warren's birthday by arriving as "The Way" and "The Light." Mona's highly-anticipated, themed parties are always so much fun. This costume idea may make another appearance in the coming months.

Cheekwood's Scarecrows!

Andee worked with Don Evans and the Little Marrowbone Repair Corporation to complete Kakashi Jorou...a Geisha Scarecrow for the Scarecrows! at Cheekwood Art & Gardens in Nashville, TN.

SCARECROWS!

September 29 - November 4
www.cheekwood.org

Get ready for some good old-fashioned fall fun at Cheekwood! Scarecrows will showcase dozens of fabulous, weird, funny, and traditional scarecrows lurking along the Garden paths.


For the Birds
Hungry birds have always been a problem for farmers. Birds, such as crows, sometimes ate so much corn or wheat that farmers did not have enough food to last through the winter. So, for more than 3,000 years, farmers have been making scarecrows. As long as birds are hungry, farmers will still look for ways to SCARECROWS!

While we know our straw-filled friends as scarecrows, the protective characters have many different names. In Britain, they are called mommets, tattie bogies and hodmedods. Other places around the world scarecrows are known as jack-of-straws, scarebirds, and shoy-hoys.


Scarecrow Stories
(or Stories of Scarecrow, which do you like better)
The scarecrow is one of the most familiar figures of the rural landscape not only in the United States but throughout the world. His ragged figure has been recorded in rural history for centuries. We think of scarecrows as human-like figures stuffed with straw, but farmers have invented many different "scarecrows" to protect their crops over the years.

The first scarecrows in recorded history were placed along the Nile River to protect wheat fields from flocks of quail. Egyptian farmers covered wooden frames with fishing nets. The farmers hid in the fields and scared the quail into the nets.

Japanese farmers also began making scarecrows to protect their rice fields. The farmers hung old rags, meat, and fish bones from bamboo poles in their fields and then set them on fire. The smell was so bad that birds, and all other living creatures, stayed far away from the crops. The Japanese farmers called their scarecrows kakashis, which literally means something that smells bad.

In Medieval Britain, their scarecrows weren't made from wood or bamboo, but were live boys and girls. Known as bird scarers or bird shooers, they patrolled wheat fields carrying bags of stones. If crows landed in the fields, they would chase them off by waving their arms and throwing the stones.