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SUMMARY:Carl Gombert: Radiant Geometry
DESCRIPTION:RADIANT GEOMETRY BY CARL GOMBERT\nI have always been interested in geometry\, structure\, and pattern. As I remember it now\, studying geometry was the highlight of my adventures in the ninth grade. I was fascinated by shapes\, especially circles and squares\, and the elegant mathematical relationships between them. I believe I intuitively sensed both magic and mystery\, and was captivated by the complexity arising from the orderly repetition of simple elements. And even though the following summer I began taking professional art lessons focused on traditional realism\, the fascination with repetition\, rotation\, structure\, and order remained.\nNow\, many years later\, that fascination finds form in the paintings I make. For years I have looked at\, and been inspired by\, decorative art-making traditions from across the globe. I have fill edmy head with medieval illumination\, Celtic and Islamic patterns\, textiles\, bead-weaving\, quilting patterns\, Renaissance floors\, and so on\, and I have been making paintings based on mandalas.\nSimply put\, a mandala is a symmetrical arrangement of symbols. To my mind they embody the perfect balance of form and content: their meaning and power come from both the elegant\, radial structure and the meaning of the embedded symbols. In many of the world’s spiritual traditions\, mandalas are used to focus and guide meditation or worship\, and to define\, describe\, or create sacred space. Quite often\, mandalas combine circles and squares. For me\, one of the most important parts of the process is deriving interesting compositional patterns through a process that is highly improvisational. Although the paintings look highly planned\, the process allows for considerable adjustment along the way. I generally start with only the most basic pattern of large circles and squares and a general color idea; the design defines and refines itself as it becomes more intricate and more filled with smaller elements.\nMy mandalas are not grand cosmological maps\, sacred allegories\, or records of spiritual journeys. They are not guides to meditation\, although the process of making them is often quite meditative. The repetition of numerous small acts¾hand-stamping a butterfly dozens of times or carefully placing round pink stickers in a big circle¾takes on a decidedly meditative aspect.\nFinally\, unlike traditional mandalas\, my paintings do not aim for coherent symbolism or narrative. I am interested in contrast and balance\, but I also choose images because they are amusing. Rubber stamps are chosen as often for their shape as for what they “mean.” Thus\, a butterfly might be used as a triangular element\, or to suggest the idea of transformation. Sometimes the choice is as simple as light against dark or big against small. At other times I try to play pop culture against art history. I am trying to juxtapose the old and the new\, public and private\, and the serious and the silly. But mostly I want things that are fun to make and fun to look at.\n \n \nCarl Gombert was born in Brimfield\, Ohio in 1959.  He started taking painting lessons at the age of 14 with money he earned delivering newspapers.  He earned a BFA in Drawing from the University of Akron and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University.  He worked as a stagehand before pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at Texas Tech University.  He has exhibited widely and his work is in numerous public and corporate collections. Since 1993 has taught painting\, drawing and art history at Maryville College in Tennessee.
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LOCATION:DENSO Gallery\, 502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy\, Maryville\, TN\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump with Author Lamar Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Maryville College is proud to present an evening with Lamar Alexander for his new book\, The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump.\n\n\nIn partnership with our friends at Neighborly Books\, join us at the Maryville College Downtown Center to celebrate the arrival of the Senator’s memoir in conversation with Brittany Tarwater of WVLT. This free event will take place at the Maryville College Downtown Center\, 118 E Church Ave\, Maryville\, TN on Thursday\, June 4th. Doors will open at 6:30pm for a reception with an interview and Q&A to occur from 7:00-8:00pm followed by a book signing. \n \nThis is a free event\, but because space is limited\, an RSVP is required to attend. Signed copies of The Education of a Senator will be on sale at the event and can be preordered from Neighborly Books to be picked up at the event – https://neighborlybooks.com/ \n \nAbout the book: \nA behind-the-scenes story of the last sixty years of American politics\, told with purpose and humor by a political legend who worked with ten presidents\, made deals with both Obama and Trump\, and believes that serving in public office is the best way to help the largest number of people and to keep our Republic from falling apart. \n“To read Lamar Alexander’s vivid and surprising memoir is to be in conversation with a man who knows how to tell a great story.” — Jon Meacham\, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author \n“What a wonderful and refreshing memoir! Lamar Alexander has been a gift to us–more interested in getting things done and improving the lives of others than in grabbing headlines and bashing an opponent. Bravo!” — Ken Burns\, Filmmaker\, The American Revolution \n \nAbout Lamar Alexander: \nLamar Alexander has long been known as one of America’s most principled and effective statesmen. As US Senator\, Alexander shepherded major laws that today govern K-12 education\, medical innovation\, and maintenance of our national parks. Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said\, “For eighteen years\, there was Lamar Alexander\, and there was the rest of us. He was hands-down one of the most brilliant\, most thoughtful\, and most effective legislators any of us have ever seen.” As governor\, Alexander brought the auto industry to Tennessee and made it the first state to pay teachers more for teaching well. He was chairman of the Senate Republican Conference\, the nation’s governors\, and of President Reagan’s “Commission on Americans Outdoors.” He served as US Education Secretary and as a university president. \nAlexander was also known for campaigning in a plaid shirt and performing on the piano with twenty-seven symphonies and on the Grand Ol’ Opry. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and New York University Law School. He and his late wife Honey were married for fifty-four years\, had four children and nine grandchildren. His parents were teachers. A seventh generation Tennessean\, Alexander lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains near Maryville where he grew up. This is his tenth book\, all written by the author himself. \n \nParking: \nFor your convenience\, there are several free parking options in Downtown Maryville. For those willing to take the stairs\, we recommend using the Downtown Center’s lower parking lot\, accessible via a left turn on Court Street before Tri-Hop Brewery. Alternative parking options include Founder’s Lot (across from Vienna Coffee)\, the City of Maryville Municipal ParkingGarage\, or the upper-level lot across from the Downtown Center on Court Street. \nFor those requiring accessible parking\, limited spaces are available at the front of the Downtown Center. If accessible parking isn’t needed\, we kindly encourage you to utilize the parking garages.
URL:https://www.maryvillecollege.edu/event/the-education-of-a-senator-from-jfk-to-trump-with-author-lamar-alexander/
LOCATION:118 E Church Ave\, 118 East Church Avenue\, Maryville\, TN\, 37804\, United States
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