WED, APR 9, 5-8 P.M. - Jim Dine Program 

Title: Tools and the Everyday in Pop Art and the Work of Jim Dine

Join us for an exhibition reception beginning at 5 P.M. celebrating the work of Jim Dine who's work is featured in gallery two featuring engaging presentations on Pop Art & his work. 

Program Description: RCCAM invites Professors Annie Dell’Aria and Tracy Featherstone for an evening of discussion and demonstration. Annie Dell’Aria, Associate Professor of Art History, will be giving a talk and presentation on the history and significance of Pop Art, followed by a printmaking demonstration and workshop by Tracy Featherstone, Professor of Art at Miami University. Program will begin at 5:30pm in RCCAM’s auditorium. 

Tracy Featherstone

Tracy Featherstone’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally in such exhibitions as: Contraption, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Do You Know The Shape of Desire, St. Edwards University, Austin TX; State Fair, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, and Momentum, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. She is currently investigating a series of works that explores the way ideas are translated across visual media, cultural identity and time. What does it look like when sound turns to drawing? Painting morphs into three-dimensional sculpture? Human form becomes a material within a sculpture? Sculpture expands into furniture? Furniture becomes architecture? What is lost? What is gained?

Tracy Featherstone lives and works in Hamilton, OH. She earned a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Featherstone works individually as well as collaboratively with artists Krista Connerly, Denise Burge, Jenny Ustick and Lisa Siders. In addition to developing new work, Featherstone has held international teaching positions at South Jiatong University in Chengdu, China, and Miami University Dolibois European Campus in Differdange, Luxembourg.

Annie Dell’Aria
Annie Dell’Aria, Ph.D.’s research concerns the intersection of contemporary art, screen media, and public space. Her writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes in the fields of both art history and film and media studies. She is the author of The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This book examines how contemporary artists employ moving image media in public spaces to prompt shared encounters on the street and reconfigure spectatorship.

Her current research interests include other forms of connection between public art and screen media, such as the use of public art within television narratives and the allusion to cinematic montage in contemporary war memorials. She is also interested in contemporary biennials, how artists respond to gun violence, and public art in airports.

As a dedicated educator, Dell’Aria has taught previously at Hanover College, Parsons, City College, Queensborough Community College, and The Art Students League. She is currently also an affiliate of the Film Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs. Her goal at the end of her classes is to instill lifelong art-viewing habits and increase student confidence in speaking about art and culture, which relates to her research and advocacy for public art and open access to culture. She was the recipient of the 2020 Affordable Education Leader Award granted by the Associated Student Government and the Affordable & Open Educational Resources Committee.