Chatter: Al Sheets, 2024 Efroymson Bridge Year Fellow
Tangled Threads: Curated by Ripley Davis and Jenna Norrick, 2024 Sanders Fellows
January 13 — F ebruary 7
Reception
1:30 p.m. | January 24, 2024
The Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries is pleased to present Chatter by Al Sheets. Al was awarded the 2024 Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship. The Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship is a competitive award program that provides a highly motivated and talented studio art, photography or design graduate of the University of Southern Indiana’s Art and Design Department with the opportunity to develop a strong portfolio in preparation for graduate study. The Fellowship allows the recipient to focus on their studio or design practice to expand their artistic vision and enhance their portfolio, to gain maturity as an art maker or designer, and to successfully gain entrance to graduate school in their area of expertise.
Al Sheets is a skilled and prolific draftsperson whose colorful and mordant illustrations are whimsical, opinionated, self-deprecating, ridiculous and fascinating all at once. The exhibition incorporates their sketches, hand-pulled prints and digital illustrations with immediately recognizable stylistic unity.
Paired specifically with Al Sheets’s visual aesthetics in mind, Tangled Threads features illustration-based artworks from the University of Southern Indiana’s permanent collection. The works were selected by Ripley Davis and Jenna Norrick, both of whom were selected as James A. Sanders Fellows in 2024. The James A. Sanders Fellowship supports students interested in exhibition design, publicity, curation, and management. During the fellowship, students work closely with both the director of USI’s Art Collection and the director of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art on projects support the mission of each organization.
A reception for the exhibitions will be held on Friday, January 24th beginning at 1:30 p.m.
This exhibition will be displayed in the galleries from January 13 through February 7. The MAC/PACE, located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and open on Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.
