Artists will make a motel their venue.Byline: The Register-Guard Performers often stay in motels but seldom, if ever, do a show there - at least, not for the public. Yet, that is precisely what the Creative Material Group will do with its ``Motelhaus#3'' event on Saturday. Eight artists will check into the Timbers Motel - at 1015 Pearl St. in downtown Eugene - and will, as director-producer Leon Johnson
The event is a follow-up to the group's 1997 "Motelhaus: One Night Stand" event. Beginning at 7 p.m., the public will be invited to drift from room to room to investigate the goings on. The event is free, and Johnson says it will last as long as "people are there to look." While the evening will be theatrical, it won't be theater in the conventional sense. Instead, patrons will move from room to room - one for each artist involved - to view separate and unique work. "Some will be using video projections," Johnson says. `Some will feature live performance. Some will feature sound. Some will feature digital interactive work. The artists involved: Leon Johnson: He is the founder of The Long Bell Press and of Creative Material Group, recipient of a Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting, a Yaddo Residency Fellowship and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. He is an associate professor of art at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . Mary Flanagan: An award-winning media developer and artist, she has exhibited her artwork at the Central Fine Arts Gallery (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), The Physics Room (New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. ), The Technology Gallery (New York Hall of Science The New York Hall of Science occupies one of the few remaining structures of the 1964 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Today, it stands as New York City's only hands-on science and technology center. ) and the Whitney Biennial 2002 (New York). Pipo Nguyen-due: Born in Hue, Vietnam, he has received awards from the Ohio Art Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Artist-in-Giverny Award, the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. and the Getty Foundation. He is an associate professor of art at Oberlin College. Joey Bargsten: The composer and media artist's interactive CD-ROM/Web site Bad Mind Time has received awards from several international design competitions. Justin Novak: After receiving a master of fine arts Noun 1. Master of Fine Arts - a master's degree in fine arts MFA master's degree - an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree in ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz History The State University of New York at New Paltz is a blend of tradition and vision. At its educational core is the ever- present belief in the importance of a liberal arts education. in 1996, he received a visual arts fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in 2001. Colin Ives: His digital installations and Web projects have appeared in a number of venues, including "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection" (Smithsonian National Building Museum). Megan O'Connell: Founder of the Dead Skin Press, her works have been shown in Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, the United States and Canada. Dead Skin Press books are found in the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Banff Centre for the Arts and the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry. John Schmor: After receiving his doctorate from the University of Oregon in 1991, he taught theater for eight years at Truman State University Campus Situated in the southern part of the city of Kirksville, Truman's main campus is situated around a slightly wooded quadrangle. By long standing policy, the entire campus is officially "dry," meaning that alcohol is not allowed (though the president of the university has before returning to the UO this year to teach. CAPTION(S): Room 104 will feature a performance by John Schmor. |
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