offside this Issue:

Dr. Mark Gstohl ‘Comparative Religion’ Students Engaged

in ‘Service-Learning’ through his Residency at

“A Studio In the Woods”

1

Congratulations! “Xavier Herald Editor-in-Chief Kaelin Maloid,

and Graphics Design Editor Nicholas Davison, XUArt Major

show off arms-full of collegiate journalism award 2015—2016

2

Xavier University of Louisiana , Dr. Sarah A. Clunis, Director

African American Diaspora Studies

XUTULAC, Tulane University & NUMM Presents:

Shango Festival & Ceremony

2

Mary Kahn Davis ’71 visits & tours XUArt returns with an

amazing gift “Urban Warrior: Dressed to Kill” by John T. Scott

& Generous Donation of $1000 to fund Graphic Design Studio

Software Upgrade

3

MaPo Kinnord, “St. Katharine Drexel Medallion”, Bronze Overlay

Homecoming 2016 ‘Treasured Keepsake’ to benefit

Xavier University St. Joseph’s Altar Committee

“Mission Based Student Emergency Fund”

4

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum Presents:

“Lovely as a Tree”...An international selection of artists features

“Reconciliation” by Professor Ron Bechet

4

Professor Ron Bechet & “The Welcome Table” special invitation

“Mural Unveiling” & Block Party Saturday December 3, 2016 5

Jennifer Odem's Sculpture Students visit the ‘Sculpture Garden’

New Orleans Museum of Art | Olivia Vega’s “GetSchooledSnap” BET 6

The

Gestalt

Department of Art Newsletter

The Department of Art

The Art Village

John T. Scott Sculpture Garden

3520 Pine Street

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December

2016

XUArt Get Ready!

Assistance is available...

XULA Resource Centers

Visit St. Joseph | NCF Annex TODAY! Final Exams December 7—14

Final Grades Due (Noon) December 16

Dr. Mark Gstohl ‘Comparative Religion’ Students Engaged... ‘Service-Learning’ thru his Residency at “A Studio In the Woods”

“Dr. Gstohl’s ‘Comparative Religion’ classes engaged in service-learning through his residency at “A Studio in the Woods.” The residency, "Flint and Steel: Cross-disciplinary Combustion," was designed for artists to join forces with invested academic partners. Each selected artist has been paired with a Tulane or Xavier University faculty member to inspire each other in the development of new work, to excite the public, and to fuel social change.

Jacqueline Ehle Inglefield (Louisiana, 2016) and Mark Gstohl (Xavier, Theology) built a shrine to the bottomland hardwood forest to reignite a reverence for nature. Referencing religious scriptures and past spiritual practices, the shrine encourages contemplation of the global impact of habitual consumption and waste and how our spiritual relationship with the natural world may influence our individual acts and determine our collective impact on our environment.

Dr. Gstohl’s students created handouts and posters explaining how various religions approach environmental issues. They presented their research at A Studio in the Woods’ Forestival on Saturday, November 12th from 11-2pm. The shrine was also on display in Xavier’s Art Village on Thursday, November 17th with presentations from 6-7pm.”

Photos by MaPo Kinnord, Associate Professor of Art

Narrative Courtesy of Dr. Mark Gstohl

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December 2016

Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Art www.xula.edu/art

Graphic Courtesy of Dr. Sarah A. Clunis

XUTULAC, Tulane University & NUMM Presents:

Shango Festival & Ceremony

“Please join us for our Winter Music Festival this Sunday

December 4, 2016 from 6—8 pm in the Administration Auditorium of

Xavier University of Louisiana with traditional African Bata Drumming

in celebration of the birthday of Shango, Yoruba Orisha and

4th King of Oyo. As in past years the Art Department will be

constructing a traditional trono for Shango and you are welcome

to bring offerings of flowers, candy and fruits to add to it.”

Hoping to see you there to celebrate African and African Diaspora

Sacred Artistic and Musical traditions!”

Best,

Sarah

Sarah Anita Clunis, Ph.D.

Director of African American and Diaspora Studies

Assistant Professor of Art History

For additional information:

Email saclunis@xula.edu or call 504-520-5020

“Xavier Herald Editor-in-Chief

Kaelin Maloid, and Graphics Design Editor

Nicholas Davison, XUArt Major show off arms-full of collegiate journalism awards

Xavier’s student media received in 2015-16.

The student publication remains among

the top-rated in the nation.”

Photo & Quote, “TMAX” Newsletter December 2016

Xavier University of Louisiana African American Diaspora Studies

Congratulations! Excellent Student Achievement...

XUArt Alumnae Mary Kahn Davis ‘71, Maxima Cum Laude Generous Donation…

John T. Scott “Urban Warrior: Dressed to Kill”, 2004-2005 Mixed Media Construction 60x72

Love for XUArt & ‘her Gift for Fundraising’ Encourages John E. Faherty (photo left)

to generously donate $1000 to fund our Graphic Design Studio software upgrade...

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December 2016

Photos by Joan Ulmer ‘85

“Passing It On”...

“First Beginnings”...Mary Kahn Davis ’71 visits & tours of

XUArt returns with an amazing gift & shares with us a wealth of

experience and her interpretation of John T. Scott’s artwork with

Daniele Gair, Arts Collections Manager and Registrar…

President, Arts Incubator Development, Inc., former: Vice-President,

Community Programs for the Arts Council of New Orleans,

Vice-President/Principal, The Washington Consulting Group

of Washington D.C., and Program Director,

The Institute of Museum Services, Washington D.C.

XULA Art Collection Debuts

Frank Hayden ’57

& John T. Scott ’62

Art Exhibition: “Foundations”

Library Gallery, 1st Floor

Curated by Daniele Gair

Xavier Art Collection Manager

& Registrar

Photos by Daniele Gair

Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Art www.xula.edu/art

Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Art www.xula.edu/art

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MaPo Kinnord, “St. Katharine Drexel”, 2016, Bronze Overlay

“The St. Katharine Drexel Bronze Overlay Medallion

(16” circumference) pre-sale proceeds to benefit Xavier University

St. Joseph Altar Committee “Mission Based Student Emergency

Fund.” The committee sponsors the annual St. Joseph altar.”

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/sjaxula/

About the Sculptor:

“MaPó Kinnord came to love clay in a Quaker High School in Cleveland Ohio.

She apprenticed with several production potters before receiving a BFA from the

Massachusetts College of Art in 1984. After several years as a potter, teacher and sculptor in

California's bay area, she returned to her home state of Ohio and earned a MFA from Ohio

State University in 1994. Moving to New Orleans in 1995 Ms. Kinnord is now

an Associate Professor of Art at Xavier University of Louisiana.”

*MaPo Kinnord presented President, Dr. C. Reynolds Verret, the 1st’ “St. Katharine Drexel Bronze Overlay Medallion” April ‘16

Xavier University of Louisiana “Homecoming 2016” Treasured Keepsake…

“Lovely as a Tree” Main Galleries | August 06, 2016 - November 27, 2016

“I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.”

—Joyce Kilmer, Trees, 1913

“Lovely as a Tree” is named after the opening verse of Joyce Kilmer’s poem

“Trees”, among the most famous lines in American poetry. Written in 1913, Kilmer

exalts the beauty of the tree’s natural form and proclaims the impossibility

of mankind to create a work of art that could ever be of equivalence. Yet artists

throughout the centuries have never lost admiration for the tree, finding unlimited

inspiration in its various possible interpretations despite its great familiarity.

Approximately 25% of all living plant species are trees. Found in great diversity, there

are an estimated 100,000 species worldwide. Of these, 132 tree species are commonly

found in Louisiana, according to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.

This exhibition presents an international selection of artists who investigate the

familiar form of the tree from a variety of new and sometimes surprising perspectives: Ron Bechet (New Orleans);

Dawn DeDeaux (New Orleans); Beth Galston (Carlisle, MA); John Grade (Seattle); Insun Kim (Brewster, NY); Beth Moon

(New York City); Eirik Solheim (Norway); Steve Tobin (Bucks County, PN); and Bartholomäus Traubeck (Austria).

Representing a wide range of media and styles, their artwork invites us to look at trees anew and to be reminded not only

of the grandeur of their form but also the significant role that trees play in sustaining life and renewing the human spirit.”

http://www.lasm.org/exhibitions/art-exhibitions/as-lovely-as-a-tree-john-grades-middle-fork

Ron Bechet, "Reconciliation," 2006,

charcoal on paper.

Professor Ron Bechet & “The Welcome Table” Mid-City Circle Special invitation...

Professor Ron Bechet & Associate Professor MaPo Kinnord

participated in the “Antenna” 11th Annual 24 Hour Draw-a-thon!

Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Art www.xula.edu/art

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Special thank you to Dr. Sarah Weaver,

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Division of Mathematical

& Physical Science for visiting

XUArt Departmental Meeting

to discuss Chemistry in Everyday Life…

The Chemistry of Art

Register Spring 2016!

M & W 3:00pm—4:15pm

*Fulfills fundamental core requirement

(of science course with lab component.)

Photo & Graphic Courtesy of Olivia Vega, Art Major

Photos by Jennifer Odem, Sculpture Instructor & Artist

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December 2016

Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Art www.xula.edu/art

Jennifer Odem's’ & Sculpture Students visit the Sculpture Garden

@ New Orleans Museum of Art…

Students with a ‘Deborah Butterfield’ sculpture: Ferralita Madere, Jourdan Barnes, Olivia Vega, Victoria Davis,

Tayler Scott, Adam Albrecht, Ecclese James

Students with ‘George Segal’ sculpture: Ecclese James, Tayler Scott, Victoria Davis, Olivia Vega, Ferralita Madere

Olivia Vega’s “GetSchooledSnap” @ BET XULA “Homecoming Weekend” 2016

Xavier University of Louisiana

“The Art Village” is the beautiful backdrop

for Professor Ron Bechet ‘Drawing’ Class...

You’re invited to ‘lunch outside’…and/or call XUArt to tour “The Art Village” | John T. Scott Sculpture Garden

The Department of Art | 504-520-6556 or ext. 6723 3520 Pine Street | New Orleans, La 70125

Photos by Joan Ulmer ‘85, XUArt Administrative Assistant

XUArt Departmental Meeting

Thursday, December 1, 2016 | Shayna Blum,

Department Head’s suggestion “Get a Passport”

Visit

https://getschooled.com/dashboard/video/3379-xavier-university-of-louisiana