Edge of Life: Complete Prospectus

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For a .pdf of the prospectus, please e-mail Michelle Rozic at rozicmm@sfasu.edu

Art work arriving!

Art work is arriving with preparations underway for the opening exhibition at SFA in January.





















Museum studies students Richard and Brian filling out condition reports on the art work.




Pathogen specimens.






















Lauren McAdams installing her work for photography.













McAdams pathogen, Indian Paint Fungus.

David Lewis' Museum Studies class is collaborating on the project.











Dr. David Lewis and the museum studies class.











Preparator Gary Parker talking with museum studies students.


Chris Talbot is scheduled to begin photographing art work and pathogen specimens next Monday.

Artist Update

The deadline for receipt of artwork is now extended to October 18. Please send the well packaged work to the following address:

Stephen F. Austin State University
ATTN: SFA Art Galleries, Edge of Life
Central Receiving
2124 Wilson Dr.
Nacogdoches, TX 75962

A contract and inventory form will be emailed in September. Please return a signed copy of the contract and filled out inventory form with your work.

Please remember to include a professional quality, large format digital image of your work. These may be emailed to rozicmm@sfasu.edu, size permitting. Here are general guidelines:

-Uncompressed, high quality TIFF or RAW files.
-All files must be cross-platform compatible.
-24-bit RGB color
-3000 minimum pixels on the long side of the image
-300 ppi minimum

If possible, include an image that has a ColorChecker Grey Scale card in it for the most accurate color reproduction. Do not color correct or manipulate the image unless you are trained to do so.

Contact Michelle Rozic with any questions at either 936.468.4491 or rozicmm@sfasu.edu.

Artists & Their Diseases

Peter Andrew

Landscape

Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, 2006

Zonate Leaf Spot



Marsha Blount

Birch conk Piptoporus betulinus



Elaine Bradford

Mongolian Knotted Deer
Taxidermy Mongolian spotted deer, crocheted yarn, fabric, fiberfil, 96 x 36 x 28 inches, 2007.

Strangling vine

Amy Chan

Mossbow (detail)
Gouache and acrylic on paper, 22 x 32 inches, 2009



Japanese dodder




Neal Cox

Untitled (Pecan Park)
Pinhole photograph, 24 x 24 inches, 2009



Phellinus fungus

Chad Curtis






















Random Seed (Orange Conifers), 2008


















Dog vomit slime mold





Dornith Doherty



Archiving Eden, Corncockle, 36.5 x 36.5 inches


Chad Erpelding

Embassies: Washington DC

Acrylic on wood, 84 x 72 inches, 2009

Dutch elm disease Ophiostoma ulmi


Piero Fenci























Gray Etruscan Pouring Vessel
Earthenware, 24 x 28 x 11 inches

Eastern pine gall rust Cronartium quercuum


Lari Gibbons























Herbarium
Intaglio, relief, chine collé, 11 x 8 inches, 2010

Mistletoe Phoradendron sp.


M aki Hajikano





Silent Fear
Cast glass and mixed media, 28 feet x 10 feet

Fusiform rust Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme

Charles Jones

Samuel Becket
Wood cut, 20 x 20 inches



Fasciation

Corinne Jones

Diving Raven
Colored pastels and charcoal, 38 x 50 inches, 2009
















Turkey tail Trametes versicolor


Kira Kalondy

Frustration
Ceramics earthenware, 8 x 12 x 10 1/2 inches, 2009

Artist's conk Ganoderma applanatum


Bob Kinsell





Migration
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 2009

Yellow cap fungus Pholiota sp.


Aloma Marquis

Ganoderma root rot


Lauren McAdams

Indian paint fungus Echinodontium tinctorium

Gary Parker





Palace in the Wild
Mixed media on canvas, 84 x 96 inches, 2009

Lion's mane Hericium erinaceus


Marguerite Perret




The Commons, University of Kansas installation, Curtains, unique digital textile, 152 x 692 inches






















Pine Drops

Joseph Philips



Alpine Terrain
18 x 24 inches, 2009

Red heart Phellinus pini





Amy Ross

Fairy Ring
Collage on paper, 15 x 22 inches, 2008

Fairy ring Fruiting bodies


Michelle Rozic

The Birds and the Bees (detail)
Koolaid dyed wool, wet and needle felted, taxidermy eyes, fly tying wings, insect pins, fake flower parts, Dimensions variable, elements life size, 2009

Schweinitzii root and butt rot Phaeolus schweinitzii


Scott Runnels

Quinine conk


Jeff Schmuki



Chia Enhancements for Woodland Intervention, Recycled materials, chia, 2009 performance

Ballmoss

Joshua Smith

From The Suburbs of the Emerald City series, Emerald Basin Phase 1
Monopoly houses cast in crystal resin, 2008

Poria cocos

James Snyder














White Mountain in Winter, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Matthew Sutherlin

X-disease Phytoplasma MLO


Chris Talbot
















Oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus


Jennifer Trask

Fructus Plumbum
Frame and encaustic panel, brooch, set with moonstones, lead leaves, snake vertebrae, and aquamarine, 2008.








Exobasidium


Joni Younkins-Herzog



Lust and Anxiety
Cast hydrocal, each piece 40 x 45 x 22 inches

























Octopus Stinkhorn, Photograph by Steve Reekie


Keith Yurdana

The Trinity of Demise: Exposure (Abevolparen barbatus - panel #3)
Mixed media on wood panel, 71 x 82 3/4 inches, 2008

Gnarled root


Pathogen images from bugwood.org, except as noted. Artwork images courtesy the artists, copyright the artists. No artwork images may be copied without express written permission of the artist.