Making good art is difficult, very difficult. It is important to acknowledge the endeavor and all of its processes, from conception to process and ultimately exhibition. The Blue House aims to support artists engaged in this practice by creating funding to pay artists and create exhibitions.
Our mission is to create a learning place audiences can comfortably converge and exchange or interpret ideas, to show artwork that challenges ideas and advances the notions of the condition of art on a regional and national level, and to bring artists from around the area and across the country to collaborate, create and contribute to our regional culture.
AMPLIFIED TO ROCK!
Opens November 15th!
AMPLIFIED TO ROCK! Opens November 15th!
The Blue House Gallery is excited to present Amplified to Rock! an Exhibition of Guided by Voices Gig Posters by Superfan Sean StarWars! All Gig Posters will be available for purchase - WHAT?!? so cool.
Exhibition runs through December 6th with open hours Fridays 4-6pm.
About the Artist:
Sean Star Wars lives in Laurel, Mississippi with his wife and five children. Sean earned his MFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University. In addition to making woodcuts for over Thirty years, Sean has been an Adjunct Professor, a janitor and a used car salesman. Sean currently works full time as a printmaker and he makes about a dozen visiting artist appearances a year at many of the nations’ leading art programs. Sean is a proud member of the legendary Outlaw Printmakers and his work is in numerous public and private collections. Star Wars’ work can be seen on book covers, album covers, magazines, television programs, films and commercials. He is currently embarking on his most challenging project ever, a woodcut a week “FOR LIFE”. Sean drinks more Mountain Dew than anyone who has ever lived and he can beat you at Ms.Pacman.
This event is made possible thanks to the contributions of Culture Works, The Blue House Arts and The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design.
SIT DOWN!
New Works by Glenna Jennings
Reception times:
October 12th 6-9pm
October 18th 4-7pm
October 25th 4-7pm
Join us at The Blue House to ponder the intersections of the 20th century American TV sitcom and cultural histories around food, culture and togetherness. Through family photographs, wallpaper design, still life and documentary imagery, Sit Down! presents a backstory to Glenna Jennings’ ongoing photographic series At Table, which has documented ‘tablescapes’ around the globe for well over a decade, revealing aspects of the human condition that collide and converge in a shared, familiar place – the table.
This event is made possible thanks to the contributions of Fotofocus, Culture Works, The Blue House Arts and The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design.
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Nicholaus Arnold and Ashley Jude Jonas have been curating The Blue House exhibitions since 2014. Today they continue their mission of making sure good exhibitions continue to happen in the Dayton, Ohio community.
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