NONSTOP INSTITUTE PRESENTS:



Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project - opening
* When: September 25 – Saturday – 7pm
* Where:
Nonstop Institute, 305 N. Walnut, Yellow Springs
* Cost: Pay as you are able
http://nonstopinstitute.org/nonstop-presents/local-stories-an-oral-histories-project/


This Saturday evening, September 25th, the
Nonstop Institute welcomes all to its “Local Stories--an Oral Histories Project,” opening with works by Ryan Agnew, Dennie Eagleson and Jonny No & John Hempfling. During this summer’s residency program (made possible in part by the generous support of the Yellow Springs Community Foundation) our guest artists have developed a varied set of responses to the oral histories theme. Along with individual choices in media and method, each brings a unique approach to the topic of ‘local stories,’ capturing and creating personal narratives and perspectives outside of center that otherwise risk falling through the cracks, attending to personal and collective memory, meaning, imagination, and the legitimacy of voice.

Particular works to be presented include:

Wildflower Honey” a temporary installation of drawings, notes and recorded audio charting cycles of discovery experienced, remembered or imagined during this summer’s engagement with Yellow Springs by Columbus-area artist Ryan Agnew;

Threshing Day, Medway, Ohio, 1934,” a multimedia installation based upon artifacts and accounts of Milly Bell Wallace and a local family’s efforts to live and cope through the Depression era, by documentary and fine art photographer and sustainable farming advocate, Dennie Eagleson;

Public Prohibited / Minor Infractions: The Control and Criminalization of Youth Culture in Yellow Springs, Ohio,” a documentary survey of youth perspectives on the diminished availability of public space accompanied by increasingly assertive law enforcement pressure, by media makers and Yellow Springs Youth Council members, Jonny No & John Hempfling.

Collectively and individually these artists and their works endeavor to expand and thoughtfully contribute to the public dialogue of our community. Please come to the opening and join in the discussion this Saturday evening beginning at 7 at
Nonstop, 305 N. Walnut Street.

Open hours for the exhibition will be from 1-4pm on Saturdays in October, or by appointment.

For further information please contact Chris Hill at
chris.hill@nonstopinstitute.org

MATT DIETZ



WORKS BY MATTHEW DIETZ
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10th 7-10PM
IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

“I started working solely with making abstractions in the year 2000. I have used many different methods and processes to create abstractions. I like to work in a kind of creative stumble, I will use drawing, observation and repetitive processes, to give the work some intentionality.”
-Matthew Dietz

HANNAH BARNES

Hannah Barnes, Quad, 2010

Hannah Barnes, Avo, 2010


WORKS BY HANNAH BARNES
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4th 7-10PM
IT LOOKS LIKE ITS OPEN, 13 E TULANE RD, COLUMBUS 43202

Hannah Barnes was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Muncie Indiana. Barnes received her BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art and her MFA in Visual Art from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally including Work Gallery and Hogar Collection in Brooklyn NY, the Ohio State University in Columbus OH, Hay Gallery in Portland ME, Hello Gallery in New Haven CT, Arthouse Contemporary in Austin TX, and the Shore Institute for Contemporary Art in Long Branch, NJ. Barnes has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Ohio State University, Kent State University, and Maine College of Art and is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at Ball State University.

Barnes's work draws on traditional media and painterly craft to explore themes of ambiguity, fragmentation, and the rejection of overt meaning in painting. For this exhibition, Hannah will incorporate recent painting and works on paper into the studio-as-gallery.