Augusta State University will be one of the venues for the celebration of the city’s first Westobou Festival, and on campus, the festival kicks off with two art exhibitions.

The first exhibition, co-sponsored by the Clay Artists of the Southeast (CASE) and installed under the guidance of Jackson Cheatham, ASU’s gallery director, will be titled Inviting the Stars - An Exhibition of Local and National Ceramic Art, which opens Aug. 28 and runs through Oct. 2.

Seventeen CASE ceramic artists, among other faculty members, have submitted more than 34 pieces of artwork. Also included in this exhibition will be works by Don Reitz, who is considered to be one among the most important and influential ceramic artists of this century. The diversity of work in the exhibition exemplifies the broad range of contemporary ceramic art produced throughout America.  On Saturday, Sept. 27 from 9 a.m.– noon and Sunday, Sept. 29, 2p.m., Mr. Reitz will conduct ceramic workshops in the Jaguar Student Activities Center Ballroom.

The second exhibition will feature works by RG Brown, III, a University of Georgia associate professor of art, who creates artworks that involve burying forms under the earth, scanning the buried objects with sonar equipment, and then using that imagery as documentation for gallery-based artworks. On Friday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m., Mr. Brown will give an artist talk about his work in 170 University Hall.

On the exhibition, a total of four traditional African canoes, two dugout and two plank style, will be on display at ASU’s Maxwell Theatre and Washington Hall. This exhibit is also a part of a Fulbright project in West Africa which was commissioned by Mr. Brown.  Earlier this month, a hole was evacuated, and Mr. Brown,

along with several art students, constructed a foam boat. Sonar scans of the boat will be performed Aug. 29 through Sept. 1, after which the scans will then be turned into digital images.

The exhibition will be held in the New Space Gallery in Washington Hall in October.

For more information, contact the ASU’s art department at 706-667-4888.

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