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Managing director Jubeck reflects on 22 years as VACI’s backbone

When Lois Jubeck first came to Chautauqua to start her job as managing director of the visual arts programs, she spent the 13-hour car ride lying in the back of a station wagon.

She had given birth to her first child 10 days earlier, and she wasn’t feeling well. But her husband, artistic director Don Kimes, had to be at Chautauqua to start his job, so she loaded the baby into a car seat, the family’s belongings into a U-Haul and got in for the ride.

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VACI’s Gallery Store sells affordable, unique artwork

The art galleries at Chautauqua have plenty of quality work on display, but if it’s out of your price range or you’re looking for a different type of art, head to The Gallery Store in Strohl Art Center.

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Members Exhibition a reflection of Chautauqua’s culture

This is about the culture that Chautauqua makes.

Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution most often shows the culture of others in its galleries — collections of work on themes selected by the curators, from other institutions or by artists selected for the annual national invitational.

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Genre paintings focus of final VACI lecture

Stanley Lewis watched a School of Art student begin a painting last week and immediately was captivated.

That instant transformation of a blank canvas into a forum of ideas and expression is what Lewis, an instructor at the New York Studio School and the School of Art, loves about painting.

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Art student closes Main Gate for conceptual project to provoke thinking

The assignment was simple.

Painting student David McDonough and his classmates were told to “engage the landscape” of the grounds for their drawing class. Easy enough. But instead of drawing Chautauqua Lake or Miller Park or a patch of visually interesting shrubbery, McDonough decided to push the assignment to its limit.

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Clay by Marcia Merrins

Art in the Park benefits VACI Partners’ scholarship fund

If you missed Week Four’s Art in the Park, don’t worry — it’s happening again on Sunday.

From noon to 4:30 p.m., Miller Park will be filled with artwork from local artists. Artists from Jamestown, Buffalo, Dunkirk and surrounding New York areas have purchased tables on which they will display and sell their work.

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Supporters of VACI programs to exhibit their own artwork

Jamie Jamison has been coming to Chautauqua for 19 years. Five years ago, she decided to take advantage of the art classes and programming here and experiment with creating art.

Now, she will show her artwork at the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center.

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Lecture pays artistic tribute to explorer

Terry Adkins is a fine artist. But his pieces aren’t shown in typical art openings — the unveiling of his work usually feels more like a recital.

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Art work from Iran hanging in the Strohl Art Center

In Strohl, ‘Bilateral Trace’ is a modest showing of crosscultural engagement

A trace: The poetics of a line which leads toward discovery, a mark of meaning.

In this case, in the Strohl Art Center, the trace engages two parties along a line of aesthetic discovery growing between Iran and the United States.

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School of Art to host film screening on Arts Quad

The School of Art invites the Chautauqua community to a drive-in movie — sans the drive.

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