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Third Thursday • Visiting Artists’ Presentation
Johnson County Community College
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Deanna Dikeman, Short Sleeve Shirts (detail), 2002, image courtesy Digital Labrador |
Davin Watne, The Alien (detail), 2008, oil on canvas |
Third Thursday • Visiting Artists’ Presentation
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College is continuing the popular new program, Third Thursday • Visiting Artists’ Presentations, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the museum’s Hudson Auditorium with special guest artists Davin Watne and Deanna Dikeman, and moderators Larry Thomas, JCCC professor, fine arts, and Tom Tarnowski, JCCC professor, photography. The program is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required.
Artist Davin Watne’s paintings, works on paper and sculptures explore the sometimes violent relationships between cars, humans and animals. He was born in Morgantown, W. Va., and graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. Watne received a Charlotte Street Foundation award in 2002, and his work has been featured in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Watne has taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and he was the director of the Dirt Gallery. He is currently a resident at Review Studios. JCCC owns several of his works, including the spray paint and gouache on paper Nanny Goat and Jamaican Vulture (2006), gifts of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers’ Foundation, and the oil on paper work Fall From Grace (2002) on permanent display in the works on paper focus area in the Carlsen Center.
Photographer Deanna Dikeman creates both black-and-white family narratives and color-saturated compositions focusing on thrift-store clothing. Working as a free-lance photographer since the mid-1980s, she photographs ordinary moments of Midwestern home life to tell stories about relationships between people and their homes. She has taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and she has shown her work locally, nationally and internationally. Originally from Sioux City, Iowa, she holds degrees from Purdue University. Dikeman received a Charlotte Street award in 2006 and a United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008. JCCC owns her works Mirror (1996) and After Dinner (1992) on view in the photography focus area of the General Education Building.
The next Third Thursday program is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 17. These free programs feature two artists working within the Kansas City region, with each artist giving a 20-minute presentation followed by discussion in the museum’s Hudson Auditorium. Museum staff facilitate conversation and audience participation by pairing each artist with a JCCC faculty moderator.
The Nerman Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed Mondays and all JCCC holidays. Admission and parking are free.
For more information, call 913-469-3000 or visit www.jccc.edu/museum.
The program is supported in part by an Ovation Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kansas City.
