Art for Your Ears

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art brings a new type of exhibition to the community. Sound Mapping Alabama: A Journey through Alabama Navigated by Ear is a designed compilation of recordings collected in Alabama by Rich Curtis. His outdoor sound piece will be embedded in the museum’s South garden March 13– April 30, 2009.

The sounds bring the visitor into the environment by using the sense of hearing that is often forgotten. Curtis, an Alabama native, received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Since then, he has created multimedia projects that investigate the character of place through sound.

Curtis has created projects in the United States, Canada, Kenya and the Netherlands. He currently teaches in the art department at the University of North Alabama.

Sound Mapping Alabama was funded in part by a technical assistance grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

On Thursday, April 16, at 5 p.m., in a lecture titled “Alabama Mockingbird,” Curtis will discuss his project, discuss the history of his work and introduce his latest project Mockingbird: Mapping Sights and Sounds. For more information on Curtis’s Mockingbird project go to: http://almockingbird.blogspot.com

For more information contact Colleen Bourdeau at cbourdeau@auburn.edu or (334) 844-7075.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 16, 2009 @ 5pm- Rich Curtis gives his lecture titled “Alabama Mockingbird.”

For more information contact Colleen Bourdeau at cbourdeau@auburn.edu or (334) 844-7075