CORE Connect is a program that threads through all Core classes. Each semester a single theme is chosen and introduced in all Core course through relevant lectures, workshops, articles, and resources. At the end of the semester Core Connect culminates in an exhibition that reflects the semester’s theme at the SUBmarine Gallery. This website acts as a portal for students to access CORE Connect content and event info.

IDENTITY Spring 2018

“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.” 
Jean Baudrillard

EVENTS Calendar

January 24 – February 22
Tipton Gallery and Reece Museum
Reception: February 1, First Friday, 6 to 8 p.m., Tipton Gallery
Panel on Art & Religion in Appalachia: January 24, 2019, Reece Museum
January 2 - February 22
A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture 

A commemorative poster exhibition celebrating the opening of the Smithsonian’s newest museum Sept. 24, 2016. Based on the inaugural exhibitions of the museum, the posters highlight key artifacts that tell the rich and diverse story of the African American experience. A Place for All People is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with the museum.
February 18  – March 1
The Art of Violence, curated by Michael Fowler
Slocumb Galleries
Reception: TBA
April 1 – 19
Diverse & Beautiful: Latinx Tennessee
 Tipton Gallery
Reception: April 5, First Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.
Sponsored by the ETSU Student Activities Allocation Funds & partnership with the Language & Culture Resource Center, Multicultural Center, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and School of Continuing Studies

RELATED ARTICLES and RESOURCES

- Bonnie G Smith "Gender and the Practices of Scientific History: The Seminar and Archival Research in the Nineteenth Century"
-  Massimiliano Gioni “We are Too Many"
-  Stuart Hall "Who Needs Identity?"
-  Contemporary East European Art in the Era of Globalization: From Identity Politics to Cosmopolitan Solidarity
-  Claire Bishop “ The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents."
-  Bonny Norton "Identity, Language Learning, and Social Change"
-  Jerry Saltz "Where Are All the Women?" 
-  Allison Keeleyn "The Art of Identity: Memory as the Maker"
-  Meher McArthur "Collaging Cultural Identity in the Fabric Art of Sumi Foley"
-  Erica Orden "Building Identity Through Art"
-  Amie Gillingham "Frida Kahlo- Identity/Duality"
-  Lewis Gesner "Identity through Art is like the Shape of Water"
-  Journal of Contemporary Art, interview with Kiki Smith
-  Priscilla Frank "Self-Expression And Identity In Contemporary Tibet
-  Karen Rosenberg "Questions of Identity, Images of Crisis"
-  Steven Frost "Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus"
-  (book) The Ethics of Identity
-  (video) Felix in Exile, William Kentridge
-  (video) Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again

ARTISTS


Painting / Drawing/ Printmaking
Adrian Ghenie
Will Wilson
William Kentridge
Cai Guo-Quian
Kiki Smith
Andy Warhol
Käthe Kollwitz
Takashi Murakami
Anselm Keifer
Gilbert and George
Sue Coe
Jenny Saville
Adrian Piper
Glenn Ligon
Deborah Kass
Shara Hughes
Sculpture / Installation
Ei Arakawa
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Mille Kalsmose
Tracey Emin
Janine Antoni
Aziz+Cucher
Bruce Nauman
Maya Lin
Kara Walker
Ai Weiwei
Do Ho Suh
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Lin Tianmiao
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Bradley Wester
Photography
Jeanne Dunning
Nancy Burson
Cindy Sherman
Catherine Opie
Aziz+Cucher 
Lyle Aston Harris
Carrie Weems
Shirin Neshat
Barbara Kruger
Robert Mapplethorpe
Hannah Wilke
Video / Digital
Nikki S. Lee
Bruce Nauman
Kate Gilmore
William Kentridge
Jenny Holzer
Gary Hill
Graphic Design
 Paula Scher
Fibers
Ghada Amer
Performance
James Luna
Womenhouse
Zhang Huan
Marina Abramovic
Pope.L
Hetain Patel
Other
Noelle Mason
Saya Woolfalk