IU Art Museum hosts faculty exhibition

Visitors to the IU Art Museum have a chance to see a wide variety of works that have special relevance to the university.\nThe IU Art Museum is currently hosting the Bloomington Biennial 2005, where contemporary work by 36 artist-teachers on the faculty of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts is displayed. The works in the exhibition include paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, handmade artist's books, metalwork, textiles and digital art.\nThe show features six emeriti faculty including Rudy Pozzati, who built IU Bloomington's printmaking program. Also in the show are works returning home after exhibitions abroad, such as Georgia Strange's sculptures returning from a show in New York City and a painting from Barry Gealt's exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Newcomers to the IU Bloomington fine arts faculty are featured as well, such as painter Caleb Weintraub and sculptor Galo Moncayo.\nNanette Brewer, the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper at the IU Art Museum, says the breadth of pieces in this year's show is remarkable.\n"As the organizing curator of these faculty biennials since 1988, I have seen a lot of new directions in contemporary art. This year's exhibition offers the widest range of media that I've ever seen in a faculty biennial, from representational painting to interactive video installation," she said. "The diversity of styles and ideas is a tribute to the Hope School of Fine Art's long history and its national reputation."\nAlong with the exhibition, the special events of the biennial include a tour of the faculty studios and noon talks by the artists about their works.\nThe exhibit is on view through May 8 in the Art Museum's Special Exhibitions and Hexagon Gallery.