Two exhibits on view this semester at The College of Wooster Art Museum

The College of Wooster Art Museum has two exhibits on display during the spring semester. Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project and Painting Biathlon by Marina Mangubi, Professor of Art and Art History.

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project will be on view until April 3 in the Burton Gallery. Painting Biathlon is on display in the Sussel Gallery until May 6.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, troubled by the toll of the pandemic on the world, and especially his Navajo community, the turmoil of racial and political difference, and economic challenges, photographer Eugene Tapahe dreamed of the peace and healing brought by the jingle dress dance on sacred lands. Intended as a healing practice, The Jingle Dress Project was launched and the group began their journey to heal the land and the people.

The Jingle Dress Project includes photographer Eugene Tapahe; dancers Joanni Begay, Sunni Begay, Dion Tapahe and Erin Tapahe; and logistics manager Sharon Tapahe.

Painter, printmaker, and installation artist Marina Mangubi explores sport as a medium of performance and social inquiry with Painting Biathlon. Taking on the structure, limitations, and challenges of biathlon, a modern sport combining cross-country skiing and rifle target shooting, the artist investigates physical conditioning and limitations, the experience of traversing unique and challenging topography, artmaking in unpredictable circumstances, and a willingness to return to earlier states of curiosity and openness to the unexpected.

A continuing project, the works in this exhibition spring from three artist residencies: Banff Centre, Canada (2015); Joshua Tree National Park, California (2016); and Siena Art Institute, Italy (2019). In each locale, Mangubi structured a circuit for cross-country skis, snow or roller, broken by stations at which she stopped to paint or create digital drawings.

Mangubi will discuss the development and inspiration for Painting Biathlon on Feb. 26 from 3-4 p.m. in the Sussel Gallery. The gallery will remain open until 5 p.m. that afternoon.

Published Feb. 18, 2022

Posted in Event on February 18, 2022.