RURAL REVOLUTION: Exhibition of 70s Era Goddard College Ar

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PRESS RELEASE: October 2013

“Rural Revolution:” Exhibition of 70s Era Art Student & Faculty Photography
October 18-20/Goddard College Martin Manor/Reception Sat. Oct. 19th 6:45
over 300 vintage photographs/27 artists
curated by Peg Tassey
Free & Open to the Public

Musician and Goddard College alumnae Peg Tassey has been tracking down ex-photography students and teachers from the 1970's for the past 6 months. She convinced them to crawl through their attics and basements to find the photographs they took while they were at Goddard during the '70s. Through the generosity and enthusiasm of these former students she has collected well over 800 vintage images all processed in "C-Basement", where the darkroom resided. She has woven this vast archival body of work together to be shown at Goddard's 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend as one of the featured events. The "Rural Revolution" photography exhibit will be shown for three days, Oct 18-20, with Artists' Reception at 6:45 on Saturday the19th at the Martin Manor. A slide show of more images and a short film made by 70's students will be shown that night at 8pm on The Haybarn Theater's 20 ft screen.

About the Exhibit:
The 1970s were an amazing time at Goddard College and indeed in Vermont. There was a thriving art scene, and among the young artists attending Goddard, the photography students were possibly the most prolific.
This exhibit will showcase 27 budding artists' photos and various 3D assemblages and short films made right in Plainfield VT, in addition to work from photography teachers of the decade as well. Many, if not most of these Goddard photography alumni, are still working artists, with work showing all over the world.

Area artists contributing their 70's era photographs to the show are Andrew Kline, Dicran Derderian, Linda Hogan, John Hagman and Peg Tassey. There are also artists who have gone on to have worldwide recognition such as George Legrady who is today chair of the Media Arts & Technology arts-engineering PhD program, and director of the Experimental Visualization Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara who has shown his recent work at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and Jon Cornell television producer and director for MTV, QUBE, Public TV and Nickeloden. There are, among others, Jonathan Sharlin Photo Professor RISD and Linda Levinson Professor of Photography University of Wisconson and formerly of NYU and UCLA who has been featured in Artforum and Bomb. And these people all started their lifelong work as artists at Goddard College, many with inspiration from artist and beloved long time Goddard teacher Jeff Weiss.

The photos in this exhibit conjure a time in history and place that will never be repeated, and while nostalgic for some, the pieces in this exhibit show a seriousness, a lack of irony, a sense of beauty and revolution, and a commitment to the moment, that Goddard was and still is known for.

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