Ladders in the Desert

Poster design: Phil McCollam

PUEBLO, CO – Ellen Mueller exhibits her recent videos, photographs and installations in her exhibition, "Ladders in the Desert," at the Colorado State University-Pueblo Fine Art Gallery, March 9th-April 6th, 2012, showing Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm. The opening reception is Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5-7pm. The CSU-P Fine Art Gallery is located at 2200 Bonforte Blvd, Pueblo CO 81001. Admission is free.

This exhibit includes installations, prints, and satirical performances inspired by the western landscape, historical westward expansion, and human infringement on America's natural resources.

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Cost: Free
Date/Time: Mar 9 - Apr 6, 2012; Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm
Reception: Mar 15, 2012, 5-7pm
Location: CSU-P Fine Art Gallery, 2200 Bonforte Blvd, Pueblo CO 81001

Sustainable Fanaticism in America Series on View

My work was just installed at the USF College of Engineering in their main offices in the Engineering II building.

 

If you go in the main entrance (north) of Engineering II, walk to the back hallway and take a left. The main office (includes the Dean's office) will be a few doors down on your right. There is a receptionist at the front desk and you can explain you'd like to see the work by Ellen Mueller.  If you walk past the reception area to the back hallway and turn to the left, you will see "Sustainable Fanaticism in America" installed as a series.

 

The work will remain in this location until February 2012.

Website updates

I've been able to update my website with all the projects from this past semester:

Sustainable Fanaticism in America Series

1st Annual Black & White Sustainability Mixer & Recognition Ceremony

Sustainability, Fanaticism, and Fashion on Demand!

New Panel Series on Fanaticism, Sustainability, & America

Here are some pics of my most recent series of paint and charcoal on wood panel.  The works are inspired by my recent research into the relationship between fanaticism, sustainability and America.  These are the first four in the series of eight.

Grant Progress

It's time for an update on that grant I first mentioned last December (Fanaticism, Sustainability, & America).  It's been a long bumpy road, but we finally have a survey up online for USF students (sorry we couldn't open it up to people beyond the USF campus - I was really bummed we had to restrict our sample population so much!).  

The other people on my grant team developed the survey and will use it's results to write a paper.  Meanwhile, I'll be taking the results and using them as source material for a performance piece.  The two workshops I'm attending at Dell'Arte International are also partially funded by this grant and will contribute to my research for this performance piece.  

I've already started some visual research by compiling the first 10 pages of Google image search's results on the three key words: Fanaticism, Sustainability, & America.  All the images have been printed out and collaged together for a quick reference on my studio wall.

 

Full collection of images

 

Detail shot

Detail Shot

Upcoming Panel Drawings

I've set to work on a new set of panel drawings, and I'm very excited about them.  I've been at grad school for a year, and have not done a single drawing since I arrived (aside from some illustrations in my various booklets), so I'm feeling like it's about time!  

They look very blank and intimidating right now, but I have some ideas flowing, and I know they are going to relate in some way to the grant subject matter (Fanaticism, Sustainability, & America).  The panels are all primed and ready to go, so I just have to get to work developing the compositions to go on them.  8 new works!  Woot!