Bulletin Board Program is a temporary initiative coincident with the 2009/10 school-year utilizing a derelict bulletin board in the main ground floor lobby of the Venturi & Rauch designed Durst Family Humanities Building at the State University of New York’s Purchase College (completed 1973).
An international group of seven artists are featured, each displaying work in a one-month-long exhibition. The exhibition program begins September 2009 and ends in May 2010.
The intention for Bulletin Board Program is to encourage a heightened awareness of:
i.) The bulletin board as a convention of display and as a tool in the dissemination of knowledge and information. The bulletin board’s purpose heightened in this context, since this space owned by the State University of New York, Purchase College, and the School of Humanities. The propositions, questions, and insights displayed are necessarily acknowledged by the institutions framing the site.
ii.) The architectural site. In light of a current renovation plan for the Humanities Building, Venturi & Rauch’s original design concepts should be understood in informing potential changes to the otherwise subtly playful appropriation of interior (and exterior) design features indicative of 20th Century American public education architecture.
iii.) The educational site. Bulletin Board Program acknowledges the rather specific audience as those involved students, faculty, staff, and visitors of SUNY Purchase’s Humanities Building. These individuals have some kind of affiliation or investment with the classroom, study, and administrative activities housed here. At least, Bulletin Board Program can encourage some kind of self-reflection of curriculum structure, study habits, diversity in academic programming, the role for visual arts, etc.
This website will function as an archive and resource center for the involved artists, the SUNY Purchase College community, as well as to those outside of or unable to view Bulletin Board Program in situ.
Visiting Bulletin Board Program -
Upon entering the main entrance to the Humanities Building at the SUNY Purchase College campus (for detailed directions visit purchase.edu), walk straight ahead and along the curved bench-like structure at the base of the main staircase. The bulletin board is on the wall to the right, at the base of the short set of stairs leading up and around the curved bench.
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Bulletin Board Program is coordinated and curated by Jeff Eaton who is currently a MA/MFA student in Studio Art and Art History at SUNY Purchase. Jeff can be reached via email: jeff@jeffeaton.org
