About the event
Load Bearing is this year’s faculty exhibition from the Department of Art & Design. It is built around objects that hold something up or hold something in: stoneware storage jars, a steam-bent ash bench, a woven room divider, letterpress broadsides about bridges, and an industrial-design prototype of a folding hospital step stool. The Health Sciences Center has asked to keep the step stool, which is inconvenient for the exhibition.
Opening receptions in the gallery follow a pattern. The doors open at five, the food is free, and one artist talks for about fifteen minutes at 5:30. This time three of the fourteen faculty will take five minutes each. Anyone may walk in.
Schedule
| Time | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00 p.m. | Gallery opens; food and cider | Furlong Gallery |
| 5:30 p.m. | Artist talks (three faculty, five minutes each) | Furlong Gallery, center room |
| 7:00 p.m. | Reception ends; staffed hours run until 8 p.m. on Thursdays | Furlong Gallery |
| Thu, Nov 12, 4:30 p.m. | Gallery talk | Furlong Gallery |
| Sun, Nov 15, 2:00 p.m. | Chamber Music Recital I, among the work | Furlong Gallery |
Location and access
The gallery is on the ground floor of the Applied Arts Building, inside the west entrance, and it is step-free. Parking in the Applied Arts lot is free after 5 p.m. Large-print labels are at the desk. The bench is meant to be sat on, and a sign says so. Nothing else is.
Admission
Always free, with no ticket or registration. K–12 and community groups can book a free guided visit with two weeks’ notice. The exhibition runs through December 4.
Contact and related events
Every show this year is on Furlong Gallery exhibitions, and the research side of the gallery is on Furlong Gallery & University Collections. The next gallery event after this exhibition is the B.F.A. Senior Exhibition opening on December 12. Before that, Chamber Music Recital I plays in the gallery on November 15.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Load Bearing, its artists, objects and reception are invented; there is no exhibition to visit and no step stool to keep.