Continuing the Gurler House’s tradition as a long-standing space of community gathering, the NIU School of Art and Design sculpture studio, and property owner, Shane Harris, extend a welcome to the neighbors, friends, and passersby to engage with the work of DeKalb-based artists in the Unimposing Yet Dignified outdoor installation.
This is the sixth year of the Unimposing Yet Dignified exhibition, and for the first time includes work by the University of Illinois Springfield’s beginning sculpture class.
Combining a variety of materials, forms, and concepts, the NIU undergraduate and graduate students and UIS undergraduate students sought inspiration from the Gurler House’s description on the Enjoy Illinois website, “an unimposing yet dignified structure on Pine Street—where the back door was always open.”
The artists involved in the project were informed by the history of the house and themes of their own artistic research to produce an installation which interacts with and amplifies the historic structure to invite the community to one of the first frame houses built in DeKalb.
The opening reception for Unimposing Yet Dignified will be held Saturday, December 6 from noon to 5 p.m. The Gurler House is located at 205 Pine Street in DeKalb.
Featured artist are: Honoka Adachi, Eli Beezhold, Fern Carter, Alexis Del Fiacco, Lee Dietze, Maisie Julia Dilbaitis, Laynee Eisenbarth, Tiama Elfgen, Diana Hernandez, Kayla Lazrak, Maria Macko, Stephanie Marik, Cheyenne Meneghetti, Rylee Mosier, Johnathan Pacheco, Beckett Pamplin, Katrine Renee, Ana Roussev, Miranda Sanders, Harley Simmons, Sameer Stockly, and Alex Uribe.
