"Polar Soundscapes" will be heard Jan. 11

Oona Stern and Cheryl Leonard will perform "Polar Soundscapes" on Jan. 11 in the final event of the Art above 66° 33' exhibition at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art.

The exhibit considers the issues, history and environment of the polar areas, spanning media, process and subject; from forms to the abstract, tactile to sound, analog to digital. It runs through Feb. 10.

The museum is open from noon to 4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays when classes are in session. It will open at 6 p.m. on Jan. 11 for visitors to view the exhibition before the program.

The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall in the Denkmann Building.

Leonard is a composer, performer and instrument-builder who uses the sounds made by natural objects. Several of her pieces include video by Stern, an art director, designer, and visual artist.

The audience will hear sounds played on natural-object instruments, intertwined with audio field recordings in a concert of music inspired by Arctic and Antarctic landscapes and ecosystems.

Art above 66° 33' also includes work by Danish photographer Morten Hilmer from Greenland; William Stout, a fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art, and several others.

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On March 10, the exhibit "Four Artists, Four Visions" will open with a free reception  from 5-7 p.m. in the Foyer Gallery on the main floor of Centennial Hall.

This exhibition will run through April 8 and features the work of four artists invited by Augustana art faculty to exhibit. They are:

• Oscar Gillespie, professor of art at Bradley University in Peoria, where he teaches printmaking and drawing. He is noted for expertise in monotypes and in intaglio, especially metal-plate engraving. His work may be found in more than 60 public collections.

• Claire Hedden, curator of the McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Ill. She holds an MFA in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y.

• Tom Lundberg, professor of art at Colorado State University, where he coordinates graduate and undergraduate programs in fibers and teaches courses in weaving and surface design.

• Joseph Patrick, professor emeritus in painting and drawing at the University of Iowa. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions.