Artlink Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present Waning Elements, a group exhibition by Jessica Calderwood, Brent Cole, Jennifer Halvorson and Jacinda Russell, Associate Professors of Art at Ball State University.

Exhibition Statement
Contemporary society moves at a blistering pace. New technologies replace centuries-old traditions. Environmental degradation intensifies as we treat finite resources as commodities to be traded and exhausted. Jessica Calderwood, Brent Cole, Jennifer Halvorson, and Jacinda Russell bring these two concepts together in the mediums of sculpture, metal, enamel, glass, and photography. In Waning Elements, they explore and expose the conflicts inherent in their processes as they address issues of labor, social disconnection, loss, and time.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 16 from 5-8 pm!

About the Artists

Jessica Calderwood
Jessica Calderwood is a sculptor who works in a variety of craft-based media. Trained as a metalsmith and enamelist, her objects and images make statements about contemporary life. Since receiving her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Arizona State University, her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. She has participated in artist residencies with the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Ferro Corporation, Mesa Arts Center, and Muncie Metal Spinning. Her work has also been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, and the Art of Enameling. Work from her various series can be found in numerous collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Racine Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Ball State University.

Brent Cole
Holding a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Arts and an MFA from the University of Illinois, in 2010 Brent Cole assumed the lead faculty position for Ball State University’s new glass program at the Marilyn K. Glick Center of Glass in Muncie, Indiana. Cole is responsible for the cultural programming and operation of the facility, the development of its undergraduate curriculum, and the establishment of a MFA program. Prior to this appointment, he served for six years beginning in 2004 as Visiting Assistant Professor of Glass at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.  Over the years Cole has participated in several artist residency programs including the Appalachian Center for Crafts, Ucross, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.  His work has frequently been exhibited at Art Basel Miami and included in prestigious museum shows at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina and the John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Jennifer Halvorson
Jennifer Halvorson is an artist and educator.  Born in St. Louis, she earned dual B.F.A. degrees in Glass and Metal at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2005, she also studied abroad at the Australian National University in Canberra.  After completing her undergraduate studies, Jennifer traveled to Denmark as a Fulbright Scholar. She continued studying glass at Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen and became assistant to glass artists Steffen Dam and Micha Karslund.  Jennifer earned her Master of Fine Arts in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology, within the School for American Crafts. She has been a resident artist at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Southern Illinois University, and most recently the Toledo Art Museum.  Jennifer’s work has been exhibited internationally throughout the United States and Europe.  Her work has been featured in New Glass Review 35 and 32, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, and also featured on the digital platforms of Colossal and American Craft.  Jennifer is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Ball State University.

Jacinda Russell
Jacinda Russell is a conceptual artist who seeks the edges, the ends of the line, and the blue in between. She works primarily in the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Texas Gallery, Houston Center for Photography, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. She is the recipient of the 2019 and 2022 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award of the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Photographic Arts Council / Los Angeles Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography. Born in Idaho, she received her BFA from Boise State University in Studio Art and her MFA from the University of Arizona. Currently, she lives in Indianapolis and works as an Associate Professor of Art at Ball State University.