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Fall 2009 Events
PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN PORTFOLIO REVIEW DAYS:
December 5, 2009 – Corcoran National Portfolio Day: JMU faculty will be attending this event at the Corcoran College of Art (DC) from 10AM–2PM
January 16, 2010 – JMU School of Art & Art History, Duke Hall, from 9AM – 12 noon
January 23, 2010 – JMU School of Art & Art History, Duke Hall, from 9AM – 12 noon
TRANSFER/CHANGE OF MAJOR PORTFOLIO REVIEW DAYS:
Spring: Saturday, February 6th, 2010, Studio Center
NOVEMBER 2009
November 16
Student/Faculty Silent Auction, artWorks Gallery
Reception in artWorks Gallery, 5-7 pm
Auction runs from November 16 - December 2
FALL EVENTS
In conjunction with Sawhill Gallery:
November 9 – December 4 Crafts Exhibition
curated by Howard Risatti and Steven Glass
Wampler Professor
2009/2010 James Madison University Wampler Professor Howard Risatti and co-curator Steven Glass present an exhibition of craftwork for exclusive showing in the Sawhill Gallery. The exhibition includes studio furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and fiber. These studio/artist works are presented with non-studio works of a commercial nature such as plastic chairs, and throwaway paper cups to bring attention to the assignment of aesthetic value to ordinary and not so ordinary objects.
Coming in March 2010
Dr. Carol Zemel, Professor of Art History at York University in Toronto, Canada
Olivia Gude, Associate Professor, Coordinator of Art Education, at the University of Illinois at Chicago
November 9 – December 4 Crafts Exhibition
curated by Howard Risatti and Steven Glass
Wampler Professor
2009/2010 James Madison University Wampler Professor Howard Risatti and co-curator Steven Glass present an exhibition of craftwork for exclusive showing in the Sawhill Gallery. The exhibition includes studio furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and fiber. These studio/artist works are presented with non-studio works of a commercial nature such as plastic chairs, and throwaway paper cups to bring attention to the assignment of aesthetic value to ordinary and not so ordinary objects.
December 7 – 12 MFA Exhibition by Aimee George
December 7 Reception in Sawhill Gallery: 5 – 7:00 p.m
The School of Art and Art History presents the work of Master of Fine Arts Candidate Aimee George. This exhibition is the culmination of her graduate studies at James Madison University.
Gallery Hours: (during academic year only)
10-5pm Monday-Friday
12-5pm Saturday
Closed Sunday
Contact: Gary Freeburg, freebugl@jmu.edu, 568-6407
Address: Duke Hall, Room 101, on the corner of Main Street and Grace Street, Harrisonburg
October 26 – December 4 Composite Photographic Images by James Crable
James Crable is an Emeritus Professor of Art at James Madison University. His photographic work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States. His recent retirement has given him the opportunity to focus entirely on new image making. His photographic composite images are tapestries of life collected in a repetitive grid of manmade structures.
Gallery Hours: (during academic year only)
12-5pm Monday-Thursday
12-4pm Friday-Saturday
Contact: Rebecca Silberman, silberra@jmu.edu, 568-7175 or 568-6335
Address: 131 Grace Street, Harrisonburg
November 16 – December 2 Student/Faculty Silent Auction
(Fundraiser)
artWorks opens its doors to the Student/Faculty Silent Auction on November 16 and ends November 18 at 5:00 p.m. The art in this exhibition runs the gamut of subject matter, media, and expertise. Students and faculty in the School of Art and Art History as well as some musical additions come together to benefit the gallery. The James Madison Universtiy community is given the opportunity to examine work on display in the gallery and to bid on artwork created by its art students and art faculty. Proceeds of the auction are used to support artWorks exhibitions.
December 3 – 5 Graduate Student Critiques
Gallery Hours: (during academic year only)
12-5pm Monday-Thursday
12-4pm Friday and Saturday
Closed Sunday
Contact: Holly George, artworks.gallery@gmail.com, 568-7175
Address: 131 Grace Street, Harrisonburg
December 2 – February 26 The Inheritance of Rome
December 2 Reception in Gallery @ Festival: 2 – 5:30 pm
What have the Romans ever done for us? Come find out how classical Roman civilization influenced the visual arts from the Renaissance through the 19th century. This exhibit is the culmination of Dr. Kay Arthur’s Curatorial Seminar Art History class.
Gallery Hours: (during academic year only)
10am-4pm Tuesday-Friday
Contact: Kathryn Stevens, stevenke@jmu.ed, 568-6934
Address: Festival, Room 2104
September 15 – December 15 Looking Out – Thirty Years of Study Abroad at JMU, 1979-2009
Since its beginnings thirty years ago in London, JMU’s study abroad program has continued to flourish and now sends more than 1,000 students to nearly 40 programs around the world. Come enjoy the sights and sounds of other cultures as captured by students and faculty whose lives international education has transformed.
Gallery Hours: (during academic year only)
10am-4pm Tuesday-Friday
Contact: Kathryn Stevens, stevenke@jmu.edu, 568-6934
Address: lower level of Festival & Student Center
FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENT AND ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENTS
FACULTY
AGNES CARBREY was a Fellow in Residence in the International Exchange Program of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Moulin`A Nef facility in Auvillar, France during May of 2009. She will take JMU students abroad to paint in southern France as part of JMU's International Study Abroad Program in May of 2010.
This past April she was invited to be featured artist at the Boxerwood Gardens Earth Art Festival, (childhood home of Sally Mann), and completed 15 life size human forms as site-specific works, leading a team of five, including one JMU student, Jackie Tugman, and one VCU student, Anne Lassere. Other team members were Jeanne Hepler of Lexington and Suzan Frangos of Harrisonburg.
In November/December of 2009, Carbrey will show at the DeMatteis Gallery in Annapolis with painter, Ryan Russell.
Articles by SUKJIN CHOI, Assistant Professor of Art, have been published in the Monthly Ceramic Art of Korea. The published articles include:
* “Clary Illian,” August, pp. 72-75
* “Gary Hootman,” July, pp.67-69
* “Doug Hanson,” May, pp.100-103
Sukjin Choi’s Onggi was on display at the Dorim Exhibition, the 30th Exhibition of Ceramic Department alumni at Ewha Womans University at Ewha Arts Center in Korea.
Sukjin was invited by the Shandong Zibo Ceramic Art Association of China to lead a workshop dealing with traditional Korean Surface Techniques for the 12th China International Woodfire Festival. She donated her work, “Celadon Bowls”, to the Zibo Museum. Her works will be displayed in the International Pottery Art Museum.
Assistant Professor Sukjin Choi installed her site-specific work “Trace” in front of the Smith House this week. The artist is working with a unique adhesive medium that is applied directly to the pavers in the sculpture garden.
Artist Statement
My work is concerned with memory and the tracing of time. When I see rusted steel rods at a construction site, I think of the passing of time and space. The rusted skin of the steel presents a beautiful pattern to me. It reminds me that there is an intimate past fused inside of it, and I am left with meditative euphoria. I bring this sentiment – of how the patterning of skin represents one’s inner self – to my ceramic sculptures. The relationship between the surface and the interior, to me, cannot be separated. I have found in my voice a delicate, yet crucial blend between traditional Korean surfacing methods and contemporary objects. As I continue the exploration in my work, I repeatedly ask myself: Who am I? Where have I been? Where am I going? This is my endless journey.
This project is in collaboration between the School of Art and Art History and the Arts Council of the Valley.
Sukjin installed her outdoor sculpture “Stretching Myself Toward Light” in the Smith House Courtyard last week. The sculpture will be displayed from November 1st to March 27th. Her works can be seen at the website, www.valleyarts.org.
TRUDY COLE, Professor of Graphic Design, was selected as a Gold Award Winner for her “Two Retreads Get Hitched Wedding Invitation” entry to the 39th Creativity Annual Awards. This year thousands of entries were received from all over the world and the winners selected by this year’s panel represent 36 countries and 32 U.S. states. Trudy’s entries were considered by the judges to be an example of outstanding creativity and design. The Gold Award is only given to top 10% of entries.
DAWN HACHENSKI, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, will be presenting her paper, ”The Twentieth Century Did Not Invent Graphic Design: Returning Letterpress to Design Education” at the 2010 CAA Conference in Chicago during the A Case for Letterpress session.
Dawns' book,The Prairies, has been placed in the Permanent Collection's of the New York Public Library and Brown University.JOHN OTT, Associate Professor of Art History, was awarded a 2009-2010 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship for his proposed research project "Brotherhood on Paper: Giacomo Patri and the Representation of Interracial Solidarity in the American Labor Movement". This fall he will present talks on this topic at the American Studies Association Annual Conference in Washington and at Randolph-Macon College.
John also published the article “Reform in Redface: The Taos Society of Artists Play Indian” in the Summer 2009 issue of the journal American Art.
REBECCA SILBERMAN, Assistant Professor of Art, recently exhibited "All Things Together, All Things Apart, and Everyting Left Over" in all three galleries of the Staunton Augusta Art Center in downtown Staunton, Virginia. She presented large and small works on paper, tintypes and other alternative process images along with installations featuring lens-based optical works.
GREG STEWART, Associate Professor of Art, presented his project titled "Beast or By-Product: Food Shelter Clothing" at Dean Project Space in New York City. Greg's work titled "Homesteaders" was presented at the Al Sabah Gallery in Kuwait City, Kuwait. This summer Greg contributed to the project "Flexible Geography". This project included a number of movable gardens that moved throughout Queens, New York, and then traveled to sites in Harrisonburg, ultimately converging on the front lawn of the Harrisonburg League of Therapists. The project was partly funded by grants from the Arts Council of the Valley and the Queens Council on the Arts. Greg also exhibited new drawings at SCOPE Hamptons this past July.
LISA TUBACH, Assistant Professor of Art, was invited to present a solo exhibition and public lecture at the Stalder Gallery in Falls City, NE, November 20 – December 17, 2009.
Artist residency finalist at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, summer of 2010.
Lisa will be a part of an exhibition in Paramaribo, Suriname, through the Art-In-Embassies Program in 2010. In November 2010, she will have a solo exhibition in the Ghent district of Norfolk, VA at ArtGallery (http://www.artgalleryls.net/), directed by Lorrie Saunders.
SANG YOON, Professor of Graphic Design, presented a paper titled “The Street Graphics of Seoul, Korea: An Analysis of Design Iconography and Social Relations” in July at the 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society held in Venice.
Sang served on the Fulbright Japan/Korea Review Committee on October 11-12 in Washington, D.C.
SUSAN ZURBRIGG, Associate Professor of Art, attended the annual Governors and Trustees Weekend at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Susan Zurbrigg is one of the featured artists in the September exhibition "Funktified", an exhibition that explores the visual manifestations of the Funk aesthetic, curated by Stephanie Dinkins at The Stellar Center for the Arts, University Art Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook, New York. Funkiness is an aesthetic of deliberate confusion, of uninhibited soulful behavior that remains viable because of a faith in instinct, a joy of self, and a joy of life, particularly black American life. Funk is its own reward."
The exhibition runs from September 12 - October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 7:00-9:00
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 12:00-4:00, Saturday 7:00-9:00PM
Two photography professors completed artist residencies through the Virginia Atelier at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Rebecca Silberman completed her residency in Summer 2008 and Corinne Diop just returned from the Summer 2009 residency. http://www.citedesartsparis.net/
A Graduate Faculty Exhibition will open at Capital One in Richmond on September 10, including work by Leslie Bellavance, Sukjin Choi, Corinne Diop, Rebecca Silberman, Greg Stewart, Ken Szmagaj, Lisa Tubach, and Susan Zurbrigg.
The following faculty members have been nominated for the CVPA Awards this year:
CVPA Distinguished Teacher Award: Richard Hilliard
CVPA Madison Scholar Award: John Ott
CVPA Distinguished Service Award: William Wightman
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STUDENTS
Art History Students:
Chelsea Beroza, current Art History minor, interned for the Dept of External Affairs at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Briton Camphouse, BA Art History/Studio Art (’09), has been accepted into the Arts Management Masters program at George Mason University
Amy Cerminara, Art History minor (’09), is a curatorial assistant and docent at historic Rockingham house near Princeton, New Jersey
Jaime Conner, BA Art History (’08), is a Marketing Consultant at KCM Advertising in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Taylor Krzywicki, BA Art History (’08), is a Division Specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts
Keala Mason, current BA Art History major, was accepted into and participated in the Arts and Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Delaware
Grace McNicholas, BA Art History (’08), has been accepted into Corcoran's masters program in the history of decorative arts
Graphic Design Students:
Elizabeth Swain, current BFA Studio Art (Graphic Design) major, was awarded 3rd prize in the European & International region of the 2009 Design Against Fur competition. View all winning images at http://action.humanesociety.org/site/R?i=1aa9RlOVoC2pFzqf-Yu6FA..
Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington Real Show 2009 is an annual competition giving college students the opportunity to solve real-life communication design problems. A panel of design professionals jury over the student pieces, with the winning pieces displayed in an exhibition, along with the actual real world designs. Award Winners included:
Gold Winner - Meg Syverud (Trudy Cole)
Silver Winner - Andrew Stilwell '09 (Dawn Hachenski)
Merit Winners - Joanna Cobb '09 (Dawn Hachenski)
Kathleen Coffey (Dawn Hachenski)
Jessica Drew (Trudy Cole)
Jessica Hoffman '09 (Dawn Hachenski)
Colby Smith '09 (Dawn Hachenski)
More information can be found by visiting their website at http://www.adcmw.org/
Painting & /Dawing Students:
David Modler,'09 MFA graduate, has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Modler has a solo exhibit at University of North Carolina at Greensboro opening October 2nd. He will be presenting at the North Carolina Art Education Association Convention in Winston-Salem in October, facilitating a seminar on visual journals at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching in November, and has a co-authored book on visual journals debuting in Spring 2010.
Photography Students:
Nancy Daly, ’08, has been accepted into the Photo and Electronic Media MFA Program at Maryland Institute College of Art for Fall ’09.
Katie Frichtel, '99, has a successful photography and design business, Raven + Crow Studio, in Brooklyn, NY along with her husband, Troy Farmer, '98.
http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.ravenandcrowstudio.com
Sarah Pope, ’08, has been awarded a scholarship for the MFA in Photography at SCAD Atlanta and will start Fall 09.
Katie Stoops, ’07, has established a Virginia-based commercial photography business, Open Air Photography. http://www.youropenair.com/
"Spotlight: Thomas Harrison Middle School" by the Intermediate Digital class opened at the middle school on Wednesday, November 11 and will remain on permanent display. Check in at the school office during any school hours to view the work.
Three December graduating senior graphic design major students, Anne Lindsay, Jordie Knisely, and Bethany Mix, have been offered graphic design positions from CIA.
