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 05/21/2008
SCAD awards 14 Presidential Fellowships for Faculty Development for Summer 2008
Sam Norgard, Jay's Picnic, 13" x 9.5", giclee.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Savannah College of Art and Design recently awarded prestigious Presidential Fellowships for Faculty Development for Summer 2008 to 14 professors.
SCAD presidential fellowships provide opportunities for faculty to enhance their teaching skills or contribute to professional, scholarly or creative development. The projects chosen increase student engagement, encourage the development of learning communities, apply technology to teaching, deal with diverse learning styles, involve interdisciplinary and multicultural issues, benefit students with disabilities, strengthen general education, or involve community outreach or service learning.
Contemporary advertising in outlying communities
Advertising design professor Mark Bazil will study the methods of successful contemporary advertising in small outlying communities. This endeavor is designed to provide a relevant perspective for integration within the advertising design classes, specifically alternative media and perspectives and profiles. It will exhibit a true interdisciplinary study that collaboratively engages many of the School of Communication Arts departments: advertising design, graphic design, illustration and photography.
"Jack London: Twentieth-Century Man" documentary
Liberal arts professor Kenneth Brandt will visit the Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Washington, D.C., to recover film footage of American author Jack London. This footage will provide primary material for "Jack London: Twentieth-Century Man," a multi-part PBS documentary on the life and work of thewriter currently in production. He also will conduct research at Utah State University, where he will access the original drafts of London's 1909 novel "Martin Eden." The end goal of this project is to produce a scholarly edition of the novel.
"Half-Remembered," a series of panoramic photographs
Photography professor Liz Darlington will produce and market a series of work titled "Half-Remembered." The series is composed of 15 panoramic photographs taken in a variety of locations around the world depicting spaces where people spend time together-the beach, mountains, countryside-and reference family holidays and weekend outings. Darlington also will produce a catalog of the work that will be sent to galleries, art buyers, dealers and collectors.
A novel about social and cultural issues of modern life
Professional writing professor Adam Davies will use his fellowship in support of research for his fourth novel. It will be used to research the limits of civil liberties and anti-terror protocol in urban contexts.
Prototype development for a limited edition artist book
Foundation studies professor Karen Davies will produce a sculptural artist book with movable parts, specifically a tunnel book set within a custom-built box presentation format. A tunnel book is a dynamic multi-plane expandable structure composed of two parallel accordion planes, which support a series of vertical planes presenting a tunnel-like view through their centers. The accordions and the planes suspended in between them allow several interactive "readings" by the viewer. Davies intends to design and construct an elaborate box that will mechanically present the laser-cut mandala tunnel book structure with SCAD's AutoCAD software and laser cutter.
Exhibition at Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
Foundation studies professor Heather Deyling will exhibit seven to 10 of her paintings and drawings at Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., and present an artist talk at the gallery. The exhibition will provide high-level exposure to art dealers and collectors. As a benefit to SCAD, high school guidance counselors, educators and students will be invited to the event. The exhibition is scheduled for June.
A cultural, social and anthropological approach to architecture
Architecture professor Matthew Dudzik will use the photographic lens as the method of comparative visual analysis for how architecture relates to the complex spatial, social and class relations in São Paulo, Brazil. This examination has immense potential to contribute to a cultural, social and anthropological approach to architecture, an aspect often overlooked by designers.
Demonstrating the strategic role of design management: the digital dashboard
Design management professor Christine Miller will provide an avenue for SCAD's design management students and faculty to join an interdisciplinary team of researchers in the third year of a National Science Foundation grant project. The interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners from major corporations are addressing a pressing problem: tracking and managing the diffusion of innovations across complex globally distributed organizations. The objective is to create a digital diffusion dashboard to help monitor, manage and accelerate the diffusion of innovations within a global enterprise by making use of the information that flows through corporate IT infrastructure.
Innovative sound design for the Pearl Sea project
Sound design professor Robert Miller will explore synergies between movement and sound in a dance theatre work, "The Pearl Sea," to be constructed in the city of Zhuhai, China, in July 2008. The fellowship is awarded in support of innovative sound design research in China with choreographer and artistic director Robert Wood of Robert Wood Dance New York Inc. The overall objective is to contribute technological advances in sound design to collaborative multi-disciplinary and international artistic work in the theater.
Perishable construction
Foundation studies professor Sam Norgard will explore new ideas in perishable constructions-a larger format of work similar to her series of dress images made from perishable forms of nature titled "Women are Everywhere." Formal elements will become a resource for future beaded work. They also will provide reference material for future sculptural and wearable beaded pieces.
A children's book about one of Ireland's last and greatest bards
Illustration professor Daniel Powers will write and illustrate a children's book about young Turlough O'Carolan and how he overcame devastating odds to contribute significantly to Western culture.
Boom: creating sculptures with energetic materials
 Foundation studies and sculpture professor Matthew Stromberg will explore energetic materials, specifically high explosives, as a potentially expressive and dynamic media for forming metal sculpture. This research will start with safety training by Explosives Educational Services Inc., Reno, Nev., and be created as an interdisciplinary venture with Accurate Energetic Systems LLC in Tennessee. Stromberg plans on creating five or six large sculptures.
Interdisciplinary research
Foundation studies and sculpture professor Joel Varland will collaborate with architecture professor Julie Rogers-Varland to examine the phenomenological meaning and utilization of elemental materials in traditional Japanese sculpture and architecture. The focus of their study will be how the deeply held notions of materials are translated within contemporary sculpture and architecture.
Media inquiries may be directed to 912.525.5225.
Named one of Kaplan's "25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future," the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.
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