May 20, 2013
Philip Liu, M.F.A. visual effects student and SCAD alumnus (B.A., digital media, 2011) and
Joseph Lenz, M.A. visual effects student and SCAD alumnus (B.F.A., visual effects, 2011) were recognized by the game company Naughty Dog for game art created submitted to a Fan Art Competition based on their upcoming game
"The Last of Us." This project was created in an independent study with
Luis Cataldi, chair of the SCAD interactive design and game development. See
full game art.
May 14, 2013
SCAD professor Craig Stevens, a photographer, printmaker and educator, has received the inaugural $5,000 Susan Carr Educator Prize from the American Society of Media Photographers. Stevens has taught photography at SCAD for 25 years.
May 8, 2013
"Baby You're a Rich Man," a book by writing professor
Chris Bundy, has been published by C&R Press. The book, illustrated by SCAD alumnus
Max Currie (B.F.A., sequential art, 2012), follows the story of Ken Richman, a down-on-his-luck, B-level variety star on Japanese television who is forced to go into hiding when he becomes the target of an escaped prisoner. "Baby You're a Rich Man" will be released in May.
May 8, 2013
B.F.A. fashion student
Katherine Absher was named the
2013 Liz Claiborne Design Scholar by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The prestigious $25,000 award is presented each year to the student who best addresses through fashion the lifestyle and needs of women, as judged by a panel of fashion industry experts.
May 8, 2013
M.A. furniture design student
Laney Builteman (B.F.A., interior design, 2009) and M.F.A. industrial design student
Jamie Bowerman (B.F.A., graphic design, 2004; M.A., industrial design, 2012) are finalists in the Battery Park Conservancy's "
Build a Chair: America's Design Competition." The top 50 designs, including Builteman's and Bowerman's design, "Chair for Battery Park," were selected by a world-renowned jury from more than 1,500 designers from 15 countries across the Americas. The winner will be announced in November; voting for the competition is open until October. The winning design will be installed in Battery Park in New York City. To view the finalists' work and to vote for a winner, visit the competition's
website.
May 2, 2013
Architecture professor Ryan Bacha has been awarded the Vulcan Materials Company Teaching Excellence Award. This annual award recognizes an outstanding faculty member at a Georgia Independent College Association member institution who has made outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, student learning and campus life.
Apr 29, 2013
B.F.A. performing arts student KC Van Elslander, B.F.A. photography student Sarah Borst and B.F.A. performing arts student Regan Taylor have accepted positions as casting interns at CBS in New York City.
Apr 29, 2013
B.F.A. performing arts student AJ Jennings was hired as a casting intern at Paskal Rudnicke Casting in Chicago.
Apr 29, 2013
Ivey Lowe (B.F.A., performing arts, 2012) is a casting assistant for "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" in New York.
Apr 29, 2013
Performing arts professor
Sharon Ott directed "Much Ado About Nothing" at Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland.
Read a review of the performance.
Apr 29, 2013
Kelly Rogers (B.F.A., performing arts, 2011) has accepted a position with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
Apr 29, 2013
B.F.A. film and television student Kamille Dawkins and B.F.A. performing arts student Ron King have secured internships with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Dawkins and King will intern for a year at The Rep, a nearly 60-year-old theater company that produces 11 plays a season.
Apr 29, 2013
B.F.A. performing arts student Ryan Ortega has accepted an internship with Atlanta, Georgia-based Serenbe Playhouse.
Apr 29, 2013
B.F.A. performing arts student Ian Mather has secured an internship with the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Apr 24, 2013
Art history professor Arthur J. DiFuria, Ph.D., published his review of "Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw," the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum. DiFuria is completing a comprehensive review of the extensive group of drawings prepared by Maerten van Heemskerck during his time in Rome. DiFuria previously received a Presidential Fellowship to advance his research devoted to the Flemish artist.
Apr 22, 2013
The SCAD Bees won the 2013 National Women's Lacrosse League Tournament for the second consecutive year, defeating top-seeded Indiana Tech. SCAD Bee Kayla Nelson was named tournament Most Valuable Player after scoring nine goals to break the NWLL Championship record.
Apr 22, 2013
Mike Goubeaux (B.F.A., video/film, 2006) directed a commercial spot for eBay's Russian launch. His production company,
mikeg.tv, collaborated with eBay, Director's Film Company and DDB/DDB Tribal for the spot.
Apr 18, 2013
Writing department chair Beth Concepcion wrote "It Takes Two" for Savannah Homes magazine (Spring/Summer 2013).
Apr 18, 2013
Writing professor James Lough will present a lecture at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton St., in Savannah on Sunday, April 21, at 4 p.m. During the lecture, titled "New York's Notorious Chelsea Hotel: An Oral History," Lough will share excerpts from his forthcoming book on the Chelsea Hotel and discuss the process of interviewing former residents and compiling and organizing the interviews into a single narrative. This lecture is part of the 2013 Gulfstream Spring Lecture Series.
Apr 18, 2013
B.F.A. writing student
Danielle Austin wrote a column for the Savannah Morning News. The piece, titled " Unfashionable: Racism on runways," was featured in the Monday, April 15 print edition and
online.
Apr 10, 2013
B.F.A. writing student Taylor Kigar won first place in the first Writers' Studio Writing Contest for her piece, "Wives' Tale."
Apr 10, 2013
B.F.A. writing student
John Young wrote numerous
articles for Georgia Public Broadcasting as part of his Winter 2013 internship.
Apr 10, 2013
Rachael Schultz (B.F.A., writing, 2011) is now an editorial intern at Men's Health magazine.
Apr 10, 2013
Kristina Wagner Stilb (B.F.A., writing, 2010) owns her own marketing and public relations company, Blits Creative Services, and also serves as marketing and public relations director for Sugar Hill Animal Hospital in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
Mar 29, 2013
Interior design professor Khoi Vo was selected to participate in "Houston Interior Designers: How Texans Touched the World," a juried exhibition of work from top Texas interior design firms, organized by American Institute of Architects and the Houston chapter of the International Interior Design Association. As a panel member, Vo discussed the future of architecture and design education, shared information about the SCAD School of Building Arts, and presented work from the Collaborative Learning Center.
Mar 26, 2013
Interior design professors Meghan Woodcock, Margo Jones and Monica Letourneau took Interior Design Studio V students to Atlanta to tour the firms of Cooper Carry, tvsdesign, Perkins+Will, and Stanley Beaman & Sears, as well the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center.
Mar 26, 2013
Interior design professor
Charles Boggs attended the
Interior Design Educators Council's national conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, as a panel discussion leader. His topic was the codification of green building practices and the interior design profession's role in shaping future green building standards. Boggs, the grants committee chair for the organization, coordinates the review, approval and administration of grants funded by IDEC.
Mar 26, 2013
HALCON designer
Rodrigo Buelvas (M.A., interior design, 2010) and his team's design,
MESA Conference, was selected as the best product of the year by Interior Design magazine.
Mar 26, 2013
B.F.A. historic preservation students
Jordan Hodges and
Whitney Crawford have made surprising discoveries about Savannah's oldest church organ. Created by renowned organ maker Henry Erban, it was given to First African Baptist Church, the oldest African-American Baptist congregation in the United States, in 1888. The students' research was done as part of their Material Culture course and will support the congregation's fundraising efforts for the organ's restoration.
Read more about the students' discovery.
Mar 25, 2013
B.F.A. sequential art student Samantha Reveley will further her minor in art history by attending the graduate program in art history and museum studies at Case Western Reserve University, where she will concentrate on medieval art.
Mar 13, 2013
M.F.A. dramatic writing student
Nate Harpel was selected as one of four finalists to compete in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Competition in Washington, D.C. He has been invited to participate in the KCACTF's residency program, which will culminate with a performance of his 10-minute play, "Like Pigeons," in April 2013 at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Read
Harpel's screenplay on his blog.
Mar 12, 2013
While an intern at ad agency Brunner, SCAD M.F.A. motion media design student Mina Valizadeh developed the idea, design, storyboarding, illustration and animation for a commercial for the Hollywood Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project won a 2013 ADDY Award.
Mar 11, 2013
Michael Betancourt, SCAD motion media professor and graduate coordinator, wrote "The History of Motion Graphics: From Avant-Garde to Industry in the United States." The book is now in print and available on
amazon.com.
Mar 8, 2013
Art history professor Scott Budzynski will present his research "Narrative Space and Neorealist Milan" at the American Association of Italian Studies Annual Conference in Eugene, Oregon. Budzynski will join leading scholars for a panel devoted to Italian cinema. His work contributes to courses devoted to picturing the modern and contemporary city.
Mar 7, 2013
M.F.A. furniture design students Kai-ning Huang and Francy Jones, along with B.F.A. furniture design students Paul D'Errico and Christian Dunbar, were among eight finalists chosen in the 2012-2013 Bienenstock Furniture Design Competition. Huang won first place in the competition and received a $10,000 prize.
Feb 28, 2013
Catherine Lyndsey Lewis (B.F.A., fashion, 2005) worked for Nike as a color adviser. She has now moved back to Atlanta, Georgia, and works as a color manager at Spanx.
Feb 28, 2013
Carlos Estrada (B.F.A., industrial design, 2012) interned at Soldier Design, a design agency in Boston, and worked with such companies as New Balance, Burton and Forum Snowboards.
Feb 28, 2013
Kristen Graves (B.F.A., advertising, 2011) was hired by DiMassimo Goldstein as a junior account planner after interning at DIGO.
Feb 28, 2013
Vi Nguyen (B.F.A., animation, 2012) worked as a lighting/rendering artist for Ronin Film on the Web series
"The New Kind."
Feb 28, 2013
Ashley Tipton (B.F.A., graphic design, 2012) completed an internship with Miller Zell, where she worked on environmental design for retail spaces and is now designing on the Worldwide Licensee Team at the Coca-Cola Co.
Feb 28, 2013
A packaging design project by
Emi Knight (B.F.A., graphic design student) was featured on
Packaging of the World.
Feb 21, 2013
Applied Arts magazine published "Birds in Chase" by Ryan James (B.F.A., illustration, 2012) in the .
Feb 21, 2013
Allison Howle (B.F.A., animation, 2012) has fulfilled her ultimate goal to be a director at an animation company. She began as an intern with Ghost Productions Inc. - a medical animation company that focuses on story-driven entertainment - and was hired after 90 days as a full-time director.
Feb 21, 2013
Upon graduation, Micah Ward (B.F.A., graphic design, 2012) accepted an internship at Soldier Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has since been offered a full-time position. He is now working on everything from branding to photo shoots and infographics.
Feb 21, 2013
Bridget Hildebrandt (B.F.A., illustration, 2012) accepted a position as a graphic designer at 511 Capital in Chicago, Illinois.
Feb 21, 2013
Allison Bietsch (B.F.A., interior design, 2012) is a full-time design assistant at Roger Ferris + Partners in Westport, Connecticut.
Feb 21, 2013
Emily Hum (B.F.A., illustration, 2012) works at Revolver Studios in San Francisco, California, creating illustrations and logo designs as well as contributing on Web design and social media projects.
Feb 21, 2013
Susan Kemp (B.F.A., writing, 2012) is working in the project edit department at Oxmoor House, the Time Inc. lifestyle group's publishing house. Oxmoor House produces books for the Southern lifestyle brands Cooking Light, Southern Living and Coastal Living.
Feb 21, 2013
Neil Huber (M.F.A., film and television, 2012) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, as a
freelance video editor.
Feb 21, 2013
Amber Moralis (M.A., photography, 2012) runs freelance wedding and portrait photography business,
ADG Photography, in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, and continues to develop fine art projects.
Feb 21, 2013
Jamie Gall (M.A., arts administration, 2012) was named the executive director of the Art League of Hilton Head. Gall works as the program manager for the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry's Public Art and serves as a board member for Rise Up Gallery of Rise Up to Cure Paralysis in Miami, Florida.