Students in SCAD-Atlanta professor
Judy Salzinger’s branding class created an integrated marketing campaign for Jacabee Inc., a diversified children’s entertainment company.
Advertising design professor
Lindsay Hadley donated design services for the annual Samantha's House fundraiser in Indianapolis, Ind. Samantha's House provides home modifications/construction and equipment to severely disabled children whose families have no other means of support. Hadley also completed pro bono design projects for her alma mater, Franklin College, and for the Western Yearly Meeting's 150-year history book.
Animation professor
Charles daCosta delivered a paper at the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association’s annual conference in San Francisco, Calif. March 18-22. DaCosta will speak at the Society for Animation Studies conference in Bournemouth, United Kingdom July 18-22. The SAS appointed him to be historian and official photographer in February. “The Animation Bible,” published by Abrams, dedicated a section to daCosta’s work, which involves the theory and practice of animation.
“An Essential Introduction to Maya Character Rigging” by animation professor
Cheryl Cabrera (M.F.A., computer art, 2001) was published in January. 3D World Magazine called the book “a recommended resource for newcomers to character and rigging workflow.” Visit the book .
Professor
Alexis Gregory presented a poster at the 96th conference this past March. The title is “Identifying Obstacles to Professional Achievement Affecting Women in Architecture, and to Determine the Causes of High Attrition Rates in South Carolina” and is based on her thesis for her Master of Science in Architecture degree.
The awarded the Savannah College of Art and Design a
2008 NCARB Prize for the Building Systems Integration and Performance Studio, BSI+P, established and led by
Emad Afifi, professor of architecture and interim dean of the School of Building Arts.
Architecture students
Matt Kohne and
Anthony Cissell won first place at Creative Coast’s TechFest 2008 for their conceptual design of a hypothetical Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation headquarters building at Trustees Garden. This project was created for one of professor
Judith Reno’s classes.
Architecture professor
Matthew Dudzik was awarded $5,000 for a Summer Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development. 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.
Foundation studies and sculpture professor
Joel Varland received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development for a collaborative project with architecture professor
Julie Rogers-Varland. They will 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.
Professor
Ming Tang presented a paper this past March at the 96th conference in Houston, Texas. The title is “City Generator: GIS Driven Genetic Evolution in Urban Simulation” and is based on his research in conjunction with the interactive design and game development department at SCAD.
The
School of Building Arts advisory board met with SCAD students and faculty April 30, May 1 and May 2. Board members in attendance were Karen L. League, ASID, senior vice president of in Atlanta, Ga.; Christy S. Cain, IIDA, RID, LEED AP, senior associate at in Atlanta; and new member, Janine James, president of in New York City.
Professors
Dihua Yang and
Ming Tang received honorable mention recognition in the “” competition for their design titled “The Landwalker.”
Art history professor
Anne Swartz, Ph.D., was the guest curator for "Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985" at Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y. The exhibition was on display Oct. 27, 2007-Jan. 20, 2008. Read the .
Cinema studies graduate student
Hanna Frostman and professor
Tracy Cox-Stanton presented papers at Florida State University's 33rd Annual Film and Literature Conference in Tallahassee.
Writer and director
Roger Rawlings, also a SCAD cinema studies professor, has a film in preproduction titled “Let It Be.” The film is about a fictional band, played by the real Atlanta quartet the Black Lips. Film producer and fellow SCAD professor
Andrew Meyer of “The Breakfast Club” and “Fried Green Tomatoes” fame is on board with the project. Read the March 10
articlefrom The New York Sun.
Fashion professor
Doris Treptow met with six students from local high schools as part of the Junior Achievement organization’s Job Shadow Day Feb. 4. Treptow conducted a department tour for the students, showed a DVD of the fashion show, and answered interview questions presented by each visiting student.
At the request of the Georgia Historical Society, technical sewing specialist
Melissa White created historical costumes for the 275th Anniversary Parade celebrating the founding of Savannah Feb. 11. White created 20 costumes for men and women.
A Feb. 28 on WTVM in Columbus, Ga., featured an interview with fashion professor
Sarah Collins during a story on counterfeit handbags.
FOX Business News interviewed fashion department chair
Anthony Miller Feb. 4 regarding the life cycle of fashion trends. Miller’s quotes appeared in “The Journey From Runway to Knockoff” on Feb. 7.
Neda Ulaby profiled SCAD fashion seniors preparing for the
2008 Fashion Show in a National Public Radio Morning News segment May 6. Students interviewed include
Hattie Saltonstall,
Andrea McLeod and
Jessica Ostermann. Fashion department chair
Anthony Miller was also interviewed. Listen to the audio version
here.
Fibers instructor
Jennifer Jenkins (M.F.A., fibers, 2006) opens a solo exhibition titled “I Practice Gymnastics Every Day” at Harper College, Palatine, Ill. New York-based stationary company Galison used some of Jenkins’ quilt designs for its “Contemporary Quilts” .
Fibers chair
Cayewah Easley and professors
Liz Sargent,
Doris Louie and
Jessica Smith attended the University of the Arts symposium “Materiality and Meaning: A New Understanding of Fiber and Textiles in Contemporary Art and Culture” March 6-9 in Philadelphia.
Fibers professor
Jessica Smith’s work was included in the Walker Art Center’s exhibition, “Worlds Away: A New Suburban Landscape” in Minneapolis, and her installation for the National Design Triennial: Design Life Now, is included in the traveling exhibition on display through April 20 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Smith’s designs also are included in the April issue of Print magazine, in an article by Claire Lui titled “People of the Cloth.”
SCAD fibers and furniture design students will present their project for Union Mission’s Growing Hope project at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair May 17-20. The project’s goal is to provide sustainable bedding solutions for people in non-traditional living situations.
SCAD’s
Working Class Studio won “best booth presentation” at the New York International Gift Fair, held Feb. 1-6 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Judges called the booth design “energetic and youthful.”
Printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a suite of three intaglio prints that relate to his body of work “Rapture.” The printing assistants were graphic design student Jessica Lovell and fibers student Lauren Vass.
Writer and director
Roger Rawlings, also a SCAD cinema studies professor, has a film in preproduction titled “Let It Be.” The film is about a fictional band, played by the real Atlanta quartet the Black Lips. Film producer and fellow SCAD professor
Andrew Meyer of “The Breakfast Club” and “Fried Green Tomatoes” fame is on board with the project. Read the March 10
articlefrom The New York Sun.
Foundation studies and sculpture professor
Joel Varland received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development for a collaborative project with architecture professor
Julie Rogers-Varland. They will 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.
Dale Clifford, a foundation studies professor at SCAD-Atlanta, is one of three winners of the 2007 Print Show whose new work is being exhibited at Asylum Gallery in Sacramento, Calif., April 19 – May 18.
SCAD-Atlanta professor Larry Anderson curated “SCAD at the EDGE,” an exhibition of work by SCAD-Atlanta seniors and graduate students, at the Vaknin Gallery.
Dale Clifford was named one of the three best artists in the National Juried Print Show. His work, as well as that of the other two winners, is on display through May 18 at Asylum Gallery in Sacramento, Calif.
Sam Norgard received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development to explore new ideas in perishable constructions. In this work, similar to her series “Women are Everywhere,” which featured dress images made from perishable forms of nature, formal elements will become a resource for future beaded work. They also will provide reference material for future sculptural and wearable beaded pieces.
Heather Deyling received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development to exhibit up to 10 of her paintings and drawings at Infusion Gallery in Los Angeles in June and to present an artist talk.
Karen Davies received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development to produce a sculptural artist’s book with movable parts. She plans to use SCAD’s AutoCAD software and laser cutter to design and construct an elaborate box that will mechanically present a laser-cut mandala tunnel book structure.
Matthew Stromberg will explore energetic materials, specifically high explosives, as potentially expressive and dynamic media for forming metal sculpture. His research will start with safety training by Explosives Educational Services Inc. in Reno, Nev., and the work will be created as an interdisciplinary venture with Accurate Energetic Systems LLC in Tennessee. Stromberg plans to create five or six large sculptures.
SCAD fibers and furniture design students will present their project for Union Mission’s Growing Hope project at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair May 17-20. The project’s goal is to provide sustainable bedding solutions for people in non-traditional living situations.
SCAD’s
Working Class Studio won “best booth presentation” at the New York International Gift Fair, held Feb. 1-6 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Judges called the booth design “energetic and youthful.”
Chief academic officer Tom Fischer has released the first edition of his book "Paradise/Paradox," a collection of photographs including images of places revered for their perfection of form, historic cultural landscapes and views of paradise lost. The book was designed by
Leslie Geer (B.F.A., graphic design, 1992). For more information, visit the
Web site.
Printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a suite of three intaglio prints that relate to his body of work “Rapture.” The printing assistants were graphic design student Jessica Lovell and fibers student Lauren Vass.
Chief academic officer Tom Fischer has released the first edition of his book "Paradise/Paradox," a collection of photographs including images of places revered for their perfection of form, historic cultural landscapes and views of paradise lost. The book was designed by
Leslie Geer (B.F.A., graphic design, 1992). For more information, visit the
Web site.
Nonprofit organization Harambee House partnered with professor
Scott Boylston’s Poster Design class during winter quarter to promote a lead poisoning awareness campaign, and will print 5,000 copies of the winning poster. The class will exhibit all campaign posters May 1-5 at Dimensions Gallery, 412 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. A reception will take place May 3, 7-9 p.m.
Graphic design professor
Scott Boylston was accepted into the 2008-09 class of the Institute for
Georgia Environmental Leadership, a leadership program that selects a small group of professionals each year from across Georgia to facilitate dialog and collaboration designed to improve the conditions of the state’s natural environment.
Printmaking professor Eun Lee and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a collaborative suite of 13 photo-lithographic prints. Printing assistants were printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and illustration student Ben Stanley, graphic design students Ned Drummond and Melissa Turner, and graphic design and printmaking student Ryan Place. The prints were part Locke’s concluding exhibition,
“Rapture/New Work,” on display at Hall Street Gallery in Savannah April 4-28.
Historic preservation professor
Jim Abraham was profiled in the newsletter for his work restoring the Kennedy Pharmacy building on Broughton Street. The interview discusses the scope of the work and his students’ role in the project.
Printmaking professor Eun Lee and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a collaborative suite of 13 photo-lithographic prints. Printing assistants were printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and illustration student Ben Stanley, graphic design students Ned Drummond and Melissa Turner, and graphic design and printmaking student Ryan Place. The prints were part Locke’s concluding exhibition,
“Rapture/New Work,” on display at Hall Street Gallery in Savannah April 4-28.
Work by
Lauren E. Rolwing, illustration senior, was accepted to the Society of Illustrators online exhibition, which features the best advertising, institutional and non-commissioned illustrations of the year, as well as the Teatrio Cultural Association of Venice’s international competition and traveling exhibition "Ghosts and Get Aways." Rolwing will visit Venice this summer with SCAD professor
Julie Mueller-Brown for a portfolio review by experts in the illustration and publishing fields.
Illustration professor
Mohamed Danawi’s work was selected out of hundreds of entries to be featured on the September 2008 issue of Applied Arts magazine. The issue is the magazine’s Design Annual and features winners of the publication’s photo and illustration awards. Two of his posters received awards and will be featured in the magazine.
SCAD’s
Working Class Studio won “best booth presentation” at the New York International Gift Fair, held Feb. 1-6 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Judges called the booth design “energetic and youthful.”
Professor
Ming Tang presented a paper this past March at the 96th conference in Houston, Texas. The title is “City Generator: GIS Driven Genetic Evolution in Urban Simulation” and is based on his research in conjunction with the interactive design and game development department at SCAD.
Interactive design and game development professor
Brenda Brathwaite was elected to the board of the
Interactive Game Developers Association. Escapist magazine posted an
article by Brathwaite, titled “The Game Design Game,” to its Web site Feb. 26.
Interactive design and game development professor
Andrew Hieronymi represented SCAD at Laval Virtual trade fair in France April 9-13. Read Hieronymi's .
The
School of Building Arts advisory board met with SCAD students and faculty April 30, May 1 and May 2. Board members in attendance were Karen L. League, ASID, senior vice president of in Atlanta, Ga.; Christy S. Cain, IIDA, RID, LEED AP, senior associate at in Atlanta; and new member, Janine James, president of in New York City.
SCAD’s
Working Class Studio won “best booth presentation” at the New York International Gift Fair, held Feb. 1-6 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Judges called the booth design “energetic and youthful.”
Printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a suite of three intaglio prints that relate to his body of work “Rapture.” The printing assistants were graphic design student Jessica Lovell and fibers student Lauren Vass.
Painting professor
Deborah Mosch is a juror on the selection committee for
Ugallery.com, which “offers affordable, original artwork to buyers interested in emerging talent while providing a platform for young artists to exhibit their art for sale and launch their careers.”
• Josh Yu’s Chinese Painting students presented the 12th annual “Bridge” exhibition March 20 - April 1.
Painting faculty alumnus Michael Rich has an exhibition, “Michael Rich,” at the George Billis Gallery in New York March 25 - April 26.
Suzanne Jackson is holding an exhibition April 11, 6:30 p.m., at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Ga. Tickets can be purchased by calling 229.439.400 or visiting the
Web site.
Sandra Reed has her “Exhibition of Paintings” on display at the Rosewood at 113 E. Oglethorpe Ave. in Savannah, Ga., through April 25. The opening reception will be held April 11, 6-8 p.m., and an artist talk and brown bag lunch are scheduled April 16, noon.
Sandra Reed had two paintings accepted into the LaGrange National XXV 2008 at the LaGrange Art Museum in Lagrange, Ga. Jeffrey Grove, curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, juried the exhibition. Reed's works were among 65 selected for the exhibition from 785 submissions. Grove chose Reed's painting "Parking Stripes" for one of five Juror's Awards. The painting was also selected for purchase for the museum's permanent collection and will be featured in the exhibition catalog. The exhibition is on display through April 24.
Craig Drennen has an exhibition, “Random Cinder Blocks Digitally Mastered,” on display at the 2 Car Garage Gallery on the corner of Broughton and Whitaker streets in Savannah, Ga. The opening reception is scheduled April 11, 6-8 p.m., and the exhibition runs through April 28th.
Samson Projects Gallery featured "
Craig Drennen and Taylor Davis" at the NEXT Art Fair, part of Art Chicago, April 25-27. Drennen showed four of the "Mistresses of Alcibiades" from his new project, "Timon of Athens."
Brett Osborn, SCAD-Atlanta academic director for the School of Fine Arts, exhibited work in the Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Tenn., through April 3. His connection to SCAD was mentioned in a Tennesseean.com
review of the exhibition.
Morgan Santander was a guest artist at the Jepson Center April 27. Paintings and prints from his “Beyond Reconstitution” series were displayed.
Chief academic officer Tom Fischer has released the first edition of his book "Paradise/Paradox," a collection of photographs including images of places revered for their perfection of form, historic cultural landscapes and views of paradise lost. The book was designed by
Leslie Geer (B.F.A., graphic design, 1992). For more information, visit the
Web site.
SCAD-Atlanta photography professor
Kael Alford spoke about her experiences as a photojournalist in Iraq at Utica College in Utica, N.Y., April 10 as the first speaker in the college’s series “Imaging Reality: Journalism, Cinema and Photography.”
Students
Silas Breaux, Jenna DiGiore, Jay Fox and Sarabeth Noggle and professor
Robert Brown are involved in a pen pal project with Artists for Charity, a nonprofit organization in Ethiopia operated by alumna
Abezash Tamerat (B.F.A., photography, 2005). The SCAD students are using drawings made by HIV-positive orphans to create editions of prints, which will be shipped back to Ethiopia and sold to raise funds for the organization. The pen pal project has been supported with donations from the SCAD printmaking department and Utrecht Art Supplies. For more information, visit .
Printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a suite of three intaglio prints that relate to his body of work “Rapture.” The printing assistants were graphic design student Jessica Lovell and fibers student Lauren Vass.
Printmaking professor Eun Lee and painting department visiting artist Steve Locke completed a collaborative suite of 13 photo-lithographic prints. Printing assistants were printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins and illustration student Ben Stanley, graphic design students Ned Drummond and Melissa Turner, and graphic design and printmaking student Ryan Place. The prints were part Locke’s concluding exhibition,
“Rapture/New Work,” on display at Hall Street Gallery in Savannah April 4-28.
Students
Silas Breaux, Jenna DiGiore, Jay Fox and Sarabeth Noggle and professor
Robert Brown are involved in a pen pal project with Artists for Charity, a nonprofit organization in Ethiopia operated by alumna
Abezash Tamerat (B.F.A., photography, 2005). The SCAD students are using drawings made by HIV-positive orphans to create editions of prints, which will be shipped back to Ethiopia and sold to raise funds for the organization. The pen pal project has been supported with donations from the SCAD printmaking department and Utrecht Art Supplies. For more information, visit .
Cynthia Lollis led a letterpress workshop for graphic design students from SCAD-Savannah April 26. Students learned the basics of setting type and printed verses from poems they had selected beforehand.
SCAD-Atlanta professor Cynthia Lollis hosted a book-making workshop during “Variant Hues: Art, Design and Teaching with Artists’ Books” at SCAD-Atlanta. Lollis, bookmaking partner Daniella Deeg, and printshop technician Lindsay Appel guided participants through the entire process of printing and binding an artist’s book.
Deborah Oden was invited to participate in the World Washi Summit in Toronto, June 7-15. Anderson Ranch will publish a book of her work in 2009 and has invited her to teach at the ranch during Summer 2009. She also has been invited to be part of the 2009 China Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition, Symposium and Tour. Her work was exhibited in “Inkling” during the Southern Graphics Council 2008 Conference in Richmond, Va., March 26-30.
Eun Lee was invited to the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., as a visiting artist April 11-15. She is working with a lithography class to create an original editioned print and exhibiting a suite of prints at the Corcoran Museum of Art.
Curtis Bartone will have two solo exhibitions, “Variations of Order” at the Durham Arts Council in Durham, N.C., May 17 – July 20; and “Any Given Moment” at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta May 23 – June 22.
Robert Brown and Cynthia Lollis conducted and filmed printmaking demonstrations in etching and serigraphy April 11-13. The segments will be used for recruitment, helping to shed light on printmaking processes for prospective students.
Robert Brown took a group of printmaking students to the High Museum May 2 to view and discuss the museum’s permanent collection of prints.
The third
International Experimental Engraving Biennial in Mogosoaia, Romania, will include artwork by printmaking professor
Debora Oden. The show runs March 15–May 15 at the Brancovan Palaces Cultural Center. Other work by Oden will be included in the exhibition for the LaGrange National XXV Biennial Competition in Georgia; the Manifest's International Drawing Annual 2007 exhibition in Cincinnati, Ohio; an alumni exhibition at the University of Nebraska; and the Turman Larison Contemporary Print Invitational in Helena, Mo.
At the Southern Graphics Council 2008 Conference in Richmond, Va., Eun Lee served as vice president of outreach for the Southern Graphics Council’s executive board meeting March 26 in Richmond; presented an annual report at the general membership meeting March 27; and announced student fellowship award winners at a ceremony March 28.
At the first-ever Writer's Assembly at SCAD-Savannah April 14, professional writing professor
Adam Davies read an excerpt from his third novel “Mine All Mine.” Davies' other books, “The Frog King” and “Goodbye Lemon,” also are available at bookstores nationwide. Author and screenwriter David Benioff reviewed “Mine All Mine”: “If Raymond Chandler had a deranged sense of humor, if Nick Hornby dabbled in thrillers, if Philip K. Dick were not dead—they might have collaborated on a book as strange and strangely wonderful as ‘Mine All Mine’. A rollicking, rocking good read.” Read .
Foundation studies and sculpture professor
Joel Varland received a summer SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development for a collaborative project with architecture professor
Julie Rogers-Varland. They will 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.
Matthew Stromberg will explore energetic materials, specifically high explosives, as potentially expressive and dynamic media for forming metal sculpture. His research will start with safety training by Explosives Educational Services Inc. in Reno, Nev., and the work will be created as an interdisciplinary venture with Accurate Energetic Systems LLC in Tennessee. Stromberg plans to create five or six large sculptures.
Work by professor Steve Jarvis is featured in : Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture No. 10: Sustainability.
Andrea Bell, sequential art M.F.A. candidate, recently released her debut novel, “The Wendy That Stayed,” published by KaviDog Press with a cover illustration by sequential art professor
Julie Collins-Rousseau. Her book can be ordered here: www.kavidogpress.com.
SCAD-Atlanta sequential art professor
Roy Richardson and his wife, comic artist June Brigman, were hired by the Kuwait-based comics publisher Teshkeel to do the art for the company's style guide. "Most of their characters are teenagers, so they wanted a team that could produce drawings that actually look like young people, something we have a bit of experience with," said Richardson. The duo recently produced the graphic novel adaptation of the classic novel "Black Beauty."
The final fill-in episode of the “Around Comics” podcast, created by
Jeremy Mullins’ graduate Online Comics class, was posted April 2. Students spoke to comic artist James Kochalka about a wide variety of industry-related topics. Listen to the
podcast online.
The Southeastern College Art Conference accepted a paper by teaching professor
Debra Ambush, Ph.D., to present at the annual conference Sept. 24–27 in New Orleans. Ambush also will assist in the Advanced Placement Presentations for the 2009 National Art Education Association conference in Minneapolis.
Professors
Dihua Yang and
Ming Tang received honorable mention recognition in the “” competition for their design titled “The Landwalker.”
Visual effects professor
Hal Miles' animated film “The Madness of Being” continues to make the rounds on the film festival circuit. Next up, the film screens at the Atlanta Film Festival April 10-19. The Atlanta Film Festival is an Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Science-sanctioned film festival, which means that the winning entries from each category, including the professional animation division Miles' film is in, will automatically meet the submission requirements for the 2009 Academy Awards competition. Miles' film also screens May 8 at the first Cindigenous event sponsored by the Savannah Film Commission at the Jepson Center in Savannah, Ga.
