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Published: Dec 27, 2010

BURNAWAY, an Atlanta-based online magazine dedicated to fostering "engaged dialogue about the arts," asked a panel of distinguished guests to select their favorite arts events in the Georgia capital during 2010, and four of the nine that made the cut featured SCAD students and alumni.

"I'm really delighted with the involvement of our SCAD students, alumni and faculty in the Atlanta arts community," said P.J. Johnson, vice president for SCAD Atlanta. "It's great to see their work recognized in some of Atlanta's best art and design events.

"Atlanta is fast-paced and diverse, and we are glad to be a part of the city's dynamic art scene."

Gyun Hur (M.F.A., sculpture, 2009), recently named the 2010 Hudgens Prize recipient, was included in the best-of-2010 list for "repose," her exhibition at Get This! Gallery. Creative Loafing arts and entertainment editor Debbie Michaud praised the show as "a brilliant exercise in physical and metaphorical layers, simultaneously exploring celebration, mourning and rebirth."

Dorian McDuffie, the city of Atlanta's Public Art Program supervisor, selected "How to Break Up with Yourself," a group exhibit at the Dewberry Gallery of SCAD featuring Serene Al-kawas (M.F.A., photography, 2010), Seana Reilly (B.F.A., painting, 2010), Brian Steele (M.F.A. advertising student), Jonathan Terranova (M.F.A., painting, 2010) and Marcia Vaitsman (M.F.A. photography student). The artists, McDuffie wrote, "created an environment of self-reflection and contemplation by looking outward rather than inward" and "spoke through their personal experience, giving us a perspective that we would not otherwise have."

"Living Walls: The City Speaks," public murals created around Atlanta by more than 50 influential street artists during the Living Walls Conference, also made the list. Jason Kofke (M.F.A., painting, 2010; B.F.A., painting, 2005) participated in the well-received exhibition.

Rebecca Dimling Cochran, who writes for Art in America, Artforum.com, ArtsCriticATL.com and other publications, chose Micah and Whitney Stansell's "Between You and Me" - a five-channel video projection commissioned for Flux Project's one-night public art event on Oct. 1, 2010. Micah and Whitney (M.F.A., painting, 2008) "have clearly raised the bar for public art presented in this city," Cochran wrote.

Read the full BURNAWAY article, "Our Favorite Things: Best of Atlanta art events of 2010."