Above: Art students at the Kim Schoenstadt reveal of Joshua Luther’s Meaning. The students pulled off the vinyl drawing that the artist had placed on the black wall and visitors were asked to add their colored chalk creations (which the museum painted in later) over the original drawing. The students also pulled off the letters
Kimmy Kirkwood a BFA Graphic Design 10′ alum is currently a Junior Art Director at VOX and an Associate Owner/Design at Kimmy Design. She’s creating some of her own fonts under Kimmy Design and has created three font families that are available on fonts.com. To view and purchase her fonts you can go to: http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/searchresults.htm?foundry=Kimmy+Design
If you’re interested in Art History, read this intriguing article in the Washington Post that portrays the relevance between humanities and education. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-art-history-majors-power-the-us-economy/2012/01/06/gIQAUv36hP_blog.html
Check out the review of Everyman’s Infinite Art Exhibit in the Los Angeles Times! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/pst-a-to-z-everymans-infinite-art-guggenheim.html#more
A review of the Measure for Measure exhibit that features professor Micol Hebron’s work is in the online Boston Globe. Check it out! http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/07/nakadate-videos-enthrall-and-sadden/UhXSbYURgwKAnKvI4d7KPO/story.html
Tavish Ryan (BFA in Graphic Design ’13) was awarded an undergraduate research grant for a design and cognitive research collaboration which will take place in Santa Barbara, CA this Spring. The study will measure cognitive recall performance on a wayshowing evacuation map designed by Professor Claudine Jaenichen for the Santa Barbara Emergency Management Department.
Stephen Berens, an art faculty member, will have his work showcased in REFOCUS: Multicultural Focus. This exhibit is a participating gallery in the Pacific Standard Time and consists of current photography work done by nineteen of the artists from the original Multicultural Focus exhibition. “In 1981 the exhibition Multicultural Focus was mounted at Los Angeles
We hope everyone had an amazing break and a happy 2012 New Year!Interterm has begun and therefore the blog has started up again as well. Because of the break we will have a good number of posts coming through so don’t hesitate to check the blog a little more often than usual this week.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. Project X, co-founded by Art Professor Stephen Berens, is one of the grantees and will receive funding to publish four issues of the art journal X-TRA in 2012. The 863 grant
Faculty members, Stephen Berens and Micol Hebron, are participating in “Immaterial and Proposals” which is a reading of artworks that exist in description only and is Inspired by the Artist’s Project in the new winter issue, the editors of X-TRA. The evening’s readings will be a mix of historical and contemporary works: outlined ideas and proposals for imagined