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Visiting Lecture
Series, Spring 2008
This semester the Department of Art will welcome the following individuals
to campus to present a public lecture on their creative activities.
J. Bradley Adams*
Adams holds a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the Yale School of Art at
Yale University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Tyler School
of Art at Temple University. He has exhibited in solo and group venues in North
America, Europe and Asia. His career includes teaching art at the primary, secondary
and university levels in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Additionally,
he has served as a cultural specialist for the U.S. State Department in Moldova,
Syria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Currently, Adams is an associate professor of
art at Berry College, where he teaches painting, drawing, print-making and design. To
view samples of his studio practice click
here.
Public Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 14th; 7:00pm; 203 Garland Hall
Jack Earl
Earl's satirical and humorous ceramic works are in the collections of the American
Craft Museum in New York, the Koler Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the National Museum of American Art and numerous other public and private collections.
His work will be on view during the month of February in the Sarah Moody Gallery
of Art in Garland Hall. To view samples of his studio practice click
here.
Public Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 28h; 6:30pm; TBA
Wendy Deschene*
DesChene was born in Canada, but has lived and study in many
parts of the world, including San Francisco, Montreal, Vancouver,
Philadelphia, Rome Italy, South Florida and Alabama. As she cannot
choose a favorite town let alone country, she now splits her
time between Auburn, Toronto and New York, NY, with her two pet
rabbits, Lucious and Cooter. After graduating from Tyler School
of Art in Philadelphia with a MFA in painting she began to show
and lecture in earnest. She has been in shows in North America,
Europe and Japan. She is currently an assistant professor of
art at Auburn University.
To view samples of her studio practice click
here.
Public Lecture: Thursday, April 10th; 7:00pm; 203 Garland Hall
*These lectures are sponsored by the painting program.
Come join a group
of your peers in an open figure drawing session. This is student-led
workshop which is not run by an instructor. It is open to all university
students and alumni. A small fee to cover the model's expense will
be divided equally amongst the participants. For more information
please visit the Figure Friday Facebook page by clicking
here.
Career Development for Visual Artists
Workshop
The College Art Association (CAA), The University
of Alabama and Space One Eleven presented a day-long career
development program for visual artists on Saturday, February
2, 2008.
Space One Eleven, located at 2409 Second Avenue North, Birmingham,
Alabama hosted the program.
CAA is the largest professional organization
for both art historians and visual artists in the United States with
a total membership of 16,000 individuals and institutions. As part
of its services to the field, CAA is offering ten, national career-development
workshops for artists during 2007 and 2008. Space One Eleven and
The University of Alabama are collaborating for this service in
Alabama. The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation supports the workshops
through a generous grant. At each venue, presenters and constituents
choose topics relevant and useful in their region to career-development.
The day's programs included “Grant Writing & Research” led
by Melissa Potter, artist and CAA Career Consultant. Participating
visual artists got an overview in conducting proper research
on potential funders, and the many ways an artist can prepare a
competitive proposal. Participants went over the complete grant-proposal
writing process for individual and/or collaborative projects, from
setting goals and timelines, to writing budgets, and final reporting.
As a Fulbright scholar and ArtsLink grantee, Ms. Potter brought
her personal experience to this process.
In another workshop titled “Networking & Building
Relationships,” Susan
Koblin Schear, artist and president of ARTISIN, a company offering
comprehensive business development and management services to visual
and performing artists, discussed the importance of networking.
She offered concrete networking tips and examples, including
skill-building exercises for a variety of different situations.
Brian Bishop, Assistant Professor of Art
at The University of Alabama, and Chair of CAA Services to Artists
Committee, explored “Residency
Opportunities.” He offered ways
to find the right residency at the right time in an artist’s
career and the application process.
Finally, all the panelists joined Peter
Prinz and Anne Arrasmith, founding directors of Space One Eleven,
in a discussion titled “Why & How
to Have an Exhibition at Space One Eleven and/or Other Non-Profit & Academic
Venues.” Prinz & Arrasmith discussed the important
aspects of commercial and non-profit venues, compared to academia,
and the benefits and drawbacks each field possesses to the growth
and development of an artist’s career.
The Department of Art was once
again well represented by recent alumni and current students in
the 2007 Red Clay
Survey of Contemporary Southern Art currently on view at
the Huntsville Museum of Art.
This recurring juried competition presents outstanding works by
artists from 11 Southern states representing a cross-section of
the best in regional contemporary art in a variety of media. Selections
for the year included Heather Blackwell (MA 2007), Jamey
Grimes (MFA 2007), Susan Roberts (MFA
2007)and Brian
Thompson (MFA
2008) who
won a prize for his entry.
Several
artists affiliated with the department were recently included
in the "Second
Annual Birmingham Biennial" at
Schedler-Minchin Fine Art in Homewood. The exhibition was selected
by a panel of renowned jurists. It will included recent work
by William
Dooley (Associate
Professor and Chair of the Department of Art), Jamey
Grimes (MFA 2007), Sarah
Cusimano-Miles (MA 2006), Tom Wegrzynowski (MFA
2006) and Sarah
Wiseman (MFA 2007).
Current students Michael Anthony Smith (BFA 2007), Whitman
Dewey-Smith (BFA
2008), Brittany Armistead (BFA 2006), Mara
Lattanzi (BFA 2008) and Irina Gouchtchina (MFA
2007) have completed the preliminary design for the Tuscaloosa
Workers' Memorial which is due to be installed on the Tuscaloosa
Riverwalk. Students worked with Craig Wedderspoon (Associate
Professor of Sculpture) and in collaboration with the City of
Tuscaloosa, AFL-CIO, and the Labor Council of West Alabama in
designing this large public sculpture. the model will be unveiled
on Saturday, April 28th at 1:00pm at the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk.
The Twelfth Annual Graduate Student Symposium
in Art History at the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art,
February 2, was a big success. The all-day event was sponsored
by the joint Masters of Art program in Art History at The University
of Alabama and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. It featured
research presented by seven graduate students and a keynote lecture
by Graham Boettcher, The Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American
Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Current graduate student Emmie Mitchell was recently
awarded the National Alumni Association License Plate Graduate
Fellowship.
Current graduate students Youngsoon Chon, L.B.
Holden and Sarah
Wiseman along with faculty members Brian
Bishop and William Dooley represented
the department in the current exhibition at Auburn University's
Biggin Gallery entitled "Drawing on Alabama".
This exhibition was conceived in relation to The Alabama Bureau
of Tourism and Travel's declaration of 2007
as "The Year of Alabama Arts”. Florence Neal, co-founder
(1990) and executive director of the Kentler International Drawing
Space, Brooklyn, NY served as juror for “Drawing on Alabama”.
The exhibition
will be on view in Biggin Gallery located in Biggin Hall on the
Auburn University campus in the downtown core of Auburn, AL from
January 8 through February 23, 2007.
The Arts Students League and the
Department of Art once again premiered the new season of the
critically acclaimed series ART 21 on Friday, October 5, 2007
at 6:00 pm in Woods Hall Gallery. This screening was free and
open to the public and featured Episode One in its entirety.
Beginning in the fall of 2007 recent
alumni will begin working towards their MFA at various programs
around the country. Heather Blackwell (MA 2007
- Painting) will be attending Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield
Hills, MI as will Paul Outlaw (BFA 2004 - Sculpture/Painting). While
Youngsoon Chon (MA 2007 - Painting/Sculpture)
will be working towards her MFA degree in painting at The University
of Iowa. Bob
Costello (BFA
2006 - Painting/Photography) will be entering second year at the
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in the fall. Likewise, Sharon
Wasden (BFA 2005
- Painting/Digital Media) will be continuing her studies at the
San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA.
Isadora Bullock (BFA 2005 - Painting/Printmaking) recently
completed her MFA at The University of Delaware in Newark, DE as did Chandler
Fulton-Pritchett (BA 2004 - Painting) from The University of
Memphis in Memphis, TN.
Mark Shelby (MA 2006 - Art History)
has recently received attention for his thesis titled "From
Beaux-Arts to Modernism: The Alabama Architecture of D. O. Whilldin,
1881-1970" by
winning the Outstanding Dissertation Award from both the Graduate
School and the College of Arts and Sciences. It has also been accepted
for publication by the Birmingham Historical Society. To see their
publications go to http://www.bhistorical.org/publications/index.html.
Megan Mitchell Young (MA 2006) has
taken a position at UNC-Greensboro as Visual Resources Curator/Lecturer.
Melinda Thomas (BA
2004 -Painting) recently completed an artist residency at the Vermont
Studio Center in Johnson, VT and is living in Raleigh, NC. Bryce
Speed (MFA 2005 - Painting) was recently featured in the
southern edition of New American Painting he also recently
completed a six-week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
for the Arts. Bryce has recently accepted a full-time faculty position
at Ozarks Technical College in Springfield, MO. Paul Outlaw (BFA
2004 - Sculpture/Painting) is living in New York and working as
an artist assistant for Peter Halley and past visiting artist Tony
Matelli. He will be attending graduate school in the fall at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art studying sculpture.
Kathryn Mayo (BFA 1999
- Photography) has recenty been appointed Assistant Professor
of Art at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California. After
completing her studies at The University of Alabama she went on
to receive her MFA from Tulane University in 2001.
Greg Hopkins (BFA
2002, MA 2003 - Painting) has recently completed his MFA degree from
the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently living in Brooklyn,
NY and working as the registrar for Bellwether Gallery in Chelsea.
His work has recently been featured in several group shows in the
Northeast including: "Open Painting" at the Providence
Art Club; "Making Your Mark: On Paper" at the Brooklyn
Arts Council; and "One Foot Square" in Brooklyn along
with recent MFA graduates Bryce Speed (MFA 2005
- Painting) and Lisa Michitti (MFA 2005 - Painting).
Lisa is teaching full-time at Virginia College in Birmingham.
Samantha Rinehart Taylor (MFA 2005 -
Painting) is currently teaching at the Marion Institute in Marion,
AL. New work from her series Vestige will
be featured in a group exhibition in January at GULF Artspace in Fairhope,
AL. Clayton Colvin (MFA 2005 - Painting) recently exhibited
his work in a solo exhibition at Material in Memphis, TN. He has recently
taken a position as Curator of Education at Space 301 in Mobile, after
several years running his own gallery project, Stealth Arts in Birmingham.
He is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Bare Hands Gallery
in the spring. Suzy Moorer (BFA 2006 - Painting/Printmaking)
recently completed the McNair Scholars Program, and has been accepted
to work for Teach For America.
Current students are also attracting a lot of attention lately
including Brian
Thompson (MFA 2008 - Painting/Sculpture) whose work
was featured in the anniversary exhibition at the Meridian Museum
of Art and the Annual Painting Competition hosted by the Energen
Corporation in Birmingham. He also received an award for his
contribution to the 2007 Red Clay Survey at
the Huntsville Museum of Art. Susan Roberts (MFA
2007 - Painting) has been selected to receive the highly competitive
Graduate Council Fellowship from the university for 2006-2007.
Currently, the work of both Susan and Brian is on view at Pennisula
Fine Arts Center in Newport News, VA in the 2006 Biennial where
they have both received awards from the jury for their work. Sarah
Wiseman (MFA
2007 - Painting/Printmaking) has been accepted to participate
in a year-long residency program at Arrowmont. Heather
Blackwell's (MA 2007 - Painting) work has recently been
selected for the 2007 Southeastern edition of New American
Paintings.
Khara Koffel (MFA 2003 - Sculpture) is working
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her website features examples
of her art work.
Bryan Cooper (MFA 1996)
Cooper has been in Miami since receiving his degree. He is renovating
a warehouse and is affiliated with the non-profit organization,
Locust.
Former student and friend of the Department of Art, John
R. Weston (Bob Weston), passed away on March 17, 2004 after an extended
illness. He was known throughout the community as a painter and draftsman,
and avid patron of visual arts. Weston was a decorated former Marine who
served three tours of duty in the Vietnam War. His artistic talents as an
illustrator led him through a myriad of opportunities from muralist to film
set story board artist. He possessed a brilliant command of language and
quotation. Weston attended classes at the university in the art department
from 1991-1996. Go to FriendsofBobWeston.org for further information.
Raymond Gaddy (MFA 2000 - Painting) was recently named one
of the top 25 emerging artists in Florida by the Tampa Museum of Art, Gaddy
is in his fourth year As a Visiting Instructor at the University of North
Florida. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in group and solo
exhibitions across the United States and the United Kingdom, including the
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL., Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY; Wake Forest
University, NC; the Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; the Holter Art Museum,
MO; and the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, CA. His work is included in
many public and private collections including the College of Notre Dame of
Maryland; The Savannah College of Art and Design; and the Library of Congress.
Gaddy currently lives in Savannah, Georgia with his wife, artist and designer Ashley Waldvogel (former
Graphic Design Professor) and their two children, Fletcher and Lola
Lane Cooper (MFA
1999 - Painting) is an Assistant Professor with the Cleveland Institute of
Art located in Cleveland, Ohio. She teaches a variety of courses including
Foundation Painting, Color, Drawing, Studio Projects, Critical Issues and Art
History Survey. A text and visual
artist, she works in video, drawing, and installation. She has shown widely
most recently participating in “Visual Connections:
A History of the Moving Image,” a group exhibition dealing with TIME-based
work with featured artist Bill Viola. Curated by Heather Guess and Heather
Zises, the show was sponsored by the Human Fund, Cleveland, Ohio.
Charles Tucker (MFA 1999 - Sculpture) is an Associate Professor
with the Cleveland Institute of Art located in Cleveland, Ohio and is chair
of the school’s
Integrated Media Environment. He teaches a variety of courses including the
Digital Arts Major Day, Drawing and Sculpture. Educated as a sculptor, he is
a multi-media artist working primarily in video and installation. He has exhibited
widely including shows
in Italy and Germany. He recently participated in “Visual Connections:
A History of the Moving Image,” a group exhibition with featured artist
Bill Viola and curated by Heather Guess and Heather Zises. He has also worked
on projects by Mel Chin including the San Jose Library project.
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