Academic News

Jody Williams' book exhibition "Connections: 18 Images with a Common Thread" opened at Form+Content Gallery on January 5 and ran through February 4.

Zach Collins just had nine collage pieces accepted into the Art of Recovery exhibition sponsored by the MN State Arts Board. The exhibition opens in Lowertown, St. Paul, April 2-June 29. Collins also has work in Entanglement, a collage show at Fox Tax, MPLS, which will be up through April.

Visiting faculty Nathaniel Freeman was interviewed by NPR's Weekend Edition for a story about Minnesota's Ice Shanty Project. Freeman's photos accompany the online story.

Additional Information:

• http://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/146042470/minnesota-festival-on-ice-melts-arts-boundaries

Continuing studies instructor Susan Boeckmann will be featured in the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts’ “First Show”. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, January 7 from 5-7pm at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. 

Additional Information:

• http://www.banfill-locke.org/

Terri Fullerton exhibited her work “Falling in Love at the End of the Universe” as a part of the IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts’ latest exhibition “Unshared Sacrifice”. Fullerton was also awarded the 2010-2011 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship.

Allen Brewer is participating in a show at Occupy Space gallery in Limerick, Ireland in May. Brewer is also a part of a group collage show in December at FoxTax in Minneapolis, as well as a three person show at GrayDuck gallery in Austin, TX in January. In November, Brewer and his wife, Pam Valfer, created a collaborative mural for VitaMN’s 5th anniversary event. Brewer auctioned off two pieces for the Movember charity event at Pink Hobo gallery. 

Wendy Jedlicka was an invited speaker at the Design School at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. 

Dion Zuess was an invited speaker at the 2011 University and College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Conference. Due to this experience, she was featured on Graphic Design USA’s blog. 

Additional Information:

• http://ucda.com/conference.lasso
• http://gdusa.com

Jeremy Faludi was the invited keynote speaker at Baldwin-Wallace College’s 2011 “Sustainability Symposium” in Cleveland, Ohio.

Additional Information:

• www.bw.edu/academics/sustainability/symposium

Michael Kareken has a solo show at Washington & Lee University in Virginia until December 10, with twenty five paintings and drawings, including several very large canvases. Kareken traveled to Washington & Lee University in November to give a lecture and student workshops.

Kyle Staver (BFA Sculpture ‘76) memorialized her older brother with her work “Biker Triptych” which was on view as a part of “Kyle Staver: A Survey of Paintings and Prints” at the Pennsylvania College of Art. The exhibition was open from November 18 through January 20. See the Huffington Post’s piece on Staver below!

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/kyle-staver-painter_b_1139198.html

Adjunct faculty Abbi Allan’s work is featured in a show at Gallery 801 through January. 

Allan is also involved in the organization of “Books for Africa,” a collaborative exhibit between the Science Museum of Minnesota and MCAD, which opened December 10 from 5-7pm. 

Allan participated in the Monster Drawing Rally on December 17.