Academic News

Rochelle Schultz Brancato ’00, was appointed to the Board of Directors for Museum Alliance of Rapid City, Inc. dba, The Journey Museum. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, The Journey Museum brings together four major prehistoric and historic collections to tell the complete story of the Western Great Plains. Brancato also chairs the Board’s marketing and public relations committee. 

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Melissa Breitenfeldt '06 unveiled her project for Victory Motorcycles at the Australian Motorcycle Expo on the Gold Coast in February 2012. All artwork was hand drawn with Sharpie markers onto a motorcycle, which took over sixty hours of research, planning, and hand sketching to finish all seven scenes on the bike. All scenes are filled with symbolism of justice and victory.
 

Dr. Kris Belden-Adams (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts) published her paper “Reconsidering Roland Barthes: Tense Collision as Photographic ‘Punctum’." She presented the paper at the Fourth Biennial Art History Symposium “The Madness of Photography” in February 2012 at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Belden-Adams' paper was one of four selected from forty submitted abstracts.
 

Liberal Arts Professor Dr. Anna Tahinci presented her paper "Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing the Mediterranean in Contemporary Greek Art: Kostas Tsoklis, Jannis Kounellis, Dimitris Alithinos" as part of the panel titled "Redefining Mediterranean Aesthetics" at the College Art Association annual conference in Los Angeles in February.

Liberal Arts Chair and Professor Dr. Thomas O. Haakenson was awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) for the 2012 Fulbright German Studies Seminar, which took place in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium, from June 12-23, 2012.

Work by Stephen Klassen MFA '09 was exhibited in a show titled “Meditation on Trees." The exhibition was held at the Foster Gallery of the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in February and March of 2012.

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• Stephen Klassen Art
• Foster Gallery

Patrick Kelley '06 was awarded Grand Prize Winner in the 2012 National Geographic Montana Photography Contest. He was also featured in a group show at the Two Tigers Gallery titled "The View From Earth."

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• Patrick Kelley Worldwide
• Two Tigers Gallery

Bethany Kalk '05 exhibited in a group show at the Rowan County Art Center in Morehead, Kentucky. A collaborative project by Kalk, Caleb Coppock, and Daphne Eck, "Here in the Strata" is an art-based interpretation of Rowan County, Kentucky using elements from the physical landscape.

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• Here in the Strata

An article by Diana Green (Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Arts) entitled "Horror Camp: Homoerotic Subtext in EC Comics" was published in Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962.

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David Friedman, MFA '67, held a show entitled "Color as a Second Language" at Gallery on the Pali in Honolulu, Hawaii in February and March 2012. Friedman’s luminous canvases capture the brilliance and vitality of Hawaii’s extraordinary beauty. He also co-founded Electric Gallery, a virtual gallery on Hawaii community television.
 

Mary Longshore '11 has completed multiple freelance projects, including illustrations for Habitat for Humanity.

Mary Nelson '11 is an in-house designer at Hillcrest Media Group where she designs book covers and formats the interior of books. She also provides freelance illustration work in-house for various companies.

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• Hillcrest Media Group