Academic News

Dr. Anna Tahinci delivered a paper in French on "Athènes-Paris et les élèves grecs de Bourdelle" ("Athens-Paris and Bourdelle's Greek students") at the "Paris-Athens The Double Journey 1919-1939" international conference at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece on January 20. The conference was recorded and will be available on http://www.blod.gr/default.aspx. The papers of the conference will be published in a special volume in 2013.

Robert Hoffman (Graphic Design '80) received the following awards as Animation Director of MotiveStudios.

World Fest Remi Awards, Short Web Video, Gold Award, 1/15/11

World Fest Remi Awards, Short Web Video, Silver Award, 1/15/11

HeSCA Media Festival, Short Web Video, Gold Award, 2/28/11

Telly Awards, Short Web Video, Bronze Award, 3/04/11

Hermes Creative Awards, Short Web Video, Certificate, 3/12/11

Mature Media Awards, Short Web Video, Gold Award, 3/31/11

Dan Lund (BFA Animation '89) is an animator with Disney and was just nominated for an ANNIE award. ANNIE awards are the "Academy Awards" for animation.

Monica Haller received a $55,000 grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for the development of the second half of the Veterans Book Project. The Veterans Book Project is a library authored by people experiencing the current American wars, by expanding participation to those not yet represented in the library, and by training the next generation of workshop leaders. 

Link: http://www.arts.state.mn.us/grants/2012/2012-awarded-aa.htm

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.