Academic News

Curt McNamara attended RISD annual Bucky Fuller conference. He discussed his online MCAD class about Buckminster Fuller, Geometry of Thinking.

See the event announcement here.

Jeremy Faludi published an article on Core77.com about his online MCAD class, Collaborative Product Design.

See the article here.

Karen Wilcox (Open Studio '01) has been invited to exhibit two of her wall installations entitled "Muse" and "28 Prayers" in "Art on the Plains XI", an exhibition running January 28-May 20 at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND. There is also a gallery talk by Juror Hesse McGraw, Chief Curator, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Link: www.karenwilcox-studio.com

An essay by Karen Wirth, Nothing In Its Place: The Blank Page, was published in the Journal of Artists’ Books, JAB 30. The article examines how the use of empty pages and negative space delivers content and meaning in artists’ books, form Ed Ruscha’s 9 Swimming Pools and a Glass to J. Meejin Yoon’s, Absence, a spare all white book about the missing Twin Towers.

Former MCAD student Joe Heffron of St. Paul has been chosen to create the Official 2012 Minnesota State Fair Commemorative Art. For the second year, the State Fair put out a call for submissions asking Minnesota artists to apply to create the commemorative art. Heffron was selected as one of five finalists from nearly 50 submissions and was just named the Official Artist. Other finalists were Christine Dyrud, Keith Grove, Michael Jacobsen and Bruce Nygren. Heffron's final piece will be unveiled at the State Fairgrounds in June 2012.

Ulana Zahajkewycz (Illustration '03) participated in two shows during summer 2011, "Utopia/Dystopia: The Shadow and the Light" at Lunar Boy Gallery in Astoria, Oregon, and the juried show Phillustration 2011 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in Phildelphia, PA. Zahajkewycz' work "Zephyr" received a 2nd place award in the editorial category.

Zahajkewycz' new show titled "Obsessions" opened in February at the Lunar Boy Gallery.

Congratulations to Christopher Sullivan (Fine Arts '83) for receiving a Creative Capital film grant. This year, 46 projects were selected from 3,247 submissions. For the 2012 grantees, Creative Capital will provide up to $50,000 in direct project funding, plus advisory services valued at more than $40,000.

Sullivan's project is a hand-drawn, animated feature about characters in two different worlds connected by unlikely threads.

Emily Sheehan has a show "Drawing on Experience" running from January 9 - January 31 at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN.

Amy Sands was a Juror at the 2011 Metris Uptown Art Fair in Minneapolis.

Sands will also be a part of a collaborative installation titled "Recall" at the Pratt Institute in New York.

Quodlibetica's latest constellation, The Icy Issue, has launched!

This time contributors include One Room Schoolhouse, Salon Saloon's very own Andy Sturdevant, art historian Marsha Olson, critic Mason Riddle, as well as the usual suspects--Thomas O. Haakenson, Lightsey Darst and Christina Schmid.

What to expect:

Chris Rand's (BFA Furniture '00) metalwork was selected to appear in a new book from Schiffer Publishing titled Ironwork Today 3: Inside and Out. The book showcases the work of over 70 artists from across the United States and Canada. Chris' work is featured on four pages in this 256 page book. He creates custom designed metalwork for architects, residents and churches upon commission.

Christy Oates (Furniture '06) has three pieces in a group show at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC in July. Oates' work will join work from 39 other artists in an exhibition entitled "40 Under 40". The exhibition celebrates the Renwick's 40th Anniversary, and will tour the nation. Upon its return, the "Crane Chair" (also in the exhibition) will be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.