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FACULTY & STAFF FEATURED NEWS
A recent feature article in the New Bedford Standard-Times profiled CVPA Fine Arts Professor STACY LATT SAVAGE. The article, written by CVPA alum CATHERINE CARTER, chronicles the professor's evolution as an artist and the development of her sculptural work through a series of personal and highly emotional 'invented' anatomical studies. The article comes on the eve of the opening of Professor Latt Savage's latest exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum. Humanly Possible features the work of Latt Savage and three other figurative artists (all of them also CVPA faculty members): PAMELA HOSS, LAURIE KAPLOWITZ, and ANNE LEONE. The exhibition runs through May 6, 2007.
In addition to receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, CVPA Design Professor SHAWN TOWNE has been showing his cutting-edge electronic imaging work at exhibitions spanning the globe. Highlights include the iArt Exhibition at the AXIOM Gallery in Boston, the Carnival of e-Creativity & Change Agents Conclave in New Delhi, India, and the 8th Annual CHROMA Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Music Professor ROYAL HARTIGAN has been chosen as a 2006-2007 J. William Fulbright Scholar. This honor, given through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. As part of his award, hartigan will be teaching at the University of the Philippines in Manila, while conducting research in traditional music and dance in villages throughout the Philippines.
Music Lecturer ANDY McWAIN recently attended the International Society for Improvised Music Conference at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He performed there on electric piano, with Jeff Morris (laptop/live electronics) and Steve Whipple (acoustic bass). McWain met and collaborated with Morris (currently a faculty member at Texas A&M) at an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida this past summer after spending some time last semester playing jazz in Shanghai, China. McWain's jazz trio also recently released Vigil, a new recording. The disc received a host of glowing reviews from throughout the music world. Bruce Lee Gallanter of the Downtown Music Gallery (NYC) says of the trio: "In a blindfold test, you might mistake them for Herbie, Ron and Tony when they played with Miles in the mid-Sixties." Vigil was released by Fuller Street Music, and can be purchased online at The Jazz Loft.
Fine Arts Professor SIG HAINES recently announced that his one-person exhibition, Skude 360 Degrees, will be on view at the New Bedford Art Museum in Spring 2008. The long-gestating project, featuring a large group of Haines' landscape paintings inspired by his native Norway, will then travel to the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, and open there in December 2008.
KEN UENO, CVPA Music Professor and Director of Electronic Music Studios, is in the midst of a year in Italy, working on new musical compositions as part of his 2006-2007 Frederic A. Julliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship. Professor Ueno has not forgotten the CVPA community, however, and has been keeping in touch through a series of memos posted to the CVPA website. His latest memo details a visit from CVPA students DAVID WILLIAMS and ANDREW ZIENTEK.FACULTY & STAFF IN BRIEF
Fine Arts Lecturer ANDREW NIXON recently received a first-place award from among over 300 entries in the Providence Art Club's annual juried exhibition. The winning work, I Am Here and You Are Not, was on view throughout January and February 2007.
Design Professor VICTORIA CRAYHON is the recipient of a 2007 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship for her ongoing photo/video/installation project Thoughts on Romance on the Road. Her work is also currently on view at Maryland Art Place.
Art History Chair MEMORY HOLLOWAY recently participated in the Clemente Program. This two-semester, tuition-free program, sponsored by the Mass Foundation for the Humanities, provides low-income students with college credit.
Music Lecturer WAYMAN CHIN has been nominated and selected for inclusion in the 2006 edition of Who's Who in American Education.
Staff member JARRAD NUNES recently joined AHA! New Bedford as a Steering Committee Member.
Fine Arts Professor KURT WISNESKI recently completed work as juror an exhibition for the Monotype Guild of New England.
Chancellor Professor of Design ELAINE FISHER has been selected to participate in the Society for Photographic Education Northeast Invitational, which will be on view at the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut, through March 24, 2007.
University Art Gallery Director LASSE ANTONSEN was an artist-in-residence at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York, during November 2006. The residency culminated in the exhibition Addenda to the 1867 Objects Acquired by the Albany State Cabinet of Natural History.
Design Professor YOON SOO LEE was recently featured in Access: A Feminist Perspective, a juried show at the Rhonda Schaller Studio in New York City. During the month of January 2007, Lee was also a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center.
STUDENT FEATURED NEWS
MELISSA McNICHOL, a fourth-year Jewelry/Metals major, recently received a scholarship to study at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) program in Santa Monica, CA. The $10,000 scholarship will allow McNichol to immerse herself in a yearlong program involving the technical study and analysis of gemstones, which are important steps in her certification within the area of gemology.
Textile Design/Fiber Arts major CHRISTIN RITZ was recently named winner of Arnold Arboretum's Lilac Sunday T-Shirt Design Contest. Her design will be seen at this year's celebration, to be held May 13, 2007, at the arboretum in Jamaica Plain, MA. Christin is also the recent recipient of the Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship. The $1700 award is given by the Foundation to support the study of fiber arts.
The Fuller Craft Museum presents Fresh Fiber, featuring work by emerging textile artists from UMass Dartmouth, Rhose Island School of Design, and MassArt. Featured in advertisements for the exhibition is the piece Change, a felted wool sculpture by CVPA MFA student ANNA KRISTINA GORANSSON. The show offers an opportunity to see the work of three recognized fiber arts programs--each with its own unique emphasis. The exhibition runs March 10 through June 17, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 18, from 2-5pm.
STUDENT IN BRIEF
Senior Art Education major LAURA SMITH recently returned from a three-month trip to Central America. There, she learned a new language and had the opportunity to work with children in Guatemala and Nicaragua teaching art and conducting team-building activities.
Currently on display at the Cornucopia Art Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota, is Twilight, a neckpiece created by MFA student RENEE MONTEIRO-BERNARD. Monteiro-Bernard is also serving an adjunct instructor this semester at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Junior photography major KATHERINE MELLO was the recent subject of an article in the UMass Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. The article, featuring three of Ms. Mello's photographs, documented two recent trips she has made to New Orleans as part of rebuilding efforts.
The earth-friendly clothing and accessories of Textile Design majors ABBE CIULLA and RHONDA FAZIO will be featured in the Spring Thing Fashion Show, to be held at AS220in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 3.
Music major GRACE MORRISON toured nationally with the Hard Rock Cafe's Rock N' Roll Holiday Tour during Winter 2006. Ms. Morrison is also currently preparing her debut CD for release.
The photos of MAE student MELINDA AMARAL were
recently featured in the January 2007 issue of Newport
Life Magazine. The photos were part of a series of
wedding portraits taken by Ms. Amaral during Summer 2006.
ALUMNI FEATURED NEWS
The intricate tableware of BONNIE SEEMAN (MFA, '96) is currently featured in a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition, One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement, features Seeman's 2003 piece Coffeepot and Tray. Grace Glueck, art critic for the New York Times, took notice of Seeman's work in the paper's January 12 review of the exhibition, which featured a large photo of Coffeepot and Tray.
Recent alum MI-HYUN KIM (MFA, '06) has been invited to speak at Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Visual Communication, a national design conference to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in March 2007. Mi-Hyun's speech, entitled Saying I YOU Like: New Perspective in the Subject of Language, stems from discoveries made during her thesis studies at UMass Dartmouth.
Painter CATHERINE CARTER (MFA, '97) will be exhibiting six works from her Sky, Stem, Stream series at Massachusetts General Hospital as part of its Illuminations Program, which offers enlightenment and encouragement to cancer patients and their families. In December, Ms. Carter also began writing In the Studio, an ongoing series of SouthCoast-area artist profiles in the New Bedford Standard-Times.
2006 ended in a flurry of good news for new alumna and fiber artist MIYUKI AKAI (MFA, '06). In October 2006, she was named in FiberArts Magazine's 'Artists to Watch' article. Her work was selected for an exhibition at SOFA Chicago in November 2006. More recently, she was accepted for a July-December 2007 residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Finally, Ms. Akai has begun work as an instructor at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA.
In the years since leaving CVPA, DON BURTON (BFA, '97) has carved out a fascinating career as a sculptor and freelance filmmaker. Burton's served as editor for a feature film titled Ranchero, which was recently submitted as an entry to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In Summer 2006, he edited a theatrical trailer for the Fox animated film release Everyone's Hero. An ongoing personal project has Burton producing and editing a feature documentary that explores the positive social role of music in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ABBIE GROTKE (BA, '91) has enjoyed a long career as part of the Library of Congress' Web Capture Team, but can now add author to her impressive résumé. In Late 2006, Ms. Grotke released Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage: Classic Advice for Contemporary Dilemmas. The book (published by Thunder's Mouth Press) is a spin-off of her highly successful internet advice site, missabigail.com.
Edge, a paper sculpture by DEBORAH BALDIZAR (MFA, '06) last seen during the 2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth, will be featured as part of the Fuller Craft Museum's traveling exhibition, Pulp Function, which will explore paper as a medium for art. The exhibition will be on view at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, May 2007 through January 2008, and then will travel through March 2009. Also featured in the show is current MFA student EDEN REINER.
Vocalist, composer and arranger CANDIDA ROSE (BA, '06) will be the New Bedford representative for the ECHO Festival of Performing Arts. ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) is a major, federally-funded educational and cultural enrichment initiative, annually serving hundreds of thousands of children, teachers, and adult continuing learners in Alaska, Hawai`i, and Massachusetts. Locally the New Bedford ECHO Project is a collaboration of the New Bedford Oceanarium and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Each year, representatives of ECHO partners from each of these states gather to create a multicultural, multi-part performance that combines elements of music, storytelling and dance. The performers then tour schools and cultural institutions in HI, AK and MA. This year, the ECHO Festival of Performing Arts has also been asked to perform at National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC and New York City.
ALUMNI IN BRIEF
Recent graduate EUN MI KIM (MFA, '06) recently had her first solo show at a gallery in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. She is also beginning her teaching career at Seoul's Batangol Art Museum as a metalsmithing instructor.
Alum CHRISTOPHER FREZZA (BFA, '06) has begun a new job as a Graphic Designer at Zildjian, one of the world's leading producers of musical instruments.
BRUCE GRAY (BFA, '84) and five of his sculptures were recently featured on an episode of Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, a program on the A&E Television Network. Gray's work has also been seen in the Austin Powers films, Meet the Fockers, and Seinfeld.
Designer SARAH DAHLINGER (BFA, '06) was recently hired by Super Tour, an online travel information firm based in Waltham, MA. Sarah writes that her experiences in Professor SCOTT AHRENS' Virtual Reality Lab put her ahead of her competitors in her job search.
In a national competition for emerging artists, a work by COLLEEN ELLIS (MFA, '06) was selected. The exhibition, New Art 2007, was held in January 2007 at the MPG Contemporary Gallery in Boston, MA.
Designer KATE OUELLETTE (BFA, '03) was recently named Communications Coordinator for the New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce.
Painter BRIAN FOX (BFA, '90) was recently commissioned by the Walt Disney Company to create a series of original paintings (highlighting Pirates of the Caribbean) that will be sold in Disney parks worldwide starting later this year.
CHRISTOPHER LANPHEAR (BFA, '06) hit the ground running after graduation, landing a job at ProtonMedia. This Pennsylvania-based company develops e-learning courses, and Chris is using the Flash and HTML skills learned in his CVPA courses.
DIANNE REILLY (MFA, '03) joins with friend, former UMass Dartmouth student, and fellow metalsmith SUSAN AYGARN-KOWALSKI for Intersections, an exhibition of jewelry, sculpture and tools at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA.
Painter CALEB FIERO (BFA, '06) is currently working as an apprentice to assemblage artist Tom Deininger. Among other works, Caleb has assisted in a large-scale three-dimensional recreation of Monet's The Japanese Footbridge.
Graphic Designer MELANIE DUCHARME (BFA, '01) was recently featured in two NYC exhibitions--Postcards from the Edge at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; and Premier Exhibition at The Producer's Club Gallery.
The ceramic work of PETRA KRALICKOVA (MFA, '04) is currently being featured in a solo exhibition entitled Inquietude, on view through March 4 at ProjectSpace at the Loudon House in Louisville, Kentucky.
Art Historian ERIN DZIEDZIC (BA, '03) has recently taken a position as a Curator for the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). In her role at SCAD, Ms. Dziedzic oversees a dozen gallery spaces in Savannah, Atlanta, and Lacoste, France.
QIAN LI (MFA, '03), currently a professor of graphic design at Cleveland State University, was featured in a major solo exhibition at that school. The Fall 2006 show, Silent Mix, featured Li's electronic installations inspired by dreams, life experience, and Chinese culture.
HEATHER CORBETT (BA, '02), who is currently on the art faculty at Northbridge High School, is also participating in a group show at a new gallery in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
Painter SANDRA ALLEN née Edwards (BFA, '84) is currently showing at the Mario Diacono Gallery at Ars Libri in Boston, and is preparing for two upcoming exhibitions--the 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition and Drawing: A Broader Definition at the MFA.
