Awards + Recognition
FACULTY
Fine Art part-time faculty Michael K. Paxton has been awarded a 2009 Artist Fellowship Award for $7,000 in the Visual Arts by the Illinois Arts Council.
STUDENTS
Jaclyn Capozzoli and Rachal Duggan, both Art + Design students, are recipients of the 2009 Weisman Award.
BFA in Fine Arts candidates Emanuel Aguilar, Vincent Finazzo and Eric Siegel collaborated to create the sculpture "Phoenix," exhibited at the Thompson Center for two weeks last January.
The collaboration developed when students in Larry Minsky's Ad Agency course (Marketing Communications), proposed the creation of a sculpture out of unused ashtrays.
The piece was unveiled January 6 in a ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of Smoke-Free Illinois. The event received significant media coverage, being reported on in The Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago, and on local news broadcasts.
See video of ABC Chicago News 7 coverage, with images of the piece, the artists, and an interview with Emanuel Aguilar.
Exhibitions + Openings
Fine Art adjunct faculty Michelle Grabner has an exhibition at the Shane Campbell Gallery:
February 7-March 14, 2009, 1431 W. Chicago Avenue, hours: Wed-Sat 12-6 p.m., 312-226-2223.
Fine Art faculty Anna Kunz is doing an installation at Robin Richman, which can be viewed from Feb 8 - March 3, 2009. She will also have work in Ce n'est pas un spectacle de caracteres, an exhibition in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council Conference at Packer Schopf Gallery, 942 W Lake Street, Feb 20 - March 28, 2009.
Fine Art adjunct faculty Michael K. Paxton had a one-person exhibition of large-scale drawings, "Alpestrine" at Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, from Jan. 9 through Feb. 7.
Michael was in an invitational exhibition at the Birke Art Gallery at Marshall University to honor the retirement of Michael Cornfeld, his undergraduate drawing professor, who is now Dean of Arts and Science after 44 years of service to the University.
Additionally, Michael had a large wall-size drawing installed in the San Francisco offices of Kirkland & Ellis Law Firm.
General News + Announcements
Fine Art faculty Anna Kunz is doing the set design at The Dance Center of Columbia College for a new piece presented by faculty member Paige Cunningham, May 6–8, 2009.
Art History faculty Annika Marie composed the catalogue essay "Michelle Grabner's Black Circle Paintings: On Not Being Spectacular" for Michelle Grabner's exhibition at the Shane Campbell Gallery.
Graphic Design faculty Kay Hartmann recently broke out of her flatland graphic design comfort zone to film, edit and produce a 22 minute iMovie called "Dan Moments." The video was shown to 200 people at the Kalamazoo Michigan Air Zoo, for her husband's inauguration as statewide president of his realtor association. Her experience creating a successful video project has been a benefit to her students as well.