September 2009
A+D Student Recognition + Awards
36 graphic designers, 34 writers, 3 illustrators! On Friday, September 18, the Art + Design department celebrated the release of the eighth Zine produced since 2003, and the first one printed offset: Zine Columbia – Summer 2009 (The Dreaded Biscuits / Thumbs and Knuckles). The publication's on-line presence can be found here. Well-deserved recognition also goes out to A+D staff John Upchurch, A+D faculty Patrick Hogan and Craig Jobson, and Fiction Department faculty member Jotham Burello for producing the zine.
A+D Faculty and Staff Recognition + Awards
The Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery is pleased to announce it has been granted two prestigious awards: an Illinois Arts Council grant for $3,100 and another for $10,000 from the Efroymson Family Fund for this fiscal year. These awards will support the Gallery’s continued commitment to high quality, public exhibitions.
Exhibitions + Openings
A+D Fine Art faculty Joan Giroux and Whitney Huber-Lazar, and artist/curator Lisa Kaftori, with whom Giroux works in the collaborative Compassionate Action Enterprises, are featured in the exhibition three women at the Castle Gallery at the College of New Rochelle. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on experiences of historical and contemporary women, old and new gender roles, and ways of approaching relationships, strength, survival, and healing. With multiple points of entry and interconnection, this contemplative, multi-media mise-en-scène establishes poetic conversations among works created individually and in duo and trio collaborations.
Dan S. Wang, Fine Art Adjunct Faculty, has new work on paper in the exhibition Demise, at the South Side Community Art Center. It opens Friday, September 18, and will be on view through November 1, 2009. Dan also co-curated Shanghype!, a program of video, animation, and film from Shanghai, at the Hyde Park Art Center, which opens Sunday, September 27 and is on view through December 13, 2009.
As part of their current show, Industry of the Ordinary (Fine Art Faculty members Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson) will be performing this Friday, September 18, at the Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery and around the NEIU campus from 6-9pm, There will be a concurrent reception for the artists at that time. Additionally, on Sunday October 11th from 5-8pm, Industry of the Ordinary will be presenting "39 Verbs", a one-night event at Packer Schopf Gallery, located at 942 W. Lake Street in Chicago, that enlists the participation of 39 Chicago-based cultural workers. This event has been chosen as one of the 12 featured events for Chicago Artists Month, which takes place every October. More information can be found here.
General News + Announcements
Alyson Beaton, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, created a book with KJ Bradley called Grow, An Environmentally Friendly Book, which was recently featured on the popular website Apartment Therapy. You can see the feature here.
Tim Cozzens, Associate Professor of Interior Architecture, has been appointed co-coordinator of the Creative Scholarship Competition for 2009-11 for the Interior Design Educator's Council. In this capacity, he organizes the annual competition, oversees the jury process, and presents the winners at the National Conference that takes place in Atlanta in March 2010.
Carol Hammerman and Christine Rojek, Fine Art Adjunct faculty, have come together to work on a new venture called SculpTours. Sculp-Tours are informative walking tours of Chicago's vast collection of public art. Tour options include: the Loop Tour, Millennium Park & Surrounding Area, Millennium Park plus Grant Park, and a Chicago's Sculptor's Studio Tour. As a non-profit organization, it is SculpTours mission to promote the appreciation and advancement of sculpture. SculpTours will donate 2% of its revenue to a local sculptor's project completion grant.
On October 7, Fine Art Adjunct Faculty Nancy VanKanegan will be co-presenting a program at the Chicago Cultural Center (CCC) about the Latina legend of La Llorona and the use of her image and character in contemporary art as part of the CCC’s intersections program.
On Sept 26, 2009, Annika Marie, Assistant Professor of Art History, will lecture on Ad Reinhardt and the politics of the monochrome for "The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May '68 (in September)" symposium at Threewalls, located at 119 N. Peoria #2D, Chicago, IL 60607, 312-432-3972, The event runs from 12-5 pm.
Graphic Design Adjunct Faculty Guy Villa, Jr. gave a presentation on “The Page: Prose by Georges Perec as Inspiration for Experimental Typography” in the education forum at TypeCon2009, an international conference of the Society of Typographic Aficionados. The presentation
featured the results of student work from an Advanced Typography course that Guy taught at Columbia College Chicago.