News: April, 2008
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Photography and Film student Sara D'Eugenio has won third place in the national MyShot08™! Photo Contest. Sophomores Arlie Trowbridge and Marion Brafford will be published in Studio Visit Magazine Fall 2008. Studio Visit Magazine is a new series of art books that present in each edition the work of 150 artists who are selected by professional curators from thousands of entrants.
In October, at the 2008 Mid-America College Art Association Biennial Conference, Photography and Film assistant professor and alumnus Tom Condon will present the paper "Interpolating the White Tower, are place and material valid in a contemporary art education? " Currently, Tom's photo images are included in a two person show at Richmond's ADA Gallery. Assistant Professor and alumnus Jake Dodd's docu-dramatic film "Nunna Mia e la Barca" has been nominated for an award in the 2008 ROSEBUD Film & Video Awards competition. The Nominee Showcase will take place Saturday, June 14at the Roslyn Spectrum Theater in Arlington, VA. The ROSEBUD Awards Ceremony will be held on June 15 at the Clarendon Ballroom in Arlington, VA.
Also in Photography and Film departmental news, first prize at the James River Film Festival, Virginia's national film festival for independent film, has been awarded to a short docu-dramatic film by Department of Photography Assistant Professor and alumnus Jake Dodd. Second prize went to an animated film by department student Paul Hugins. Also at the festival, Assistant Professor David Williams screened his new feature length film as one of the key events. And, this month, photographs by Assistant Professor and alumnus Shane Roucheleau will be included in the exhibition New Waves 08 at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach. The show opens April 11.
• VCU School of the Arts in Qatar Counselor Laura Green has been awarded the University's PACME award. The PACME awards (Presidential Awards for Community Multicultural Enrichment) honor individuals who have made significant contributions toward enhancing VCU's commitment to diversity. Four separate awards recognize students, faculty, classified and hourly staff and administrators. In addition to the award, each recipient will receive $500.
• INSIDE/OUT the feature film directed and shot by Rob Tregenza, director of the VCUarts Cinema program, and screened in the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam International Film Festivals will make its Virginia premiere on March 27th at 7:00pm at the Byrd Theatre as part of the James River Film Festival.
• Recent Department of Craft/Material Studies news:
Faculty related accolades include:
Natalya Pinchuk will have a show of her work in Amsterdam in August. Susie Ganch will give a gallery talk at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, Japan on May 10 in conjunction with the Japanese Jewelry Design Biennial. Susan Iverson has work included in the recently published Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation. Susan's work has also been included in an exhibition called Land in Australia. Cynthia Myron is in "Composting Good and Evil: Redesign for Sanctimonious Sinners" a show that deals with recycling, reusing, redesigning, rethinking. It premiered at the SNAG Conference 2 weeks ago and is continuing as a digital exhibition. Sonya Clark is in Altered Geometry: Contemporary Sculpture from the collection at The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, March 1–May 4. She is also in "Political Craft" at the Society of Arts And Craft in Boston, MA. The exhibit is up May 9-July 27 and Mami Wata at the UCLA Fowler Museum. Arthur Hash has his work included in design boom. Department chair Sonya Clark is in two group exhibits Conceptual Edge, NCA Gallery in Detroit (3/29-4/29) and Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits at the UCLA Fowler Museum in Los Angeles that will travel to the Chazen Museum in Madison, Wisconsin and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC.
Student and alumni related accolades include:
Rebecca Murtaugh has a solo show at the John Lukas Rothenberg Gallery in Syracuse, NY April 17-May 10. Jeff Vick has a solo exhibit, Creating the Past, that opens at Plant Zero in Richmond on April 25. Elizabeth Perkins was recently interviewed on roadsidescholar. Check out the review of the FE Gallery exhibit that took place in conjunction with the NCECA conference. Matt Isaacson, Akiko Jackson and Debbie Quick, Hyun Kyung Yoon are all mentioned.
Students Mary Cox, Natalie David, Gabriel Craig, Amy Wieks, Ryan Gothrup, Keith Mendak, Jackie Brown, Cari Freno, Gillian Maniscalco, Akiko Jackson, Emily Brown and Ann Walsh are exhibiting at Arizona State University's Step Gallery, March 31 through April 1. Graduate student, Ann Walsh has a piece in the Lexington Art League's Artist's Responses to Fear show, which opened on March 15 through April 30.
Alumna Erin Williams will be in Arlington Arts Center Spring Solos April 7th to May 31st.
• Photography and Film students Jill Comstock, Madeline Manion, Laura Motsch, Jenny L. McQueen and Allison Fiebert won all five of the highly competitive 2008-09 undergraduate fellowships in photography awarded by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation. In related VMFA fellowship news, Craft/Material Studies student Mary Cox received an undergraduate fellowship and Ryan Gothrup received a graduate fellowship, while Craft alumna Nicole Baumann was honored in the professional category. Other VCUarts fellowship recipients include Art History PhD candidate Jessica Welton and Sculpture and Painting and Printmaking BFA student Maria Diana Cavanaugh. Painting and Printmaking MFA students Paul Kehrer and Jill Zevenbergen won in the graduate category, and chair Richard Roth won in the professional category. Sculpture + Extended Media student Joseph Whitfield won an undergraduate award and Brian D. Murer, II won in the graduate category. Additionally, Communication Arts student Guy Parkhomenko received an award in the undergraduate category and BFA alumni Phoenix S. Ackiss and Michael Elliot Borth received professional awards. Congratulations to all.
