• The Love of Lindsay concert held on October 23 raised more than $24,000 for VCUarts alumna Lindsay Ess and her family to help fund medical and rehabilitation costs. Thank you to everyone who participated and donated.

• Kim Baranowski, a 2000 Sculpture + Extended Media MFA alumna, is embarking on a two-month expedition to Antarctica to work with scientists and install sculptures. Sound interesting? Learn more here.

• Linda Johnston, of the Department of Music, has been awarded the Doris Douglas Budd award "to acknowledge the exceptional standards she has practiced in her profession." This is a university-wide award, and is the highest recognition that a member of the classified staff can receive. Only one person is honored with this award each year. Congratulations, Linda.

• The Department of Craft/Material Studies has good news to share.

Faculty:
Susie Ganch received the juror's prize for at the international exhibition held by the Enamelist Society, Fusion. Her work was published in the full color catalog of the exhibit.

Susie was a star at the Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Expo in Chicago in four ways:
1. She gave a lecture on her work at the Lecture Series
2. She was represented by one of the top jewelry galleries in the country, Sienna Gallery
3. The T-shirts for the Expo had an image of her work on them
4. Her work was on the cover of the beautiful catalog that Sienna Gallery published.

The department's newest hire in the Metals area, Natalya Pinchuk, was also shown at SOFA and was represented by one of the other top jewelry galleries, Charon Kransen Arts.

Sonya Clark, chair of Craft/Material Studies recently lectured at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland for their Centennial Lecture Series. Her work will be included in Pricked: Extreme Embroidery at the Museum of Art and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum) in NYC opening next month.

Debbie Quick and Susan Iverson are included in the Art 6 fundraiser Think Small here in Richmond.

Alumni:
Josh Rodenberg was selected to do an installation at the Lexington Art League in March 2008.

Katie Glusica received a full tuition scholarship for graduate studies at Savannah College of Art and Design.

JD Garn has his work in the Kapfenberg International Ceramics Biennial in Austria.

Kari Scott, BFA '07 and Catie Sellars, BFA '0s were included in the Fiberarts Magazine student showcase online and in print.

Kazue Taguchi, MFA 2007, has an exhibition at the MUDAC Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland and had a solo exhibit at the Kunst Palast Museum in Dusseldorf, Germany. Kazue's work was also included in three full color international glass publications: two issues of Glashaus (Denmark) and Neues Glas (German).

Hyun Kyung Yoon's work was included in the Cheongju International Craft Biennial in Korea. Her work was featured in the full color catalog.

Graduate students:
Jon Sutter is participating in a group invitational show entitled The Time Machines: Telling Time in the Future by way of the Past at The Purple Peacock Gallery this month in Rockland, Maine. Other artists in the show are: Roger Wood, Debra Dresler, and Michael Benton.

Undergraduate students:
Roberto Celis was asked to be a Teaching Assistant for Steve Tenglesen at the John C Campbell Folk School this fall.

• Karen Videtic, chair of the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising, recently returned from judging the Vietnam Collection Grand Prix 2007 in Hanoi. The contest is the biggest annual event of the fashion industry for young Vietnamese fashion designers.

• The latest issue of Yamaha Signature Sounds features VCU Music faculty member Rex Richardson and alumnus Greg Giannascoli.

• A review by Phyllis Tuchman of Sculpture + Extended Media faculty Elizabeth King's work raves "(her pieces) are worth the price of admission." All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy" runs through October 14 at the Parrish Art Musuem in Southampton, NY.