ALUMNI NEWS
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April 4 - August 1, 2010
Tara Donovan, Untitled (Plastic Cups), 2006. plastic cups. Photo by: Kerry Ryan McFate/ Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York. © Tara Donovan, Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York.
Tara Donovan: Untitled
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
April 4 - August 1, 2010
The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents an exhibition of works by contemporary American artist Tara Donovan (MFA). Opening April 4, 2010, and on display through August 1, 2010, Tara Donovan: Untitled will feature a number of Donovan’s sculptural installations and drawings, including a newly commissioned work that will fill an entire room of the gallery. This will be the first major museum exhibition to present Donovan’s sculptures and drawings together—offering the most complete view of her artistic practices to date.
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November 18 - January 20, 2009
SunTek Chung (BFA)
Kingdom Come
November 18 - January 20, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 18 6-8PM
Collette Blanchard Gallery
26 Clinton Street
New York, NY 10002
http://www.colletteblanchard.com/home
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November 6, 2009 – March 6, 2010
New Weather:
Diana Al-Hadid, Robyn O’Neil and Iva Gueorguieva
curated by David Norr
November 6, 2009 – March 6, 2010
opening reception: November 6, 7-9pm
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL
New Weather Symposium, organized by USFCAM, Friday, November 6, 2009. A panel discussion will focus on works of art and themes addressed in the exhibition. The participants will include exhibition curator David Louis Norr, and the artists, Diana Al Hadid (MFA), Iva Gueorguieva, and Robyn O'neil. Curator’s tour, with IRA Chief Curator, David Louis Norr, Thursday, December 3, 2009 @ 12pm.
http://ira.usf.edu/CAM/cam_exhibitions.html
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October 22 - December 19, 2009
Teresita Fernandez
Drawn Waters (Borrowdale), 2009
natural and machined graphite on steel armature
Teresita Fernandez
Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
October 22 - December 19, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present a group of new works by Teresita Fernández (MFA) for her fourth exhibition at the gallery's Chelsea location. Made entirely of graphite, the works in the exhibition establish a unique and unconventional vocabulary with the material itself. Referring to Borrowdale, England where graphite was first discovered and mined in the early 1500s, Fernández pushes the boundaries of this once sought-after and coveted material. Reimagining the graphite landscape of Borrowdale, her works reflect elements of sculpture and installation and redefine the notion of precisely what constitutes a drawing.
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October 3- December 20, 2009
BAM 2009- Next Wave Art
curated by Dan Cameron
October 3- December 20, 2009
opening reception: Tuesday October 6, 6-8pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Diana Al-Hadid (MFA), Paolo Arao, Olive Ayhens, Michael Bell-Smith, Alison Brady, Angela Dufresne, Echo Eggebrecht, Jacob Feige, Nicola López, Ester Partegàs, Shinique Smith, and Christopher Ulivo.
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1404
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September 16 – October 18, 2009
Benjamin S. Jones (MFA)
Casing the Promised Land
Gallery SATORI
164 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
September 16 – October 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Gallery SATORI is pleased to announce the first solo show of Benjamin S. Jones in New York. Evoking a sense of rapid production and consumption, the exhibition features a group of sculptures that utilize architecture and urban planning as metaphors to probe issues of growth, frailty, and self-destruction.
Jones explores pattern, fractures, shifts, and realignment to question the idea of development, destruction and co-dependence, and in turn obsessive fetishes and vain ambitions. He explores the dualities of the habitat that is at once residential and industrial, private and public, constructed and de-constructed. These dualities are further explored through a language of form that pairs elements that are highly finished and completely raw, explicit and evocative.
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September 20 - October 2, 2009
Silver Linus and the Supreme Delights
Ross Caudill (MFA and Adjunct Faculty and Peyton Hurt
September 20 - October 2, 2009
reception: Friday, October 2, 6-9 pm
East Carolina University
Mendenhall Student Center
Greenville, NC
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October 2 - 30, 2009
Hand Me Downs
Friday, October 2, 2009 7-10pm
Hand Me Downs, a Benefit for Cancer Awareness Month honoring Richmond cancer fighters artist Theodora Anne Merry (MFA) and new mom, Susan Brown. Small works by local artists with Goods and Services from area businesses offered to help raise $25,000 needed for artist Theodora Anne Merry (MFA) and new mom, Susan Brown's cancer fight.
I Will Survive
October 2 - 30, 2009
I will Survive, group exhibition of artwork dealing with the emotion and strength needed when facing cancer in your life or in the life of a loved one continues through October 30, 2009.
Visual Art Studio
208 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA
http://www.visualartstudio.org/
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September 15 - December 13, 2009
Uncharted
Featuring work by Radcliffe Bailey, Olaf Breuning, Anna Conway, Mark Essen, Adam Frelin, Valerie Hegarty, David Herbert (MFA), Emre Hüner, Matt Leines, and Cameron Martin.
curated by Janet Riker and Corinna Ripps Schaming
September 15 - December 13, 2009
opening reception: Tuesday, September 15, 5-7 pm
University Art Museum
University at Albany
1400 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12222
http://www.albany.edu/museum/currentshow.html
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September 13 - October 10, 2009
Timothy Shearer (BFA)
Repeat Trying To Forget; Remember Not To Repeat
September 13 - October 10, 2009
opening reception: September 12, 2009 7-10 PM
Galerie Mülhaupt
Deutz-Mülheimer-Str.216
51063 Köln
0163 4576700
http://www.galerie-muelhaupt.de/
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September 11, 2009
LIGHTS OUT
The Annex
242 Main Street
Burlington, VT
opening reception: Friday, September 11, 2009 at 6:00PM
Seven Below Residents Exhibit at Art Hop 2009
LIGHTS OUT includes Mia Feuer (MFA), Will Walker, and Peter Miller in the first public exhibit of Seven Below artists in downtown Burlington. To be shown will be large scale sculptures and deceptive explorations with optics. Artist lectures to follow on Saturday, September 12th at 3:00 PM.
Mia Feuer is currently an artist in residence at The Seven Below Artist Initiative in Burlington, VT until end of September and then will be a fellow at The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT until end of November.
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September 10 - October 10, 2009
In the Between
curated by Suzanne Egeran
September 10 - October 10, 2009
First Floor Passage Petit Champs
Tepebasi, Beyoglu
Istanbul, Turkey
Works by eleven artists:
Hüseyin Alptekin, Peter Coffin, Martin Creed, Martha Friedman, Tom Friedman, Diana Al-Hadid (MFA),
Ali Kazma, Christian Marclay, Iván Navarro, Ahmet Öğüt, and Cerith Wyn Evans
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September 10 - October 4, 2009
NORTHSOUTHEASTWEST
An exhibition of cartographic, geographically-oriented, and explorer-bound art.
19 artists both local and from around the globe move through space to collect place.
Vicky Mei Chen
Kate Copeland
Warren Frederick
Melissa Hronkin
Fleming Jeffries
Roberta Jeffries
Bonnie Morrison
Megan Mueller (BFA)
Marte Newcombe
Robert T. Pannell
Christin Ripley
Allison Sloan Roberts
Gretchen Schermerhorn
Catherine White
Tugboat Printshop
Will Work For Good
Hand Print Workshop International
September 10 - October 4, 2009
opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 4:00-6:30 pm
ZIGZAG GALLERY
6477 Main Street
The Plains, VA 20198
http://www.zigzagtheplains.com/
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September 5 - 26, 2009
Bright Path
September 5th – September 26th, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, September 5 at 6:00pm
Little Berlin Gallery
119 West Montgomery
Philadelphia PA, 19122
Little Berlin is proud to present Bright Path, a group show inspired by the protagonist. The exhibition intends to explore in varying forms the spiritual essence present in physical acts unique to the human experience, both superhuman and unremarkable. Featured artists include Andrew Brehm, John Henry Blatter (MFA), Kristen Taylor, Duke Riley, Daniel Petraitis and Alexander MacDonald. The work is comprised of sculpture, sound and performance and may reveal some insight into what prompts us to make decisions to move forward or to stand still. The initial stimulus for the show was influenced by the teachings of Joseph Campbell, the writing of James Baldwin, and the life of Jim Thorpe.
In addition, please join us again on Thursday, September 10th at 7:30 pm for the screening of Andrew Brehm’s survival film “Landman and the Thunderbird” which will be projected and shown in its entirety in the gallery. Refreshments will be provided for a small donation.
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September 2, 2009
Swing Space Open House
Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 6-8PM
Swing Space Studios: 77 Water Street, 10th Floor
RSVP is required. Visit the LMCC website to RSVP: http://lmcc.net/art/swingspace/77water/index.html
Please join us for an Open House in LMCC's Swing Space studios at 77 Water Street. Fourteen visual artists and one collaborative group have been occupying former bankers' offices on the 10th floor of this Financial District skyscraper since June, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the work they've created.
Resident artists include:
Daniel Bejar, Joy Curtis, Elaine Gan, Donna Huanca, Lisa Kellner, Claudia Kochsmeier, Kymia Nawabi, Rosemarie Padovano (MFA), Shani Peters, Armita Raafat, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Brian Block, Martin Keil and Henrik Mayer), Edward Schexnayder, Alison Ward, Saya Woolfalk, Stella Yoo
About Swing Space
The Swing Space program works with downtown building owners to make vacant space available to artists, curators and arts organizations for project-based needs on a short-term basis. Since its launch in 2005, Swing Space has placed hundreds of artists in over 20 different spaces, including groundfloor retail spaces, gutted industrial spaces, upper level office floors, and subterranean bank vaults. Swing Space is designed to address short-term space needs for a wide range of projects, and to encourage creative, experimental and collaborative approaches to artistic practice in unconventional spaces.
Swing Space is made possible with generous space donations from our real estate partners throughout the Financial District.
More information about Swing Space is available here: http://www.lmcc.net/art/swingspace/overview/index.html
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August 26, 2009
refutation
0video Selection Announced
Abby Donovan - Untitled One
Emily Candela - Coke Bust
Fraser Stewart - Fitting In
Glen Baghurst - Flatly Contradicting
John Henry Blatter (MFA) - Infomercial
John Purnell - Head On A Box 2
For its fifth issue refutation opened its doors to video artists wishing to submit works for inclusion in the 0V issue download.
The 0V issue concentrates solely on video work, no texts, no other artwork, just a concentration of minds towards video and its presence on our screens.
To celebrate the issue a screening event was held on the 26th of August in London showcasing sixteen videos commissioned by refutation. Six of the videos have been chosen by the audience to be included in the 0V issue download.
To view biographies of all the artists involved in the 0V screening and the list of six chosen artists and works for the download issue, see: http://www.refutation.co.uk/0video.html
refutation is a bi-monthly download containing original artworks and texts available to view, keep, share or delete.
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August 17 – October 10, 2010
Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape
August 17 – October 10, 2010
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL
Teresita Fernández (MFA) is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects. Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Norr; Organized and traveled by USFCAM.
http://ira.usf.edu/CAM/cam_exhibitions.html
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Aug 6- Aug 28, 2009
Taylor Baldwin, I ain't afraid of no ghosts, 2009
Las Hermanas Iglesias, Lost Glove, 2009
Young Curators, New Ideas II
amani olu projects, in conjunction with P.P.O.W Gallery is pleased to present a curator focused exhibition that examines new voices in contemporary art through the perspective of seven New York based curators. These varied micro-exhibitions experiment with curatorial practice and an exploration of ideas as physical form.
The Individual & The Family curated by Jose Ruiz:
Works by Alejandro Diaz, Las Hermanas Iglesias (featuring Janelle Iglesias, MFA), J&J, Jessica Ann Peavy, and Bryan Zanisnik entertain the rhythmic patterns between two seemingly divergent threads of art making and social inquiry — collaborative and identity-based work. Entering with a freewheeling interplay of handmade narratives, symbols and constructs that alter the stereotypes and clichés of their genres' norms, these five artists turn displacement into engagement, while addressing issues of homogeneity and authorship with irreverent and humorous actions.
Comet Fever curated by Nico Wheadon:
Comet Fever materializes a contemporary obsession with phenomena outside of human control and harnesses the tension of hysteria and choreography of ritual associated with the paranormal. Taylor Baldwin (MFA), Boyd Holbrook, Dawit L. Petros, Segtram, and Noelle Lorraine Williams neutralize this crisis of fear induced by the occult, rendering the world less fathomable and more magical. Imagination overthrows logic and testifies to the absurdist modes by which communal hallucination rivals the tools and science of modern intelligence.
511 West 25th Street, Room 301
(at 10th Ave)
New York, NY 10001
http://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibition.php?id=35
Click here to read the review in Time Out New York!
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August 7-30, 2009
The Nerve art and performance studio is pleased to present:
Gary Future's Annex Space: Pittsburgh
A new collaborative installation from:
Patrick Cadenhead (MFA)
Brian Taylor (MFA)
Chris Mahonski (MFA)
Ryan Lauterio
Josh Bonnett
Curated by Lauri Mancuso
August 7-30, 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday August 7, 2009
From 6 - 11PM
Gary Future's Annex Space is a new artist collective of sculptors and painters formed during the graduate program at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. The recent MFA recipients are bringing their latest work to town to kick off the grand opening celebration of Pittsburgh's new art and performance studio.
The Nerve art and performance studio
500 Dargan Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-951-0622
Hours are by appointment at:
laurimancuso@msn.com
412-951-0622
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August 14 - September 18, 2009
Set It Up and Go
Curated by John Calcutt
The Glasgow School of Art
MFA 2009 International Exhibition
ARTNEWS PROJECTS
Brunnenstrasse 190
Berlin, Germany
August 14 - September 18, 2009 (Open Tue-Sat 12-6 pm)
Opening on Friday, August 14 7-11 pm
The MFA Students of 2009 are:
Heaven Baek, Amelia Bywater, Matt Collier, Jim Colquhoun, Alexis Dirks, Claire Greenshaw, Ufuk Gueray, Michelle Hannah, Anna Henson, Jenny Hogarth, Or Kadar, Katharina Kiebacher, Paul Knight, Jack McLean, Shelly Nadashi, Christian Newby (BFA), Nicolas Party, Ian Ramsay, Kate V Robertson, Benjamin Rush, Maayke Schurer, Fiona Short, Theodoros Stamatogiannis, Hirofumi Suda, Corin Sworn, Anna Tanner, Risa Tsunegi, Wee Hwee Yeoh, Xupeng Zheng
http://www.gsamfa.com
http://www.artnews.org/projects
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September 18 - October 30, 2009
The Florida Keys Council of the Arts proudly announces local artist Karley Klopfenstein as the
2009 winner of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists.
Ms. Klopfenstein joins 9 other artists from South Florida so honored in this year’s SFCC competition. The $15,000 fellowships are the largest such awards provided by local arts agencies in the United States. The Consortium is an alliance of the arts councils of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Martin Counties.
Klopfenstein’s current body of work focuses on specific American military weaponry, rendered domestic with traditional craft techniques such as weaving, crocheting and rug hooking. The juxtaposition of the imagery used as a graphic element and the technique, comment on the persistent presence of violence in our everyday lives. As an artist, Karley is interested in the ways that violence, horror and war nudge their way into the comfort of our daily routines. Currently, she is an artist in residence at The Studios of Key West, and is represented by the Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Miami.
The recipients were selected during a two-tier panel process which included the participation of regional and national arts experts. Selection by the regional panel was totally anonymous, based solely on the quality of the artists' work as evidenced by digital images, slides or video/films submitted. The regional panel forwarded their recommendations to the national panel, which was comprised of: Amada Cruz, Program Director, United States Artists, Los Angeles; Linda Dubler, Curator of Media Arts, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Odili Donald Odita, Visual Artist, Philadelphia; and Gilbert Vicario, Assistant Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All four national judges participated in the final recommendations.
Opening reception September 17, 7 - 9 p.m
University Galleries, School of the Arts
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
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May 23- October 12, 2009
Flora: Growing Inspirations
Presented in partnership with Washington Sculptors Group
30 Artsits were selected, including Foon Sham (MFA), Julie Nagle (MFA) and Chris Mahonski (MFA)
In addition, Matt King (faculty) served as a juror
This exhibit features a series of highly stylized garden rooms on the Conservatory Terrace that immerse the visitor in a vibrant, albeit slow, form of performance art. Within the rooms and in an adjoining gallery are featured original sculptures inspired by plants. The sculptures, selected by a jury from a national competition, celebrate the symbolic and aesthetic role of plants in culture. Contemporary artists have drawn on the diversity of plant form and the fundamental strength of plants’ life force for powerful metaphors that comment on the state of modern society and individual human existence.
United States Botanical Garden
East Gallery and Conservatory Terrace
100 Maryland Ave. SW
Washington, DC
http://www.usbg.gov/education/events/Flora-Growing-Inspirations.cfm
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August 17- October 10, 2009
Blind Landscape
Teresita Fernandez (MFA 1992)
Opening Reception: August 28, 2009 at 7pm
Teresita Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition is curated by USF Institute for Research in Art Chief Curator, David Louis Norr and will present a spectrum of the artist’s most recent and ambitious projects, including a new sculpture and a room sized installation created specifically for this exhibition. Following its Tampa debut, the exhibition will travel to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, November 1, 2009 – January 2, 2010.
Teresita Fernández, one of the most accomplished artists of her generation, is recognized for her deft ability to transform common materials and processes into dazzling cinematic illusions, blending abstraction, reflection, and transparency into potent configurations of projection and play. Nature and perception are the schematic sources for Fernandez' picturesque materializations. Clouds, trees, water, and fire—in patterned formations of polished stainless steel, glass, plastic, and thread—double as screens, mirrors, and lenses, and vacillate between object and optical phenomena. Much like shadows or ghosts, Fernandez’ doubled forms reside in the folds and margins of perception—a tangled overlay of absence and presence, nature and artifice. "I am interested in the projection of the body, in an imaginary, kinesthetic way, penetrating history and distance cinematically, almost like a daydream," she explains. "It’s as if, through visual pleasure, your gaze positions you in a place without actually being there." Indeed, for Fernández, how one sees is as relevant as what one sees.
Institute for Research in Art
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave. CAM 101
Tampa, FL 33620-7360 USA
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September 30-31, 2009
PAPER HOUSE LANTERNS
with Matt Lively (BFA)
Sunday, Sept.30: 3-5:30pm, ages 8 and up
Monday, Sept.31: 6:30-9pm, college student - adult
Cost: $25
Register online.
Learn to make a "placeable" light and discover the art of paper craft in this workshop. Create numerous, small paper houses - some to take home and some to place in an art installation during InLight. Matt Lively is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker based in Richmond, and he is currently in the process of making a short film. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.
319 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23241
info@1708gallery.org
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June 20- September 20, 2009
Shit Corner: No Excuses
Small works exhibition consisting of nearly 25 artists' works, including BRENDAN COYLE (BFA)
Opening Reception June 20th 12pm-12am
Open House every Saturday from 12pm to 6pm for the remainder of the summer
The Assembly Room
15 Corson Ave. 2nd Fl.
Staten island NY 10301
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September 4- 18, 2009
Layering
Carolina Escobar (BFA)
You are invited to attend an exhibition of new artwork made in Thailand and at
Yaddo Artists’Colony in Saratoga Springs,NY.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 6:00-9:00 pm
Bragg’s Pie Factory
1301 Grand Ave.
Phoenix,AZ 85007
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July 25- September 5, 2009
Sensors
Los Angeles artist Juliana Paciull (BFA 2002) debuts a new triptych exploring themes of absurdity, self-awareness and sensory perception. Sensors grew out of her earlier The Girl Who Knew Too Much series, a group of essentially quotidian images which utilize rich visual detail to address the coded meanings inherent in popular media's portrayal of feminine iconography.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 6:00- 9:00pm
Presented by:
Las Cienegas Projects
2045 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
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July 1- August 31, 2009
Lush/Bleak: The Impacted Landscape
Paintings by Sarah Beth Goncarova (BFA)
Sarah Beth Goncarova explores in painting the human impact on the modern landscape. Featured in this exhibition is her Wake Project series, juxtaposing imagery of the aftermaths of major eco-disasters against paintings of the everyday landscape, whose apparent beauty belies deep trauma from mankind's encroachment. While showing the severity of the human impact on the landscape, at the same time, the paintings invite further speculation as the effects are literally beneath the surface.
A portion of the proceeds from Sarah Beth’s Wake Project Series benefits non-profits supporting disaster relief and environmental clean-up.
North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District Center Gallery
134 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA
http://nom-tlcbd.org/id77.html
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Diana Al-Hadid (MFA 2005) was awarded a year long grant. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.
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Artist Spotlight: ALLISON ANDREWS
By Diane O'Neal
Allison Andrews (MFA 2006, BFA 1999)
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Diana Al-Hadid (MFA 2005) is featured on the cover of the March 2009 issue of
Sculpture Magazine with an interview on pages 24 - 31.
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Brad Hall (BFA) was featured in the Russian Magazine "PC Gamer" in September 2008
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Miriam Ewers (MFA 2006) has been awarded a two month residency at Sculpture Space!
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Tara Donovan (MFA 1999) is named one of 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2008. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. The winners will receive $500,000 each over the next five years to use as they see fit.
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537253/k.8750/Tara_Donovan.htm
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Janelle Iglesias (MFA 2006) has a 6 month residency in Paris at
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Style Weekly features VCU alumni Charlie Ponticello (MFA 1984) and Tim Blum (MFA 1992), along with Professor Emeritus Lester Van Winkle and Ross Caudill (MFA 2006) for their contributions to commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the merger of Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia to make VCU. Ponticello, Blum, and Van Winkle are each creating large scale outdoor sculptures to be permanently installed on VCU's campus in honor of the event.
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D.W. Martin (MFA 1989) has work in the following outdoor Midwest Sculpture Initiative Exhibitions:
"Art In The Eye" Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall, Michigan: May 2008-2009
"Art Trail Tecumseh" Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Techumseh, Michigan: May 2008-2009
"Sculpture On Ford Road" Outdoor sculpture Exhibition, Canton, Michigan: August 2008-2009
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Ledelle Moe Wins the 2008 Kreeger Museum Artist Award
and $20,000 Prize Underwritten by Chevy Chase Bank
The Director of The Kreeger Museum, Ms. Judy A. Greenberg, is proud to announce that Washington artist Ledelle Moe (MFA)is the 2008 Kreeger Museum Artist Award winner. Moe was chosen from a group of three finalists, by a distinguished, five-person jury. In the spirit of David and Carmen Kreeger, The Kreeger Museum established The Kreeger Museum Artist Award in 2004 to recognize, biennially, a Washington area artist deserving of recognition by consistently demonstrating artistic excellence, exceptional creativity and
whose life and work has significantly and positively influenced the Washington, DC arts community. The Kreeger Museum would like to acknowledge the other nominated finalists, Dan Steinhilber and Yuriko Yamaguchi. Moe will receive a $20,000 prize, underwritten by Chevy Chase Bank, which will be presented at a reception and award presentation at The Kreeger Museum in October 2008. A selection of her work will be on view at the Museum from October 3 through November 29, 2008.
http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/special_events.asp
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Keeping the Lights On: George Ferrandi
Danny Powell's mini documentary about the work of Brooklyn-based visual artist George Ferrandi (BFA) can be viewed in three parts on ropeadope.com: http://www.ropeadope.com/radtv/video/keeping_the_lights_on/
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Ella Watson (BFA 2006) donates painting to Pennsylvania hospital
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Carolina Escobar (BFA 1982) has been awarded a Pollack- Krasner Foundation Grant.The Foundation Grant provides financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It offers financial assistance to artists of recognized merit and financial need working as painters, sculptors, mixed media and installation artists.
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Sarah Bednarek (MFA 2006) has completed a residency at SculptureSpace in Utica, New York: http://sculpturespace.org/bednarek/
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