Department of Art
News
Keep up with the latest news in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education. You can also find information on upcoming events.
Sculpture Exchange with Korean University
Towson University and Won Kwang University in South Korea have collaborated on an exchange exhibition of small and miniature sculptures. Twenty three small sculptures were sent from South Korea to be joined with twenty three miniature sculptures from the Sculpture Program at Towson University and all were on view at the Towson Commons Gallery. The exhibition was organized by professor Jim Paulsen of Towson University and Dr. Dong Hun Chung from Won Kwang University.
MFA Graduate is Media Specialist for White House Historical Association
Congratulations to Winter MFA Art graduate, Brenda Fike (Photo and ARTH). She was recently hired as a Media Specialist for the White House Historical Association, located by the White House.
Nora Sturges receives Maryland State Arts Council Award
Nora Sturges received an Individual Artist Award for painting from the Maryland State Arts Council for 2008. See the press release for more information.
TU Professor receives Edwin Ziegfeld Award
Dr. Katherine Broadwater, Dept of Art, was
honored to receive the Edwin Ziegfeld award on March 29th at the
NAEA National Convention in New Orleans. She presented the work
that she initiated and has sustained for 14 years at Towson
University in partnership with Baltimore City underserved
children. USSEA (United States Society for Art Education )
presents the Edwin Ziegfeld Awards annually to honor one
American and one international art educator who have made an
outstanding and internationally recognized contribution to art
education through exceptional records of achievement in
scholarly writing, research, professional service, or community
service.
The Towson Student Chapter of the National Art Education
Association sent 7 students to New Orleans for the annual art education conference. For more information, visit the NAEA convention website.
Give It Up, Make It Up, Swap It Up
The students of the 3D Design + Social Issues course, which premiered in the fall 2007 semester, received individual undergraduate research grants totaling $1,000 in support of the culminating, public event, Give It Up, Make It Up, Swap It Up which the class hosted on Saturday, December 8, 2007. GIVE it up. MAKE it up, SWAP it up was a hands-on interactive event showcasing the individual and group projects and the various social issues students explored and researched throughout the semester. Participants had the opportunity to participate in various do-it-yourself activities while learning about upcycling, the disease of addiction, racism, road rage, community building, body image, genetically modified foods,
recycling, fair trade and more. We screened the Big Ideas for a Small Planet series. Limited edition collections of seven social design products will be given to the first 25 attendees.
Society of North American Goldsmiths conference
The following students from the Metals + Jewelry program received a student scholarships to attend the the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference in Savannah Georgia: Amy Klainer (grad), Rebecca Dortzbach (UG), Suzi Fitz (UG), Johanna Haydon (UG), Lizzy Hanner (UG). Adjunct professor Megan Auman will be presenting Navigating Web 2.0 for the Professional Practices event at the conference.
Graduate student, Liz Steiner, will also be attending.
Metals + Jewelry Alumni in the News
Liz Mathews, Beth Pohlman, Annie Chau, Juliet
Ames, four alumni of the Metals + Jewelry program, plus the
Towson University Metals Club exhibited their work at Holiday
Heap hosted by the Charm City Craft Mafia on December 1st and
were considered among the best exhibitors at the show. Annie
Chau started her own business, Imogene, focusing on handcrafted
art jewelry. Juliet Ames, TU alumni and owner of the I Break
Plates company, was profiled in the November/December 2007 issue
of Smart Woman magazine. New Interactive Media Design course offered
For the first time in Spring 2008, the Interactive Media Design Certificate Program will offer ART641–Interactive Media Design Concepts and Theory, taught by Associate Professor Bridget Z. Sullivan. As a course activity, students will be instructed to create an avatar (a 3-D game profile) in the online 3-D virtual environment Second Life. The objective is to offer classroom events and activities in the Second Life environment, to expose students to the development of online virtual environments as potential business and educational destinations. The inclusion of SL activities in ART641 will provide students with an opportunity to experience and analyze a 3-D virtual reality environment first hand. Students will immerse themselves in the 3-D SL interactive environment to more fully understand the impact of 3-D simulated environments on current and future trends in interactive media design.
As a first attempt in conducting online learning events in Second Life, Program Director Bridget Sullivan will utilize the New Media Consortium Campus (nmc.org). NMC maintains a virtual campus in the SL environment so that member universities may experiment with Second Life and host educational events. The award of a Teaching Innovation Grant will fund an institutional membership for Towson University in the New Media Consortium, starting January 1, 2008. TU's membership in NMC will support Prof. Sullivan's proposed virtual learning experience for ART641 students as well as afford all Towson University faculty members the opportunity to investigate the Second Life 3-D virtual environment as a learning environment.
Illustrator, Rob Wood, creates Christmas ornament for White House
Faculty member, Rob Wood, was selected to present an ornament for 2007 White House Christmas Tree.
He was one of the artists specifically chosen by First Lady, Laura Bush. In keeping with this year's national parks theme, Wood's ornament represents Keweenaw National Historical Park, in Michigan. The shaft house he depicts is a part of the park's mission to preserve and interpret s the region's copper-mining history.
Research Project Approved
The research project, “Contemporary Pattern
Design”, was approved by the Undergraduate Research
Committee.
This project explores new ways to bridge
scientific images with art, to
transform them into new visual pattern designs.
Students, Nicole Linderborn, Kristina Gurvich, Alexandra Chioini, Kristina
Russel, Jessica Berenbach, Eric Conrad, LaShawn Johnson, Ace
Kieffer, Samantha Wentz, Lauren Powell-Smothers, Tien-Yu Lin,
Luarel Russel, Marylynn Reed, Joy Tucker, Matthew Renner,
Tiffany Henley, John Whitley, and Jessica Brodskey are participants.
The images will be published as a book by the Department of Art, Digital
Art and Design Track. It is mentored by
Professor Yeohyun Ahn.
Graphic Design Students Win Awards
Two graphic design students were selected as winners in the 2007 Flux Design Competition, conducted by AIGA Blueridge and Shepherd University. Matthew Laumann won in the publications category for his Baskerville Type Speciman Book. Yoon-Ji Chung won in the poster category for her Chicago Midwest Beauty Show Poster. Information about the event, other winners, judges, and the exhibition can be found here.
Graphic Design students submitted proposals for the Towson University Holiday Card. Undergraduate student, Cody Wasmer, designed the card chosen by President Caret.
Dr. Raymond Martens, NAEA Eastern Region, Art Educator of the Year
Dr. Raymond Martens has been selected as the NAEA 2008 East Region Art Educator of the Year. He will accept his award in New Orleans in late March.
Welcome New Faculty!
The 2007-08 New Tenure-track Faculty: Amanda Burnham, area coordinator foundations,
Jenee Mateer, photography/video,
Jessica Ring, graphic design,
Kay Broadwater, area coordinator-undergraduate art education
New Visiting Assistant Professor: Yeohyun Ahn, digital art and design
New Lecturer: Richard Holt, ceramics
New Part-time Faculty: Maya Freelon Assante, Riselle Abrams, Jonramsey Barnes, Douglas Bucci, Jackie Copeland, William Duffy, Abby Ferretti, Brenda Fike, Dawn Gavin, Tiffany Jordan, Lawrence Cromwell, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Michael Ring, Dina Snead, Robert Tillman, Victoria Weaver, Rob Wood, Tanya Ziniewicz
Currently, tenure-track searches are underway in Art History and Digital Art and Design, with start dates of fall 2008.
Art Chair Jean Miller, CAA and NCAA
Jean Miller has been elected to the College Art Association's Professional Practices Committee for a 3-year term. CAA meets in Dallas in February 2008. Its administrative offices are located in New York City. She was also elected as the 2008 president of National Council of Art Administrators this past November.
Faculty Exhibitions...
Megan Auman is participating in these upcoming shows: Bethesda Fine Arts Festival on May 10 and 11, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival on May 17 and 18, Art Star Craft Bazaar on May 31 and June 1, and the Columbus Arts Festival on June 6, 7 and 8. Visit Megan's website for more on her upcoming exhibitions.
Yeohyun Ahn, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, was will present at the Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media Conference with her two collaborators, Viviana Cordova and John Page Corrigan, April 5th, in Boston. Ahn will present the research for code-driven typography, "Processing Regarding Algorithmic Design." For more information visit Messaging Media or Type and Code.
GROW, The Opening Exhibition for Baltimore: The Urban Forest Project will be
held on April 12, 2008 at the Johns Hopkins University Campus Beach. Associate Professor Stuart Stein, Visiting Assistant Professor Yeohyun Ahn, and Assistant Professor Jessica Ring designed banners accepted into the Baltimore Urban Forest Project.
Adjunct professor of 3D Modeling, Doug Bucci, is Chair of the 2009 SNAG conference in Philadelphia.
Jan Baum, Associate Professor, and Program Director for the Metals + Jewelry, will have her work published in 500 Pendants + Lockets, published by Lark Books.
Adjunct faculty member, Janet Huddie, was awarded an individual artist grant from the Maryland Arts Council in 2007-08.
Adjunct faculty member, Megan Auman, will be exhibiting in the A+ section of the New York Gift Fair, in NYC, February 1-6, 2008. A+ is part of Accent on Design, a new program focusing on new designers and their ideas. She was also nominated and selected as one of this year's prestigious Spotlight Artists, at the American Craft Council Expo, highlighting the best emerging artists. She will exhibit her sculptural metal furniture.
Trace Miller will have a solo show entitled
"Nature: Invitation for Renewal" at Albright College in Reading
PA in March 2008.
MFA Director and Head of Printmaking, Tonia Matthews, is currently included in three exhibitions--Delta National Small Prints Exhibition (Arkansas State University), Maryland Art Place, and 20th National Print Invitational at University of Dallas.
Painter, Michael Hindle, had a one-person retrospective at the Warner Gallery in Middletown, Delaware this past fall. He is founder of "commonecology," an organization focusing on sustainable and healthy communities. See commonecology.com for more information.
Painter, Trace Miller, will exhibit in, “New Views: Nature Captured”, at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, from January through May 2008.
Assistant Professor, Jessica Ring, and Instructor, Jocelyn Curtis, were accepted into the Earth Matters: International Art Exhibit 2007,
at The University of Texas-Pan American's University Gallery. Jessica Ring will also be speaking about green graphic design and web design at the TU Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31.
James Condron had three large-scale paintings selected for the Art in Embassies Program in Katmandu. His work is also included in a three-person exhibit at the American Center for Physics at College Park. In addition, his paintings were acquired by the Long Beach Museum of Art (CA) and the West Valley Museum of Art (AZ).
Art Educator, Riselle Abrams, is exhibiting two artworks in, “Food: From Hunger to Plenty”, at the Towson Arts Collective. She will travel to New Orleans in March to represent MAEA as its president for the NAEA Conference.
Erika McMahon participated in the Print Portfolio, presented at Sangmyung University, in Seoul, Korea.
Ceramics instructor, Rich Holt, will organize the Towson University exhibition for NCECA in March.
In December 2007, Assistant Professor, Jessica Ring, participated in "The means by which we find our way"
exhibition, for design education in New Zealand. The exhibition will be
traveling.
Art Historian, Karl Fugelso edited an issue of Studies in Medievalism and gave lectures at the 22nd Annual International Congress on Medievalism. He published peer-reviewed articles in The Year's Work in Medievalism, Dante Studies, and Studies in Iconography.
Seth Goodman's paintings were included in exhibitions at Flux Studios, Angel Falls Studios II, Whole Gallery, Metro Gallery, 2D Gallery (Baltimore), and Flashpoint Gallery (DC).
Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Center for the Arts, Room 3103 (map)
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Phone: 410-704-2808
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