Department of Art + Design,
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Keep up with the latest news in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education. You can also find information on upcoming events.

• Events

March 2011

Baltimore native and Towson ART graduate, Kelly Blair was recently commissioned by Melville House to redesign a series of Heinrich Böll novels. (Heinrich Böll, Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, was considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers until his death in 1985.)

Blair is a successful New York based illustrator and designer who began her career as an AIGA intern. She landed a job at Picador Publishing and then became an art director at Little, Brown Publishing before opening an independent studio in 2005. Her elegant graphic illustrations have been published in the New York Times over the years.

Read more about it on the New York Times blog: Under Cover: Kelly Blair and Heinrich Böll, by Monica Racic.

View her other book designs on her website.

Kay Broadwater: Award Winner

Kay Broadwater, Art Professor, has been selected to receive the Maryland Art Education Association's 2010 Maryland Art Educator of the Year award. She will be honored at the National Art Education Association's national convention on Apr. 16 in Baltimore.

Amanda Burnham: Agglutinate

Assistant Professor Amanda Burnham will present the solo exhibition Agglutinate.The exhibition will be held at the Amalie Rothschild Gallery, The Creative Allince at the Patterson, from Feb. 5–20, 2010. The opening reception is Friday, Feb. 5, 5:30–7:30pm.

With inky black shadows, and a limitless range of gray washes, Amanda Burnham’s crumbling urban and exurban landscapes are almost entirely void of people, like cartoon snapshots taken a month or so after the rapture. Here Burnham combines drawing with installation to ghostly effect, with dangling street signs or tangled chain fence etched onto the wall and enfolding the viewer.

For more information, visit the Creative Alliance at the Patterson.

Jim Paulsen, Group Exhibition: How Did You Do That? A Sculptors Inc. Exhibition

Professor Jim Paulsen employs allegory with a wink and a nod, drawing upon a grab bag of techniques and materials and typically finishing with a colorful patina to complete the illusion. His work is part of the group exhibition How Did You Do That? A Sculptors Inc. Exhibition, held in the Main Gallery of The Creative Allince at the Patterson, from Jan. 16 – Feb. 13, 2010. Paulsen will participate in a gallery talk/demo Saturday Feb. 13 at 2pm.

Professor Jessica Ring of the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education art directed student designers (now alumni) Mallory Varvaris, Caren Lipman and Mario Iati in the creation of the Towson University Student Green Map. The piece won a Silver award in the Going Green category of the 40th Annual UCDA Design Competition. Out of 1,300 print, electronic media, and going green entries, a total of 6 Gold Awards, 18 Silver Awards and 213 Awards of Excellence were chosen.

For more information, visit the Creative Alliance at the Patterson.

Arts Council Award Winners

Congratulations to part-time faculty Laura Amussen, David Page and April Wood, recipients of 2009 Maryland State Arts Council Awards for Sculpture.

Jan Baum will have her jewelry and metal work published in 500 Pendants + Lockets, published by Lark Books.