Towson University Graphic Design class collaboration with Word on the Street featured on WYPR.
February 2013
Word on the Street is one of 23 newspapers in the U.S. produced by homeless people and their advocates. Students in Assistant Professor Jessica Ring's Graphic Design for Social Issues course work with the newspaper staff to design layouts for each edition.
Jessica Ring and TU graphic design students work with staff of Word on the Street, a newspaper produced by homeless people and their advocates
January 2013
Word on the Street is one of 23 newspapers in the U.S. produced by homeless people and their advocates. Students in Assistant Professor Jessica Ring's Graphic Design for Social Issues course work with the newspaper staff to design layouts for each edition. According to Ring, the class gives students the opportunity to experience the professional aspects of design as well as serve the greater good.
A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, co-curated by J. Susan Isaacs, has sixth exhibition at USC's Fisher Museum
October 2012
A Complex Weave: Women and identity in Contemporary Art, an exhibition co-curated by Professor J. Susan Isaacs, and shown at Towson University in 2009, is currently at the Fisher Museum at the University of Southern California, its sixth exhibition venue. The exhibition has been a huge success, garnering success at each location. The catalog has been distributed to over 200 museums, universities and libraries around the country.
Jessica Ring published in The Visual and Performing Arts: An International Anthology: Volume I
October 2012
Jessica Ring, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Graphic Design concentration, has had a paper published in the book The Visual and Performing Arts: An International Anthology: Volume I (2012).
Amy Boone-McCreesh's Heritage Aesthetic at the Hamiltonian Gallery
September 2012
Part-time faculty member Amy Boone-McCreesh's work will be on display at the Hamiltonian Gallery. In her debut solo exhibition as a Hamiltonian Fellow, Boone-McCreesh investigates the visual language of ceremonies and rites of passage while exploring themes of transformation and transcendence. Aiding in a deeper investigation of the artist's visual inspirations, Heritage Aesthetic will feature a reading room containing images and books that inform the work in the exhibition.
Heritage Aesthetic runs Sept. 22 - Oct. 13, 2012, with an opening reception on Sat., Sept. 22, from 7-9 p.m.
Join Amy for an artist's talk on Tues., Oct. 2, 7 p.m.
Department of Art faculty featured on the TU YouTube channel
August 2012
Watch Nancy Siegel track the origin of the use of food in American politics, in the TU in 2: Two-minute lectures series. From Election Cake to Freedom Fries, it's all food for thought.
Watch Jan Baum present Design, Design, Design: Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, a 5-minute/20 slide talk illustrating her research in Interdisciplinary Object Design over the last five years. Topics discussed include: social design and entrepreneurship, sustainable design, digital design and 3d printing, design thinking + innovation, and interdisciplinary design with a global purview.
Watch Christopher Bartlett discuss curating The Bridges Juried Art Exhibition at the College of Fine Arts Gallery. The Bridges Conference, recently held at Towson University from July 25-29, 2012, is the largest mathematics and art interdisciplinary conference in the world.
Watch Sujan Shrestha and Department of Electronic Media and Film's Phil Davis present The Truth in Illusion: Collaborative Approaches to Documentary Animation, a 5 minute/20 slide talk highlighting their Spring 2011 course that developed and explored the juxtaposition between documentary and animation, by combining nonfiction audio with traditional and digital animated mediums, and balancing on the line between objective and subjective cinema.
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TU Students in juried exhibition at Area 405
April 2012
ON LOAN, a regional student exhibition juried by Sarah Tanguy, is on display at Area 405. The show features 32 artists from within a hundred mile radius of Baltimore, who work in a wide variety of media.
From more than 100 applications submitted, six Towson University students were accepted. TU undergraduates include Katy Dombrausky, Nicholas Edwards, Ian Mize, and Allegra Stiles. MFA candidates Rachel Timmins and Vincent Valerio also have work on display.
The exhibition runs through Sun., April 15, 2012, with a panel discussion closing day, from 1–3 p.m.
Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of Art History, has had her recent book The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting published by the University Press of New England. Written from aesthetic, sociopolitical, cultural, and literary perspectives, The Cultured Canvas explores myriad ways in which American visual culture can be evaluated through newly conceived thematic and ideological approaches.
Sam Lacombe wins Montpelier Library Gallery Competition, displays new paintings at The Montpelier Arts Center
March 2012
New paintings by part-time faculty Sam Lacombe will be on exhibit at The Montpelier Arts Center. His paintings focus on the color and geometry of cityscapes, especially neon and urban signage that the artist views as metaphors for human experience and the American experience in particular.
Lacombe is also the latest featured winner of the Montpelier Library Gallery Competition.
The exhibit runs Thurs., April 5 through Fri., May 25, 2012, with an opening reception Sunday, April 15, from 2–4 p.m.
Amy Boone-McCreesh curates "The Sum of the Parts" at Maryland Art Place
March 2012
Amy Boone-McCreesh, MFA 2010 graduate, part-time faculty, and recent selected curator of MAP's Curators' Incubator Program, has curated the exhibition "The Sum of the Parts," currently on display at Maryland Art Place, through March 24, 2012.
Stuart Stein and Sujan Shrestha bring TU stop-animation class to Towson Commons space
March 2012
Stuart Stein and Sujan Shrestha quoted in Baltimore Sun article, University animation class brings a little motion to Towson Commons: TU class sets up shop in vacant storefront.
TU is offering a stop-motion animation class, set up in one of the vacant storefronts in Towson Commons. The class is a joint venture between the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education and the Department of Electronic Media and Film.
Sujan Shrestha, assistant professor of Digital Art and Design and Phil Davis, assistant professor of Electronic Media and Film, are co-instructors of the course.
Jenee Mateer's Visceral Spectrum at the Jordan Faye Contemporary
March 2012
Assistant Professor Jenee Mateer's work will be on display at the Jodan Faye Contemporary through Saturday, March 24 in her solo exhibition, Visceral Spectrum.
On Sun., March 4, 1–4 p.m., join Jenee for an Artist Talk.
Assistant Professor Amanda Burnham's work will be on display at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts from Dec. 16, 2011 through Feb. 26, 2012 in the exhibition Walkshed.
Masters of the Visual Universe, on display from Oct. 7, 2011 through Feb. 5, 2012 at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, features work from several of the department's MFA students.
Kelly Blair commissioned by Melville House for redesign
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.
Kay Broadwater receives Maryland Art Education Association award
April 2010
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 presents solo exhibition Agglutinate
February 2010
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.
Jim Paulsen in group exhibition, How Did You Do That? A Sculptors Inc. Exhibition
January 2010
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.
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