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Exhibition Dates: June 18 - September
15, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 21, 6pm to 9pm.
Location: (Outdoors) University of Alberta Campus, South of
Rutherford Library, West of the LRT Station at 89 Ave. and
112 Street.
This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree
of Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture.
Visiting speakers
Tuesday, 13 February, 5:10pm
Room 2-20 Fine Arts Building
Bonnie Baxter is a multi disciplinary artist with creative
research that encompasses public art installation, large scale
works in print media, sculpture and performance. This lecture
will be taking place in conjunction with her solo exhibition
at Harcourt House Gallery. The Department is pleased to partner
with this institution to make this presentation possible.
Thrusday, 15 February, 5:10pm
Room 2-20 Fine Arts Building
After completing her BFA at Concordia University in 1975,
Sylvia Safdie embarked upon an extremely active career, with
national and international solo exhibitions at such important
venues as The Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris (2000), Peak
Gallery, Toronto (2001), and Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery,
Owen Sound, ON (2002). Safdie has engaged in a wide range
of studio practices including drawing, painting, sculpture,
installation, and most recently video. Her creative research
has centered on collecting and cataloging objects found in
nature, ranging from rocks and soil to petrified leaves, nests
and roots.
Monday, 5 March, 5:10pm
Room 2-20 Fine Arts Building
Susan Menzies is a permanent faculty member at the Alberta
College of Art and Design, where she is currently head of
its Painting Program. Since completing her MFA at the Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design, Menzies has had an extensive
exhibition record with solo and group exhibitions across Canada
and North America, including About Time at the Nickle Arts
Museum, Calgary (2006); Dreamy at the Institute of Modern
and Contemporary Art, Calgary (2001); and Bewilderness at
La Chambre Blanche, Québec (1995).
Other news from the Art and Design
Department:
Other News from the Art and Design Department
(Winter 2007):
has won a prestigious Silver Medal from the University &
College Designers Association (UCDA). There were 1600 entries
for this competition, resulting in only 5 gold medals, 16
silver medals, and 122 awards of excellence. By winning this
award, Sue placed the University of Alberta in the company
of the Getty Publication Group, Indiana University, and Penn
State University, among other institutions.
received the 4th Annual
Support Staff Recognition Award for his outstanding contributions
to the University of Alberta. Dick’s contributions go
well beyond his job description and job duties. His voluntary
organization of trips to centers like New York and London
contributes to the experience that students are able to bring
to the production of their art. Dick is also a practicing
artist, whose remarkable paintings employ a subtle combination
of texture and colour.
 A
local has taken up residence
near the sculpture outside the FAB Building. Apparently an
art aficionado, he has become our local mascot! -2
,
professor emeritus and printmaker, teamed up with Wendy McGrath
for A Revision of Forward, an exhibit of poems and prints
for the first-ever Edmonton Poetry Festival, held in September
2006. The prints and poems are a collaboration that articulates
a response to the circular aspects of time, the significance
of poetic symbol, and the mystery of image and word.
was a featured designer in an article about the Edmonton design
world, published in the September 2006 issue of Westernliving
Magazine. Tim showed his research on morphing materials, products
created from “memory plastics” that can shape-shift
into something else when owners tire of their original purchase
at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
Also featured in the article were a number of graduates from
the U of A’s design program: and ;
Shoko César; ;
; and .
was awarded
a grant from the Killam Research (Special Opportunity) Fund
and the Vice President (Academic) to support the publication
of a catalogue titled Centrifugal: Ideas from Different Cultures
in Print. Sean also worked with and a group of students on a project for
the new Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science. -
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(MFA Printmaking),
(MA, History of Art, Design and Visual Culture), (MFA Painting), (MFA Printmaking), (MDes Visual Communication Design), (MDes Visual Communication Design),
and (MFA Drawing
and Intermedia) all successfully defended during the fall
2006 term. Congratulations!
 Designing
Effective Communications: Creating Contexts for Clarity and
Meaning, the most recent book edited by , professor emeritus in Visual Communication
Design, was selected by DT&G: Design, Type & Graphics
Magazine in conjunction with The Design & Publishing Center,
The Designers' Bookshelf and the Graphic-Design Network as
the Book of the Year for Visual Communicators.
,
an undergraduate student in VCD, won an Applied Arts Graphic
Designers of Canada (GDC) Scholarship for her project titled
Handlettering. Kelsey explained her submission, created for
instructor , in
her rationale for the piece: “Being trained on the computer
to produce letterforms, we often forget how beautiful our
own scribbles are. Sometimes the most interesting pieces of
a project are the first preliminary notes and sketches we
produce to get the ball rolling.” The piece was featured
in the October 2006 issue of Applied Arts: Canada’s
Visual Communications Magazine.
BFA/BDes students Travis Park and Stephanie
Chan won Universiade Scholarships for $2,000 each.
VCD Graduate Student was awarded an International Travel Abroad
Scholarship and a Kaplan Award for him to attend a workshop
in Scandanavia.
Students in the Art Fundamentals class
taught by
gathered together on a chilly Friday night in December to
practice drawing using light, with toboggans and flashlights.
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