Kent State University : School of Art


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The School of Art at Kent State University offers a long tradition of imagination, thought, skill, and achievement in the visual arts. For its students, both current and future, its alumni and its many friends, the School of Art continues to explore ideas, provide the highest standards of craft, and stimulate individual and collective creativity through its programs, curriculum, and exhibitions. On this site, you can find current program information, a listing of current events, and ways to contact faculty and staff. Hello KSU School of Art Alumni! The link for submissions of resumes or CVs and images for the juried Centennial Alumni Exhibition is open for business on our Galleries welcome page. We look forward to hearing from you and including you in the plans for our participation in Kent State University's Centennial year with several exhibitions during the fall 2010! OPPORTUNITIES Travel-study to New York this semester LOTS of Internship opportunities for spring, 2010... Study Abroad Opportunities The dollar is stronger, the Euro weaker, and our teaching forces are out in full force this year! > Travel to Florence in early summer with Professor Gustav Medicus to experience Renaissance art and architecture (and great Italian food!) first-hand! > Take a full semester, Fall 2010, and enjoy studio courses (Painting I and Drawing III) as well as language, art history, history, and Italian culture while really soaking it in and getting to know Italy as a long-term resident... Contact the Office of International Affairs here at KSU. MFA (sculpture) alumna Carol Hummel recently completed a public work as artist-in-residence at Heights Arts. with the assistance of community members, including a group of senior citizens at University Settlement, works were crocheted to call to attention parking meters, trees, and lightposts in the University Heights and Cleveland Heights areas. One participant commented: “Your projects have changed the entire energy in our neighborhoods; people are so much happier when they walk down our streets. Everyone is smiling.” Public art opportunities for artists at all career stages .... This page last updated 4 February, 2010.	$1000 prize! Put on your thinking caps! Here's an essay contest open to all of you enrolled in art classes this spring! IN OUR GALLERIES... "Reunion," a selection of work of KSU alumni curated by emeritus professor Richard Myers, runs in the School Gallery 19- Jan.-19 Feb, 2010. Featured are artists Mary Ann Flynn-Fouse, Marlene Mancini Frost, John Opie, Susan Opie, Edward Pramuk, Harry Wheeler, and Robert Wick. At the Downtown Gallery you can see "Confluence: Social Political Constructionist Points of View" curated by School of Art alumnus Al Bright and featuring the work of Louis Burroughs and alumni Hilton Murray, and Nelson Stevens. The exhibition runs from 20 January - 27 February. For a PDF document listing all spring and summer gallery activities in and around Kent... Fragile, a site-specfic installation by MFA (painting) alumna Erica Raby opens at the KSU Trumbull campus gallery on 1 February and runs through 25 February, with a reception on Thursday, 9 February, 5:30-7pm. Other drawings by the artist will also be on view. Gallery hours are Mon -Thurs. 3-7p and Saturday, 10a - 1p.	MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE... Drop-in Advising for Spring 2010 semester: Wednesdays 9-11a & 1-4 p Thursdays 1-4 p Make an appointment with your new School of Art academic advisor Maria Robertson by clicking here... Questions? Call the Art office: 330.672.2192. Find out about summer 2010 Florence study opportunities! Informational meetings on Tuesday, 16 February at 7p or Wednesday, 17 February at 4p! 206 Art Building... Applicants for Foundations Coordinator The School of Art is searching for a Foundations coordinator during the spring 2010 semester. Applicants for the position are invited to submit images to support their application following the suggestions below: - Digital files must be submitted on a single, Mac-compatible CD or DVD-R. - Please submit no more than twenty (20) files comprised of still images and/or Quicktime movies. - Place all image files in a folder named with this convention: LastnameFirstinitial e.g., SmithJ - Still image files must be sized up to but no more than 768 pixels in height by up to 1,024 pixels in width. - Submit only JPEG files. Do not submit images in any presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote, or PDF). - For videos and moving images: All files must be formatted as self-contained QuickTime movie files. DVDs should be formatted only as data discs; do not submit DVDs with menus, mastered, or in MPEG-2 format. Video files should be no longer than two minutes in length. - Send any hard copies of the above to: Foundations Coordinator Search, Kent State University School of Art, PO Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242. - While on-line applications to: http://jobs.kent.edu Thank you in advance for observing these guidelines. ON VIEW ELSEWHERE Assistant Professor Gianna Commito has work in three upcoming exhibitions: A solo show, Windows and Doors,at the William Busta Gallery (Cleveland), opening Friday, 5 February; work in the 185th Annual: an Invitational Exhibition of contemporary American Art at the National Academy (New York), 17 Feb- 8 June; and a painting in a group show, with Scott Olson, Zak Prekop, and Brian Sharp at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary (Cleveland) from 19 February onward. Associate Professor Martin Ball exhibits work in The Expansive Gesture, a group show with Matt Kolodzej, Dana Oldfather, Eric Neff and Seth Rosenberg, 8 January - 5 April, at the Cleveland Clinic Art Exhibition Area -- between Q and G buildings in the Glickman Tower, East 96th Street (btwn: Carnegie & Euclid Avenues), Cleveland, OH. Work by drawing students at the KSU Trumbull campus will be on exhibit in the Art Outreach Galleryin the Eastwood Mall, Niles, OH, from 15 January - 21 February. Participating students of Assistant Professor Phillip Buntin include: Bret Matula, Jared Thomas Burton, Ava Houser, Kaleena Spackman, Tarah Brumbaugh, Victoria Van Horn, Jill Shafer, Samantha Ferchaw, Chris Allen, Jenna Cintavey and Hillary Hutchings. The Art Outreach Gallery is open Fridays 5-9p,Saturdays 1-9p, and Sundays 1-5p and is free and open to the public.

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