Stephen Sokola, an Art Education student, has been named the winner of the College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Senior Award for Fall, 2009.
Beasley Gallery Exhibits, Fall 2009:
Recycled Art: Reception November 6
BFA I: Reception November 20
BFA II: Reception December 4
The following Art Education students had articles published in School
Arts, a national trade magazine for art educators: Neri Luzietti,
Julie Bringhurst Wells, Tara Nunimaker, Jessica Bradley, Jessica Davis.
Art Education Professor Pam Stephens has been busy: she won a prestigious grant from Target to benefit the Art Education program; she was named the Arizona Art Education Association’s Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator for 2008-09; and she has published the eighth in her series of art history animated videos and books for children titled Dropping in on the Impressionists.
Professor Jason Hess was in eight exhibitions during
the 08-09 academic year: five national invitational group shows, one
show in China, one exhibition of the ceramics program's current faculty
and students at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(NCECA) annual conference, and one solo exhibition of work made during
a residency in China while on sabbatical. Jason also organized a national
symposium in the spring of 2009, "Potters as Sculptors, Sculptors
as Potters," which was held here at NAU.
Professor Paula Rice has received the inaugural a Research
and Creative Activity Award: Most Significant Creative or Artistic Work
for her Planet Series. The same ceramic work was on exhibit at the Lowell
Observatory in August and September of 2009.
Ceramics instructor Steve Schaeffer has been invited
to exhibit his work at the 2009 Florence Biennale.
Instructor Helen Peterson earned LEED AP certification
with an emphasis in commercial interiors. LEED for commercial Interiors
is the system for certifying high-performance green interiors that are
healthy, productive places to work; are less costly to operate and maintain;
and have a reduced environmental footprint.
Asistant Professor of Practice Carl Clark is leading
the effort in the School of Art to gain CIDA accreditation for the Interior
Design program. We hope to finalize accreditation by the end of the
2010-11 school year.
Recent Golden Axe winners in Interior Design:
2009 Marissa Alff (ID Flagstaff)
2008 Edith Villalobos (ID Tucson)
2007 Lee Ann Sobczak (ID Flagstaff)
BFA Exhibit for Spring, 2009: Mary Griffin, Elizabeth N. Hyde, Tristyn Hamilton Bustamante, Anna Ford, Jade Youngren, Kimberly Gehle-Romberger, Stephanie Marie Preciado and Alma A. Aispuro. Opening reception Friday, April 24 from 6-8PM in Beasley Gallery.
Art education majors Jordan Trammell (sophomore), Emily Squire (junior), and Emily Winthrop (junior) have been selected as winners in a national artist trading card competition. Jordan placed first while the other students earned honorable mentions. More than 3,000 entries were submitted to this contest. See the cards.
Ivan Bronston, a recent BFA graduate, won a $5,000 grant from Arizona Commission on the Arts. He installed an installation at Beaver Street Gallery.
The Ceramics program welcomed Takashi Nakazato and his assistant Kazu Oba from Karatsu, Japan who were here Spring 2009 to make ceramic art for several weeks. Their work culminated with the firing of one of our wood burning kilns. Takashi is the son of Muan Nakazato who was declared a living national treasure in Japan and producer of Karatsu-Yaki ceramics. Takashi became a potter in the hope of creating a totally new style of Karatsu. Takashi's work is characterized by a casual serenity and his forms are intended for the daily ritual of eating and drinking or flower display. The public came to the Ceramics Complex and witnessed Takashi work in our wood kilns the weekend of January 30th.
Ceramics Professor Paula Rice's new Planet Project was featured at the Coconino Center for the Arts. The work was on display from September 27 through November 6, 2008 in the Night Visions III exhibition at the Center. For more information.
Tom and Elaine Coleman will conduct a ceramics workshop on October 22 and 23, from 10:00am - 5:00pm in the ceramics complex on south campus. Tom and Elaine are nationally known ceramists from Henderson, Nevada.
The annual Saturday Studio for Kids was held October 4, 11, 18, and 25. For more information click here.
Professor Jim O'Hara and his sculpture Benchmark were featured in Inside NAU.
Pam Stephens, associate professor in art education, published the seventh in her series of children's books and animated videos about artists. Dropping in on Grandma Moses features the artist and six of her major works. The series is illustrated and animated by Phoenix artist, Jim McNeill (www.JimMcNeill.com) and is published by Crystal Productions (www.crystalproductions.com).
Shawn Skabelund, lecturer in the School of Art, had his sculpture, Brassing Out, juried into the 22nd annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition, at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. The site-specific piece—crafted from steel, wood, brass and pinesap—recognizes the miners who died when an explosion ripped through the Farmville, N.C., coal mine in which they were working on May 27, 1925. Skabelund also won the Rosen Award First Place, a cash prize that includes a residency on the university's campus in February.
Julie Bringhurst Wells, art education student teacher, published her original early childhood lesson, Unexpected Cats, in SchoolArts magazine. Based on her lesson about artist Sandy Skoglund, young students were provided an opportunity to create their own unusual setting for a cat. In the same issue is Julie's review of the book, Painting on Glass and Ceramics.
Debra Edgerton, Instructor in the School of Art, had work on display at Hampton Museum in Virginia. Her photo installation received the Reuben Burrell photography Award and was on display in 2008.
Debra Edgerton, Duality.
In:Print, featuring prints from the NAU School of Art students was on display in the Bursar's Office through fall semester, 2008.
Tom Alward, ceramics student, was awarded a Windgate Fellowship from The Center of Craft, Creativity and Design in North Carolina in 2008. The Center awards $15,000 fellowships to ten graduating seniors from applicants nominated by 55 partner colleges and universities. A panel reviews applications and recommends only 10 recipients whose work demonstrates a balance of content and design and a mastery of materials; is informed by craft process, materials, traditions, and/or sensibilities; demonstrates innovation, curiosity, and a commitment to growth; and shows evidence of how the work might stimulate creative thinking or dialogue among other artists.