April 13, 2012
Charles Fairbanks Receives Guggenheim
Charles Fairbanks (MFA 2010) has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and Video. Charles is a wrestler and filmmaker whose recent work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico, where the artist fights as the One-Eyed Cat (El Gato Tuerto) with a camera built into his mask. He grew up in rural Nebraska and wrestled at Stanford, where he studied Art and the History of Science. While in graduate school at the University of Michigan, he worked as the wrestling coach / choreographer for the University Productions staging of Claire Luckham’s Trafford Tanzi – a feminist play written for the pub, directed by Malcolm Tulip. In 2010 Fairbanks was chosen by Werner Herzog for the first Rogue Film School, and in 2011 Anthology Film Archives hosted the retrospective screening Tender Muscles: Five Films by Charles Fairbanks. He has worked as translator (Festival Filmer à Tout Prix), as programmer and producer (Courtisane Festival), and as visiting professor of VideoArte (at Tuxtla’s UNICACH). Presently a Guggenheim Fellow and Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College, his new work is emerging through collaboration with an indigenous Zoque community in rural Chiapas.
Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. More info is available at http://gf.org .
http://www.gf.org/fellows/17204-charles-fairbanks
April 9, 2012
Larry Cressman: Work included in UMMA exhibit
A&D professor Larry Cressman’s work is included in Recent Acquisitions: Curator’s Choice, Part II - the second part of a two-part exhibition introducing recently acquired works from UMMA’s collections gifted to the museum during the past five years. Associate Curator of Asian Art Natsu Oyobe selected the works included in this exhibition.
Recent Acquisitions: Curator’s Choice, Part II
University of Michigan Museum of Art
March 31 - August 5, 2012
April 9, 2012
Natural Kaleidoscope - Photography by Joan Rosenstein
Joan Rosenstein’s (MFA 1966) latest photography exhibition, Natural Kaleidoscope, will be on display April 6 to April 28 at The Arts Club of Washington
Artist’s Reception: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 6;30-8:30pm.
The Arts Club of Washington: 2017 I Stret, NW, Washington, DC 20006.
The fleeting, breath taking beauty often seen in natural landscapes, defies improvement. However, it has been my goal in the Natural Kaleidoscope Portfolio to redefine such scenes in a way that pulls the viewer into a new, puzzling, kaleidoscopic, magical, and imaginary universe. Employing digital manipulation, the existing rhythms of natural color, light, and reflections from my photographs have been transformed. The results can be found is this series of complex images, which reveal colorful mosaics of visually contradictory, mysterious spaces. The photographs have been synthesized from selected images in my portfolios of the Oregon & California Pacific coast, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia; the cherry blossoms at Kenwood in Bethesda, Maryland; the Rain Forest in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula; Great Falls National Park in Maryland & Virginia; and waterfalls in Ithaca, New York.
March 30, 2012
Motawi Tileworks on the Today Show
Motawi Tileworks, an Ann Arbor company founded by Nawal Motawi (BFA 1988), was featured on the Easter/Passover Gifts segment of the Today Show on Friday, 3/30/12.
The Motawi limited-time Today Show gift set includes one 4"x4” Cat tile in Pale Green, one 4"x4” Rabbit tile in Sand, one 4"x4” Dog tile in Pale Blue, and free UPS domestic ground shipping. All tiles are notched and edged for hanging. An $87 gift set for only $50!
March 30, 2012
Joseph Jurson Photography Featured at VandM
A collection of Joseph Jurson’s photography (BFA 1979), as curated by NYC Contemporary Art Advisor Heidi Lee, is featured on VandM.com (Vintage and Modern).
Each month the work of a select artist is highlighted in an exclusive series called inTheMOMENT for their editorial magazine DESIGNinTELL. The goal of such an exhibit is to connect artists with collectors, designers, and art enthusiasts and make it easier for each to navigate through the world of art…and make art and design a part of everyday life.
Joseph Jurson is a fine art photographer located in New York City, producing work in both traditional film and digital photography. Whichever camera he uses, his aim is always to seize that ephemeral moment, and create frames of lasting beauty. Inspired by the guiding principles of the photographic art form, the results are expressions of gesture and self.
http://designintell.vandm.com/2012/03/joseph-jurson-photography/
March 30, 2012
Meghan Reynard Receives American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship
A&D graduate student Meghan Reynard has received a nine month fellowship to complete creative work and research in Norway during the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellowship, funded by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, will support coursework at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, as well as travel, research, and exhibition activities in Norway. Meghan plans to carry out a proposed project investigating concepts of daylight and landscape in the Nordic environment. She will also volunteer her time working on the 2013 Oslo LUX conference. The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Annual fellowships support Americans wishing to carry out research or coursework in Scandinavia, as well as Scandinavians wishing to study or pursue research in the United States.
March 30, 2012
Aerien Kloske: Studio Manager
Brunet-García Advertising, Inc., announces the promotion of Aerien Kloske to studio manager. In addition to her duties as senior art director, Aerien will take on the responsibilities of managing day-to-day operations in Brunet-García’s creative studio. During her four years at Brunet-García, Aerien has been instrumental in developing campaigns for both private and public sector customers. In this new capacity, Aerien will leverage her well-honed design skills as well as her strategic approach and organizational proficiency. “This is the perfect opportunity for Aerien to shine,” said Diane Brunet-Garcia, vice president and partner of Brunet-Garcia. “Her creative vision and work ethic are already invaluable to the creative team as well as the agency as a whole.”
March 30, 2012
Ann Stewart: Viability Threshold
Ann Stewart (MFA 2009) will be exhibiting a new series of drawings for a solo show at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The exhibition will run from April 6th - May 25th, 2012. The opening reception is April 6th from 7 - 9 pm. For more information, please visit http://www.callanwolde.org/events/gallery/index.html or http://www.annstewart.net .
March 23, 2012
50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Events
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year’s festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs, panels and parties with nearly 200 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works. As part of the 50th Anniversary programming, the School of Art & Design is hosting installations by Leighton Pierce and Phil Solomon at Slusser Gallery and Work: Ann Arbor.
Leighton Pierce: Threshold of Peripheral Induction
March 26 – April 2
Slusser Gallery, Art & Architecture Building - 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor MI, 48109
PLEASE NOTE: Pierce provides an artist talk Friday, March 30th at 3pm in Slusser Gallery
Pierce’s installation creates an environment for proto-narratives. The imagined camera constantly moves as if an entity through real yet abstracted space. Small events occur, yet a plot never takes hold. This is the proto-narrative—events seem to be linked in time and across space, but likely outcomes are never encouraged.
Through specific arrangement of a “U” shaped projection object, Pierce has made it impossible to see more than two projected images at once. The observer must continually change their viewing position – a move which simultaneously eliminates some images from view. The purposeful lack of an ideal viewing position forces an engagement with memory and forgetting as the observer integrates visual, aural, and spatial impressions into an internal shifting coherence.
The images themselves are both beautiful and uncanny. The bulk of the material was shot in natural light at night, much of it in a rural setting away from most artificial light sources. Pierce shot thousands of handheld long-exposure digital stills that he later wove into video “shots.” He moved the camera during each of these long (several seconds in most cases) exposures, painting with the low light and strange color shifts of night onto the image sensor. In these images, both the light of night and the markers of time due to intentional motion blur create a sense of familiar strangeness.
Pierce’s process of shooting embodied an attentional effect, which he continued to explore throughout the editing and arrangement of the finished piece. The difficulty of capturing handheld moving stills to be later animated into video, forced an attention to kinesthetic memory while shooting. Each hour long “shoot” (required to gather material for a one or two minute shot) was a continuous dance with the camera. Coupled with the necessary live calculations of simultaneous time streams (1 – each exposure’s duration and the unnaturally slow movement required to shoot in this stop-motion manner and 2 – the anticipated duration and temporal flow of the completed video shot), this created a production environment in which he could embed a quality of attention into the process of making itself, from the very first moment.
http://aafilmfest.org/50/events/50-screens/threshold/
Phil Solomon: American Falls
March 25 – April 2
Work Gallery, 306 State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday: Noon – 7 pm, Closed Sunday/Monday.
PLEASE NOTE: Solomon will be in attendance for a program dedicated to his films on Friday, March 30th
An epic cross-examination of 20th Century American history, begins with an image of Annie Edson Taylor, who became the first person to survive a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901. The idea of “falling,” both literal and metaphorical, becomes the guiding concept of this three-channel installation, as Solomon applies his trademark “image alchemy” (a process that involves applying chemical solutions to film emulsion) to images that somehow seem conjured from the collective unconscious. Begun at the dawn of the Bush era and com- pleted as Obama took office, American Falls is a magisterial, meticulous survey of the promise and failure of a cracked American dream. – John Powers
March 23, 2012
Sweet Heather Anne Moves to 920 North Main Street
Sweet Heather Anne, a boutique cake studio that combines local ingredients and imaginative artistry to create one-of-a-kind celebratory cakes, has outgrown its current space and is moving to 920 North Main in Ann Arbor. The new location will be easier to find and enables Sweet Heather Anne to be close to its community of colleagues, vendors and friends in downtown Ann Arbor. The boutique cake studio will open in its new location April 3, 2012 followed by a grand opening celebration. On April 21, 2012 from noon - 5 pm, Sweet Heather Anne will be publicly celebrating with complimentary mini desserts.
Born from a passion for food and art, Sweet Heather Anne’s one-of-a-kind cake flavors include Mexican spiced chocolate, blood orange olive oil and caramel praline crunch. Much of the quality is owed to their slew of local producers including Calder butter, Guernsey dairy, Sunrise Poultry eggs, and Farmer’s Market fruits. Sweet Heather Anne creates personalized cakes each exhibiting unique technique and form. Many cakes feature painted works of art, piped filigree and pearls, and sculpted fondant adornments. Realistic cakes are sculpted to achieve truly realistic forms. The creativity does not end there, Sweet Heather Anne’s demonstrated skill in composition and design extends to their dessert tables.
For more information please visit http://www.sweetheatheranne.com or contact us at 734.913.2025 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Learn about the Kickstarter campaign that helped to fund the new space here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1063970568/cakestarter-0
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