A&D NEWS

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 13, 2012

Molly Valentine Dierks Exhibits at Birmingham Bloomfield Fine Arts Center

First year graduate student Molly Valentine Dierks will be exhibiting two bodies of work at the Birmingham Bloomfield Fine Arts Center. The two bodies of work, Docile Bodies and Hide/Rorshach, are on display during the Michigan Fine Arts Competition from March 24th to April 2nd. Both deal with gender identity as it relates to activities that are defined by cycles of material, industrial and sexual reproduction.

http://www.mollyvdierks.com

March 5, 2012

Emilia Javanica Appointed Programming Coordinator of North Quad

Third-year graduate student Emilia Javanica has been appointed the position of Programming Coordinator at the University of Michigan North Quad.

Officially opened in March 2010, North Quad is a residential and academic complex that houses the School of Information, Communication Studies, Screen Arts & Cultures, the Language Resource Center, and Sweetland Writing Center, as well as two residential learning communities, the Global Scholars Program and Max Kade House. North Quad is an internationally themed complex rich with innovative technology and serves as a hub for collaborative learning and exchange.

As Programming Coordinator, Emilia will oversee shared spaces in the North Quad, including Space 2435, a collaboratively programmed space intended to showcase a rich variety of content such as student and faculty produced work, international news, films and documentaries. In addition to facilitating collaboration between students and faculty within the North Quad complex, Emilia hopes to strengthen the ties between North Quad and other programs across the University (including the School of Art & Design), as well as in the outlying community. As Programming Coordinator, Emilia will use her legal last name, Emilia White. She will continue to use Emilia Javanica as her artist name.

Please visit the North Quad Events page to view information about upcoming events: http://northquad.umich.edu/calendar.

January 13, 2012

Amanda Lilleston Exhibits in Print Portfolio: 2012

A&D MFA Candidate Amanda Lilleston recently participated in 2012, a collected print portfolio. The 2012 phenomenon comprises a series of beliefs about the end of time in combination with cataclysmic events that are said to occur on December 21, 2012. The dating system created and used in Pre-Columbian times, most notably by the Mayans, supposedly ends on this date. Perhaps more realistically and more practically, 2012 brings the summer Olympics to London and will see another United States presidential race. This collection of prints explores the implications for these events, both mundane and catastrophic. The portfolio will be on display January 21- February 24, at The Printmakers Gallery in Jonesboro, AR; More locations and dates to come.

January 10, 2012

Bernadette Witzack Exhibits in Chicago

MFA Candidate Bernadette Witzack’s artwork was selected for the juried National Wet Paint MFA Exhibition. The show is at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago and runs from January 20th-March 10th 2012. The opening reception will be held on Friday January 20th from 7-10pm. The Zhou B. Art Center is located at 1029 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60609.

http://wetpaint2010.com/contact.html

December 15, 2011

Sarah Berkeley and Reed Esslinger-Payet Perform

Sarah Berkeley (MFA 2011) and Rachel (Reed) Esslinger-Payet (MFA Candidate 2012) will perform at Chicago’s Enemy Sound on Friday, December 16th.  The performance draws on Reed’s artistic research in fibers and the emotional and corporeal experience of belonging while repeatedly immersing oneself into foreign cultures and immigrant communities. The malleability of language and the subjectivity of ethnographic writing provide the basis for the sound component of the performance.

Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor.

October 25, 2011

The Performance Laboratory at CAID

Since March 2011, current third-year grad student Emilia Javanica and grad alumni Carrie Morris (‘07) have been curating a bimonthly interdisciplinary performance event at the Contemporary Art Institute Detroit (CAID) called the Performance Laboratory. Focused on providing a forum for new short works and works in progress, the series features 5-8 artists per episode whose work explores and investigates the dynamics of what live performance is and what it can be.

The Performance Laboratory is focused on providing a consistent venue for ideas surrounding performance to be shared and developed, new artistic partnerships to be made, and a supportive and diverse community to gather. The Performance Laboratory’s most recent event on October 21st, The Death Show, invited artists and performers to create short pieces surrounding the theme of death. With a full house of audience members, the event was a big success. Featured performers included musician Jordan Schug, novelist Stephen Dueweke, Interarts major Carisa Bledsoe, Emilia Javanica and Carrie Morris. An excellent review of the night’s performances and event, “Detroit’s Performance Laboratory: Journey to the Interdisciplinary Fringe” in the Midwest Theatre Review can be viewed at midwesttheatre.wordpress.com.

The Performance Laboratory’s next event will take place on Friday, December 16 at 8pm. The theme of the show is “Sober”, and is defined as follows:
“Sober - adj, 1. temperate, esp. in the use of liquor; 2. not drunk; 3. serious, reasonable, sedate, etc; 4. not flashy, plain, as color, clothes, etc.”

Students or faculty interested in performing can send their proposals .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Performance-Laboratory/139602749441643

September 15, 2011

Amanda Lileston: Big Ten Print Exchange

The Big Ten Print Exchange is a themed portfolio developed between selected printmakers at each of the Big Ten Universities. In this portfolio, Amanda Lilleston represents University of Michigan. This portfolio has been selected for exhibition in the Themed Portfolios show at the SGC International Conference in New Orleans. The portfolio will be donated to become part of SGC International’s Print Archives at University of Mississippi.

http://sgcinternational.org/2012/

September 6, 2011

Meghan Reynard: After the Pedestal

Graduation Year(s)/Degree(s): MFA 2012
A&D Affiliation: Graduate Student
Headline:
Meghan Reynard: After the Pedestal

Meghan Reynard (MFA candidate 2012) will be exhibiting in the Sculpture Center’s Fall exhibition, After the Pedestal. The show will take place September 16 - October 22, with an opening reception on September 16th. After the Pedestal, the 7th Annual of Small Sculpture from the Region, is a juried exhibition of work by current MFA students and 2009, 2010, and 2011 MFA graduates from the region of Ohio, contiguous states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia), and Ontario, Canada. This year’s juror is Barbara Hunt McLanahan, the executive director of the Judd Foundation and a board member the Jerome Foundation in Minnesota. The work varies in medium, including glass, ceramic, found object, and installation with light.

http://sculpturecenter.org/show_details/2011_09_ATP.html

August 10, 2011

Meghan Reynard: Apparition in ArtPrize 2011

Meghan Reynard (MFA Candidate 2012) will exhibit Apparition, a site-specific installation, during ArtPrize 2011 in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Apparition is a site-specific installation that utilizes light to alter the phenomenal presence of space in the 5000 sq. ft. basement at 2 Fulton Street, in downtown Grand Rapids. Participants enter into Apparition through a dark corridor in the basement of the venue. As their eyes adjust to darkness, they will slowly discern points of light suspended in space. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the luminous points may appear as masses of specks of glowing dust or tiny bioluminescent organisms. Swaying gently in the darkness, the forms of lightness offer an eerie, ethereal presence to the space. The effect of the work is illusory; the structure of the material dissolves through the light projected on to it, resulting in a 3D mass of disembodied shimmering points of light. In perceiving the work, the participant lets go of the rational, structured reality of what the form is, and slips into an entirely new perceptual state, becoming aware of the space in a way that a literal representation of the space cannot evoke.

The project is a collaboration with Patrick Ethen (BArch 2011), and will be on view at the SiTE:LAB + U of M School of Art & Design ArtPrize venue at 2 Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, from September 21 – October 9, 2011.

http://apparition-artprize.tumblr.com/