A&D NEWS

November 18, 2009

Matt Shlian Featured in New Publication

Work by A&D Lecturer Matt Shlian is featured in the book Papercraft from Gestalten Press.

Papercraft is an extensive and timely survey of innovative art and design work crafted from paper. It explores the astounding possibilities of paper craft in all shapes and sizes – some are playful, whimsical and quick to produce while others are far more intricate and created in painstaking detail. From the most basic techniques including cutting, folding, gluing and collage to the use of cutting-edge technology like embossing and laser cutting, paper and cardboard-crafted works are reaching new artistic heights.

The book gathers the most extraordinary creations from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design, illustration, fashion, animation and film. Adding even more value, this illustrated book also includes a DVD with printable templates for creating your own paper characters and toys as well as a curated selection of the best stop-motion animations.

Visit Matt Shlian’s website for more information on his work, and Gestalten’s site for a video preview and more information on Papercraft. 

November 17, 2009

Jessica Frelinghuysen Featured

A&D Lecturer Jessica Frelinghuysen’s work, including a write up of her screenprinted Paperhelmets series is featured in the November issue of the Danish Magazine Ud&Se. 
The Paperhelmets series was also recently featured on Wired UK.

I am interested in how people respond to one another through verbal and physical negotiation and how individual space or community can be made through fabricated art objects.  Borrowing on architectural and industrial design aesthetics allows the work to subversively ‘blend in’ to its environment, while standing out just a bit from the norm.

Jessica Frelinghuysen: Paperhelmets
DSB: Ud & Se
Wired UK: The ‘helmet to hear oneself speak’

November 16, 2009

Exhibition: Faces

Exhibition: Faces
11.20- 1.12      
Dexter District Library, Dexter, Michigan

Reception on November 20, 2009, 6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.  Open to the public

The face that launched a thousand ships. The face on the barroom floor. Face the Nation. And perhaps, a face that only a mother could love. Twelve artists from the region including A&D emeritus faculty Ted Ramsay, and A&D alums Marcia Polenberg (MFA ‘88), and John Copley (BFA ‘69)  interpret the theme faces in a range of media.

The exhibition was organized by A&D alumna Joy Naylor (MA ‘88) and Diane Bennett, art consultants of Distinct Designs, Inc. “It’s intriguing to see the way these artists have turned their uncommonly creative eyes to re-imagine some things we think we know all too well—noses, chins, lips, eyes and ears,” said Naylor.  “Most all faces are about emotion, outer reflections of what is going on inside, “ Bennett said.

Distinct Designs, Inc. specializes in placing art in business and public environments with services that include commissioned works, permanent installations and rotating art exhibits with a special focus on promoting and exhibiting the works of artists from the region.

November 12, 2009

Nick Tobier: Marvelous Guests

Nick Tobier, in collaboration with Juliane Stiegele, have been chosen as one of 10 teams to participate in EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS, taking place in Linz, Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen.

Their collaboration, Marvelous Guests, lends new working conditions and meanings to several trades by inviting these professionals to conduct their business in unusual locations - as a guest.  These include a ballerina in a Laundromat, a stock trader in a funiculaire, a shepard and his flock on a football field. The expectation is that each encounter will produce its own unusual forms of communication on location. A large format catalogue of the projects appears in December, 2009, published in Linz, Austria by DIE FABRIKANTEN.

Marvelous Guests, as part of Exchange Radical Moments, interweaves diverse “organisms” of art- that interfere and interlock with many different communities, contexts and social spaces. On a single day in 2010, the simultaneous actions, images and interventions will sparkle and ignite like flares across the European landscape, leaving their ephemeral but direct and uncensored residue and fresh impressions lingering behind. These flashes of consciousness and spontaneous formations of large groupings of people will all contribute to a sense of a “Momentary Europe,” which positions itself at the forefront of innovative, dialogical processes.

November 11, 2009

Ruth Taubman: New York and Ann Arbor Shows

Ruth Taubman (BFA 1981) is having two upcoming private showings featuring her Fall 2009 collection of limited edition and one-of-a-kind jewelry. Her exclusive fall line is being offered at wholesale prices.
 
Known for her dazzling work in rare gemstones, colored golds, and South Sea and freshwater pearls, Ruth Taubman is one of the few women jewelry designers who is also an accomplished goldsmith. A graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design, Ruth has been envisioning and crafting limited edition and one of a kind jewelry for over 27 years, first in New York and now from her private studio in Michigan. Through her long-standing relationships with gem suppliers, Ruth is able to select the most unique and highest quality stones from around the world. She specializes in multistone necklaces combining rare, unusually colored gemstones, as well as rings featuring large, beautiful stones set in her unmistakable bezel settings, which enhance each gem’s “lit from within” effect. Gorgeous pearl necklaces, from delicate to luxe, are another Taubman trademark. Her earrings showcase vibrant gemstones, sometimes asymmetrically paired in complementary colors, reflecting Ruth’s gift for designs both beautifully executed and utterly fresh.
 
For more information, visit http://www.ruthtaubman.com/
 
Ruth Taubman’s New York Show: 
November 17-19,  Midtown Manhattan
Ruth Taubman’s Ann Arbor Show: 
December 3-5,  Ruth Taubman’s Studio

November 11, 2009

Course Withdrawal Deadline

The last day to withdraw from a course this term is this Friday, 13 November. Students who wish to drop a class may do so, but ALL PAPERWORK must be completed by 5 pm.  Any student who has questions about withdrawing from a course, may want to take advantage of the walk-in advising time at the Smucker-Wagstaff Academic Programs Center, Monday through Thursday, 11:30-1:30.

November 10, 2009

Karen Anne Klein: Room for Curiosity

Karen Anne Klein (BFA 1964) has a new blog in which she is chronicling the progress of turning a room in her house into a cabinet of curiosities. It started with a group of drawings that were to look like a cabinet then actually became the front of a cabinet. The empty space inside this piece of furniture has inspired the creation of books and drawings which have migrated onto the shelves and into the drawers along with many small collections of objects. Additional cabinets are in the process of being built and new ideas for wall cabinets and framed works come to me every day.

http://roomforcuriosity.blogspot.com/

November 9, 2009

Holly Hughes: Art & Power

After a sold out three-day run in Chicago, Associate Professor Holly Hughes’s Let Them Eat Cake project was featured at DePauw University’s “Art and Power” conference in Greencastle, Indiana from November 2 – November 6.  On November 3 Hughes participated in a panel discussion on censorship.

November 2, 2009

Arts & Bodies

Arts on Earth’s focus this Fall is the dynamic, tortured, joyful, complex relationship between our arts and our bodies across epochs and cultures.
For more information on Arts on Earth events, please visit Arts on Bodies.

We often speak of our experience of the arts as “transcendent” – transcendently beautiful, transcending normal human limits of performance and perception, speaking directly to the transcendent “soul.”

Yet art is inescapably made by corporeal beings, whose very corporeality determines the media, methods, instruments, forms, colors, tones, and materials through which we create. Furthermore, the very experience of transcendence is a corporeal one, determined by the state of the sensory and cognitive apparatus of the co-creating perceiver of art. Too, the production of art can take a heavy toll on artists’ bodies, through the absorption of lead, the inhalation of petroleum distillates, the stresses of poverty and creative work, and the repetitive punishment of muscles, joints, vocal cords, eyes, and other body parts.

Through Arts & Bodies we will examine how art is delimited and exalted by bodies, and vice-versa; how we use our arts to affect and reflect our thinking about, and our relationship with, our bodies. We will participate in and study art that is a direct extension of the body, such as dance and vocal music; art that celebrates the body; and art that probes, explores, challenges, plays in, teases about, and sometimes closes (or attempts to close), the gap we often experience between “I” and “my body.”

We’ll investigate how disciplines such as engineering, law, medicine, and business have affected the ways in which arts and bodies interact, and how anthropology, art history, philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines have interpreted the impulses and effects of art/body interactions.

November 2, 2009

Stewart & Stewart at the Print Fair in NYC

Stewart & Stewart, printer and publisher of fine art prints, will again participate in the annual IFPDA Print Fair in NYC at the Park Avenue Armory, November 5-8, 2009. The Stewart & Stewart booth will feature new and favorite editions by Randy Bolton, Connor Everts, Janet Fish, Jane E. Goldman, John Himmelfarb, Sidney Hurwitz, Yvonne Jacquette, Mary Prince, Endi Poskovic, Hunt Slonem, Steven Sorman and others. Mark your calendar and plan to visit our booth (D29) this fall.

For more information, contact Stewart & Stewart
5571 Wing Lake Road
Bloomfield Hills MI 48301-1250 USA
Tel 248.626.5248 E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

October 29, 2009

Lenea Howe Exhibits

Work at Art That Is Local Gallery
From October 20 - January 11 the Art That is Local Gallery at Whole Foods- Washtenaw in Ann Arbor presents their New Fall Exhibition including work by A&D alumna Lenea Howe.  Lenea comments “I keep my work light and fun with whimsical themes, bright, crisp color and contrast, as well as three-dimensional shapes, textures and movement.  The last few years I have worked on printed furniture and art dolls.  The person who most influenced my work over the years was Gerome Kamrowski.”

http://www.leneahoweart.etsy.com

October 26, 2009

All Student Exhibition

The School of Art & Design’s Eighth Annual All Student Exhibition is scheduled to open on Friday, November 20 and close on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Student work will be installed throughout the School’s facilities: Slusser, Robbins, Work•Ann Arbor, and all corridor venues in the Art & Architecture Building.

Over $30,000 will be awarded to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, graduating seniors, and graduate students. There will be gala receptions with refreshments and music on Friday, November 20, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Slusser, Robbins, and Work•Ann Arbor, and later in the evening at the Graduate Studios building on South State Street. The Maskell Express will shuttle exhibition visitors among North Campus, Central Campus, and the Graduate Studios.

All currently enrolled full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate majors in Art & Design are encouraged to each submit one “work” for this exhibition. All submitted work in all media will be exhibited.

Students: Visit the Exhibition Submission page to view eligibility details and submit your work.

October 22, 2009

Ruth Taubman: San Francisco Show

Ruth Taubman (BFA ‘81), is having a private show/sale featuring her Fall 2009 collection of limited edition and one-of-a-kind jewelry. Her exclusive fall line is being offered at wholesale prices.

Known for her dazzling work in rare gemstones, colored golds, and South Sea and freshwater pearls, Ruth Taubman is one of the few women jewelry designers who is also an accomplished goldsmith. A graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design,  Ruth has been envisioning and crafting limited edition and one of a kind jewelry for over 27 years, first in New York and now from her private studio in Michigan.
Through her long-standing relationships with gem suppliers, Ruth is able to select the most unique and highest quality stones from around the world. She specializes in multistone necklaces combining rare, unusually colored gemstones, as well as rings featuring large, beautiful stones set in her unmistakable bezel settings, which enhance each gem’s “lit from within” effect. Gorgeous pearl necklaces, from delicate to luxe, are another Taubman trademark. Her earrings showcase vibrant gemstones, sometimes asymmetrically paired in complementary colors, reflecting Ruth’s gift for designs both beautifully executed and utterly fresh.

For more information, visit http://www.ruthtaubman.com/ 

Ruth Taubman’s San Francisco Show
October 22-24   Ross, CA
October 26-28   San Francisco, CA
Event details can be found at: fbook.me/ruthtaubman 

October 19, 2009

Carol Jacobson Interviewed

Professor Carol Jacobsen’s interview about the Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project is online at The Lansing State Journal’s website:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/99999999/INTERACTIVE0101/90929003/-1/special

October 13, 2009

Arts in the House

A&D undergraduates Amy Zhong (BFA 2010) and Emerson Schreiner (BFA 2012) have had their work chosen for the Michigan Fifth Annual Student Arts in the House Initiative. Their work will be displayed in the Michigan House of Representatives’ Anderson House Office Building in Lansing for one year. Amy and Emerson will be honored at a reception in Lansing on Wednesday, October 15.

Arts in the House is a partnership between the Presidents Council and the Michigan House of Representatives to promote art in everyday life.