NEWSLETTER
DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
Fall semester's ART 101(honors) Introduction to Perceptual Drawing class photograph is being submitted as evidence to support the hypothesis that attending a university with as beautiful a campus and as magnificient a climate as that of the University of Miami increases one's happiness and enhances one's appearance.
Don't go looking for the Art Offices in the Main Art building. The Tropical styled wooden building ISN'T THERE ANYMORE! (at least it won't be after this year). We are sorry to see it go but we are real excited with our new "digs." The Art Offices are now comfortable located in the Rainbow Building down by the baseball field and the Dance studio. We're on Lavante directly behind the Circle K convenience store and the Titanic. We are on the shuttle line and there is plenty of parking available within one block. Click HERE for a map.

Congratulations to Frank Wick, MFA, Sculpture, 1999 for being chosen to receive the 2003 Consortium Grant and to Karen Rifas, MFA, Sculpture, 1992 for having been awarded the Florida Individual Artist fellowship and to Kyle Trowbridge, MFA, Painintg, 1997 for his honorable mention in the same competition.

Darby Bannard exhibited acrylic paintings and oilstick paintings at the 1912 Gallery at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia - Oct 22 - Dec 15. He gave a public lecture "Excellence and Postexcellence" Nov 19 and a presentation to painting students. Last month heparticipated in a panel on the Importance of Theory in Contemporary Art at the 2002 SECA conference in Montgomery AL.

Brian Curtis presented a paper on The Tradition of Sacred Geometry in Ancient Art and Architecture at the 2002 MACAA conference in Lincoln, NE at the beginning of October.

Christine Federighi, Professor of Art and coordinator of ceramics and glass, had a solo exhibition at Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton. Chris is spending the summer in her Colorado studio preparing work for inclusion in the 12th Anniversary Exhibition of the Virginia A Groot Foundation show, to be held at SOFA Chicago, Oct. 25-30, 2002. She is also preparing work for the 25 year exhibit of Florida Fine Arts Council grants recipients that will travel to 7 Florida Museums during the year. She is included in an exhibit at Miami Public Library " Alphabet". She is included in a traveling exhibit sponsored by Florida Craftsment " Past/Perfect Tense. This past year Chris received a General Research Grant to have a large annealing oven constructed for her continuing research into kiln cast glass. An Instructional Advancement grant was also received to purchase a computor to help archive the large inhouse ceramic slide collection. Chris's ceramic work is also exhibitied in a summer show at Habatat Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts and Tom Riley Gallery, Kirkland, Washington. A bronze sculpture" River from the House" was purchased by the Human Investment Project for a senior center in San Mateo, California.

Bonnie Seeman, full time lecturer in ceramics and glass, had a solo exhibit at Rosenthal Gallery of Art, Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho in the March 2002. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibit in October of 2002 at Mariko Arts a gallery in Denver, CO. Bonnie was accepted into the 30th annual Crafts National Exhibition at Penn State University, College Station, PA. She was also accepted into the annual exhibition Strickly Functional in Pennsylvania and received two awards.. a purchase award and the "Peoples Choice Award".

The students in Ceramics have also been busy. Marianne Levy (third year) exhibited her ceramic sculpture in the UM Graduate Councils Symposium of "Research and Creativity" She received a first place award(1) for her work and display. Helen Otterson (third year) received a scholarship from the Florida Glass Alliance to attend the Anna Boothe workshop at Corning Glass. Shannon Calhoun received a purchase award for her ceramic sculpture that was included in the annual " Cone Box" exhibit during the ceramic conference in Kansas City, KS. Marianne Levy and Shannon Calhoun (second year) received scholarships to attend Santa Fe Clay, New Mexico. and the workshop of Jean Pierre Larocque.

Darby Bannard, Paula Harper, Ph.D., and Kyle Trowbridge were awarded an Instructional Advancement Grant to purchase mimi-dv camcorders for an art video course that is currently being offered in the new computer lab in the Rainbow building. This course is being taught by Kyle Trowbridge.

 
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