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Graduation Date:1990
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Ah Haa School of the Arts Forms the Telluride Painting Academy
by Watch Staff
TELLLURIDE – The Ah Haa School for the Arts has announced its formation of the Telluride Painting Academy, with longtime instructor Robert Weatherford as its artistic director, and with a 2013 fall semester of intensives for emerging painters, current studio art majors and beginners.
The inaugural semester for Telluride Painting Academy is scheduled for September 9 through December 7, 2013. Students may progress through all four of its three-week intensives, or select a combination to suit their artistic endeavors.
Taught by master teachers in a spectacular setting, this year’s curriculum includes courses in Figure Drawing, Figure Painting, Printmaking and Finding Your Voice in Painting. Each Telluride Painting Academy intensive encompasses just over 67 hours of classroom time, the equivalent of three college credits.
“Telluride Painting Academy’s focus is to help students find their unique voice as artists,” said Judith Kohin, executive director at Ah Haa School for the Arts. “Regardless of skill level, students are guided through one-on-one and group instruction, reading and research assignments, peer critiques, and in depth mentoring sessions with the instructor in order to explore what really moves them.”
Course fees for the 2013 fall semester are $1,800 per intensive, or $7,200 for the entire semester, not including studio fees. Housing may be arranged for an additional fee, and tuition assistance is available. For more information and online application forms, visit www.ahhaa.org or call 970/728-3886.
The nationally recognized instructors selected to lead the intensives during the Fall 2013 semester are Kathy Hirsh, Gregory Botts, Allyn Hart and Robert Weatherford.
Figure Drawing. Sept. 9 - 28
Kathy Hirsh, Instructor
Drawing from her master’s in medical illustration and 10 years of experience teaching painting and figure drawing in the U.S. and China, Kathy Hirsh will instruct the Figure Drawing intensive. Through formal and structural studies of the human body, her students will work to find their own two-dimensional expressions of the human form and gesture using charcoal, graphite and ink.
Figure Painting: Drawing Into Painting. Sept. 30 - Oct. 19
Gregory Botts, Instructor
Gregory Botts, a highly collected figurative and landscape painter based in New York and New Mexico, teaches the Figure Painting: Drawing Into Painting intensive. “Figure painting has always been the standard of what an artist achieved,” Botts said. “A figure is what we look for, it has something to tell us. What does it look like for each of us? As this is our spirit.” Through both realism and expressionism, Botts’ students will evolve from drawing on paper with conté crayon into painting with acrylics and oil.
Printing Into Painting. Oct. 21 – Nov. 9
Allyn Hart, Instructor
Printmaker, painter and book artist Allyn Hart holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in fine arts and has taught drawing, design, sculpture, art appreciation and printmaking for University of Utah. Hart will teach the Printing Into Painting intensive. Students in her class will use simple printmaking methods to establish a unique vocabulary of personal images and symbols that resonate through their work.
Painting from Within. Nov. 11 – Dec. 7
Robert Weatherford, Instructor
Longtime Ah Haa School instructor (and Telluride Painting Academy Artistic Director) Robert Weatherford will teach the Painting From Within intensive. A prolific artist whose work can be found in many collections, Weatherford holds a master’s in painting from Claremont Graduate Art School and a master’s in Systematic Theology from Union Seminary in Manhattan. Operating from the belief that all important things in art must come from the deepest feelings about the mystery of being, Weatherford will guide students toward painting from a place that is not intellectual, but rather a place that moves their spirits. Focusing on one subject at a time, students will create a different painting each day.
Telluride Painting Academy classes are housed in a circa-1890s Rio Grande Southern Railroad depot turned art gallery, set next to the San Miguel River. Located within the Telluride Historic District, the thoughtfully renovated building provides the ideal space for painting, complete with 12-foot ceilings and plentiful light. Alongside no more than ten students at a time, students will spend their mornings with the instructor and their afternoons putting pencil to paper and brush to canvas.
Ah Haa School for the Arts is a dynamic center for the visual arts dedicated to inspiring discovery and nurturing creativity. Ah Haa School is located in Telluride, Colorado and offers year-round classes, workshops, visiting artist programs, art trips and retreats, open studios, lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Beginners and skilled artists alike come through the school’s doors to learn something new, refine a skill, or revive a forgotten art. Ah Haa School was founded in 1990 by book artist Daniel Tucker. The prestigious American Academy of Bookbinding, a school of fine binding and book conservation, was founded in 1993 by Ah Haa School. For more information on all of the Ah Haa School’s programs visit www.ahhaa.org. Ah Haa School for the Arts is a registered 501 (c) (3).
From the Watch
http://www.watchnewspapers.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Ah+Haa+School+of+the+Arts+Forms+the+Telluride+Painting+Academy++=&id=22259696&instance=top_story
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Graduation Date:1996
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CU-Boulder names Steven Hayward its first visiting conservative scholar
Steven Hayward, a "green conservative," will be the University of Colorado's first visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy.
Hayward was one of three finalists for the position. On Wednesday, CU announced his appointment, which will begin in the fall.
In an interview, Hayward said he'd like to teach a course on "free market environmentalism." He'll also teach political science courses on constitutional law and American political thought. Hayward said he would like to co-teach a lecture with a professor who has liberal leanings.
Hayward -- the Thomas W. Smith distinguished fellow at Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio -- said the conservative perspective is often missing at universities because many professors are simply not familiar with serious conservative literature and don't spend much time in discussion with conservative scholars.
"I'm not going to pick any fights or start any gratuitous controversies," he said.
His appointment will be for one year.
"Dr. Hayward brings an impressive breadth of knowledge to this position, having researched a range of environmental, historical and political issues," said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU.
Leigh added that Hayward's recent investigations of environmental issues "bring important dimensions to discussions on campus. ... He also shows dedication to our teaching mission, planning a well-defined range of courses. We are pleased that he will join us as a visiting scholar."
The other finalists for the position were Linda Chavez and Ron Haskins.
The visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy is a three-year pilot program supported by private money. More than 20 donors have raised $1 million to support the program.
Hayward said the new position is a bold experiment for the university and that good teaching should make students -- no matter their political leanings -- better thinkers.
He said he wants students with every kind of opinion to feel welcome in his classroom.
Hayward holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Claremont Graduate School. He has been the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he was principal author and project director of the AEI's "Energy and Environment Outlook."
He has been a visiting lecturer in the government department of Georgetown University and is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. He has also served as a Bradley fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
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Graduation Date:1982
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Mixed-Media 1997-2012
February 19 thru March 15, 2013
Artist Reception: Tuesday, February 26, 5 to 7 pm |
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Graduation Date:2011
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ShoeboxLA Presents
Michelle Carla Handel: Heart on Top of My Head
Saturday, February 16, 2013 from 6-9pm
MorYork, Highland Park
4959 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042
ShoeboxLA is pleased to present Michelle Carla Handel: Heart on Top of My Head. Ancient Egyptians believed that the heart, rather than the brain, was the source of human wisdom, as well as emotions, memory, the soul and human personality. Descartes believed that the body and mind represent autonomous systems, while his contemporary Spinoza believed the body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. Philosophers and scientists have long been trying to determine where the physical body ends and where thoughts and feelings begin.
In this installation Handel attempts to reconcile her skepticism and sentimentality, her internal tug-of-war between trying to understand human emotion (particularly love) through science, while simultaneously describing its mystery and magic. To investigate these ideas, she creates an intricate internal environment within the gallery – a soft, mysterious arrangement of parts that exist somewhere between our physical bodies and intangible emotions.
Michelle Carla Handel earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA and her BFA from Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Now in its second year, ShoeboxLA gives Los Angeles artists an opportunity to do one-day, site-specific exhibitions outside the traditional gallery setting. Artists and founders Sophia Allison and Paul W. Evans provide an intimate space that challenges artists' and viewers' expectations of size and scale. Locations change for each show but the space remains the same.
Email: shoeboxla@gmail.com for more info or press images.
Website: www.shoeboxla.blogspot.com
MorYork is not-for-profit, artist-run space dedicated to enabling local artists through shows and special events. MorYork supports and encourages non gallery-represented artists, and facilitates exchange with the Highland Park community: www.moryork.blogspot.com
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Graduation Date:1985
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Drafted
January 25 thru February 24
Opening Reception - Saturday, January 26, 6 to 9 pm
Opens to the public Friday January 25th
Opening Reception Saturday January 26th, 6-9pm
Please join us to celebrate!
92 St Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn NY 11237
Hours: Fridays 1-5 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 1-6 pm or by appointment info@schemaprojects.com
Directions: L train to DeKalb exit onto Wyckoff, walk 1 block north to St Nicholas and left to 92
ARTISTS:
Dmitry Babenko, Amélie de Beauffort, Sveva Belluci, Joe Biel, Gene Benson, Bunny Burson, Brian Cypher, Mila Dau, Veronique D’Entremonte, Steve DeGroodt, Katharina Denzinger, Robert Egert, John Evans, India Evans, Antonio Freiles, Simona Frillici, James Gill, Ken Gray, Julie Gross, Kathy Goodell, Finn Have, Mara Held, Hanna Herr, Will Horwitt, Sherri Hollaender, Alfred Jensen, Mary Judge, Joan Kahn, Susan Kammerer, Gaston Lachaise, Sol Lewitt, Meg Lipke, Nancy Manter, Karen Margolis, Vítor Mejuto, Afranio Metelli, Elisa Macellari, Angela McGuire, Thomas Micchelli, Gerard Mossé, Chiura Obata, Morgan O’Hara, Philip Parker, Carolie Parker, Carol Peligian, Polly Saputo, David Scher, Anne Seidman, Hilda Shen, Buzz Spector, Lawrence Swan, Kate Teale, Austin Thomas, Rob de Oude, Josette Urso, Joan Waltemath, Allan Wexler
SEE our preview publicity in NY Arts!
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/printed/schema-projects-opens-in-bushwick
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Graduation Date:2006
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Luminosity
February 4 thru May 2, 2013
Reception: Friday, February 8, 5 to 7 pm
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] announces its exhibition, Luminosity, by Cathy Breslaw at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery from February 4 – May 2. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, February 8 from 5 – 7pm. During the reception, Ms. Breslaw will give an informal talk about her work beginning at 5:30pm. The Courthouse is located at 885 E Musser Street, Carson City. The exhibition and reception are free and the public is cordially invited.
In Luminosity, Breslaw presents a variety of wall pieces created from plastic industrial meshes originally
intended for commercial purposes. She discovered the colorful mesh in a factory on trip to Asia and has transformed it into an innovative art material. She says, “Color plays an integral role in enhancing the atmospheric transparency of the materials. The work, sharing forms of painting, sculpture, and installation leads the viewer to take an intimate look at seemingly ordinary materials . . . .” Using the transparent mesh, Breslaw builds each piece by splicing, sewing, and layering the different mesh colors and densities into delicate yet substantial abstract compositions.
Cathy Breslaw holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, an MSW (Master of Social Work) from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and a BA degree in American Studies from George Washington University in Washington D.C. She currently lives and works in southern California as a visual artist, arts writer and public speaker. Breslaw’s work has been the subject of over 30 solo exhibitions and has been featured in approximately 50 group exhibitions around the nation. Recent exhibitions include Above, Below and Beyond (2012) at the Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI; and A Matter of Space (2011) at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA.
Danielle Susalla Deery wrote the exhibition essay, Lightness of Being, for the exhibition. She is Director of Exhibitions and Communications at Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California where she manages the exhibition galleries and oversees approximately 20 exhibitions a year. Deery also teaches art history at Fullerton College. She earned an MFA from California State University, Fullerton, CA and a BA from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY.
CCAI extends special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for its Challenge America Fast Track grant supporting Luminosity and to Molly Bundy-Toral and the Carson Nugget for their lead donations to CCAI for the exhibition.
The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area’s diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online projects.
CCAI is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, City of Carson City, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, John and Grace Naumann Foundation, and the Carson Nugget. |
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Graduation Date:2009
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Planet Earth is Blue 3, 2012, oil on canvas, 24" x 24"
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Not Your Mother's Landscape
February 2 thru February 23, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 6-8 pm
LAUNCH Gallery
170 S. La Brea Ave., upstairs
Los Angeles, CA 90036
www.launchla.org
323. 899. 1363
Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm
and by appointment
LAUNCH Gallery is proud to present Not Your Mothers Landscape, a new solo exhibition by Gina Stepaniuk. Stepaniuk paints the world as she sees it - a convoluted beautiful place. A place run raw by our existence.
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth", Neil Armstrong once said about our planet. Stepaniuk reminds us that things have changed: "It has become virtually impossible for me to paint or even look at an image of a landscape without regarding earth's plight". Ecological disasters and centuries of human civilization have left their mark on our planet so indelibly that if we look closely enough, we can see these fingerprints from space. Her macro-landscape paintings, from the vantage point of spy satellites or other omniscient beings, bear such marks. Layers of charred brown, oily black and metallic gray permeate her vision - are these burned wildlife preserves, wasted crops, pit mines or chemical spills? Obscuring clouds mirror clouds in our own judgment.
Stepaniuk's technique is variable: at times realist in her careful molding of the planets surfaces and textures, at times emotively rough. Thick dried globs of oil paint in un-natural shades are jarring, like towering electrical pylons in unspoiled scrublands. Planetary patterns are melded and abstracted, applied to the canvas and then covered up - a world in flux. Change is what matters here, how we have changed things, how the planet will continue to change.
Eerily, Stepaniuk's world looks as if it could be completely devoid of human life.
Gina Stepaniuk was born in Toronto, Canada. She earned an Associate of OCAD (Bachelor of Arts) from the University of Toronto and later her MFA from Claremont Graduate University (CGU) in California. In 2009, she received CGU's President's Award for Excellence and the C.E. and Bertha M. Harsh Endowed Fellowship. That same year she was also nominated by CGU faculty for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout California, New York and Canada. Recent exhibitions have appeared at the Garboushian Gallery in Los Angeles, Summit Fine Art in Calgary, Canada and the Affordable Art Fair in New York City.
Gina currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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| Melissa Asher Daniels, Ph.D (Northwestern 2012) was recently offered a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of American & African American Literature by the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She will begin in the fall of 2013 |
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Graduation Date:1997
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The Register-Mail
GALESBURG —
Dr. Laura Behling has been named as Knox College’s Dean of College, replacing Lawrence Breitborde, as announced in a campus-wide email from President Teresa Amott on Wednesday.
“Dr. Behling’s deep commitment to the liberal arts and to the professional development of faculty as teachers and scholars make her the ideal appointment to this position,” Amott said in a statement Wednesday. “The Dean of the College/Vice President of Academic Affairs is a critical position on a college campus, entrusted with securing academic excellence and building a vibrant learning community.”
Amott continued that Knox was “fortunate to have a highly qualified pool of candidates who appreciated the special character of Knox and of Galesburg, and I look forward to Dr. Behling’s arrival this summer with excitement.
Behling is a former professor of literature who is currently serving as associate provost for faculty affairs at Butler University. She also has taught at the Gustavus Adolphus College and Palacky University in the Czech Republic, at which she received a Fulbright to teach, according to a report in The Knox Student, the student newspaper at Knox.
Her bachelor’s in English came from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and was followed by a master’s degree in science and medical journalism from Boston University and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from the Claremont Graduate School.
In addition, she also holds a degree from the Institute for Educational Management at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Of great appeal to her about Knox is the opportunity to return to the small, intimate style of education she left when she departed from Gustavus Adolphus.
At a recent open forum with the Knox community, she described the importance of continuous faculty development, saying, “Even though they have been in school forever, faculty still need training and new ideas, so that’s what I would really work to do.”
Breitborde will step down on June 30 and plans to go on sabbatical for a year before returning to campus and teaching anthropology.
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Graduation Date:2001
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Lisa Blas (MFA 2001)
Still Lifes, Sometimes Repeated
December 15, 2012 thru January 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 15, 3-7 pm
LISA BLAS
STILL LIFES, SOMETIMES REPEATED
Echoing the title of the exhibition Singular Forms, Sometimes Repeated at the Guggenheim Museum in 2004, in which I photographed folded sheets of paper viewers had removed and reshaped from the Felix Gonzalez-Torres work “Untitled” (Passport), my exhibition, Still Lifes, Sometimes Repeated, is an engagement with the recycling of materials, works of art by artists Iadmire experienced in specific places and times, and the larger framework of history.
Encountering FGT’s “Untitled” (Passport) again in the exhibition Specific Objects without Specific Form, at Wiels in 2010, I decided to take sheets of paper from this sculpture and use them as the support of the two large collage works seen here. The palette of color chips was generated from meticulously cut fragments of paper stock originating from exhibition announcements and mass-produced paint swatches from hardware stores. Working with bright, flat and metallic colors, I built compositions that juxtapose density with areas of blankness.
The same technique was used again in a series of small collages on music paper that I made while artist in residence in the French village of Ors, where the British poet Wilfred Owen died in the last battle of WWI. They play out a variation on the Armistice poppy as well as a homage to Matisse, whose birthplace, Cateau-Cambrésis, is only a few miles away from Ors. These works were exhibited at the Musée Matisse in Cateau during the summer of 2011.
Belonging to the series entitled Agrarian Pavements, the horizontal collages on vellum evoke other still lifes, landscapes and art historical motifs. Although the works are abstract, they make reference to light reflecting on the pavement, barbed wire, and negative space as a magnetic field. Inspired by the radicality of Matisse’s work during WWI, and the minimalist compositions of the New Topographics photographers from 1970s California, they envision space as alive, transparent and inclusive. I see them as blueprints for social and political reflection.
The composition of images and ephemera occupying the vitrine in the hallway is a roadmap to the show, where I quote my sources and provide connections between them, in the form of a wall-work: a photo of a newspaper in front of my neighbor’s door announcing the 2002 loss of the space shuttle Columbia, a rubbing of the maxim “Study the Past” on the base of a monument in front of the National Archives in Washington, photo fragments of various museum wall texts, including one from Marthe Wéry’s retrospective in The Hague in 2011, photos of folded sympathy cards I made during the Iraq war, a protest poster I designed in response to the rise of the Tea Party and, to bring Still Lifes, Sometimes Repeated full circle, an installation photograph of “Untitled” (Passport) in the 2010 Wiels exhibition (courtesy of Sven Laurent). |
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