MFA in Studio Art faculty member Jennie Shanker and the Center for Discovery, Inc., has been awarded a $70,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant supports CENTERpieces, a series of site-specific artworks created in abandoned buildings and empty lots throughout the Catskills region. Curators Julie Courtney and Shanker will work with artists Allan Wexler, Richard Torchia, Shay Church, and Ann Hamilton to develop each site. Artists will have the opportunity to work freely to create works that celebrate the history, community, and vitality of the area, and promote tourism within the region.
The Center for Discovery is an organization renowned for…
GRADUATE STUDIES | MFA IN STUDIO ART
2011/12 STUDIO CONVERSATIONS
Robert Chambers and Ursula von Rydingsvard
with Kaytie Johnson
Friday, September 30, 2011, 6:30 pm | Reception to follow
STEWART AUDITORIUM
Robert Chambers lives and works in Miami. He is known for his dynamic installations, which incorporate sound, smell and movement. Chambers’ work is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. His awards include the Nancy Graves Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. In 2009 he undertook a residency at the Fabric…
Brilliant Simplicity
Artist Boaz Vaadia has installed three sculptures in The Sculpture Park at Moore. The Sculpture Park is located in Aviator Park, across from the College.
Kim Gavin, a candidate for the MA in Art Education with an emphasis in special populations at Moore was honored this month as a finalist for the 2011 Ruth Wright Hayre Teacher of the Year award for the Philadelphia School District.
Gavin was nominated by her colleagues and the principal of William Cramp Elementary School, where she is a full-time art teacher at the Philadelphia school.
She was honored at a parent meeting and a parent-volunteer luncheon in June at Cramp E.S.
“It was the consensus of her colleagues that Kim is not only an outstanding art teacher but an extraordinary team member who daily goes above and beyond to…
A team of students from Moore’s MFA in Interior Design program won second place in the 2011 Student Lighting Design Competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Illuminating Engineer Society (IES), the Philadelphia International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and Lightfair International.
The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in an accredited U.S. institution of higher learning and majoring in one of the following fields: lighting/illumination design, architecture, engineering and interior design. The team from Moore included Colleen Kane, Bethany Seawright, Jennifer Rusnak and Sandra Kang.
The winning designs will be presented at LIGHTFAIR International 2011, to be held…
Janine Antoni with Janet Kaplan and Jonathan Wallis
Janine Antoni's artwork engages the viewer on a profoundly physical level. Her own body is present in relationship to extreme process and unusual materials. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award and the New Media Award from the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. She has been profiled in countless publications including Art in America, and her work has been included in exhibitions including the Venice Biennial and the Whitney Biennial. Janine Antoni lives in New York and is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery.
Janet Kaplan is Program Director of the BFA in Curatorial…