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August 24, 2011
(Philadelphia, PA) 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.
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May 3, 2011
(Philadelphia, PA) 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…
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April 29, 2011
(Philadelphia, PA) 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…
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…
On February 12, 2011 the MFA Program in Interior Design hosted a design challenge to its MFA students. Three teams were formed to provide design solutions to La Primavera, a coffee shop in Center City Philadelphia. After visiting the site, Graduate Program Manager Margaret Leahy presented the challenge. The teams broke out to work, research, and then came back together for final presentations at 4pm the same day.
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January 3, 2011
(Philadelphia, PA) Moore College of Art & Design is pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret Leahy as Graduate Program Manager in Interior Design at Moore College of Art & Design. Margaret served eleven years as the BFA Chair of Interior Design before returning to teaching full-time in fall 2009. Margaret's passion about socially responsible design along with her outstanding leadership will further strengthen the graduate programs and help it build a stronger future as it goes forward.
Educated at Duke University and Pratt Institute, from which she received an MS in environmental design, Margaret…
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November 19, 2010
(Philadelphia, PA) Brad Rosenau, a student in Moore’s MA in Art Education program, is the 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Pennylvania State College of Education Alumni.
He was presented with the award at the College’s Alumni Society Awards Banquet on October 16, 2010.
Rosenau, of Souderton, Pa, graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s of science and a master’s degree in vocational industrial education in 1985. He is an Adobe certified associate educator in visual communication using Photoshop and is also pursuing a master’s in Art Education with an emphasis in special…
Graduate Program Lecture Series presents: Conversation with Liam Gillick and Dennis Scholl, presented by the Graduate Studies Program in collaboration with The Galleries at Moore.
About the participants:
Liam Gillick graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1987. In 1989 he mounted his first solo gallery exhibition, 84 Diagrams, at the former Karsten Schubert Limited, in London and has since exhibited in galleries and institutions in Europe and the United States, many of which have been collaborative projects with other artists, architects, designers and writers. He currently works between New York and London, is represented by Casey Kaplan gallery and is…
The Graduate Program in Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations will present 2010’s day-long symposium with Keynote Speaker Peter Geisser exploring the best teaching and learning practices for children with special needs. Mr. Geisser begins the day with an address followed by questions and discussion.
Peter Geisser retired in 2003 after over 30 years as art teacher at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. He was a Continuing Education Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. He developed an Art/Art History Program that received worldwide recognition and was described in School…
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October 12, 2010
(PHILADELPHIA PA) – Moore College of Art & Design is pleased to announce that Foundation Chair and Professor Moe Brooker has been named the Artist of the Year by Governor Edward G. Rendell of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Governor Rendell will present the awards to Brooker and four other awardees at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 30, at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.
First Lady Judge Marjorie O. Rendell made the announcement September 23, 2010. The honorees were selected from a field of more than 70 nominations submitted by arts organizations, artists, arts patrons, elected…
