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Professor Susan Harris received the Award of Merit for her piece “Gastropod Reliquary” in the Utah 2009 Fine Crafts & Photography Exhibition hosted by the Utah Arts Council at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City October 16 to November 25, 2009. Susan Harris and adjunct instructor, Pete Bringhurst, each had two pieces of ceramic work exhibited in the juried show. Susan presented a public slide lecture and taught a hands-on workshop to the members of the Clayart Utah organization at the Pioneer Craft House in Salt Lake City.
Professor Andrew Marvick’s exhibition of recent paintings, “A Modernism of Nostalgia”, opens at the Goodstein Museum of Art in Casper, Wyoming February 18 and runs through the March 18, 2010.
Department Chair Eric Brown completed a Program Review of the Art Department for Mesa State College in October 2009 and was on the National Association of Schools of Art and Design accreditation team for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in November 2009.
Professor Jeremias Paul, Assistant Professor of Photography, was a panelist on post secondary education and moderated a roundtable discussion about teaching technology at the Society for Photographic Education’s Southwest Regional conference in Tucson, Arizona. He was also nominated to be the southwest region’s next chair.
Professor Kyle Petersen displayed photographs in two exhibitions in October 2009 as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. He was featured in “Trail to Happiness” at Worthmore Jewelers and “SCAD Photography Exhibition” at Atlantic Station.
Alumnus Dixon Leavitt (Fall 07) was the illustrator for the beautiful book Eliza’s Field of Faith by Rachelle Pace Castor.
A team of 14 Art and Design faculty and students successfully completed the first two-day firing of the new wood-fire kiln in October 2009, using a total of 2 1/2 cords of wood. Works from the firing are currently on display in the Centrum across from room 201. Surfaces feature rust to red flashing from the vapors produced by burning wood, and multi-hued flecks of melted ash.
(Photos: Top: Art and Design student painting in class. Bottom: Sculpture studentworking in class. Both photos by Scott Chandler)