Interior design professor Gillian Davies recently delivered three papers at international conferences in Brisbane, Australia, and London and Norwich, England. Davies presented a paper about style and gendered interpretation of dress in urban dance culture at the Making An Appearance international fashion conference in Brisbane, Australia July, 10-13. She also presented a paper about interior design at the Royal College of Art in London and another paper about gender and interior design at the Design History Society in Norwich, England.

Davies, who also is the director of the decorative arts minor program, has been asked to deliver a paper on craft as process at SOFA Chicago 2003, the annual exhibition of the International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, Oct. 17-19.


Savannah College of Art and Design professor Roy LaGrone will be included in an exhibition titled “New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art,” Sept. 29, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004, at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

“New Visions” features the work of seven rising artists who bring fresh, bold and personal issues to the contemporary art scene. The exhibition explores innovations in African American contemporary art and how it continues to expand and embrace the use of new computer, sound and video technology. On view will be a diverse collection of 45 works, including interactive installations, found and modeled objects and paintings reflecting contemporary hip-hop culture.

LaGrone will exhibit several large-scale Iris prints and mixed-media paintings, and will premiere three looped-video animations.

LaGrone, a professor in the broadcast design department, received a master of fine arts degree in computer art from SCAD and a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design from the Atlanta College of Art. He has been a professor at SCAD since 1999.


“Escape,” a collaborative film produced in Lucilla Hoshor’s Acting for Animators class, received a Gold Remi Award at Worldfest-Houston 2003. The category was Experimental Film and Video-computer Generated/Mixed Media.

The 2-D/3-D animated short has also been selected for screening at the Savannah Film Festival 2003. Al Waller, animation alumnus and student director, has been asked to speak during the upcoming festival. Hoshor was responsible for producing the piece and also for all color and compositing. The work features sumi-brush painting by SCAD painting department chair Josh Yu and a soundtrack produced under the direction of sound design professor Robin Beauchamp.

Hoshor also been asked to set up an Acting for Animators course for SIGGRAPH 2004 in Los Angeles.


The Savannah College of Art and Design School of Film and Digital Media at Montgomery Hall was profiled in the August 2003 issue of American School & University magazine. The issue is the annual Educational Interiors Showcase honoring educational interior design excellence.

A jury of American Institute of Architects members and school administrators evaluate submissions from architectural firms across the country. Outstanding designs are chosen for publication in the magazine that reaches more than 63,000 facility planners, school and university administrators and architects.

The School of Film and Digital Media is one of 90 projects profiled in the magazine and on the magazine’s educational architecture Web site at www.schooldesigns.com