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Printmaking professors Richard Gere and Robert Brown and printmaking technician Josh Peplinski, along with printmaking minor students Lindsay Apple, Jessica Lambert, Mark Herschede, Chris Chambers, Emily Bucy, Yana Dimitrova, Brian Kiger, Al Mordian, Jasmine Balmat, Catherine Bird and Jeff Watts and graduate students Nick Silberg, Mandi Liebee, Sarah Ward and Abigal Cover, attended the Southern Graphics Council Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference is the largest gathering of printmakers in the country. The students participated in the open portfolio sessions and received positive feedback from attendees. Fibers alumna Morena Guzman-McKeever was selected to be featured in the April/May issue of FIBERARTS magazine. The article, titled “The Future of Fiber Arts,” shows her work “Acid,” which was recently purchased as part of a collection of her work for SCAD-Atlanta. Media and performing arts professor Krystyna Iwaniec exhibited a set design for “An Enemy of the People” and set and costume designs for “Hamlet” at the World Stage Design, USITT Conference, in Toronto, Canada, March 14-18. Traditional Homes magazine chose illustration professor Stephen Gardner to be its sole garden-plan illustrator, based on the drawings he did for the Design Press book “Small Gardens of Savannah and Thereabouts.” The work of sophomore illustration student Ken Meyer Jr. was accepted into “Spectrum,” a juried book/exhibition of the best fantasy art of the year (Vol. 12, out in September). The work was produced in one of his foundation studies classes. Junior media and performing arts major Bailey Poteat has earned a summer internship with the Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock, N.C. Media and performing arts alumna Leigh-Anne Raza (B.F.A. 2002) has been accepted into the Landscape Architecture Master of Fine Arts. program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Anetra Roberts-Williams has accepted the position of assistant director for administrative data and SCAD Card services. Her start date is May 9. Roberts-Williams holds a degree in international finance and will assume responsibility for administrative reporting, SCAD Card fiscal affairs and on-campus project management. Her office will be located in the Turner Express Office, 302 W. Boundary St., and her phone number will be (912) 525-8443. Rielo Sassha (B.F.A. 2003) is a designer for women’s clothing line Baby Phat in New York City and La Habra, Calif. Baby Phat is the sister company to men’s clothing line Phat Farm, owned by music mogul Russell Simmons and his wife and business partner Kimora Lee Simmons. Interior design students participated in the Herman Miller office design competition, in which participants had to use the company’s Resolve Systems furniture. Students from five other design schools in the United States also competed. Herman Miller representatives juried the designs. SCAD student Andrea Sosa won first place and will receive an all-expense-paid trip to the annual NeoCon World’s Trade Fair to be held in Chicago in June. SCAD student Catherine Nelson won second place and a Herman Miller Alvar Alto stool. Alumnus Eric Standley works as an assistant professor and foundations coordinator in the department of art and art history at Virginia Tech. He was recently awarded an ASPIRES Grant for a capitol renovations competition within the university. The $80,000 grant will be used to build a mezzanine in an art building to house a creative technologies lab. Ebony magazine has named Loyola University New Orleans assistant professor of communications and SCAD alumna Debra Woodfork as one of its “30 Leaders of the Future.” The list is featured in the April edition of the national magazine. According to the article, “They are young, gifted and black. And while they have dedicated time and effort to get a solid educational foundation, they also have demonstrated a strong and focused mission to give back to their communities.” “Everything I do with my teaching has been based on all of my educational influences,” Woodfork said. “I truly love what education has to offer, as a student and now as a professor.” Liberal arts professor Weihua Zhang, Ph.D., attended the 2005 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations conference March 23-26 in San Diego, Calif., to give a presentation titled “A Laundry Man’s Daughter: Gerald Chen Sieg Remembers Her People in Her Poetry.” |
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