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Art + Design Students and Faculty Create Alma Mater Alternatives

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Because the Alma Mater statue is undergoing repair and is not available for traditional graduating student pictures, Art + Design faculty and students created Alma Mater replacements for commencement weekend. These 6-foot plaster replicas of Alma will be located at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, the School of Art and Design, Assembly Hall, on the Quad and the north campus.

Those involved in the project were lead by Associate Professor Melissa Pokorny. Participating students were:

Graduate Students

Ben Hatcher
Alex Schutz
Xinran Yuan
Sara Alsum-Wassenaar
Scott Vanidestine

Undergrads

Ben Barber
Dylan Gifford
Katie Maubach
Ali Sunseri
Sean Tierny

Link to images of the construction of the Almas

School of Art + Design Convocation Ceremony

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Sunday, May 12, 2013, 10:00 am
Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Convocation address by William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor in Art History at Washington University, St. Louis.

A reception follows in the Link Gallery, School of Art + Design.

2013 BFA Exhibition

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Exhibition through Sunday, May 12, 2013
Krannert Art Museum

This exhibition displays the work of 127 students receiving the BFA degree representing a broad range of art + design practices, which illustrate new and established technologies in material and virtual realms.

View at http://bfa.art.illinois.edu

Julia deVille -- Night's Plutonian Shore

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 5:30 PM
62 Krannert Art Museum

Julia deVille’s interest in life and death emerged early. As a child, she dressed in her grandmother’s fur stoles. She was fascinated by the idea that the creature was once living. In 2001, New Zealander Julia deVille moved to Melbourne and started training in taxidermy and goldsmithing. Julia deVille produces sculpture under her given name and jewellery under the label, DISCE MORI.

This lecture is part of the School of Art + Design’s Expiration Lecture Series.
Programming is supported by a generous grant from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund.

Olivia Gude

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Professor of Art Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday April 22, 2013, 5:00pm, Room 107 A+D

Evocative & Provocative Pedagogy: Bricolage Assemblage Curriculum

Continuing a series of presentations and papers on reimagining the content of everyday art education—Postmodern Principles, Principles of Possibility, Why We Need New School Art Styles, and Evocative & Provocative Pedagogy—this presentation addresses the difficulty of establishing structural frameworks for art education in today's multi-cultural, globally aware, aesthetically diverse postmodern culture.

Clair Ashley Lecture

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 12:00pm
Room 107 A+D

Claire Ashley is from Edinburgh, Scotland. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1993, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1995 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

FIGURE ONE:

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Figure One Project Space
April 12-May 15, 2013
Julian “Jay” Pahre

Figure One
April 12-May 15, 2013

“To Be in a Place and Dream of Another”
Featuring works by
Josh Fairbanks
Hugh Sato
Carolina Ibarra
Samantha Serrano

Opening Reception:
Friday, April 12, 2013, 6-9pm
116 North Walnut St.
Downtown Champaign

Guy Ben-Ner -- Video Artist

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:00:00 CDT

The Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the School of Art + Design Present an artist lecture by

Guy Ben-Ner
Video Artist
Tel Aviv, Berlin and New York

Monday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m.
62 Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign

Meredith Davis - Two Lectures on Design & Education

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Design in K-12 Education

What does K-12 design education look like when we privilege a different ranking of priorities than we find in traditional art education and what do art educators need to know to be able to deliver this instruction? And what role can designers play in K-12 education beyond that of career counseling?

Thursday, April 4, 4:00pm --- 107 Art & Design Building

Lectureship supported by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund / College of Fine and Applied Arts

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Professional Design Education in a Shifting Professional Landscape

How do we prepare the future professoriate in ways that meet the demands of contemporary practice and education? The lecture will raise questions about what constitutes a 21st century design education and those things we should challenge about the way we teach.

Friday, April 5, 1:00pm --- 229 Art & Design Building

Kim Cridler - Models

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:00:00 CDT

Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM
221 Art East Annex Studio One / Architecture Annex

Examining the influence of craft and ornamentation through the work of theorists, writers, and artists, Kim Cridler will touch on issues of repetition, ideas about beauty and originality, the place of empathy in art, and the essential struggle towards change. Cridler will examine the vessel form and discuss the cultural uses of presentation silver, the vessel as an icon of continuity, and her own interest in ornamentation.

Sponsor: Visitors Program in the School of Art + Design / Metal Program in the School of Art + Design / Metal Guild at the University of Illinois