Alumni in the News
Cranbrook Academy of Art to Confer Distinguished Alumni Award on Artist Anne Wilson (CAA ’72 Fiber)
Bloomfield Hills, MI—Cranbrook Academy of Art is pleased to announce that it will confer its Distinguished Alumni Award on the Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson at the 2012 Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 11, 2012. The Distinguished Alumni Award is one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy and recognizes graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership, and vision through their contributions to the practices of architecture, art, and design, as well as to Cranbrook Academy of Art. For more information, click here.
Hot Sundae:
Amelia Irwin and Nicole Killian
Amelia Irwin and Nicole Killian Featured at the Walker Shop
"Drawing Club: A Collaborative Coloring Book," the second edition of artist designed objects at The Walker Shop features the work of 15 Minnesota artists including 2D design alums Amelia Irwin ('05) and Nicole Killian ('11). The Walker Shop offers a unique assortment of award-winning contemporary home and office accessories; artisan jewelry; and books about multidisciplinary contemporary art. For more
information visit here.
David Licata
Red Glass
Metalsmithing Graduate David Licata in New York Times Review
David Licata (Metalsmithing '10) is one of 20 artists participating in "Sculpture: On and Off the Wall" at the Arts Exchange in White Plains, New York. Susan Hodara of the New York Times writes, "Another of the show’s recurrent influences is the natural world. It is there in David Licata’s glasswork: the delicate, autumn-hued, miniature trees; the bone-like “Suture”; the crimson linked rings in “Capillary Action,” a wall installation that suggests blood vessels." For the full review, click here.
Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron, artists.
Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine
Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron in New York Art Magazine's "How to Make It in the Art World"
2009 Sculpture graduates Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron were featured in "the art world in a photo booth" as part of Jerry Saltz's New York Magazine article "How to Make it in the Art World." Click here to read.
Complex Movements Receives MAP Funding
The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, has awarded $35,000 to support Complex Movements, an interactive hip-hop performance that will use video projection, sculptural art, and creative technologies to explore the relationship between complex sciences and social-justice movements. Installations designed and created by 2D Design Alumni Wesley Taylor ('11) will set the stage for the performance, representing each song through sculptural and video elements that interact with performers and the audience, creating feedback loops of participation. For more information, click here.
Tanya Hastings Gill Awarded Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
Tanya Hastings Gill (Painting ’97) was awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Fellowship for 2011-2012. Gill will be residing in New Delhi, India for 9 months researching the intersection of Craft and Contemporary Art. Gill’s own studio work engages the age-old art of paper cutting in a contemporary context by utilizing reflective color, shadows and open installation. Gill was formally an instructor in the Contemporary Practices Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anne Wilson Named Distinguished Artist by the Union League Club of Chicago
Anne Wilson (Fiber '72), was recently inducted into the Union League Club of Chicago’s Distinguished Artists program. As one of the two newest members of this program, Wilson was recognized for her contributions to furthering Chicago’s reputation as a world-class center of the arts. She currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Fiber and Materials at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
New York School Honors Jack Lenor Larsen
Distinguished alum Jack Lenor Larsen (1951) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on April 18 in New York City from the New York School of Interior Design. Larsen, a visionary, scholar, world traveler, and an authority on traditional and contemporary crafts, founded of the eponymous firm in 1952. He has designed thousands of hand-woven fabric patterns and textiles in natural yarns, many of which are associated with Modernist architecture and furnishings and are in collections of major international museums.
Martin Linder Awarded the 2012 Jefferson Award
Congratulations to Martin Linder (Design '83), an associate professor in Design and Industry at San Francisco State University. Linder was awarded a 2012 Jefferson Award for his leadership and mentoring in industrial and graphic design for elementary- to college-aged students. His well-known Industrial Design Outreach Program, known fondly as iDo, teaches ethnically diverse, low-income students hands-on interdisciplinary design. iDo also provides high school students with experiences that foster curiosity, promote creativity, and build self-confidence.
The Jefferson Award for Public Service Civic Engagement was established in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft, Jr., and Sam Beard as a "Nobel Prize" for public service. The award recognizes individuals who make a difference on a daily basis in their local communities.
New York Times Features Alum Work
3D Design alums Reed Wilson (2011) and the Academy's Woodshop coordinator, Aaron Blendowski (2006), are just two of the stars in the exhibition that opens this week in Brooklyn, Threat: Objects for Defense and Protection. Check out what the New York Times wrote today.
Corine Vermeulen + The 2012 Whitney Biennial
Alum Corine Vermuelen's (Photo '04) photograph of Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead is featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, which is dedicated to the Kelley who died in January. Vermuelen, who resides in Detroit, was recently awarded a Kresge Visual Arts Fellowship, and her work is currently on view at Cranbrook Art Museum as part of the No Object Is an Island, exhibition.
Work by Edgar Mosa in Bullett Magazine
A necklace designed by alum Edgar Mosa (Metalsmithing '11) is featured in the Spring edition of Bullett Magazine. Click here to view. Photography by Kevin Mackintosh.
Andrew Mowbray & Sculpture Magazine
Andrew Mowbray (Sculpture '98) is featured on the March cover of Sculpture Magazine. This issue includes an in-depth interview with Mowbray, who discusses everything from his work at Cranbrook to his most recent exhibition, In Search Of, at Boston's LaMontagne Gallery. and teaching in the art department at Wellesley College. Click here to read the full article.
Knoll to feature New Collection by 2011 3D Design Alum
Brian DuBois, a 2011 graduate of the 3D Design Department and recipient of the Academy's 2011 Florence Knoll Scholarship has introduced the CORK 1 Collection, a new furniture line by Knoll that explores the relationship between wood and cork, and uses both to create high-quality furniture with functional surfaces. DuBois received the 2011 Florence Knoll Scholarship as a second-year student in 3D Design Department. Originally from River Rouge, Michigan, he received a B.A. in Architecture in 1999 from the University of Detroit Mercy. In 2000, DuBois started his own Michigan-based company, 2:37am Studios. For more information, click here.
Sadashi Inuzuka Awarded Thurnau Professorship at UM
Academy alum Sadashi Inuzuka ('87) has been awarded a University of Michigan's Thurnau Professorship, the highest award for undergraduate teaching conferred by the University. Inuzuka, professor of art, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, is considered a pioneer in the design and implementation of community engagement courses. For more than a decade, Inuzuka has created courses that enable students to see first-hand the role art can play in social change. Through his seminars and workshops, students develop communication skills, a reflection on the role of art making in other people's lives and an appreciation of alternate modes of perception. For a video interview with Inuzuka, click here.
1950 Alum of Architecture Wins China's Top Award in Science and Technology
Wu Liangyong, a ninety-year old Chinese architect and conservationist, and 1950 alum of the Architecture Dept, won China's top scientific and technological award which will be bestowed on him by President Hu Jintao in late February. Wu was the founder of the Department of Architecture at the prestigious Tsinghua University. For more, please click here.
Cranbrook in Los Angeles
Cranbrook Academy of Art presents the annual Alumni Reception during the College Art Association Meetings in Los Angeles at the Empress Pavilion. It's a great time to reunite with the extended community of the Academy. Please RSVP by Tuesday, February 21, click here.
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Empress Pavilion (click here for directions or other information)
Located in the Chinatown Bamboo Plaza
988 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, California 90012
Parking is available on site + restaurant will validate tickets.
Left: Anne Lindberg, parallel 25 yellow, 2011, graphite and colored pencil on cotton mat board, 58" x 51"
Right: Annabeth Rosen, Wave, 2008, glazed ceramic parts, steel baling wire, 24" x 50" x 14"
Prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Awarded to Alumni
Anne Lindberg (Fiber ‘88) and Annabeth Rosen (Ceramics ’81) were each awarded a 2011 Painters & Sculptors grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. This program was established in 1993 and is dedicated to supporting artists who are considered under-recognized for their artistic achievements and whose career would derive benefit from the grant. The 25 recipients in 2011 each received grants of $25,000. For more information on the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and a complete listing of award recipients, please click here.
Anne Lindberg has recently been busy preparing a solo exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, group exhibitions at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Dolphin Gallery, and a GSA Art-in-Architecture commission for the Richard Bolling Federal Buidling. She was was in residence at the Kunstnerhuset i Lofoten in Svolvaer, Norway last September.
Annabeth Rosen is the Robert Arneson Chair of Ceramic Art at the University of California Davis. She works with both surface and form, and both sculpture and painting.
Left: Sonya Clark, Photo credit: Taylor Dabney
Right: Jon Eric Riis, Photo credit: the artist
Fiber Alums Sonya Clark and Jon Eric Riis Named 2011 USA Fellows
The holidays came early for Fiber Dept. alums Sonya Clark (‘95) and Jon Eric Riis (’69), who were among the 50 artists selected to receive a no-strings attached grant of $50,000 from the USA Artists Foundation. These grants are awarded each year to outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists.
Sonya Clark currently resides in Richmond, Virgina, where she serves as Chair of the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received the Academy's Mid-Career Alumni Achievement Honor in 2011. Her work will be shown in over six venues in 2012. Surface magazine recently wrote that "Clark is an ambitious, intellectually focused artist, [who] is already deepening the dialogue within fiber arts.”
Jon Eric Riis currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. His tapestry work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
For more information about this year’s USA Fellows, please click here.
Kim Faler
Anniversary, 2009, archival inkjet print, 22 1/2" x 33 1/4"
Courtesy of LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 deCordova Biennial Features Alumna Kim Faler
Sculpture alumna and Fulbright recipient Kim Faler (‘08) was one of only 23 artists selected to participate in the 2012 deCordova Biennial on view through April 22 at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The Biennial features artists from across New England, and offers a diverse range of approaches in media and content. The exhibition occupies almost the entirety of the museum and beyond—reaching into the adjacent park, Boston, and nearby communities. For more information on this impressive Biennial, please click here.
Jessica Stroller
Untitled, 2011, porcelain, china paint, 7" x 7" x 7"
Jessica Stoller Receives Praise in New York Times
In a review of the recent Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) exhibition, New York Times critic Ken Johnson praised Jessica Stoller (Ceramics '06). He cited her tabletop glazed porcelain sculptures as "exquisite" and further wrote, "Ms. Stoller mixes beauty, horror and dark comedy with a fine sense of proportion." The AIM program was established in 1980 with the goal of providing networking opportunities for emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan area and of introducing their work to a greater audiences. The program comprises a series of thirteen weekly seminars at the Bronx Museum and other off-site locations. AIM culminates with a biannual exhibition organized by a team of guest curators, and an accompanying catalog. For the complete article, visit here.
Anne Lindberg
canto yellow, 2011
Egyptian cotton thread, staples, 18 by 6 by 6 feet
Anne Lindberg Featured in Two International Exhibitions
Two exhibitions are currently featuring the extraordinary work of Anne Lindberg (Fiber '88). “Lessons from the Line," at SESC Bom Retiro gallery in São Paulo, Brazil will feature Lindberg's canto yellow (pictured above), her site-specific installation consisting of thousands of yellow threads pulled taut across a volume of space. It will be on display through October 30. Lindberg's work will also be presented in the group show “Extended Drawing,” at the Tegnerforbundet Gallery in Oslo, Norway where she is participating in a seminar on Friday, September 2, featuring talks by the nine contributing artists, as well as a discussion of contemporary drawing by Nina Katchadourian, Viewing Program Curator of The Drawing Center, New York City, and Sabrina van der Ley, Director of Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo. Following the seminar, Lindberg will travel to Svolvaer, a fishing town of fewer than 5,000 residents in the Lofoten archipelago off the northern coast of Norway, above the Arctic Circle, for a two-week residency. The trip is funded by a Lighton International Exchange Grant from the Kansas City-based Lighton Foundation. For the Danish-descended Lindberg, both the exhibition and residency in Norway represent a homecoming of sorts—a return to the North, in concept as well as geography. For more information about Lindberg and the exhibitions described above, please visit www.annelindberg.com
Houston Center for Photography Names Christian Cutler Curatorial and Programs Coordinator
The Board of Directors of Houston Center for Photography appointed Christian H. Cutler, Photo '06, as Curatorial and Programs Coordinator. Prior to this appointment, Christian served as Director of Galleries for Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX; Director's Assistant for The Sir Elton John Photography Collection; and Co-Director and Registrar for Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, GA. He has also owned an art installation business and continues to work as a studio artist. For more, visit: www.yourhoustonnews.com.
Robert Turek
Core77 Design Award Presented to Robert Turek
Robert (Bob) Turek (3D Design '10) was awarded Best of Design in the category of DIY / HACK / MOD by the design blog Core77 for his Tall Furniture. Turek states, "I have created a new system for live performance. These sculpture-furniture-objects are condensed stages for each performer. By spreading the stage into multiple focal points, the audience is deeply immersed in the performance, free to move about and experience intimate and unique vantage points." Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. For more details, visit here.
Left: Portrait of Vivian Beer by Chris Callis.
Right: Vivian Beer, Scion, 2004; fabricated sheet and bar stock steel; 2.2 x 1.9 x 2.1 ft., photo by Vivian Beer
Vivian Beer Featured in American Craft Magazine
Metalsmithing alumna Vivian Beer ('04) was featured in the latest edition of American Craft Magazine for her "impossibly curvy furniture," she transforms out of steel. In 2012, her work will be included in the prestigious exhibition "40 Under 40: Craft Futures," in the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Click here to read the feature in American Craft Magazine.
Jordan Wayne Long, Box Shipment #2, 2011
Special Delivery: Jordan Long Arrives in Portland Gallery via Shipping Crate
Photography graduate Jordan Long ('11) recently completed his latest project "Box Shipment #2," in which he traveled nearly 2,250 miles from Bald Knob, Arkansas to Portland, Oregon locked inside a shipping crate. While exploring themes of isolation and trauma during his seven-day journey, Long only connected to the outside world through the online computer game Lord of the Rings. Also accompanying him in the 35” x 55” x 55” crate were 28 protein bars, water, a bottle of Vitamin D, fans, aspirin and two air-sealed waste containers.
For complete details and press about his project, visit the links below:
Portland Monthly
Artnet
Jordan's Blog
Radio Interview with 95.5 WIFC
Beth Katleman, Folly (detail)
Beth Katleman Featured in The Art Newspaper
Ceramics graduate Beth Katleman ('95) was recently featured in The Art Newspaper for her work of subversive porcelain sculptures at Design Miami/Basel. "Folly," a 16 foot-long installation, combines rococo decoration with figures from popular culture. Anny Shaw writes, "At first glance, the work appears to reference Wedgwood or French toile, but when viewed up close, these allusions dissolve. For example, one can spot a gnome riding a grinning snail past a miniature Sacré Coeur." Click here to read the complete article.
Left: Lucille Lozada Tenazas (photo: Matthew Sussman).
Right: Parsons School of Constructed Environments (SCE), poster design, 2008. Client: School of Constructed Environments, Parsons the New School for Design; Design firm: Tenazas Design; Creative director/Art director/Designer: Lucille Tenazas; Designer: Candice Ralph
Lucille Tenazas Featured in AIGA Design Journeys
In an interview with Design Journey's, Lucille Tenazas (Design '81) speaks passionately about her discovery of Cranbrook and work with Katherine McCoy. Currently, Lucille is the Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design where she is developing a graduate concentration in Design, Craft and Technology. Click here to read the AIGA Design Feature.
Samuel Rowlett Leads MASS MoCA Kidspace Project
Samuel Rowlett (Painting '08) is currently serving as Artist-in-Residence at MASS MoCA in conjunction with Kidspace, a three museum collaboration also involving the Williams College Museum of Art, and The Clark Institute. Rowlett and his dynamic crew of 15 local high-school students have started work on The Known Universe. The project opens on June 23 and runs through August 21 at the former Artery Lounge, 26 Holden Street, North Adams, MA. For more details visit here.
Iris Eichenberg
Metalsmithing Department Featured in American Craft Online
Artist-in-Resident Iris Eichenberg and Metalsmithing Alumna Gemma Draper ('09) were recently in the exhibition Us, in flux split between the Greg Kucera Gallery and the Lawrimore Project Gallery in Seattle, Washington. The exhibition was curated by Metals Department graduates Ruth Koelewyn ('09) and Seth Papac ('09) and explored jewelry as a means of examining the self through the work of six international artists. Read the American Craft online review here.
Photo: Tom McInvaille
Summer News from Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark (Fiber '95) has begun the second part of her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Museum for African Art in Washington DC. There she is investigating the materiality, meanings, and metaphors of combs as objects of cultural reflection and agency. Later in the summer, Sonya will be heading to to Charlotte, North Carolina to serve as the Knight Foundation Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Arts. Having received grants from both Culture Works in Richmond, Virginia and Art Matters in New York City, she will be extending her artwork into the community over the course of the next 12 months. Sonya will return to Virginia Commonwealth University in the fall to continue in her position as chairwoman of the Craft/Material Studies Department. Stay up-to-date with Sonya by visiting her website.
Head of Ceramics and Five Alums Featured in Ground-breaking Exhibition at Denver Art Museum
Work by Department Head and Artist-in-Residence Anders Ruhwald and five Ceramics Department graduates including: Katie Caron ('09), Heather Mae Erickson ('04), Neil Forrest ('81), Andrew Martin ('81), and Annabeth Rosen ('81) is featured in the exhibition "Overthrown: Clay Without Limits," currently on view through September 18 at Denver Art Museum.
Working in all scales, from architecturally expansive to almost impossibly small, the artists in "Overthrown" employ twenty-first-century technology hand-in-hand with standard modeling and molding techniques. They use digital cameras, computers, laser cutters, 3-D printers, and computer-controlled mills along with more traditional tools.
For more information about the exhibition, please visit here.
Designer Ruth Adler-Schnee Brings "A Passion for Color" to Venice
Ruth Adler Schnee, a 1946 graduate of the Design Department, will be featured in a summer-long exhibition opening June 4 at the Musei Civici di Venezia in Italy. "Ruth Adler Schnee: a Passion For Color," pays tribute to the artist's important role in Mid-Century Modernism, exploring her life, her work, and the challenges she faced as a woman designer. The exhibition, in conjunction with the 54th Biennale of Art, will feature Schnee’s breathtaking original hand-printed fabrics, woven textiles and original sketches.
Schnee has devoted her career to the creation of good form, textures and color combinations. Trained in interior architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and design at the Academy, Ruth brings architectural themes to the textile industry. As a child she and her family escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Detroit, Michigan, where over the years her circle of friends, colleagues, and clients included Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller and Minoru Yamasaki. Now in her 80's, Schnee still lives and works in Michigan, designing woven textiles for Anzea. She is active in the Detroit design community as a preservation advocate for the city's Modernist history.
"The Radiant Sun: Designer Ruth Adler Schnee," a documentary that debuted last year at Cranbrook which was directed by Terri Sarris and co-produced by Ronit Eisenbach (Architecture '93), will also be shown during the course of the exhibition in Venice. For more information, visit here.
Judge Avern \
Copyright Glen Michaels / Detroit Free Press
Portrait of US District Court Judge by Celebrated Painting Alum Presented in Detroit
Glen Michaels, a long time Michigan resident and 1957 graduate of the Painting Department, was commissioned nearly 20 years ago to paint the official portrait of United States District Court Judge, the Honorable Avern Cohn. Cohn was appointed to the Federal Court in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. Michaels is considered an art legend in Michigan and has been producing works for the private and public sector for more than 50 years. Read more in the Detroit Free Press.
Anne Wilson Featured in Exhibition in Knoxville
The Knoxville Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of work by Fiber alum Anne Wilson ('72) entitled " Local Industry" May 13-August 7, 2011. The work was created over the course of three months during an artist’s project entitled Local Industry, which is part of a longer exhibition by Wilson entitled "Wind/Rewind/Weave." For more click here.
Suzanne Beautyman Featured in Italian Vogue
In a recent edition of Italian Vogue, Suzanne Beautyman, a 2010 Metalsmithing graduate and the 2010 Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist, was referred to as one of the great new discoveries at the last jewelry show in Munich, Germany. Emanuele Lugli writes, "Her pieces and her sensibility are closer to contemporary sculptures – sculptures to be worn." Before completing her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Beautyman received a BA in Economics from Carleton College in Minnesota and studied at the Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence under the direction of renowned jewelry artists Manfred Bischoff and Peter Skubic.
Read more here.
Celebration of Making
Janet Abrams, a 2010 graduate of the Ceramics Department reflects on her time at the Academy in April edition of Metropolis magazine. Abrams, who came to the Academy following a long and successful career as a renowned design critic and has since accepted a job in Montreal as the Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture writes about her own experience discovering the wonder of making art with clay and by her own hand. She writes, "the renaissance of craft currently occurring among artists, architects, designers, and a generation of DIYers otherwise glued to their keyboards speaks to a universal longing for the tactile and the real…" Read more here.
Celebrated Architect Alum Publishes New Title
James Williamson (Architecture '84), and currently Visiting Professor at Cornell University at the School of Architecture, is the editor of the book "The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader," published by Routledge press. Williamson received his Master of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art (under Daniel Libeskind) and studied the history and theory of architecture at the Architectural Association. He studied architecture, art and English literature as an undergraduate at Texas Tech University. Williamson has won numerous design and teaching awards and honors, including a First Place Award in the Shinkenchiku Competition for Japan Architect (juried by Tadao Ando), an ACSA design award, two Graham Foundation grants, the 2006 Martin Dominguez Distinguished Teaching Award from The College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University, and a Special Commendation for Teaching Excellence from the Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Academy Celebrates the Life of Toshiko Takaezu
Renowned Academy ceramic alum Toshiko Takaezu passed away March 8, 2011 in Hawaii, where she had lived for the past 10 years. Takaezu, who was 88, was passionate about her craft and devoted to teaching. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1954 under the tutelage of the Academy's master ceramist Maija Grotell.
"Takaezu’s work grew out of the vessel aesthetic, for which her mentor and close friend at Cranbrook, the Finnish Ceramist Maija Grotell was so famous," said Gregory Wittkopp, the Director of Cranbrook Art Museum. "She pushed that aesthetic to a sculptural one but continued to reference the vessel throughout her career."
Born in Pekeekeo, Hawaii, in 1922, Takaezu’s interest in pottery began when she worked with the Hawaii Potters Guild on Oahu. She attended ceramic classes under Claude Horan at the University of Hawaii at Manoa before she headed to Michigan to study at the Academy. After graduating from the Academy, she taught ceramics for more than 35 years, first at the Cleveland Institute of Art and then Princeton University. She retired in 1992 to become a full-time studio artist.
Over the years Takaezu’s work has been featured in nearly 100 exhibitions around the world, and she received honors from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and New York's American Craft Center, which in 1994 presented her with its Gold Medal. Her work is in the permanent collections of Cranbrook Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Institution, and more than a dozen other institutions.
William Taylor, Visionary Architecture Educator, Named AIA Fellow
William Taylor (Architecture '81), FAIA, who co-founded the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design (LAIAD) in 2001, has been named a Fellow by Washington, DC-based American Institute of Architecture (AIA). The AIA bestowed it highest honor on Taylor in recognition of his contribution to education in architecture during the past quarter-century, culminating with the creation and successful operation of LAIAD. The school emphasizes open admission and rigorous instruction in design principles to promote student conceptual thinking, as opposed to vocational training. Becoming an FAIA is considered a great honor; fewer than two percent of all registered architects in the United States are elected to Fellowship in the AIA. Taylor, 59, is also a founding principal of TFO Architecture, a Los Angeles design firm with a wide ranging body of local and international projects. Long dedicated to teaching, Taylor has been a design professor at Harvard University, the University of Houston, and at Cal Poly Pomona, pioneering a first-year course curriculum at the latter institution in the mid-1980s. Taylor has exhibited his work internationally at venues including the Venice Biennale, the Milan Triennale, the Pompidou Center, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. His awards include an AIA/LA Honor Award, an AIA Educator of the Year Award, a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and a Virginia Museum of Art Fellowship. Taylor earned his Master of Architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1981, with distinction, and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
"Year in Review" Grand Prize Winners Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron Exhibiting at SCOPE
Sculpture grads Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron ('09) were awarded the "Year in Review" 2010 Grand Prize from Artists Wanted and will be exhibiting at the SCOPE Art Show during Armory Week (March 2-6, 2011) in New York. Catron and Outlaw are proof that contemporary art can exist in living, breathing form. Together they break down traditional boundaries and take their work "off the wall" by incorporating performance art into fully immersive site-specific installations to create extraordinary spectacles. Click here to view their prize-winning portfolio. For more information about SCOPE, please visit www.scope-art.com
Sonya Clark Receives Distinguished Mid-Career Artist Award from the Academy
The Academy's Director Reed Kroloff conferred the first Distinguished Mid-Career Artist award to Sonya Clark (Fiber '95) during her recent lecture on campus in late January. This award recognizes alumni achievement in the middle of one's career. Clark has been honored for her remarkable record as both an artist and educator, and the important critical attention her work has received including the excellent program in Crafts and Material Studies she leads at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Clark has also been awarded the 2011 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Fellowship. The VMFA Fellowships provide essential support for Virgina-based artists to advance their careers or further their education. For more information, http://www.vmfa.state.va.us and http://www.sonyaclark.com.
Marcie Miller Gross
Recirculate, 2010
AIA-KC Awarded Bronze Level Art Achievement for Site-Specific Commission by Marcie Miller Gross
Marcie Miller Gross (Fiber '90), recently completed a commission for the American Institute of Architects-Kansas City (AIA-KC) with the Art Through Architecture collaborative program. Miller Gross has held academic appointments at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Kansas from 1996 – 2009, and held a Review Studios Residency since 2005. The AIA-KC is being awarded the Bronze level "Art Achievement" by Art through Architecture for her work.
Karyn Olivier
Inbound: Houston, 2009
Billboard installation
Multi-Media Artist: 2010 William H. Johnson Prize Awarded to Karyn Olivier
Karyn Olivier (Ceramics '01) was the recipient of the The 2010 William H. Johnson Prize, an annual award presented to an early career African-American artist. Working with sculpture, installation, public works, photography and video, Olivier often manipulates the familiar--from the redundancy of duplicated objects, exaggerating what already exists. Her work explores the changing countenance of intimacy as it fluctuates between individual and collective experience. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Olivier grew up in Brooklyn, and received an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as the Gwangju and Busan Biennials, Korea; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; The Wanas Foundation; Sweden; The Whitney Museum of Art at Altria; MoMA PS1, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award; The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award and a project grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Olivier has had residencies at the Core Program, Houston; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently an assistant professor of sculpture at Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Past recipients of the William H. Johnson Prize include artists such as Rodney McMillian, Edgar Arceneaux, and Sanford Biggers. For more information, please visit here.
Painting Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast: Alison Wong and Mark Sengbusch in National Exhibition at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery
Work by Painting Department alums Alison Wong ('06) and Mark Sengbusch ('08) is featured in the exhibition "Painting Coast to Coast" at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University in Detroit. The exhibition brings together current work from across the United States exemplifying the variety and energy of the medium. For exhibition details, see below.
"Painting Coast to Coast"
Exhibition through March 11, 2011
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery
480 W. Hancock, Detroit
Honored: MoMA Adds Fonts of Jeff Keedy and Scott Makela to Permanent Collection
Two typefaces designed by Jeff Keedy (Design '85) and Scott Makela (Design '91 and former Artist-in-Residence and Head of Design 1996-1999) were selected by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for admission to its architecture and design collection, together with 22 other digital typefaces by leading designers. For more information please see The New York Times article, "For Electronic Types, a Mark of Distinction."
Joshua Green Named Executive Director of National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts recently announced the appointment of Joshua Green (Ceramics '83) as its new executive director. In this capacity Green will be responsible for leading the operational and strategic efforts of NCECA, an organization composed of artists, educators, collectors, enthusiasts, exhibitors, industry and non-profit representatives with deep interests and commitments to ceramic art. The organization maintains an active base of approximately 5000 members annually and communicates with approximately 20,000 individuals, businesses, arts organizations, schools and institutions of higher learning in the US and abroad.
Beth Katleman,
Folly (detail)
New York Times Features Beth Katleman on Her Ceramic Curiosities
Ceramics graduate Beth Katleman ('95) was recently featured in a New York Times story in the Home and Garden section and will be presenting a new installation of subversive porcelain sculptures at Greenwich House Pottery January 20 through February 17. "Folly," her largest and most ambitious work to date, explores the themes of consumption and desire. Katleman is "a ceramic artist who plays with dainty forms and techniques, subverting traditional shapes to her own mischievous ends. Her delicate earthenware reliefs in wild colors recall the 18th-century porcelain rooms of European royalty — except when you look closely, you might see the Campbell Soup kids brandishing a safety razor among the rococo flowers and vines, or the Pillsbury Doughboy tucked inside an ornate doorway..." Read the complete article here.
Jane Lackey
Chalk Talk, 2010, installation at The Art Gym,
chalkboard paint, wax, nylon cord, rubber bands, eyelets, screw eyes
Jane Lackey Receives Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts
Former Artist in Residence and1979 graduate of the Fiber Department, Jane Lackey was awarded a Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts for a five-month residency in Japan during 2011.To keep up on all of Jane's news, please visit her website.
Fumihiko Maki Named 2011 Winner of the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects
Fumihiko Maki (Architecture 1953), a distinguished Tokyo-based architect on Thursday, December 16 was named the 2011 winner of the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Maki is the second concurrent Cranbrook architecture graduate to receive this important honor. In 2010, Peter Bohlin a 1961 graduate of the program was awarded the medal. The Gold Medal recognizes an individual architect whose body of work has had an enduring impact on the field.
Maki, who made his name in the 1960s as a member of the Japanese group of architects called the Metabolists, designed one of the office towers under construction at the World Trade Center in New York City. He is known for assembling seemingly disparate collages of forms in his buildings, creating what the AIA called "dramatic and revelatory markers of time and place, full of immediacy and a bit of whimsy." Maki won architecture's most prestigious honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1993.
The Academy's Eliel Saarinen and Eero Saarinen were also recipients of the gold medal, which has been awarded over the years to Frank Lloyd Wright and I.M. Pei, among other distinguished practitioners. Visit www.aia.org for more details.
Call for Nominations: The 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2011
The Academy's Board of Governors and the Alumni Circle committee are seeking nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award. We invite members of the Academy community to identify graduates whose outstanding accomplishments, service, achievements, and contributions have enhanced the fields of architecture, art, and design. Nominees must be living alumni who have graduated a minimum of 20 years ago (class of 1991 or earlier), and who are not currently employed by the Academy. The 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award will be conferred at commencement on Friday, May 6.
To make a nomination, please send a letter via email to the Alumni Circle Nominations Coordinator, Ben Teague (Ceramics 2006) at bteague@cranbrook.edu. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2011. To be considered, all submissions must include the following information:
- Your contact information (name, address, telephone, email).
- The nominee's contact information, to the best of your knowledge (name, address, telephone, email, year of graduation and department of study).
- A letter of nomination (up to 300 words). This letter should address the reasons why you consider the nominee to be a remarkable alumnus of the Academy. Please include instances of peer-reviewed recognition. For example: invitational exhibitions, one-person or group shows, industry or peer awards, academic distinctions, media recognition (film, television, radio), publications (articles, monographs, reviews, criticism). Remember, nominees must have graduated from the Academy at least 20 years ago (class of 1991 or earlier).
We look forwarding to hearing from you! And thank you in advance for participating in this important award!
The Alumni Circle Committee
Jeong Eun (Elle) Kim
I Exist in a Place of Infinite Delusions Where Three Dreams Cross, 2010
clear liquid rubber, dimensions variable.
2010 2D Design Graduate, Elle Kim wins Top Gun Distinction from the Art Director's Club of New York
Jeong Eun (Elle) Kim, a 2010 graduate of 2D Design Department was a Global Winner of The Art Directors Club of New York Young Guns 8 Competition for Creative people ages 30 and under. The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), is the leading organization for integrated media. The ADC Young Guns® is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Selected from entries received from 37 countries, these ADC Young Guns 8 winners represent an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.
Jonathan Muecke
Disc
Veuve Clicquot Design Award Winner Jonathan Muecke Featured in Abitare Magazine
Jonathan Muecke (3D Design 09), who was recently awarded the Veuve Clicquot Award in France’s 5 Annual Design Parade for his collection of undefined objects, is the subject of a five-page spread in Italy’s prestigious Abitare magazine. Photos of his work were shot on campus in Milles House this past summer. Jonathan Olivares writing in Abitare of Muecke’s works said “…. the fact is that domestic products, which Muecke’s objects are, have perhaps never before had their functions so abstracted from routine use. Muecke has designed away all the trimmings and left us with raw experience.” For the entire article, please visit here.
The poster for the Ed Fella exhibit was designed by Gail Swanlund.
Ed Fella: Acclaimed Artist, Educator and Iconoclastic Designer Featured in California Exhibition
I’m History
Through November 20
Pasadena City College Art Gallery
1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106
“I’m History,” an exhibition featuring original drawings, photos, sketchbooks and printed posters by Ed Fella is on view through November 20 at the at the Pasadena City College Art Gallery. The exhibition will also include a first-time look at Fella’s “Counterfactual History” project, a recent body of work that has never been previously exhibited or published. Recognized by the AIGA, “as an artist, educator and iconoclastic designer daring to reshape contemporary typography and graphic design,” Fella practiced as a commercial artist in Detroit for three decades before receiving his MFA in design in 1987. Recipient of the Chrysler Design Award (1997), the prestigious AIGA medal (2007) and a longtime faculty member at CalArts, Fella's art practice has influenced generations of designers and established his reputation as a pioneer of postmodern design. For more details about the exhibition please visit www.pasadena.edu www.pasadena.edu
Andrew Doak and Adrian Clark Hatfield
Garden Party, Chez Hatfield, 2010
Andrew Doak Awarded Best of 2D Award at ArtPrize 2010
Andrew Doak, a 2009 graduate of the Photography Department was awarded Best of 2D category together with Adrian Clark Hatfield, of Royal Oak, for their photograph entitled "Garden Party, Chez Hatfield" in the 2010 Art Prize festival in Grand Rapids, MI earlier this month. The 2D category was juried by Patricia Phillips, Dean of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. ArtPrize 2010 is a radically open art competition founded in 2009 by the Grand Rapids-based philanthropist Rick DeVos. The event takes place during 16 days throughout the city of Grand Rapids and features more than $449,000 in prize money, more than 200,000 visitors, and 1262 artists representing more than 41 states and 12 countries who display in over 159 venues. Doak and Clark claimed a prize of $5000 for their work. For details visit here.
Sang Hoon Kim
Phenomena - Room Divider, 2009, Wood, 6' 4" high x 12' Wide
Sang Hoon Kim Receives 2010 Rado Young Talent Design Award and Featured in the New York Times
Sang Hoon Kim (3D Design ‘09) received the Rado Young Talent Design Award in the 2010 I.D. Annual Design Review for his Phenomena screen which was also recently featured in the New York Times. Tim McKeough of the New York Times writes, "The wavelike shape of the Phenomena screen may call to mind water, but Sang Hoon Kim, the designer, said his inspiration was actually the way that light moves over time. “I wanted to bring that phenomenon into the home,” Kim said, “by creating undulating ribs that would reflect light at many different angles…” Read more.
Nick Cave, Featured in Vogue Magazine
Mr. Soundsuit: Nick Cave Featured in September Issue of Vogue
Nick Cave (Fiber '89) and "his psychedelic furs" are the subject of an eight-page spread in the September 2010 issue of Vogue magazine shot by fashion photographer Raymond Meier. The photos feature Cave wearing the Soundsuits while highlighting handbags and footwear from designers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.
Cave's Soundsuits are famously made of human hair, raffia, twigs, dryer lint, vintage toys and buttons and are said to engulf the wearer to the point that people, "are not able to identify race, gender, creed, anything," said Cave in a recent Chicago Tribune report. "Their swishing, rustling and bobbing create their own soundtrack while also muffling the wearer's senses." Cave currently serves as Chair of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. On September 10, Cave opened a temporary shop of his Soundsuits on South Michigan Avenue, in Chicago which is his hometown. Visit Vogue.com for more.
Aaron Lown and John Roscoe Swartz of BUILTNY Tell All at Design Meetup
Aaron Lown (Design '94) and John Roscoe Swartz (Printmaking '94), the founders of BUILTNY were recent guests at Apartment Therapy's NY Design Meetup, an online forum for designers, architects, entrepreneurs, and students. Apartment Therapy is a popular online resource for home design, ideas and community. There is a gorgeous slide show of the history of Cranbrook design as part of the interview of Lown and Swartz who tell the story of their student days at the Academy where they first met. To read the interview and view the images here.
Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron pictured in the The New York Times on Wednesday, August 18, 2010.
Fish Fried and Boiled: Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron featured in the New York Times
Sculpture grads Paul Outlaw and Jen Catron ('09) were featured in a New York Times story in the Dining Out section on Wednesday, August 18, for their recent endeavors peddling food on the streets of New York City out of a truck.. Jen 'n Outlaw's Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil, "is a new mobile outpost of Southern food in New York City. On a recent Sunday, they made a test run in Bushwick, Brooklyn…The couple's artistic interests lie somewhere near the intersection of community, capitalism, patriotism and fun times. The truck, which flies an American flag, is all that. “We consider the whole operation our performance,” Ms. Catron said, stirring the batter for catfish po’ boys while Mr. Outlaw grappled with 40-pound bags of live crayfish. “Whooooo!” he yelled…" Read "Fried Fish and Crayfish Boil, All From a Brooklyn Truck" here.
Jonathan Muecke (3D Design '10).Chair, carbon fiber, epoxy resin and Step Stool, copper .
Jonathan Muecke Receives Prestigious Veuve Clicquot Design Award in France
Jonathan Muecke (3D Design '10) and Isaac Chen (3D Design'10) were two of just ten designers selected to participate in this year's Design PARADE held in France in June. This year marks the first time an American has been invited to participate and the jury ultimately selected Muecke to receive the prestigious Veuve Clicquot Award. In addition to 10 000 Euros, the award also provides Muecke with the opportunity to produce an original household object of his choice for mass market. For more information visit here.
Aron Temkin Named Dean of Norwich School of Architecture and Art
Aron Temkin, (Architecture '97), has been named Dean of the Norwich University School of Architecture and Art.
Temkin was formerly director and associate professor of the Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture in Fort Lauderdale. He joined the faculty of FAU in 1999 and assumed the position of director in 2005.In addition to an MArch from Cranbrook, Temkin holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate level design studios as well as foundation level and advanced seminars in digital design, furniture design and graphic communication.
Andrew Kline
Interior Living Unit (shown at MOCAD during the 2010 Graduate Degree Exhbition)
Photo: James Carrillo
Dezeen Design Magazine Features an In-depth Look at the Thesis Work of Andrew Kline
Rose Etherington writes in Dezeen, "Michigan designer Andrew Kline (Architecture '10) has designed a compact unit for transforming disused industrial spaces into temporary homes. Called Interior Living Unit, the project comprises a kitchen, bathroom, bed and storage that all fold away into a cubic red box...." Read more on Dezeen.com
Ginger Krieg Dosier wins Metropolis magazine's 2010 Next Generation Design Award
Ginger Krieg Dosier (Architecture'05) is this years' winner of Metropolis magazine's 2010 Next Generation award for her design of a bioengineered brick that was cited for it's potential for monumental global impact. Dosier is currently a professor at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where she has been working on her radical, alternatives bricks which you don't bake, but grow. To learn all about Ginger's work and this prestigious award, please visit.
