Tony Purvis

Recent Interior Design MFA graduate Tony Purvis has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 American Society of Interior Designer’s (ASID) Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award. This award is given annually by the ASID Educational Foundation to recognize an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student’s interior design research or thesis project. Entries were judged on content, breadth of material, comprehensive coverage of topic, innovative subject matter, and the quality of the bibliography and references. Tony’s thesis was titled “Conflict Resolution and the Interior Built Environment: Design Considerations for Consensus Building.” In the course of the study, which involved surveys and interviews with 476 members of the Association for Conflict Resolution (North America’s largest dispute professional trade organization), eight ideal characteristics of spaces supportive for conflict mediation purposes were identified. Future studie s intend to develop a practical tool for dispute professionals to use onsite to assess and modify spaces for this purpose.

Sara Howard (Far Left)

FSU Art Advisor Sara Howard Honored at the Employee Recognition Ceremony Congratulations to our own Sara Howard who was nominated for the Division of Academic Affairs 2013 Gabor Award in recognition of her exceptional dedication and hard work.   She was honored at the  Employee Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, where she received a certificate of nomination. We all sincerely appreciate her commitment to The Florida State University, its students, faculty and her colleagues.

Sarah’s paper questions why Patriarch Photios appropriated the iconography of the Hodegetria featured on his seals. She examines how this iconography reflected and perpetuated the ongoing political tensions caused by the Iconoclast Controversy.

Works in this exhibition trace artistic legacy – from family member to family member, from teacher to student, from the 1st generation of an art movement to the 2nd  generation, and from a specific culture (Native American, for example) to the culture at large.  Generations includes international artists like Maya Lin (creator of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC) and her ceramicist father, Henry Lin, or Prefete Duffaut (a top Haitian aritst who died earlier this year) and his son Jean Charles, to regional artists like second generation Highwayman, Aletha Butler, the recipient of the techniques of the first generation of Highwaymen, painters like James Gibson.  The exhibition includes works by 41 artists.

This exhibition utilized a unique curatorial process.  Teachers from 14 schools came together with the curator of education from the FSU Museum of Fine Arts to organize the show itself and its various educational components.  Joining the curatorial team were representatives from other Tallahassee organizations: Council on Culture and Arts (COCA), Holocaust Education Resource Council (HERC), Mission San Luis, and the Tallahassee Community College Gallery.

Haitian artist, Jean Charles Duffaut, will speak at the FSU MoFA on Thursday, May 16 from 7:00 to 8:00 pm.  Children’s art, based on the work by the Generations artists, will be displayed in a parallel exhibition on the downstairs level of the FSU Museum (May 10 to June 7) and at the TCC Gallery (May 20 to July 26).  Artists in the exhibition will interact with teachers and students.  Mission San Luis will host a hands-on Family Day on Saturday, May 18 (10:00 am to 3:00 pm) featuring Generations techniques and artists, including Haitian artist Jean Charles Duffaut.

Preceding the exhibition itself, the Generations Project will offer a teacher workshop on April 8 in which Ela Weissberger, a Holocaust survivor, will speak about the legacy of her art teacher, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who surreptitiously taught children at the Terezin concentration camp and died at Auschwitz.  Leon County Schools, the FSU Schools, and C-Palms join the other curatorial organizations to help sponsor this event.

Dave Gussak Introduces New Book: Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases

A book signing and lecture will be held Sunday, May 5, 2013 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm  at Hofstra University in NY and another at the American Art Therapy Association Conference in Seattle at the end of June.

Available at:
Columbia University Press
Amazon.com

Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
Synopsis from Amazon.com

Several Medieval Students and Alumni will take part in the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-12, 2013. Browse below to take a look at their papers and sessions:

Organized the sessions:

“New Studies of the North Transept of Reims I: Archeaology, Architecture, and Glass” “New Studies of the North Transept of Reims II: Sculpture”

Both sponsored by AVISTA: The Association of Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art

She will also be presenting her paper “Royal and Clerical Iconography and the Chronology of the Reims Last Judgement Portal” as part of session II.

“The Presence of Nature within a Devotional Context: A Case Study of a Middle Byzantine Reliquary from Mount Athos”

Session: Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West II: Objects”

Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art

“The ‘God Bearing’ Patriarch: Liturgy as Political Symbolism in Ninth-Century Constantinople”

Session: Ritual, History, and Identity: Social Dimensions of Byzantine Liturgy

Sponsored by the Byzantine Studies Association of North America

Noah Z Brock, MFA Art Student of the Department of Art at Florida State University, recently presented his sculpture, Icarus Wings, which was commissioned by the Florida State University Research Foundation for the Aeropropulsion, Mechatronics & Energy Building at Innovation Park in Tallahassee, Florida. Icarus Wings is a 15′ painted steel sculpture.

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Highlights of Holly’s visit will include a TREND lecture on her work including the Touch in Real Time project, Friday May 3, 2pm, Loffler building

All are welcome to join in on what’s to be a very interesting discussion. Holly  will be investigating neural features associated with hand holding using ambulatory EEG while clay impressions of handshakes are taken. If you would like to volunteer or sit in on a session please let Lisa Stupar (stuparlm@upmc.edu) know.

For Holly’s FSU Department of Art Profile, visit: http://art.fsu.edu/People/Faculty/Holly-Hanessian

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Sarah Buck will conduct research in Paris and London during the Fall 2013 semester on the department’s Penelope Mason Dissertation Research Travel Grant.

Alex Challenger will rejoin the department in the fall as a first year PhD student in Art History.

Sam Ewing will join Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture as a first year PhD student in the fall, where he will continue his work on Cold War era photography and the discourse of avant-gardism. Sam has also been invited to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City this summer to attend a scholars’ day dedicated to the work of Robert Heinecken, the subject of Sam’s recently completed master’s thesis.

Brad Hostetler will be attending the Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Summer Session in Athens, Greece this July.

Kimberly Jones will attend Texas Tech in the fall for a PhD in Fine Arts, an interdisciplinary program. The focus of Kimberly’s studies will be in Modern Art History and Museum Studies.

Natalie Mandziuk will be attending the 2013 Denver University Summer Publishing Institute beginning in July, to begin a career in academic publishing. Natalie’s goal is to work at an academic or university press, scholarly journal, or museum publications department in either editing, acquisitions, or production.

Jennifer Pride has been awarded the 2013 Kress Fellowship in European Art History, which will support her participation in the Intensive Immersion Summer Program in French at Middlebury College Language Schools in Poitiers, France.

Bryan Schaeffer will participate for his 3rd summer in the Yucatec Maya language program hosted by the UNC-Duke Latin American Consortium. Assisted by a FLAS fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, Bryan will conduct ongoing fieldwork, collecting stories from local Maya in their own language.

Liz Spraggins will be in Tallahassee this summer, continuing her work on the Carter Collection of Peruvian ceramics and textiles exhibition at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, which opens August 26, 2013. In the fall, Liz will return as first year PhD student in Art History.

Michelle Sunset will be interning at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami in their archives and collections care departments.

Lesley Wolff will rejoin the Art History program in the fall as a first year PhD student.  Lesley has been awarded the prestigious Fellows Society Adelaide Wilson Fellowship by The Graduate School, which provides support for up to 5 continuous years for newly-admitted Ph.D.students.