1. Terry-Fritsch selected for Symposium in Honor of Michael Camille at the University of Chicago
2. Dr. Terry-Fritsch Presents New Research at the Renaissance Society of America
Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch, Associate Professor of Art History, will present new research at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 23. Her lecture, "Visual Spectacularism and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," investigates the use of image effigies-- recorded from the thirteenth century-- to stand in for convicted criminals when physical presence was not possible. Her lecture will examine the punishment of these effigies as acts of judicially-sanctioned iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe, and theorizes the visual spectacularism of the image-execution as a means of creating an image of the community. Dr. Terry-Fritsch's research will be featured at the academic session "Bent, Broken and Shattered: European Images of Death and Torture, 1300-1650."
3. Research of BGSU Art Historians Showcased at CAA 2012 in Los Angeles
The research of two members of the BGSU Art History faculty will be featured at this year's College Art Association conference, the premier venue for the dissemination of scholarship on the visual arts. Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch and Dr. Stephanie Langin-Hooper will both present papers on academic panels dedicated to innovative methods and practices within the field of art history. Beginning on Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m., Feb. 23rd, Dr. Langin-Hooper will present her paper, "Object-Generated Methodologies for Exploring Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Terracotta Figurines of Hellenistic Babylonia," on the panel, "Deep Time: New Approaches to the Study of Ancient Art." Thursday afternoon, at 2:30 p.m., Dr. Terry-Fritsch will present her paper, "Historicizing Somaesthetics? Body-Mind Connections in the Medieval and Early Modern Viewer," to introduce the panel that she organized and will chair. On Friday, Feb. 24th, at 5:30 p.m., Dr. Terry-Fritsch will present a second paper on innovative teaching strategies for art historians in a session sponsored by The College Board entitled, "Teaching with Fire: Creative Pedagogy for Art History."
4. Dr. Terry-Fritsch to write catalogue for J. Paul Getty Exhibition on Renaissance Florence
Dr. Allie Terry-Fritsch was invited to write catalogue essays for the upcoming exhibition, Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350, which will open at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in November 2012. Dr. Terry-Fritsch's scholarly contributions will include essays on manuscript illuminations and panel paintings today housed in the collections of the Vatican Library (Vatican City), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Laurenziana Library (Florence) and the National Museum of the Bargello (Florence).
5. Dr. Langin-Hooper to give guest lecture at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Stephanie Langin-Hooper (Assistant Professor, Ancient Art History) has been invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Lecture Series. Her talk is titled "The Land Between Two Cultures: Hellenistic Mesopotamia and its Greek-Babylonian cross-cultural interactions as viewed from the Texts and Art". It will be given on Friday, 28-Oct-2011, at 12 pm, in Penn Museum 345.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/aamw/events
6. Good year for our Art Education Grads
It has been an extremely good summer for our BGSU Art Education Grads in regards to getting hired as Art Teachers! Here is a list of students and their schools. More good news keeps coming in.
Melinda Arrigo: Sylvania Southview High School, Ohio
Tara Barnes: Tipp City Elementary, Ohio
Susan Begel: Renhill Services
Kylee Bostelman: Hilltop High School, Ohio
Matt Fry: North Central Schools, Ohio
Jessica Haupricht: St. Johns Catholic (K-12), Delphos, Ohio
Laura Mayfield: Gallup-McKinley County School District, Gallup, New Mexico
Alexa Nasonti: Norwalk High School & Pleasant Elementary (3rd grade), Ohio
Ross Roadruck: Bloomington Middle School, Illinois
Kaileigh Rosplohowski: Eisenhower School, Aldine Independent School District, Houston Texas
Brad Scherzer: Fremont Schools, Ohio
Marie Panning Stewart: Austin, Texas
Jessica Ussio- Hoffman Phillips: Melbourne High School, Florida
7. Morgan Swedberg (BGSUGD '12) wins UCDA Design Competition award
The BGSU School of Art, Division of Graphic Design (BGSUGD) is pleased to announce that Morgan Swedberg, incoming BGSUGD senior, has won a coveted Award of Excellence in the 41st Annual UCDA Design Competition for her I/O 2011 AIGA Toledo / BGSUGD Student Portfolio Review Day poster design (PDF). The judges evaluated nearly 1,100 entries, awarding 188 awards — 6 Gold Awards, 6 Silver Awards and 176 Awards of Excellence. Morgan competed against a collection of predominantly professional entries. The poster was designed as part of a Spring 2011 Independent Study (in support of the Division's Annual Student Portfolio Review Day), completed under the guidance and art direction of Matt Davis, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of BGSUGD. All winning entries will be on display at the 41st Annual UCDA Design Conference, October 15-18 in Phoenix, Arizona.
UCDA (University & College Designers Association) was founded in 1970 as the nations first and only association for professionals involved in the creation of visual communications for educational institutions.
8. Dr. Hershberger wins 2011 CIWAS Resident Fellowship
Dr. Andrew Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has won a 2011 Resident Fellowship at the Cody Institute for Western American Studies (CIWAS) in Cody, Wyoming. Hershberger's proposal, entitled "Photography and Geology: Interdisciplinary Readings on Early USGS-Era Photographers," was one of four selected this year from the Institute's annual competition. The other three winners represent the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, the University of Delaware, and the University of Minnesota. As a CIWAS Resident Fellow, Hershberger will spend three weeks this summer primarily in the McCracken Research Library identifying, selecting, editing, and researching publications by and about the early United States Geological Survey-era photographers and their contemporary re-photographers for a new anthology. A specialist in the history of photography, Dr. Hershberger has previously won a 2004 Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, a 2007 Coleman Dowell Fellowship at the Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University, a 2008 John Teti Fellowship at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and a 2009 Visiting Fellowship at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford, UK.
9. Matt Davis wins three Communicator Awards
Matt Davis, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Division of Graphic Design (BGSUGD), has received three 2011 Communicator Awards from the International Academy of the Visual Arts, one Award of Excellence (Gold Communicator Award) and two Awards of Distinction (Silver Communicator Award) for the following: American Society of Anesthesiologists website redesign, the American Association of Endodontists website redesign, and the .orgSource website redesign. All work was completed through his firm, Davis Design Partners. A distinguished panel of judges determined this year's winners from over 6,000 entries. Winning work is available online.