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4. Mitchell's Animation is Shown in Australia
Mitchell and Lillios' animation "2BTextures" was shown in the Melbourne International Animation Festival in Australia in June, 2009. This exhibition travels to Southeast Asia.
5. Mitchell Exhibits New Installation Art at KAFI and Wins Award
Mitchell and Lillios exhibited their new immersive installation, "Inhabitants" at the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International in May 2009.
Mitchell and Lillios were awarded Third Prize in the Abstract/Experimental Animation category at the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International for their animation, "2BTextures".
6. Mitchell presents at SIGGRAPH 2009
Bonnie Mitchell and Dr. Elainie Lillios (College of Musical Arts) did a presentation at SIGGRAPH 2009, entitled "Exploring Shifting Grounds" where they talked about their work. Their collaborative animation, "2BTextures" was also shown in the SIGGRAPH Animation Festival.
7. New Faculty member in Digital Arts
Dave Schwan joins the Digital Arts faculty and will be teaching Professional Practices and an Imaging class. Dave owns his own caricature company, Ugly Duckling Art, and also worked as an Interactive Media Artist and Programmer at Media One in Salt Lake City.
8. Hershberger begins third Visiting Scholarship at the Arizona Senior Academy
Andrew E. Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has been invited back to the Arizona Senior Academy (ASA) for a third summer as a Visiting Scholar. During the five-week event, Hershberger will continue the projects he began during his 2004 Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), and his 2006 and 2007 Visiting Scholarships at the ASA. Like the CCP, the ASA is a National Center for the Advancement of Learning affiliated with the University of Arizona in Tucson. In addition to researching and writing at the CCP, Andrew will be teaching a five-week course at the ASA on the history of photography.
9. Hershberger Lectures at Akron Art Museum
The Akron Art Museum invited Andrew E. Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, to give a March 2009 lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, Edward Weston: Life Work. Hershberger's presentation, entitled "Overwhelming Interconnectedness: The Art of Edward Weston," was very well received. Alison Caplan, the Associate Educator at the Akron Art Museum, wrote after the event that she was "extremely pleased" with the the presentation and that she would "love" to bring Hershberger back to Akron in the future. Photographer John Powers described it as an "excellent presentation," and wrote that "it was very clear" that Hershberger "had spent much profitable time" studying Weston and that "we were the fortunate audience."