10. Hershberger begins Visiting Fellowships at Oxford
Dr. Andrew E. Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, arrived at the University of Oxford on April 26, 2009, for the start of Trinity Term 2009. Coinciding with his 2008-2009 Faculty Improvement Leave or FIL, Hershberger has won two Visiting Fellowships at Oxford: the first at St. Hilda's College, and the second at Wolfson College. While at Oxford he is living at St. Hilda's College, and there he joins the very first group of male Visiting Fellows since this Oxford institution turned coeducational last year. While in England, he is continuing his research projects on the history of photography, his area of research specialization.
One of six featured artists/designers for a Wacom online / print
campaign, His work "Harmony" was selected.
http://intuos.wacom.com/americas/ryan-roche.php
12. Tom Muir receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Ohio Designer Craftsmen
The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Lifetime Achievement Award:
Since 1976 this award has been given to individuals and organizations: the Lifetime Achievement for individuals and the Outstanding Achievement for organizations. In both cases, the award honors the successes that individual artists or organizations have attained in their fields. It also honors the work they have done for the craft field, and their effectiveness in helping others to do well in their careers.
Past recipients include Dominick Labino, Jack Earl, Bing Davis, The Columbus Museum of Art, Erie Sauder, Don Drumm, Ora Anderson, and Dorothy Gill Barnes. The 2009 award ceremony will take place on May 3rd during the awards ceremony for the opening reception of "The Best of 2009."
13. Dena Eber and Shaurya Kumar featured in a Toledo Blade article
Dena Eber and Shaurya Kumar were featured in a recent article in Toledo Blade "Painting with Pixels: Digital art showcased in BGSU exhibit". The article discusses at length, the growing use of digital media in creating artworks and its influence on contemporary art. The article covers the exhibition "Perfect with Pixel" that was curated by Shaurya Kumar at BGSU last Fall; and works and teaching of Dr. Dena Eber. To read the article online, please visit http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090104/ART01/901030281/-1/ART
14. Hershberger co-authors a new timeline in the textbook, Art Fundamentals
Andrew Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has co-authored a new, peer-reviewed timeline in the just released 11th edition of the textbook, Art Fundamentals. Joining with a distinguished group of the book's numerous co-authors over time, including Otto G. Ocvirk, Robert E. Stinson, Philip R. Wigg, Robert O. Bone, and working primarily with its current author David L. Cayton, the new section is entitled "After Images: A Visual Timeline of Artistic and Stylistic Comparisons," in Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, 11th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009), 278-303. Hershberger developed his portion of the timeline hoping to engage first-year art students and other visual learners with provocative image comparisons from the Renaissance period through to contemporary art.
15. Hershberger under contract with Blackwell for a new book on Photographic Theory
Andrew Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has signed a book contract with Blackwell Publishing (Oxford and Boston) for a new edited volume entitled Photographic Theory. Adding to Blackwell's list of scholarly anthologies such as its series Art in Theory, Hershberger's book will cover significant aspects of photographic theory in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Seven anonymous peer reviewers have recommended publishing the project, including one who wrote: "Hershberger is a smart, energetic and engaged photo-historian, and he is ideally suited to bring together an anthology of critical writing on photography, especially up to the present moment, as he is as immersed in digital applications as he is in the earlier history." In response to these seven "stellar" peer reviews, Blackwell's editor wrote to Hershberger: "I am delighted to report that your book was approved both unanimously and enthusiastically by the Blackwell Board of Directors."
16. Hershberger co-authors a peer-reviewed article in the Art Journal
Andrew Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has co-authored a peer-reviewed article in the upcoming issue of the Art Journal: "The Currency of Practice: Reclaiming Autonomy for the MFA," Art Journal 68, 1 (Spring 2009), 40-57. Joining a distinguished group of co-authors including Senam Okudzeto, Susette Min (UC Davis), Martin Beck (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna), Lucy Soutter (Royal College of Art, London), Gareth James (Columbia U.), Odili Donald Odita (Temple University), and Jon Rubin (Carnegie Mellon U.), Hershberger developed his portion of the article in response to a 2007 College Art Association (CAA) Conference panel devoted to analyzing MFA programs in light of the new studio-based Ph.D. programs emerging internationally. This is Hershberger's second contribution to the Art Journal, a quarterly founded by CAA in 1941.
17. Hershberger writes introductory essay to Douglas Prince's new book, 'Epidermis'
Andrew Hershberger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, has written the introduction to a new photography book manuscript, "Epidermis," created by the artist Douglas Prince. Hershberger's essay, "Epidermis / Layers Upon Layers," explores Prince's newest digitally manipulated works in relation to Honor? de Balzac's onion-skin theory of photography and human subjectivity. Invited by Prince to write the introduction, Hershberger has joined forces with a highly distinguished photographer who has shown his works at MOMA, taught at RISD, received multiple grants from the NEA, and whose photographs reside in the permanent collections of most major art museums in the USA including the MOMA, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the MFA Boston, etc. Prince and Hershberger began their collaboration during Fall 2008, while Hershberger was researching as the inaugural John Teti Photography History Fellow at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, in Manchester, NH.
18. Catalano's newest picturebook to be published
Dominic Catalano's picturebook manuscript, "Of Mice and Michelangelo," is to be published by Boyds Mills Press. The story was first written during Catalano's stay in Florence this summer as as he served as a visiting drawing instructor for the SACI program. Tracing the exploits of a gifted mouse name Giuseppi, the adventures take the little artist from his home in Sienna to Florence Giuseppi serves as muse to Michelangelo as the great artist contemplates the massive stone that will become David. A publication date has yet to be set but the book should hit the bookstore shelves sometime in 2010.