“Family” by Abigail Niehaus, Hilliard Darby High School

CCAD will host work, for the 26th time, from local young artists, grades seven through 12, in the 2013 Central Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibition, Jan. 18–Feb. 2.

“CCAD’s investment in the local community is critical as we aim to support the development and enrichment of the creative community in which we reside,” said Densil R.R. Porteous II, CCAD’s director of admissions. “This event presents a great opportunity to recognize and nurture the creative talents of students in our area and to further encourage students to pursue their creativity—for they are our creative future.”

There were 1,400 individual works and portfolios submitted by 415 artists for judging and 104 were selected for the exhibition, including paintings, photographs, ceramics, graphic design projects, drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works.

“In My Bedroom” byJacob Mason-Macklin, Fort Hayes High School

A total of 231 individual pieces and 26 art and photography portfolios were chosen for recognition in the competition, with Gold and Silver Key awards and honorary salutes. Fifty students received a Gold Key award and will be allowed to send their work to New York for national judging. Seniors are eligible for scholarships at participating art and design colleges and universities throughout the country.

The National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards date back to 1923 and are the oldest and largest student art awards recognition program in the U.S.—and the largest source of scholarships for young artists and writers. The awards have a roster of past winners including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Joyce Carol Oates, and many more.

There will be an awards ceremony Jan. 27 for the students and their families. Visit CCAD’s event page for more exhibition details including a list of student winners.

Crystal Turisch in her studio

The first of anything is always exciting and our first MFA class is no different. CCAD’s inaugural master of fine arts class will be graduating this spring, but not before they exhibit their work in First: The 2012 New Projects MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Eleven graduating MFA students will display their final theses March 30–April 27. Works in the exhibition will range from glass, installation, social practice, and photography to fabric design, illustration, painting, and digital media.

CCAD’s two-year MFA program is project-based. The non-media-specific curriculum focuses on individual artistic/design development and creative leadership. It brings together talented individuals from a variety of different media to build a community that fosters exploration, professionalism, and creative success.

Cystal Turisch, one of the graduating students, will show photographs that explores the anxieties and insecurities that result from growing up with an alcoholic mother. Her work is divided into different photographic series focusing on obstacles and emotions that have affected her throughout her adult life.

Nathan Gorgen's studio, featuring his main thesis project

“I wanted to be a part of the first MFA class at CCAD,” Turisch said. “I wanted to be able to work with a small, close group of artists and receive a lot of one-on-one attention from professors, mentors, and peers within the school.”

Nathan Gorgen was excited about CCAD’s MFA program because of its location. He had never been to Columbus and was pleased with the amount of artistic opportunities the city holds for his professional career.

“Columbus wasn’t really on my map before I came here, now I realize what an amazing city it is,” exclaimed Gorgen. “I’m so impressed with the professors, the local art scene, and the whole environment that is in Columbus.”

Gorgen’s final piece is a large installation that combines painting and architectural elements.

“I had a lot of time and support throughout this program. I was able to tackle more ambitious projects and get a better conceptual understanding of art and the art I produce,” Gorgen said.

Nicole Crock has found the support in the program unlike that of other schools she researched. Crock decided to attend CCAD because the program was based on a multidisciplinary foundation. The MFA candidate works in mixed media. By working with an array of artists in close proximity, she was able to explore more artistic mediums and learn from her peers’ expertise.

“I hate to say such a cliché phrase, but I really have blossomed here. I needed this program,” Crock said.

Her final thesis project is a multimedia installation that explores the emotions connected with moving from place to place.

Nicole Crock in her studio

“Moving has been the inspiration for my art. A lot of people think it is glamorous that I have been able to travel, but I always longed for the feeling of home and to not feel as though I am rootless,” said Crock.

Following graduation, Crock plans to stay in Columbus and continue focusing on her work. She wants to find a studio space and start connecting with artists within the community.

“I think it is important to make art with the purpose of communicating with people, and that is what I want to do,” Crock said. “I want to learn to be able to seek change, and do it gracefully throughout my life.”

First: The 2012 New Projects MFA Thesis Exhibition opens March 30 and will run through April 27 with an opening reception March 30, 6–8 p.m. CCAD’s first MFA class includes Elena Harvey Collins, Alex Conrad, Nicole Crock, Nathan Gorgen, Chris Harman, Woodrow Hinton III, Virginia Kistler, Kayane Kouzoujian, Cosby Lindquist, Amanda Rouse and Crystal Turisch.

To learn more about CCAD’s MFA program click here.

Go West is open June 11 from 4-9 p.m.

Coordinated by Fine Arts alumnus Nikos Rutkowski (CCAD 2002) and Chris Sherman, (INSTALL) Art Exhibitition at Franklinton’s Go West Festival opens Saturday, June 11. (INSTALL) features the work of CCAD Fine Arts alumni Sara Adrian (CCAD 1998), Melissa Foster (CCAD 2003), and Rutkowski, as well as several other Columbus-based artists.

Installations include painting, video and movement, mail art, abstraction film, light exploration, and a sculptural dragon.

The event is open from 4–9 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 at 937 W. Broad St. in Columbus. Free and open to the public, the event also features live music from Old Hundred, The Wet Darlings, The Spruce Campbells, Rosehips, and Absolute Groove Ensemble.

For more information, visit the Franklinton Development Association website.

Andrew Ina's exhibition was reviewed in the Columbus Dispatch.

Fine Arts alumnus Andrew Ina’s exhibition was recently reviewed in The Columbus Dispatch for his painting exhibition New Frontier on display at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center through June 25.

“Something’s been brewing in my head for a while,” Ina (CCAD 2006) explained to Melissa Starker for her Dispatch article, Humanity Figures in Bold Works. “I wanted to add a different perspective to my work but organically, out of the work I’ve been doing for a few years.”

Starker wrote, “Layers of thick, extra-wide strokes of acrylic paint and bumpy patches of gesso rise from birch-plywood bases. Some works are left as unaltered showcases for his painting techniques and bold, novel color combinations. For others, Ina puts his back into distressing, sandpapering and gouging down to the wood with the point of a palette knife.”

Read the entire story here.

Ina’s works can be viewed in the Main Hall Gallery at 139 West Main Street in Columbus.

Learn more about Ina on his webpage.

Alumnus Ryan Orewiler is one of the CCAD graduates participating at the "Face 2 Face" exhibition.

Columbus’s Studios on High Gallery (SOHG) is celebrating its 25^th Anniversary with the help of some of our alumni. Fine Arts alumna Lisa Horkin (CCAD 1985), Illustration alumnus Marty Husted (CCAD 1979), Illustration alumnus Ryan Orewiler (CCAD 2004), and Fine Arts alumna Denise Romecki (CCAD 1976), will all exhibit during Face 2 Face, 25 Years of Art and Community, opening Friday, April 15 from 5:30–9:00 p.m.

Lisa Horkin works as a textile mixed media artist, exhibiting, lecturing, and teaching in the Columbus area. Since 2002, she has been a practicing glass artist, using glass as means of creative expression. Follow her blog here.

Marty Husted is a freelance illustrator and fine artist living in Columbus. His clients include Charlesbridge Publishing Company, Columbus Historical Society, Macmillan McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, and The Ohio State University among other. He is the recipient of PMA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Multicultural Book of the Year (2005), USA Book News’s Best Children’s Picture Book (2004), OFBF Children’s Literature Award Honors List (2003), Great Lakes Book Seller’s Association Pick of the List (1999), and Parent’s Council Award for Excellence (1998). Learn more on his website.

Since 2000, Ryan Orewiler has painted hundreds of cityscapes which have been collected and commissioned by individuals and corporations throughout the United States. His influence is the urban environment of Columbus, Ohio, where he lives, and the cities that he has traveled to around the world including Jakarta, Chicago, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. He received a B.F.A. from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Illustration and is a member of the Landfillart.org, Roy G Biv, Ohio Art League, German Village Art League, AbX Collective, Oil Painters of America and the Landscape Artists International.  Learn more here.

Denise Romecki has been exhibiting since 1978, and her work can be found at Studios on High and the Ohio Craft Museum. She also teaches part-time at the Cultural Arts Center.  Her works can be viewed here.

SOHG was opened in 1986 by four Columbus-based artists offering a glimpse of their creative processes along with the opportunity to buy unique handmade pieces. Today, the gallery is comprised of 18 exhibiting artists and hosts daily demonstrations in its Short North facility. The gallery provides an opportunity for education and interaction with painters, ceramic artists, jewelers and glass blowers.

For more information about the show, click here.

Lisa Horkin shared the news of this show with us on our Alumni Facebook page. If you are a fellow alumnus or alumna, be sure to “like” us today.

"Botanica 3.1" by President Dennison W. Griffith is on display in "Blossom!" an exhibition at Hammond Harkins Gallery.

Blossom!, The Art of Fruit and Flower, an exhibition featuring the works of CCAD President Dennision W. Griffith and numerous alumni, opens Friday, April 15, from 5–8 p.m. at Hammond Harkins Galleries in Bexley, Ohio. Showing alongside President Griffith are Fine Arts alumnus Mark Bush (CCAD 2009), Advertising & Graphic Design alumnus James Mason (CCAD 1971), and Illustration alumnus Paul Hamilton (CCAD 1988).

Besides being our fearless leader, President Griffith  is the recipient of artists fellowships for painting from the Greater Columbus Arts Council (1996), the Ohio Arts Council (1987-88 and 1989-90), and an Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Fellowship in 1990-91. His work has been included in more than 80 solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of such institutions as the Butler Institute of American Art, the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, and the Columbus Metropolitan Library as well as corporate collections ranging from Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City to ARCO in Los Angeles.

Bush has received numerous scholarships and awards from Ohio and across the country. After placing second for the nation in a painting contest for the National Society of Arts and Letters, Mark was featured in the fall 2007 edition of American Artist Watercolor magazine as an emerging artist.

Mason is best known for the topiary interpretation of  Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte that he created at the Columbus Deaf School Park. His work can be seen in private and public collections throughout North America. In addition to creating exquisite topiaries and wooden figures, Mason has been an instructor at Columbus’ Cultural Arts Center from 1978 to present.

Hamilton’s resume includes a long list of gallery and museum shows for his painting, sculpture and installation media. A few of these locations include the Franklin Park Conservatory, the Decorative Arts Center, as well as three exhibitions with David Findlay Galleries in New York. Paul’s work is also in private collections throughout the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, and Great Britain.

Hammond Harkins Galleries is located at 2264 East Main Street in Bexley. More information about the gallery can be found on its website.

Photo courtesy of thearmoryshow.com.

CRG Gallery presents a new series of large-scale works on paper by Fine Arts alumnus Steven Bindernagel (CCAD 2001) during the Armory Art Fair in New York City.

Using watercolor and colored pencil, Bindernagel constructs semi-representational motifs that seem to shift between the architectonic and the completely abstract. Each drawing is constructed layer by layer as the surface is drawn on, painted, erased and reworked several times, so the work’s history (and the artist’s thought process) becomes apparent to the viewer.

Bindernagel is inspired by the urban landscapes of his hometown, Cleveland, OH as well as New York City. He couples the brilliant colors of billboards, neon signs, and glowing lights with the dark and corrosive colors of rust and decay.

The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its 11 years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.

Learn more about Bindernagel on his website.

Works by alumnus Nathan Janes were featured in a pre-retrospective.

Works by Illustration alumnus Nathan Janes (CCAD 2001) were featured Saturday in the Greater Port Clinton Area Arts Councils, Winter Art Pre-Retrospective.

“We’re calling this a ‘pre-retrospective’ because he’s a young man,” said council treasurer Paul Berndt in an article by Port Clinton News Herald. “He’s not a seasoned artist. We will probably have 15 to 20 pieces of his art on display. We will have a meet-and-greet and see how his work has progressed over his career to this point.”

Janes is the driving force behind PUPAGANDA, activist artwork that depicts serious social issues using the family pet as muse. He has been chosen as a contributor to the newly published book, Art is Dead—A Manifesto for Revolution in the Visual Arts. He has also completed commissioned works for celebrities Pete Wentz and Caprice Bourret and has shown work in New York and Chicago.

Read the entire Port Clinton News Herald article here.

Alumnus Dean Mitchell (CCAD '80) exhibited at the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, OH.

One of the big changes we’ve made recently is to take Alumni Classnotes out of IMAGE magazine and bring them to you on our CCAD News Blog. We do our best to make sure most of the news our alumni submit to us ends up there, but since there are more than 10,000 of you making news all over the world, it’s a tough job to keep up with it all. Ultimately, not everything can make it into CCAD News. What doesn’t, ends up here.

We’ve also changed how you can submit classnotes. Now when news happens, let us know via the easy-to-use form on the alumni landing page. We only post career-related successes, awards, exhibitions, and publications, but we’d also love to know when you move, get married, or have children—just use that same form.

Now, without further ado, your classnotes from July-December 2010.

Career successes and awards
KATHLEEN (RIVERS) LANDES ’77 is a July 2010 artist in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM.

JON HAIR ’79 was recently honored by the city of Shanghai for his artistic contribution to the city’s efforts to revitalize its downtown theater district. In addition, his contemporary sculpture “Lucky 8” was commissioned by the city of Beijing and the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and is now permanently installed at the Beijing International Sculpture Park.

JIM WEITZEL ’79 recently launched a new website and completed a steel sculpture for the grounds of Cooperris, a community based mental health program in western NC.

MATTHEW KASER ’84 received a multi-year Interpretive Design contract from the Texas Historical Commission for two historical sites. M. Kaser & Associates, Inc., was also awarded a contract with the US Army Corp of Engineers to design and produce an indoor and outdoor interpretive program at the Port Allen Navigation Lock in West Baton Rouge Parish LA.

KURT FONDRIEST ’85 had a selection of poetry published in the Winter 2010 issue of the Expressive Art Therapy Journal.

SANDRA (KESSLER) KAMINSKI ’93 recently accepted a position at the Pittsburgh Project located in Pittsburgh PA as visual arts instructor. Check out our blog for more information on Sandra.

ALYCIA (PARKER) YATES ’99 recently received her teaching license in Art Education from Ohio State University and is working toward her Master’s degree.

DAVID CROSLAND ’00 was selected as one of the winners in ArtSlant’s sixth juried Showcase of 2010 for his collaborative art piece “Booty & The Beast.” David also illustrated Yo Gabba Gabba! Comic Anthology. Find out more here.

MARIANO SANTILLAN ’00 had his comic book Seven Citadels released as a mobile comic by Robot Comics for iPhones, iPads and Droid devices.

KRISTI VALIANT ’00 has illustrated the recently published picture books The Goodbye Cancer Garden, Do You Love Me More?, Oliver’s First Christmas, and Dancing Dreams. She has also recently become the Regional Advisor of the Indiana region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

ELIZABETH WEISSBROD ’04 received a MA in Medical Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in May 2010. She now works for the Corbin Company as a medical illustrator/animator at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences – Simulation Center in Bethesda MD.

STEVEN WEINZIERL ’05 recently completed projects for Nickelodeon, MTV, Discovery, and HBO through his Art Directing position at Click 3X. He also worked on Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” music video.

ALEXANDER KWAPIS ’06 recently accepted a position as Creative Director at Fusion Packaging, located in Dallas TX.

HAZEL TARR ’07 assisted with Shadowbox’s first three-week Summer Intern Bootcamp, Sketch Comedy Fest, and collaborative, “Seven Deadly Sins.”

MICHELLE DICK ’08 created custom hair accessories for the Vera Wang trunk show in July 2009. Her company, Mimi’s Closet, sells items at Big Rock Little Rooster in Columbus’s Short North.

EDEN (HUTCHINSON) WHITSETT ’08 currently owns and operates a tattoo and body piercing shop in Marion OH called Bettie’s Body Shop: Custom Tattoos and Body Piercing.

NICHOLAS CAVALIER ’09 accepted an editor position at Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago IL.

BARBARA BENAS ’10 is part of the official selection of artists featured on Cartoon Brew TV’s first annual Student Animation Festival, with her short Always, Only, Ever. The festival features work by emerging talents from around the world. The film has also been accepted into the Animation Block Party at Rooftop Films in Brooklyn NY. The Animation Block Party is New York City’s premiere animation film festival.

BERNADETTE CARSTENSEN ’10 was selected as to receive a full-ride scholarship to attend IlluXcon 3 in Altoona PA in November 2010.

KARTIKA MEDIANI ’10 has been accepted into the Animation Block Party at Rooftop Films in Brooklyn NY with her film, “Breath.”

Exhibitions
BERNARD BEN PEARCE ’70 Trinidad’s National Musuem, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

KATHLEEN (RIVERS) LANDES ’77 Istvan Gallery, Oklahoma City OK.

WALTER KING ’81 Walter King: Midwest Dialog, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus OH.

DANIEL DAY ’86 Colosseum Fine Arts, La Jolla CA.

PAUL HAMILTON ’88 Paul Hamilton: Poetry of Place, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster OH.

CHRISTOPHER GASTON ’90 and DOUGLAS BLACK ’90 Three Roads to Mashiko, MIDORI, Mashiko, Japan.

SANDRA (KESSLER) KAMINSKI ’93 State of the Art, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA.

JAMIE SNELL ’94 Star Wars Celebration V, Orange County Convention Center, Los Angeles CA.

ROBERT ENGLERT ’96 Edge of Art New York State Artists Series: Designed to Scale, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse NY.

ROXANNE HOLONITCH ’97 Core Fitness Studio, Columbus, OH.

JONATHON REESE ’98 and SALEM REESE ’08 The Reunion Show, Art Outreach Gallery, Youngstown OH.

JAMES BAKER ’02 Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City CA.

RYAN OREWILER ’04 The Language of Art, Carnegie Gallery at Columbus Metropolitan Main Library, Columbus OH.

MANJARI SHARMA ’04 Elements of Water, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO; PAANI, Richard Levy Galley, Albuquerque NM; SULTRY II, DUMBO, Brooklyn NY.

ANDREW STATTMILLER ’05, Mischief, Studio Gallery, San Francisco CA.

ANDREW INA ’06, BORYANA RUSENOVA INA ’06 Landing, Art Access Gallery, Columbus OH.

MICHELLE DICK ’08 ArtPrize 2010, Peaches Bed & Breakfast, Grand Rapids, MI.

MALLORY McCLELLAN ’10 Savage Gardens, Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus OH.

EMILY RICKARD ’10 Material Collections, Wild Goose Creative, Columbus OH.

In the news
DEAN MITCHELL ’80 “Paintings by Dean Mitchell,” recave.com.

LAURA (PATTERSON) SANDERS ’88 CMH magazine.

MANJARI SHARMA ’04 Pdnedu magazine.

Photo from the February 2011 issue of Cincinnati Magazine.

Fine Arts alumnus Jimmy Baker (CCAD 2002) was interviewed in the February 2011 issue of Cincinnati Magazine for his upcoming exhibition, Remote Viewing, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati.

“Baker’s art world star has been on a quick ascent,” Kathy Y. Wilson wrote in her article Cincinnati Kid: Jimmy Baker. “Two months after graduating with an MFA in painting from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning in 2004, he landed a group show at Foxy Production art gallery in New York. One year later there were shows in Philadelphia and Chicago. The same year, Country Club gallery’s Christian Strike took some of Baker’s images with him to Los Angeles and soon the prestigious Roberts & Tilton Gallery came calling with an offer of a show and representation. Since then, his work has hung in museums and galleries in Paris, London, and Basel, Switzerland, and has been purchased for private collections internationally.”

Remote Viewing opens at 8 p.m. on February 25 and runs through April 10. The Contemporary Arts Center is located at 44 E 6^th St., Cincinnati. For more information, call 513.345.8400 or visit the center’s website.

Learn more about Baker on his website. Read the article in its entirety here.

The opening of "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" brought large crowds to the Canzani Center Gallery.

The opening of  CCAD’s most recent exhibition, produced by the Bureau for Open Culture, brought large crowds and several international and award-winning artists to CCAD’s Canzani Center Gallery Thursday evening.

The opening event culminated in a participatory psychic event and a post-reception dance party.

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven features 42 works by 17 artists in a wide range of media, including photography, video, painting, sculpture, social intervention, and sound installation. On-hand for the opening reception were featured artists Dennis McNulty (Dublin, Ireland), Ben Kinsley (Pittsburgh, PA), Lara Kohl (Brooklyn, NY), Jeremy Kost (New York, NY), Alejandro Vidal (Barcelona, Spain—actually, he was stuck in New York due to the weather, but he was there in spirit), Malcolm Cochran (Columbus, OH), and Cassandra Troyan (Chicago, IL).

After the opening, Kinsley invited guests to circle around his work—a blown-glass bowl filled with water in an all-black room with around-the-clock audio and video surveillance—for a participatory psychic event. Attendants chanted while Kinsley and Columbus-based psychic Larry Copeland clapped their hands and joined in the rhythmic song. After a minute or so, Copeland instructed the audience to cease their chant and pass all their energy toward the bowl. Some pointed their hands at the vessel, others shouted, most took on the more passive approach, sharing their energy with their minds.

Every Friday through March 4, musicians will play music to the installation. On March 11, Kinsley and Copeland invite the community back to review the surveillance footage with them, identifying and discussing any paranormal action caught on tape and the affect the performances made on the object.

Curated by Director of Exhibitions James Voorhies, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven explores the way life is charged with an underlying awareness of the passage of time and marked by residues of our culture. The show features the works of Guy Ben-Ner, Joachim Brohm, Gerard Byrne, Malcolm Cochran, Peter Dayton, Ben Kinsley, Lara Kohl, Jeremy Kost, Mark Leckey (Turner Prize winner), Mary Lum, Dennis McNulty, Timothy Nazzaro, Johannes Nyholm (films selected for Cannes 2008, 2009), Pipilotti Rist (honored by Guggenheim Museums), Cassandra Troyan, Jeffrey Vallance (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award winner), and Alejandro Vidal.

The exhibition is open through March 12. Information about gallery hours and location is on CCAD’s website.

Works by Ryan Orewiler are on display at Port Columbus International Airport.

by Lillie Templeton

Fine Arts alumnus Ryan Orewiler (CCAD 2004) has paintings on display in the Port Columbus Gateway to The Arts, an exhibit space located on the ticketing level in the hallway behind MoJoe Lounge at the Port Columbus International Airport.

“I’ve always enjoyed the non-traditional, aerial perspective of the runways and terminals from the airports I have visited throughout the world,” Orewiler said in reference to three paintings of aerial views of Port Columbus International Airport among the artwork on display. “I also enjoy the feeling from the initial lift off of leaving a city and touching down to visit or revisit a destination. Two of my grandfathers were in the U.S. Air Force and inspired me to learn more about flight in general. I plan to one day get my pilot’s license.”

Since 2000, Orewiler has painted hundreds of cityscapes that have been collected and commissioned by individuals and corporations throughout the United States. His influence is the urban environment of his home in Columbus and the cities that he has traveled to around the world including Jakarta, Chicago, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is a member of Landfillart.org, Roy G Biv, Ohio Art League, German Village Art League (Founder and President), AbX Collective, Oil Painters of America and the Landscape Artists International.

Visit Orewiler’s website to learn more about his work.

"Slow Tide" features the work of three alumni and is on display through the end of January.

Slow Tide, an exhibition featuring the work of Fine Arts alumni Justin Reese (CCAD 2010), Ian Keller (CCAD 2010), and Adam Henderson (CCAD 2007) is on display at Gallery 831 in Columbus, Ohio.

The show presents the trio’s interpretation of how the slow change of ideas has impacted art with Reese focusing on crystalline glazed porcelain vessels, Keller concentrating on sculpture with electronics and light art, and Henderson combining collages, drawing, and video into installations.

Slow Tide will be open through Jan. 31, 2011. Gallery 831 is located in Columbus’s Brewery District at 831 S. Front St. Columbus, Ohio 43206. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 3–9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 1–6 p.m. For more information about Gallery 831 visit their website.

Read more about the exhibition on Columbus Underground.

"Fight-Flight Mechanism" by Kenneth Hall (2010).

Fallout, an exhibition by alumnus Kenneth Hall (CCAD 2004), opens Jan. 14 at the Waldemar A. Schmidt Gallery at Wartburg College. The exhibition also features sculptures by Erica Duffy Voss, a fellow faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa. The collaboration began during a 2010 summer fellowship at the university.

Before heading to CCAD, Hall graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and spent 10 years as a Coast Guard drug enforcement boarding officer and civil engineer. He completed his master’s in art in 2007 from Miami University.

Hall has exhibited in national and international venues, including the Texas National 2010, the international Magnitude 7 exhibition in Cincinnati, and in Chicago, Louisville, and Hamburg, Germany. His first exhibition in Iowa was at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids.

The exhibition is open through Feb. 24 at the Bachman Fine Arts Center at Wartburg College. Daily hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m., and admission is free.

Curtis Bartone; Forbidden, 2009; Lithograph on Arches 88; 22 x 28 inches; Courtesy of Telfair Museum.

Domain: Drawing, Etchings and Lithographs, an exhibition featuring the works of alumnus Curtis Bartone (CCAD 1988) will be open at Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA February 4–June 26.

Bartone is represented by Chicago-based Byron Roche Gallery and Printworks Gallery. He received an MFA in painting from Northwestern University in Chicago and has taught at Savannah College of Art and Design.

His work has been shown across the U.S. in California, Georgia, and Illinois, and internationally in Iceland. Bartone received the Gil Society Studio Residency Fellowship in Akureyri, Iceland; two Illinois state art council grants; and a grant from the Vogelstein Foundation in New York. His work is included in the Telfair’s permanent collection.

For more information about the exhibition, visit the museum’s website.

"The Birds and the Bees," by Michelle Rozic

Alumna Michelle Rozic (CCAD 2003) recently received a grant to curate the exhibition and print a 100-page book for Edge of Life, an invitational forestry and art exhibition that includes 31 artists.

The Edge of Life aims to “bridge the fields of forestry and art. Forest pathology is an important aspect of forestry. … Artists naturally gravitate to contemporary concerns and socially conscious issues,” Rozic wrote on her blog. “Each artist will be assigned a forest pathology specimen to use as the impetus for creation.”

Participating artists will include artists in Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Art and professional artists in the field whose work deals with ecological issues. Media for the exhibition includes pin-hole photography,  hand-felted wool sculpture, wood-cut printmaking, and digital media mapping.

Rozic received her MFA in printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University and coordinator of the printmaking area.

Edge of Life opens Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. at The Cole Art Center, Ledbetter Gallery in Nacogdoches, Texas. For more information about the event, visit Rozic’s blog.

"Salmonoid Shift," by Sarah Brenneman

Now Here This, an exhibition by alumna Sarah Brenneman (CCAD 1998), opened Jan. 6 at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City. The show features Brenneman’s recent works on paper in watercolor and collage.

Brenneman has worked in watercolor for 10 years. Recently she collaborated with the poet Nellie Bridge, and created small works in reaction to her poems, All at Once, It’s Out, Flying and At the End of the City, about everyday experiences in the city. These works in turn led to larger works on paper.

This is Brenneman’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was an artist in residence at The Millay Colony for the Arts and Chashama. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The exhibition  runs through Feb. 5. For further information about the show, check out the gallery’s website. Learn more about Brenneman on her website.

Artwork by Erica Podwoiski is on display through January 30, 2011.

A portion of the proceeds from alumna Erica Podwoiski’s (CCAD 2010) solo exhibition will be donated to Metavivor, an organization that provides funding for research on metastatic breast cancer.

“The show features never-before-seen drawings, new paintings, and my latest venture into the wild world of wearable art,” Podwoiski said. “I chose to donate part of the proceeds from my bra collection, Bling 4 Boobs, to Metavivor because it’s one of the few organizations that supports and funds research for women with Stage IV breast cancer.”

“My mom is now living with Stage IV breast cancer and is an active member of Metavivor’s online community,” Podwoiski said. “Unfortunately, 90% of cancer deaths result from Stage IV cancer, but only 2% of research funds are devoted to stage IV. I wanted to support an organization that puts almost all of its donations into innovative research for metastatic breast cancer.”

Investigating female identity in her art is nothing new for Podwoiski. Her first solo exhibition pc4pc <333333 was a visual case study of women and girls on MySpace and Facebook, which explored boundaries, notions of privacy and self, female stereotypes and sexuality in the millennial age.

Podwoiski’s work has been featured on the cover of Columbus’s Alive Magazine and was shown at the historic Belle Isle Conservatory in Detroit.

Coming of Age in an Era of Celebrity Worship is on display December 11–January 30 at the Lido Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan. For more information about the exhibition, visit the Lido Gallery website.

McCutcheon used real strawberries in his "Play Date" installations.

Alumnus John Joseph McCutcheon (CCAD 1979) used actual food as the primary material in his most recent exhibition, Play Date, which opened Dec. 4 in the Short North.

The show features the photography and installations of Katelyn Cody and McCutcheon, who allow viewers to spy on the lives of tiny toy people as they row a boat across a bowl of soup or paint giant strawberries.

McCutcheon is an installation artist, life coach, and owner and director of Sean Christopher Gallery, a fine arts center, and Health Perspectives, a holistic life coaching and counseling private practice. He received his MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University.

The show is held at Sean Christopher Gallery at Health Perspectives, 815 N. High St., Ste H&N, and is open Wednesday–Friday, 3:30–5:30 p.m., and Saturday 1:00–3:00 p.m., and by appointment. The exhibition runs through January 29.

"Violinist," by Dean Mitchell is on display at the Canton Musuem of Art.

WVIZ/PBS in northeastern Ohio created a documentary about the life of alumnus Dean Mitchell (CCAD 1980) for his recent exhibition Dean Mitchell: Space, People & Places at the Canton Museum of Art. The exhibition features 40 recent paintings and opened with a gala Dec. 4 at the Canton Museum of Art and runs through March 6, 2011.

Mitchell has received positive critiques in The New York Times and St. Petersburg Times. He was named a “Best Bet” for collectors in ARTnews magazine and has created portraits of Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and three others for the U.S. Postal Service’s Jazz Musicians stamp series.

Mitchell’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the St. Louis Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Mississippi Museum of Art and the Arkansas Art Center. He won the American Watercolor Society’s Gold Medal of Honor. Mitchell’s life is the subject of an illustrated children’s book titled, Against All Odds: Artist Dean Mitchell’s Story.

The Canton Museum of Art is located inside the Cultural Center for the Arts, 1001 Market Ave. N in Canton, Ohio. Gallery hours are: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. For details, visit www.cantonart.org.

Watch the documentary here.

This post was included in the spring 2011 issue of IMAGE Magazine.

Alumnus Daniel Fila will participate in the Art of Basketball event in Miami.

Miami-based urban artist Daniel Fila (CCAD ’02) was chosen to create a work for the National Basketball Association (NBA) sponsored event, The Art of Basketball.

Fila joined leading graffiti and street artists to create 36 works of art on officially-sanctioned NBA backboards and basketballs. As part of Miami’s annual Art Basel Miami, the exhibition will open to the public Dec. 2 and close Dec. 5.

Fila, who works under the title Krave Art, works in Miami and has completed works for notable companies MTV, The Ritz Carlton, and Greyhound Lines Inc.

The Art of Basketball is presented by Public Works Department and curated by Billi Kid and James & Karla Murray. It will be held at 2048 NW Miami Court, Miami.

"NTS Mercury" from Baker's Sentinel exhibit

Jimmy Baker’s (CCAD ’02) Sentinel exhibition is currently on display at Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles.

Sentinel is a collection of paintings and audio that work to record the residue of technology on our land. The paintings refer to specific geographic areas that have housed U.S. military testing and surveillance.

Baker’s works have been featured nationwide at galleries in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. He has also exhibited internationally in Paris, France; Basel, Switzerland; and London, England.

Roberts and Tilton is open Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Sentinel runs through October 23. To view more of Baker’s works, check out his website.

Love in the Shadow of Death, an exhibition by Paul Tepper (CCAD ’01), opens November 14 at Hayley Gallery in New Albany, Ohio.

Tepper is a Columbus-based painter who has exhibited in Philadelphia, PA; Columbus, OH; New Albany, OH; and Balatonfured, Hungary. He worked on the 2003 film, Speak, starring Kristen Stewart and Steve Zahn.

In an interview with Sorina Higgins, Tepper explained his use of exaggerated features within his paintings. “I like to exaggerate certain characteristics to communicate,” Tepper said. “If I’m painting a man and a woman, I like making his hands huge and her hands small, not as a way of judging the feminine and masculine, but just showing that the masculine is big and strong and the feminine is more soft and gentle.”

Gallery hours are Tuesday–Friday 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saturday 12–5 p.m.; and Sunday 1–4 p.m. The show ends December 31. Learn more about Tepper on his website.

Moran's painting, "Waiting for a cab on Park Avenue"

Partly Cloudy–Chance of Rain, an exhibition featuring the paintings of Max Moran (CCAD, ’78), runs through October 11 at Jedediah Hawkins Inn, 400 S. Jamesport Ave. in Jamesport, NY.

Moran is also teaching painting workshops at the inn about organizing successful compositions, achieving depth and atmosphere, color principles, palette development and capturing the light.

Gallery hours are 5–8 p.m. Friday and 12–7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment.  For more information about the artist or to register for the workshops, visit www.maxmoran.com.

Story Line 2010 by Walter King

A 40-year retrospective exhibition of work by Walter King, professor, Illustration, is taking place at The Shot Tower Gallery on the campus of Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, 546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., in Columbus, OH.

The exhibition Midwest Dialog, curated by Teresa Weidenbus, runs Aug. 23–Sept. 24, 2010. It includes works started in the ’70s as well as others not previously exhibited among nearly 150 paintings. The show also highlights the drawings, prints, photography, sculpture, illustration and graphic design as well as preparatory sketches and experimental videos of the CCAD alumnus (Illustration, ’81). Altogether, more than 250 works will fill the gallery, one of the largest and oldest working art galleries in Ohio. An artist’s reception will be 6–8 p.m. Sept. 2, 2010.

For more information go to http://www.absolutearts.com/walterking.

Image from www.icecubegallery.com

Artwork by Fine Arts alumna Soo Sunny Park (CCAD ’98)  is in a solo exhibition and a group show that she curated at Ice Cube Gallery in Denver through August 7, 2010. Refraction and Mirage are tied together by the notion of optical phenomenon. For details go to www.icecubegallery.com.

Image from Matt Klos's website.

Alumnus Matt Klos has an exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., 4th floor, New York, NY. Keeping Things runs Aug. 3–21, 2010. Currently residing in Maryland, Klos earned his BFA at CCAD in Fine Arts, graduating in 2001. After earning his MFA from University of Maryland Klos returned to CCAD to teach for two years.  To see images of paintings go to the artist’s website. For exhibition information go to http://princestreetgallery.com.