Kraft’s paper was “Research and Inquiry: Pedagogical Tools to Engender Responsibility;” Yates presented his paper “Research as Catalyst” in the same session.

The two also participated in the Integrative Teaching International ThinkTank along with Vice President for Academic Affairs Kevin Conlon, Assistant Professor Lori Faist, Assistant Professor and Fine Arts alumna Julie Abijanac (CCAD 1992), and Associate Professor and Fine Arts alumna Tam Peterson (CCAD 1983).

FATE is a national association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in development and teaching of college-level foundation courses. The ThinkTank is part of the FATE conference and includes a facilitated discussion and intensive workshop designed to improve teaching at the college level.

Kraft also presented her paper “Rurality Then and Now: Re-visioning the Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art Practice” at the International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Chicago, April 10-13.

Carol Boram-Hays (middle) with two Zulu women during her last trip to South Africa in 1997

Adjunct faculty Carol Boram-Hays was selected to participate in the Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Boram-Hays, an artist and historian, will be teaching and doing research at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, starting in January of 2014 and staying through June.

“I will be teaching and working with graduate students and doing research there and in the field,” Boram-Hays said. “The project is designed to culminate in an exhibition of Zulu beadwork at [the University's] museum and a scholarly publication on the subject.”

Boram-Hays did her dissertation on Zulu beadwork and has been looking for an opportunity to return to South Africa and continue that work.

Zulu man from 1890 wearing beaded accessories; photo from Carol Boram-Hays

“I am looking forward to gathering materials to write new publications on my original area of specialization,” she said. “Johannesburg is also a center for contemporary art in South Africa, which is also a strong interest of mine, so I look forward to being able to visit galleries and meet artists in person. I always find that going to new places and having new experiences stimulates my creativity. So while I will be away from my sculpture studio, I also look forward to developing new ideas for individual pieces as well as proposals for installations and site-specific works.”

The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional careers.

Ohio Governor John Kasich with winning design Aaron Roberts

CCAD-Designed Licenses and Plates Hit the Road

It was a pretty big deal when Gov. John Kasich asked CCAD to help design new driver’s licenses and license plates for the Ohio BMV. And ever since the selected designs were unveiled in November 2011, we’ve been itching to see them out in the real world.

Well, that time has come. The new driver’s license went into circulation in January, and the new plates are due to come into use as this magazine hits the mail. So watch the wallets, purses, and bumpers near you for clean, elegant new designs by CCAD’s very own Aaron Roberts (Advertising & Graphic Design 2012)!

Informal Critique Blooms on Campus

Want to get unvarnished opinions about your art? Ask your peers.

That’s the approach Fine Arts alum Erin McKenna (CCAD 2012) adopted for a student-driven critique program she started at CCAD.

During her junior year, she participated in the semester-long New York Studio Residency Program. “There were kids from all over the United States,” McKenna says. “Nobody knows anybody when you get there. We decided that on Wednesday nights we’d make dinner together and walk around the studios, giving critiques. It was at night, much more relaxing; there were no professors there. We listened to each other. I learned a lot; it was nice to have the perspective of a peer.”

McKenna liked the idea so much she brought it back to campus, organizing evening critique sessions for students during her senior year. Up to 30 participants, mainly Fine Arts majors with some from Illustration and Advertising & Graphic Design, visited studios. “I had a lot of people come up to me after they had their critique and say it was very helpful.”

“It’s still going on Wednesday nights and has even more people,” she says.

Animation students during Skype conversation

Animation Students Skype for Advice

For members of the Animation Student Collective at CCAD, professional advice is only a Skype away.

Skype, an Internet voice and video service, links the student animators to professionals, including CCAD alumni. Animation senior Rico Jackson, president and founder of the Animation Student Collective, explains: “Most of the professionals are in California because that’s where the animation industry is, the bulk of it. We can’t bring them to Ohio because that would cost entirely too much money.

“Instead, we Skype them.”

The group meets in Kinney Hall. Using a computer linked to a video projector, Jackson asks the guest animator questions; other students also can come up to the computer’s camera and pose questions as well.

Chris Oatley (CCAD 2001), a former Disney character designer who now runs an online art academy, held a session with students last semester. “Chris is a phenomenal speaker,” Jackson says.

Jackson hopes to have Skype sessions with three guests during spring semester. He says the sessions have an impact. “With Chris, a lot of people sent us messages or talked with us afterward. They said it was really inspirational. Students made some artwork right away because they were inspired.”

Students work in the MindMarket

Students Embark on Two-Year Project with Electronics Company

The CCAD MindMarket’s DesignLab is giving students the chance to dig into an extended design project with the advanced electronics company InPower.

“InPower reached out to CCAD after learning about some of the offerings CCAD has for Industrial Design,” says Cynthia Gravino, CCAD MindMarket director.  “We determined that a DesignLab partnership would best serve their needs and would provide a great hands-on opportunity for our students in a client-based project setting.”

Tom Gattis, dean of the School of Design Arts and chair of Industrial Design, stepped in to lead the project.

For the first semester (fall 2012) students conducted a comprehensive market, product, and competitive landscape analysis.

This spring, they’ll incorporate that research into a redesign of InPower’s product packaging.

InPower will continue to tap into CCAD talent throughout 2013­–2014, focusing on work to find new avenues for their products.

“As an engineering-based organization, InPower provided an opportunity to expand the types of companies we serve,” Gravino says.

“The only difference [from the real world] is we are doing it within the safe confines of the college,” Gattis says. “Students have expert guidance from faculty and can try a lot of things and really explore concepts that in a corporate setting would be a bit too risky.”

Science Chair’s Research Presented

CCAD Chair of Science Julie Posey has worked with Ohio State University’s Division of Infectious Diseases since 2010 to create a tracking profile for a specific strain of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Posey’s research studied nearly 500 positive cases of MRSA.

The resulting paper, Development of Bio-informatics Research Network for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Blood Stream Infections (BSI): A Multicenter Regional MRSA Surveillance Collaborative for Genotyping, Geocoding, and Data Collection for Outbreak Investigation, was presented by OSU researchers at the Infectious Disease Society of America conference last fall.

Alexa Carson’s holiday card design

’Twas the Season — for a Holiday Card Contest Winner

CCAD teamed up with the Columbus Partnership last year to create a new tradition — a holiday card design contest.

The Columbus Partnership is a nonprofit, membership-based organization of 49 CEOs from Columbus’ leading businesses and institutions. Its primary mission is to improve the economic vitality of the Columbus region.

“Partnering with CCAD was a great opportunity to support an incredible educational asset in our community and work with the creative student innovators of Columbus who help drive our economic growth,” said Stephen Lyons, vice president of member services and community engagement at the Partnership.

A jury reviewed 38 entries and selected Illustration senior Alexa Carson’s design.

Carson received a $1,000 cash prize, and the card, which included her name and contact info, was distributed to more than 3,000 Columbus Partnership clients and friends.

Fine Arts Faculty Member Keeps Active Practice

Danielle Julian Norton’s approach to artmaking? Two words: keep moving.

Norton, a 1999 Fine Arts alum and now an assistant professor of fine arts and graduate studies, is keeping up an almost dizzying itinerary of residencies and exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

This includes stints last fall at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, and last summer at I-Park in East Haddam, CT.

A year earlier, she did residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and in Dresden, Germany, under the sponsorship of the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

Her exhibition schedule last year ranged from the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster to the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, to the Cynthia-Reeves Gallery at Art Miami. A show at Ohio Dominican University will have just closed as this magazine mails.

“To grow as an artist I feel it’s important to meet other artists and go outside my comfort zone.” Norton says. “Each time I go and meet a new art community and group of artists, it’s like a mini-graduate school; you learn new approaches to art-making.”

“I think it works well in the classroom,” she says. “I can give [students] real-world examples. A teacher should also be an active artist.”

Norton calls her work interdisciplinary, “a cross between sculpture, photography, and performance.”

Next on tap is I Forgot to Forget, a June 15 – July 20 exhibition she is curating at the Urban Arts Space of Ohio State University.

Landsbergen’s presentation will review regional, national, and international sources of climate change and provide methodologies for matching research needs to the design process. She will provide case studies that demonstrate how makers of visual culture can move climate change communications forward through cooperation with scientists.

The day-long workshop is sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt and will host more than 20 speakers on topics ranging from ecology and biomimicry to packaging design and life-cycle analysis.

The book was 10 years in the making and explores her reasoning in defining Harpo Marx, a member of cinema’s famous Marx Brothers, as a trickster.

A trickster figure is a literary term to describe a character that plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal behavior and includes well-known characters such as the Joker from the Batman comics and the Brer Rabbit.

Her reading is part of the bookstore’s monthly first Thursday initiative of events featuring local musicians and Ohio poets. Fix’s presentation will begin at 7 p.m., followed by an open mic session.

Beehive Books is located at 25 North Sandusky St., Delaware, OH.

Her prize included a cash award and the publication of her book in early 2014. Elixir Press specializes in publishing poetry and literary fiction. It has two poetry contests for full-length books every year and a fiction contest for a full-length book every two years.

Kartsonis’ chapbook Aloha Vaudeville Doll will be published by Dancing Girl Press in summer 2013.

The group meets on the fourth Sunday of every month to host a featured poet and an open mic session.

Fix’s manuscript Frankenstein’s Flowers has been accepted for publication in 2014 by WordTech Communications under their CW Books imprint.

Her poems Sweet and Our Norwegian were published in the Red Branch Journal during fall 2012.

Kraft reviewed Francoise Henry in Co. Mayo: The Inishkea Journals by Janet T. Marquardt. She was commissioned by Nicholas Wolf, an assistant professor at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University. Wolf is also an editor for H-Albion, the H-Net discussion network for British and Irish history where Kraft’s review was published.

To read Kraft’s review, click here.

The chapbook, Charlene Fix: Greatest Hits 1998-2011, features 12 poems by Fix, plus an opening bio and explanation of the poems.

Greatest Hits chapbooks are part of a series printed by Kattywompus Press based on the music industry’s greatest hits albums. There have been more than 300 poets’ greatest hits published since the series’ founding in 2000. Poets’ are invited by a panel to be a part of the series.

Associate Professor Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis gives reading in the William H. Danforth Chapel

Associate Professor Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis was invited by Florida Southern College’s English department to lead a class discussion and read her poetry in Lakeland, FL.

Kartsonis’ book Intaglio is being taught in a class at the college by professor Erica Bernheim. Kartsonis participated in two class discussions and also gave a reading in the William H. Danforth Chapel that included work from Intaglio, her chapbook EmuSEUM, and her manuscript Aloha Vaudeville Doll.

Kartsonis teaches fiction, poetry writing, and contemporary literature at CCAD.

The anatomy lab at Columbus State Community College, photo courtesy of Kristine Schramer

By Robin Hepler

Tens of thousands of visitors to the COSI science museum this winter will view an exhibition of CCAD students’ interpretations of the human form. Students in the fall semester course The Human Body in Art and Science have had access to the cadaver labs at Columbus State Community College and to the fall Body Worlds & the Brain exhibition at COSI to study the body from numerous perspectives—all for their use in creating art at the level expected for an exhibition hosted by a regional tourist destination.

CCAD faculty members Julie Posey (Science) and Kristine Schramer (Fine Arts) developed the team-taught course and negotiated the community partnerships to bring this full array of opportunities to students. The project provides an expansive and very public new venue for students to exhibit their final coursework and serves as an example of CCAD’s evolution in project-based learning.

“The college is moving toward a more cross-disciplinary way to deliver on project-based learning to mimic what happens in the real world,” says Kevin Conlon, CCAD vice president for Academic Affairs. “We are intentionally seeking external academic partners to provide opportunities for students to engage in teaming and problem-solving challenges.”

The expanding scope of projects is bringing faculty members together to create whole new classes, such as Posey and Schramer’s human body course.

“The scale of these newer project-based learning opportunities is becoming much more ambitious,” Conlon says. “As a result, they often engender dedicated courses that aggregate talent from multiple levels and departments and in academic constructs that may go beyond the limits of current course models and academic terms.”

CCAD students doing a dissection in the CSCC lab, photo courtesy of Kristine Schramer

Constructing new learning opportunities

Posey says she and Schramer spent three months developing learning objectives and finding the right combination of curriculum elements from science and art for the new course.

“I focus on the world out there that isn’t art. This course is about the human body—every different aspect, from tattoos to aging to body systems to our DNA,” Posey says. “I try to engage students about issues that are fundamentally meaningful to them as humans, not necessarily as artists. That is where Kris comes in.

“Kris shows these kids that our worldly experiences, our knowledge of our own micro-world, can be truly inspirational as art,” Posey says. “She ties what I do with what artists do.”

In each lecture Schramer shows students work of contemporary artists who work with the human form as their muse. Students are not asked to memorize facts about science; instead, Schramer says, she wants to teach students how to make themselves subject experts when they need to for their creative work.

And she teaches the process of a project.

“My goal is for every student in this class to have the experience of taking on an ambitious project and completing it successfully. I meet so many creative people who are full of brilliant ideas, but lack both the nerve to begin and the practical skills to manage the execution of a complicated project,” Schramer says.

“Using the study of science and each student’s individual project as the educational vehicle, I guide them through the stages of brainstorming, refining, proposing, revising and proposing again, researching, planning, budgeting, scheduling, and presenting their work publicly.”

Schramer says these skills can be applied to any major endeavor undertaken in life, whether it be artistic, entrepreneurial, or personal.

Posey and Schramer partnered last fall to team-teach a biotechnology course that also tapped the resources of Columbus State anatomist Eric Kenz. That project helped launch 2012 graduate Jonathan Hodge’s career in medical illustration. This year’s public exhibition at COSI, sharing museum space with the acclaimed Body Worlds & the Brain exhibit, makes their second project-based course much larger in scope—creating more opportunity and expectations.

UPDATE 12/2/12: There will be a free, public reception to view the student work on Sunday, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 9, 2013, at COSI Columbus.

Community-based projects

Students working in the CCAD MindMarket, photo courtesy Danielle Ford (2013)

Businesses and organizations in central Ohio can now access the talent of CCAD faculty, staff, and students for projects through the CCAD MindMarket’s DesignLab. Depending on the need, the CCAD MindMarket can assemble cross-disciplinary teams to provide design solutions through three different project structures: charrettes lasting 54–72 hours; semester-long, in-class projects; and longer-term project partnerships.

A spring 2012 joint project that teamed up a Fashion Design class and an Advertising & Graphic Design class is an example of the kind of community project that likely will work through the new MindMarket in the future.

Twenty-two students from the two classes presented design solutions for Huntington Bank’s branded team jersey for the annual Pelotonia bike race to raise money for cancer research. In the end, the bank asked that two options be combined—utilizing functional design elements by senior Nina Rehner and graphics by senior Dahui (Danny) Li.

“That’s how real projects work in corporations,” says Suzanne Cotton, chair of Fashion Design at CCAD. “It was a terrific scenario for the two finalists to work together to combine their concepts.”

Matt Mohr, assistant professor of Visual Communications and Media Studies, led the graphic design students in the project.

“We’re always looking for ways to combine disciplines,” says Mohr. “Apparel graphics, especially the opportunity to create a concept that covered the entire garment, posed a unique challenge. Given that the designs were for a well-respected, high-profile event made for eager excitement among the students.”

Conlon says the new curriculum architecture being built at CCAD supports the practicum experience, whether faculty members are bringing new projects to the classroom or outside organizations are approaching CCAD through the new structure of the MindMarket.

“It’s all about providing the students choices among a variety of paths to the practicum and a gateway to the professional-level and portfolio-worthy experience,” Conlon says.

All project-based learning is incredibly valuable for the student—not just for the experience of merging research, theory, application, experience, and result, Conlon says, but also for the benefit it provides students in developing their portfolios.

“Professional development has always begun with the portfolio at CCAD. Our continuing commitment to the portfolio as the primary evidence of discipline readiness will now be enhanced with the engagement of more and varied types of project-based learning,” Conlon says. “The practicum experience, played out in at least 12 credit hours within the new curriculum architecture, is the college’s demonstrated commitment to this ideal.”

For Schramer the experience is paying additional, personal dividends: “In these classes, Julie and I are learning right along with the students,” she says.

To check out the online print version of IMAGE, click here.

Zipline during Family Weekend & Homecoming, photo courtesy of Katlin McNally

Six New Faculty Named

CCAD’s realignment into two schools—Design Arts and Studio Arts—has brought six new faculty to campus this fall. Their hiring reflects the college’s commitment to providing students the real-world skills to lead in the growing creative economy, says Char Norman, dean of faculty.

“We seek out professionals who have proven teaching experience combined with significant current work in the field,” Norman says.

We welcome:

Kelly DeVore (Interior Design and Advertising & Graphic Design), a LEED-accredited architect who has also done research in socially responsive design education.

Steve Elbert (Interior Design), a licensed architect with international teaching experience and significant 2-D and 3-D modeling software skills.

Phil Garrett (Cinematic Arts), who has worked as a special effects artist on films such as Madagascar and Shrek and as a writer, producer, and animator for a large variety of indie films as well as animated features for DisneyToon Studios.

Mathew Mitchem (English and Philosophy), a philosopher, author, and web designer who has worked with topics ranging from advertising ideology in the world of political campaigns, to the cultural implications of participatory video, to online videos during the political uprisings of 2011.

Adam Osgood (Illustration), a creator of web designs, animation, and motion graphics for major brands including Exxon and Barnes & Noble.

Rebecca Robinson (Fashion Design), who has created her own fashion designs as well as contributing to books on the history of men’s fashion, American football uniforms, and hip-hop gear.

2012 Family Weekend & Homecoming

Campus was packed with hundreds of students, parents, alumni, staff, and friends for Family Weekend & Homecoming on Oct. 12 and 13.

Things kicked off Friday evening with dinner and a comedy show on campus.

Saturday began with free breakfast and ended with an alumni reception. In between were a CCAD MindMarket open house, a carnival on the quad, a zipline down East Gay Street, a lecture from recently retired Dean Richard Aschenbrand, and much more.

The energy was contagious and all-ages: View photos on our Columbus College of Art & Design facebook page and our CCAD Alumni facebook page.

Comic book artist Chris Ware’s keynote conversation, photo couresy Danielle Ford (2013)

Mix 2012

In early October, more than 200 people came to campus for Mix 2012: CCAD’s Celebration of Comics.

A highlight of the event was the participation of Chris Ware, an Eisner-Award-winning American comic book artist who is perhaps best known for his graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Ware delivered the keynote presentation, exhibited original artwork from Jimmy Corrigan, and participated in a symposium panel called The Epic Ordinary.

In all there were three exhibitions and two-and-a-half days of panels and workshops—all kicked off by a student comic-making marathon. Eleven teams were challenged with producing a 24-page comic in 24 hours. The results were then displayed for the rest of the symposium.

The plan is to make this symposium an annual event.

Mix 2012 was sponsored by State Auto Insurance Companies, with media sponsorship provided by WCBE 90.5.

Teaching Award Winner Connects Art to Literature

Associate Professor Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis with CCAD President Denny Griffith, photo courtesy Lian Dziura (2012)

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, a poet who has become a writing mentor to many of her CCAD students, was selected as the winner of CCAD’s 2012 Teaching Excellence Award. The award celebrates the exemplary contributions faculty members make to the college as a whole.

“She encourages critical thinking and nurtures an artist’s curiosities, helping us all to see the correlation between the art realm and the realm of literature,” said a student nominator, “and empowers her students to want to develop their skills and techniques as writers not just for class, but for themselves.”

Kartsonis, who is an associate professor in Liberal Arts and Graduate Studies, teaches fiction and poetry writing, contemporary literature, and special topics in literature. With dozens of published poems, as well as fiction and nonfiction works, she also has served as editor of a number of literary outlets, including wordsonwalls.net, scene360, and Shades Literary/Art Review.

Her most recent work is EmuSeum, a collaborative chapbook with Caleb Adler, MD, published by Dancing Girl Press.

Ten to Watch

Doesn’t everyone love a “where are they now” story? Well, we do, too—so we’re starting a feature called Ten to Watch.

Ten to Watch will follow a group of students from CCAD’s Class of 2012 as they take their first steps into the professional world after graduation. You’ll read about where they are, what they’re up to, and how they feel about their paths so far.

Annual feature stories will start in spring, but we couldn’t wait until then to introduce them:

Kattie Baker (Advertising & Graphic Design), Chavilah Bennett (Advertising & Graphic Design), Rachel Cass (Fashion Design), Sara K. Diesel (Illustration), Lian Dziura (Photography), Ryan Christopher Evans (Media Studies), Leah Fisher (Photography), Jake LaBombarbe (Industrial Design), Sarah McCance (Interior Design), and Erin McKenna (Fine Arts)

A few teasers to think about in the meantime:

1. Who’s working on a project in Abu Dhabi?
2. Who’s already moved to New York?
3. Who did a residency that comes with a show in Chicago?

Yu Qiduo (left) and Leah Wong (right) on Yu’s television show in Shanghai.

CCAD Discussed on Shanghai TV

Leah Wong, who has taught at CCAD and is assisting the college with a teaching exchange with the China Academy of Art, recently appeared on an education-focused show in Shanghai.

The show’s host, Yu Qiduo (Duoduo), brought CCAD into the conversation as they discussed Wong’s personal opinions on art and art education and talked about her teaching experiences in both China and the United States.

The half-hour program focuses on education programs and is aimed toward middle and high school students and their parents.

Glass Alumna Helps Cruise Line Fight Cancer

Fine Arts alumna Megan Mathie (CCAD 2006) has just returned from working on the Celebrity cruise ship Solstice as a glassblower for the Corning Museum of Glass.

Over a three-month tour of back-to-back 12-day cruises around the Mediterranean, the hot glass team stayed busy.

“On sea days we do two shows. On port days we usually do an evening show,” Mathie says. “I like the 12-day cruises because as people come back again and again, they ask smarter and smarter questions. Instead of having to explain ‘what is glass’ over and over, we can talk about some of the more sophisticated techniques and tell stories.”

Megan Mathie (CCAD 2006) doing a glass show at the Corning Museum of Glass

Although she loves the work, leaving home this summer was difficult for Mathie because both her sister and her mother are fighting breast cancer. She was thrilled to find out about a new project in Celebrity Cruises’ longstanding support of the breast cancer research.

The glass team refers to it as “the Pink Show.” During one show per cruise, they make everything pink, and one of the resulting pieces of glass is auctioned—with all of the profits going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Mathie also found strong support among her fellow crew members. Just one example: On her sister’s birthday, the Ringmasters, a world-champion barbershop quartet, sang happy birthday into the phone for her.

“I was so fortunate to have found myself surrounded by kindness and love where I never expected it and when I needed it the most. Being able to take this job, this opportunity, turned into so much more of a gift than I thought it would be, and a big part of that is because of the people I’ve gotten to know. I know they care about Jen and Mom, and I know they care about me,” Mathie says.

For more photos and lots of Mathie’s engaging writing, visit her blog.

To check out the online print version of IMAGE, click here.

Schumacher Days was an event in German Village, OH, created to help explore the past and present of the neighborhood and celebrate Columbus’ bicentennial.

Fix’s poem was in a display featuring work from several Columbus-based poets.

Cover of “Fields of Reading”

Professor of Liberal Arts George Felton’s essay, “How to Write a Great College Slogan,” will be featured in the 10th edition of Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, along with other popular authors such as Tina Fey, John Berger, and Steven Pinker. 

Fields of Reading contains work that ranges from individual essays to paired texts to casebooks that contain multiple readings on engaging topics and compelling issues. The new edition emphasizes the cross-curricular reading, thinking, and writing expected in college as it exposes students to key cultural conversations.

Felton teaches writing and copywriting and is the author of the textbook Advertising: Concept and Copy. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Advertising Age, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. His copywriting has been selected for Communication Arts, HOW, and Print magazines.

In addition, Fix’s poem “Kublai Kahn” will be featured in issue 35 of 5AM magazine.

Her collaborative short prose sequence, One Night, One Hundred Wails Ago, was selected to be in Black & Grey, a magazine focused on fashion, art, and literature.

Her poem Cisterna was published in the book Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest, and Hope. She also had her poem collection The Rub chosen as a finalist for the Elixir Antivenom Poetry Award, offered by Elixir Press, a nonprofit publisher of poetry and literary fiction.

Kartsonis teaches fiction, poetry writing, and contemporary literature at CCAD.

To read more about Fix’s current work, including her recent book contract with McFarland, click here.

Fix was on a panel of judges for the Columbus City School District Poetry Slam on April 21 at Centennial High School. She will also be reading her poetry at Sips Café at 101 South Main Street in Mount Vernon, OH, on April 24, 7 p.m.

She will be presenting on her manuscript, Harpo Marx as Trickster: Why We Love Him, Why We Laugh at Him, Why He Seems Divine, at C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio, a community center in Columbus, on May 6, 1:30 p.m. She recently signed a contract with McFarland, to publish the manuscript.

Jeannine Kraft stands in a castle door.

By Kristen M. Foley

Jeannine Kraft’s imagination has been directed across the Atlantic Ocean ever since she was a young girl. Staying true to her earliest interests, the CCAD Liberal Arts assistant professor and History of Art and Design chair has fashioned a lifelong career from her ever-evolving passion for all things Irish.

Kraft’s childhood fascination was with medieval literature and mythology from throughout England, Ireland, and Wales. As a graduate student at Ohio State University, she focused on medieval Irish art, but over the past few years she has expanded her exploration of Irish art and culture. She’s currently investigating the expression of identity in the country’s art and how it reflects the history rooted in its breathtaking landscape.

An untitled print by Robert Ellis from his series "New Line." (© Robert Ellis)

“There are these layers of history that mark the landscape,” says Kraft. “When you [first] think of Ireland you think of the castles, the high crosses, and the standing stones, and how they became an embedded part of their cultural identity—but I’m interested in how they are reflected in the visual arts.”

During her sabbatical last summer Kraft used a CCAD Faculty Enrichment grant to make her eighth trip to Ireland. “I’m so passionate about the culture that when I do get to go somewhere, I choose there,” she muses. “I should probably diversify a little, but I love it so much.”

Even with eight trips behind her, Kraft still learns something new about the country and its people every time she visits. During last summer’s trip she chose to deepen her research on modern and contemporary art. What she uncovered was somewhat of an artistic struggle, as contemporary Irish artists try to embrace their heritage and the landscape without being drowned out by stereotypical views of their country. Kraft observes that the art of today is in contention with images of the past over which should serve as the authentic voice and vision of Irish culture.

An untitled print by Robert Ellis from his series "New Line." (© Robert Ellis)

“It’s a really loaded question for contemporary artists, because there is a tourist stereotype and kitsch image of Ireland, and they struggle with that legacy and cultural baggage,” says Kraft. “That’s really where I’m moving forward with my research, to this idea of the duality of the expression of Irish identity: the constructed mythology of the landscape versus contemporary artists striving for an authentic engagement with the landscape and its legacy.”

Kraft credits CCAD with assisting her in pursuing her work and allowing her to share it with her students, who are already fascinated with Irish art. She notes that students are curious about how the art has trickled down into contemporary pop culture via the use of Irish and Celtic symbols in tattoos and fashion patterns.

One final note brings Kraft’s childhood passion full circle. Her love for Ireland and for her young son have inspired her to write Liam the Valiant-Hearted Warrior, a children’s book set in Ireland and illustrated by CCAD Illustration alumnus Patrick Butler. She’s currently shopping it to publishers; we’re all looking forward to the results.

Above: The middle and last images are contemporary archival inkjet prints by Irish artist Robert Ellis from his series New Line, which documents the space inhabited by a small alternative community in the west of Ireland (both images Untitled, 40 x 47 inches, © Robert Ellis). The gallery below (click any image to view in larger, slideshow mode) includes snapshots from Kraft’s recent visit to Ireland.

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis and President Denny Griffith

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, a poet who has become a writing mentor to many of her art students, was presented with the CCAD Teaching Excellence Award during a ceremony in the Canzani Center on April 11.

A student nominator said of Kartsonis: “She encourages critical thinking and nurtures an artist’s curiosities, helping us all to see the correlation between the art realm and the realm of literature.” The student added, Kartsonis “empowers her students to want to develop their skills and techniques as writers not just for class, but for themselves.”

Each year CCAD recognizes one outstanding faculty member for excellence in teaching. The award celebrates the exemplary efforts faculty members contribute to the college as a whole, using the classroom setting to engage and enhance students’ experiences. Nominations are accepted from alumni and current CCAD students and faculty.

Kartsonis is an associate professor in the Liberal Arts and Graduate Studies departments. She teaches fiction and poetry writing, contemporary literature and special topics in literature. With dozens of published poems, fiction and nonfiction works, she also has served as editor of a number of literary outlets, including wordsonwalls.net, scene360 and Shades Literary/Art Review. Kartsonis’ collection of poetry, Intaglio, won the 2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. EmuSeum, a collaborative chapbook with Caleb Adler, M.D., was published by Dancing Girl Press.

“She is, in a word, excellent as a classroom professor and writing mentor. Her gracious enthusiasm for her field as a professor and writer is obviously contagious—especially with students,” said Ed Lathy, dean of Liberal Arts at CCAD.

Kartsonis earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Utah, her MFA in English from the University of Alabama, and her doctorate in literature and poetry from the University of Cincinnati.

Fix started working on her manuscript Harpo Marx as Trickster: Why We Laugh, Why We Love Him, Why He Seems Divine 10 years ago, and she finished her first draft last summer. She hopes to have the book published within a year.

The manuscript asserts that the literary character Harpo Marx captures the complexity and disruption needed to be considered a literary trickster.

Fix has been presenting her book proposal at various conferences throughout the last year, including most recently the C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio, a community center in Columbus.

Kraft will present her paper The Irish Image: Cultural Identity for the Global Marketplace and chair a session entitled Erin Influence Abroad.

The entire conference explores the theme of Erin at Home, Erin Abroad: Capturing the Irish Experience.

The conference is being held in New Orleans, March 14–17, 2012.

The Individual Excellence Award program recognizes outstanding accomplishments of artists in a variety of disciplines. Submissions to the OAC undergo an open panel review conducted by nationally recognized professionals. Jenike’s Individual Excellence Award will include a grant for $5,000.

Jenike’s poems have been published in Gulf Coast, Verse, POOL, Washington Square, Sou’wester Magazine, Sonora Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her chapbook, I Dreamed Last Night I Got on the Boat to Heaven and By Some Chance I Had Brought My Dice Along, won the 2006 Susan Blalock Chapbook Contest from the Permafrost Literary Journal of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her book of poems, Ghost of Fashion, was published by CustomWords in May 2009.

Student examines rocks outside the Byrd Polar Research Center

Kim Landsbergen, an associate professor at CCAD, is having her Liberal Arts class further their understanding of scientific research by taking them to cutting-edge research centers and sites in Columbus.

The class traveled most recently to the Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) at The Ohio State University. BPRC is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research.

While there, the 20 students were able to tour the center guided by three Ph.D. candidates. They explored the U.S. Polar Rock Repository, which is a national facility that provides rock samples for research, education, and museum use.

They were also able to walk through the center’s cold storage facility. The freezer compartments in the building store ice cores at -30 to -40 degrees Celsius.

“My goal for the field trips in the ecology class is for students to see—live, in person—the vital ecological issues that are right under their noses, here in central Ohio,” said Landsbergen.

The visit was not just a one way experience. The Ph.D. candidates asked CCAD students to help them in being able to appropriately and artistically display their scientific findings.

Students bundle up in a cold storage facility

Students chimed in with suggestions including color coding satellite images based on elevation and altering displays of photographs so visitors could understand their scientific process visually.

“It is important to be involved with current scientific research and other news topics because, as artists, we have to be able to reflect what is going on in the world in order to be successful,” said Joelle Baker, senior in Fine Arts, and a participant in the BPRC trip.

The class went on a total of five trips this year.  Along with the Byrd Polar Research Center, they also visited restored ecosystems in Columbus, Franklin Park Conservatory’s Community Garden Campus, Grange Insurance Audubon Center, and SWACO, which is central Ohio’s main landfill.

“It is important for students, especially ones who are actively engaged in the creative world, to learn by doing and seeing,” said Landsbergen. “You can read about these issues all day, but it is something completely different to be able to see a landfill and the waste or talk to an actual student who has seen the glaciers they are reading about.”

Students read over comment cards in class

A Liberal Arts honor’s class at Columbus College of Art  & Design is questioning social boundaries by asking the CCAD community “who are you?”

The students are working on a semester-long project based off of the question of “who are you?” to explore the idea of boundaries, especially when it comes to identity.

The class is calling themselves “Collective Identity,” and began their project by brainstorming a topic to explore.

“We came across the topic of boundaries,” said Jeannine Kraft, assistant professor.  “We discussed internal and external boundaries from the ones you set up with friends to the boundaries between CCAD and the Columbus community.”

Boxes were places around campus with the question “who are you?”  on top. The students placed blank index cards on the boxes and awaited responses from visitors, students, faculty, and staff. The students collected the boxes after having them available to the public for two weeks.

To organize the comment cards the students went through reading the responses out loud. The cards garnered responses including laughs, winces, and collective “awes” from the students. The cards were then organized by theme ranging from drawings to confessions, to fears to announcements, to depressing memories or sultry secrets.

The comment cards will then be put together and used as a script for a performance piece. The performance will take place Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. as part of a larger group student activity and performance called the Night Market. It will take place in the a garage space on Cleveland Avenue south of the Canzani Center.

The class will also show an exhibition called Boundaries in the Design Studios on Broad gallery, Dec. 12–15 with an opening reception on Dec. 15, 7–9 p.m.

Design on endangered species condoms

There are now seven billion people on the planet and counting.

CCAD faculty member, Kim Landsbergen, who teaches in the Liberal Arts, division celebrated the birth of the seventh billionth person by talking about issues of sustainability and population growth in her classes.

Landsbergen is a member of the Center for Biological Diversity and is passing on awareness of their Seven Billion and Counting campaign to her Biomimicry and Ecology classes.

Landsbergen’s classes watched a documentary, Manufactured Landscapes, which discusses human resource consumption and land use.

After watching the film, Erin McKenna, a senior Fine Arts student, changed her purchasing patterns by reusing as many products as possible and only shopping at thrift stores.

The Center for Biological Diversity’s campaign goal is to focus on trying to manage population growth by connecting it to environmental problems. One of the campaign’s awareness projects is the Endangered Species Condoms, which they encourage participants to  pass out. The condoms have relevant  phrases such as, “wrap with care, save a polar bear,” “hump smarter, save the snail darter,” and “wear a condom now, save the spotted owl.”

“The ‘endangered species condoms’ were a far more effective way of tying together the concepts of global population and environmental integrity then lecturing,” Landsbergen said.

“I not only thought the condoms were hilarious, but they also got people talking about the issues,” added McKenna.

To learn more about the Center for Biological Diversity, visit their website.

Sample from a CCAD teaching portfolio

Several CCAD faculty were presenters at the recent Assessment in the Arts Conference in Denver, CO.

Associate Provost Char Norman, Dean of Fine Arts and Foundation Studies Julie Taggart (CCAD 1991), and Christopher Yates (CCAD 1987), chair of Foundation Studies, were among the art and academic professionals who shared their first-hand knowledge and experiences. Their presentation, Accountability and Exchange: Using Digital Portfolios for Assessment, focused on CCAD’s use, beginning in 2010, of faculty and student digital portfolios as part of its assessment process. The discussion touched upon the benefits, challenges, and opportunities inherent in the method.

Additionally, Liberal Arts’ Jeannine Kraft, chair of history of art and design, and Julie Posey, chair of science, teamed together to deliver a paper entitled Assessment in the Liberal Arts in the Art and Design College Context.

Held at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, the conference was designed to add to the body of knowledge of assessment of creative academic programs. Focal topics included improvement of student learning, how the arts can be appropriately assessed for accreditation, and techniques of providing assessment feedback.

“CCAD is thrilled to expand its creative community with its recent hires,” said Vice President of Academic Affairs Kevin Conlon.  “A focused and strategic hiring process that concluded this spring has netted the college our first choices in each search.  We’re extremely proud that CCAD is attracting this caliber of faculty. Quality attracts quality, and going forward, it’s going to be exciting to see the academic programs resonate with the diverse expertise of these new hires’ experience.”

Conlon added that he is grateful for the search committees for their hard work and diligence in the hiring process. “CCAD students will benefit from their efforts to hire the very best,” he said.

Benine received her MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA in Photography from the University of Washington. She will be an assistant professor in Media Arts.

Cesare is completing her Ph.D. in Art History this summer at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, and holds a MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons: The New School for Design and a BA in International Business from Marymount College.  She joins the Liberal Arts department as an assistant professor.

Landsbergen holds a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from the University of Washington, an MS in Ecology from Duke University and a BA in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Memphis. She will be joining the regular faculty as Associate Professor for Cross Disciplinary Studies and Sustainability Research. Her office will be in Liberal Arts, but she is charged with helping faculty to integrate science and sustainability throughout the curriculum.

Mohr holds an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons: The New School for Design and a BFA in Graphic Design from Bowling Green State University. He will serve as an assistant professor in the Visual Communications division.

Thune holds a bachelor degree in Industrial Design (BID) from Auburn University. In his more than 20 years as an industrial designer, he has completed consumer, medical, industrials, and houseware products. Thune will serve as an instructor in the Industrial and Interior Design division. Learn more about Thune on his website.

image of National University of Ireland, Galway

The National University of Ireland, Galway is the setting for the Jeannine Kraft’s next professional presentation.

Kraft, a Liberal Arts assistant professor and chair of History of Art and Design, is presenting a paper in late June at the 25th Irish Conference of Medievalists entitled “An Assessment of the Liturgical Implications of the Irish High Crosses.”

More information is available on the conference website.

Jeannine Kraft, an assistant professor in Liberal Arts, is one of 15 art history professors chosen to explore educational trends, share best practices, and discuss the needs of instructors and students. Other disciplines included in the conference are history, human development, psychology, and sociology. Each conference discipline is represented by 15 professors from schools across the country.

The teaching and learning conference in Las Vegas, NV is organized by Pearson, the publisher of CCAD’s freshman survey textbook.

Provost Anedith Nash (left) & President Dennison W. Griffith (middle) present Kelly Malec-Kosak with the CCAD Award for Teaching Excellence.

Kelly Malec-Kosak, was presented with the fifth annual Award for Teaching Excellence during a ceremony in the Canzani Center, April 21. The event, which was attended by faculty, staff, and members of the board of trustees, also honored Provost Anedith Nash, who is retiring this year along with faculty Susan Josephson and Peter Rasmussen.

The Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes the exemplary efforts of CCAD’s faculty, their overall contributions to the college as a whole, and use of classroom settings to engage and enhance student experiences. Nominations are submitted by current CCAD students, faculty and alumni.

Malec-Kosak is an associate professor in Fine Arts and Graduate Studies and the chair of Dimensional Studies, teaching jewelry/small metals and studio professions.  She has been the recipient of Cincinnati’s Individual Artist Grant and an Individual Excellence Award from Ohio Arts Council. She exhibits throughout the U.S. and her work has been featured in Metalsmith magazine.

One nominator wrote the following of Ms. Malec-Kosak: “She has taught me about current issues in the art world, how to write about my work, how to step out and become a visible artist, and how to have confidence in and speak about my work”

After the teaching award was presented, attention was turned to the faculty who, after decades of service, are retiring from CCAD. Dean Julie Taggart honored Fine Arts professor Peter Rasmussen, who teaches sculpture. His work has been exhibited in group and juried shows, and is included in a number of public and private collections, including Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, Bank One, and the Builders’ Exchange.

Liberal Arts Dean Ed Lathy honored Professor Susan Jospheson, who teaches introduction to philosophy, philosophy of visual art, and philosophy of media. She is the author of the book From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture, and co-editor of a book on artificial intelligence research, Abductive Inference; Computation, Philosophy, Technology. BA, MA and Ph.D, The Ohio State University.

REFLECT: by James Lutz Associate Professor, Advertising & Graphic Design, & Mark Burleigh, Assistant Professor, Advertising & Graphic Design

By Duncan Snyder, Associate Professor, Photography and Graduate Studies, and President of Faculty Council

Over the past year, the faculty of CCAD has worked together to describe in detail the processes we use for teaching and learning here on campus. The last step in this work was to hone all that description and detail into a sort of manifesto we call the Learning Goals. It’s just seven simple words.

Create – Communicate – Connect – Reflect – Master – Risk – Impact

Whether you attended CCAD decades ago or are studying here now, whether you’re a member of the CCAD family or a distant associate, we think you’ll recognize these words (and more importantly, the actions behind the words) as a representation of who we are, what we expect, and what we aspire to at CCAD.

I personally think of the Learning Goals as a tool—a rudder, a shield, or even a Swiss Army knife. Whether in the classroom or the individual studio, in collaboration with others or out in the community, students and professors alike can use these goals to foster the CCAD spirit. Across campus, students and faculty are discovering the power of using these ideas on a daily basis and beginning to build a collective discussion on their experiences.

But even if you never set foot on campus, I think you’ll find the Learning Goals coming to mind the next time you meet a CCAD graduate. What makes them just a little bit different? It’s these seven words.

EDITOR’S NOTE: CCAD faculty members were invited to contribute images to represent each learning goal (all images are reproduced with permission). Click any image below to see it in full.

“On the Outskirts of Vertigo” by Fix won the Louis Hammer Memorial Award for a distinguished poem in the surrealist manner. The Liberal Arts professor will go to New York in April for the awards ceremony.

According to judge David Lehman, editor in chief of the Best American Poetry series, “the poem’s regular three-line stanzas go oddly well with the strangeness of a place where gravity is routinely defied and people can ‘pass from left to right while remaining still’.”

To read “On the Outskirts of Vertigo” and some of the judge’s comments click here.

Fix also is one of four poets participating in a Community Poetry Read at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29. She will be joined by Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, Steve Abbott, Rose Smith and moderator Fred Andrle at the Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St.

Jeannine Kraft  is presenting a paper at the International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Madison, WI. The paper is entitled Patterns in the Visualization of Irish Identity: The Intersection of the Cosmopolitan and the Vernacular.  The conference runs March 30-April 2, 2011. Details are available on the conference website.

The book of poetry was inspired by Fix’s dog Bruno, and in the article, Fix mentioned she did not intend to have a dog but several years ago allowed a CCAD student to talk her into taking one of two puppies abandoned in a box on a church doorstep. After many years and many walks with Bruno, Fix said that the dog had inspired her to write more than 50 poems. While Bruno did not live to see the finished work, Fix included in the book a fitting final tribute to her friend.

Read the full article about Fix in the Clintonville edition of ThisWeek community newspapers.

The resource manual by Linda Shanahan, instructor, Liberal Arts, contains chapter outlines, examination and essay questions, and an overview of online resources, as well as the bibliography and suggested readings sections of the book. The online resources are helpful for generating in-class discussions and video presentations.

The basis for Shanahan’s manual is the book by David Raizman of Drexel University.

Lesley Jenike

Lesley Jenike, assistant professor, Liberal Arts has two poems accepted for publication in The Southern Review. The forthcoming ‘Americana’ issue will be available in the spring of 2011.

Jenike’s faculty bio is available on CCAD’s website.

When Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, assistant professor, Liberal Arts and Graduate Studies, learned of the challenge she assigned students in Contemporary Literature, Writing Poetry, and Writing Fiction classes to send in a manifesto that addressed a social issue or concern or to find ways to broadly share literature.

Bolden was “absolutely ecstatic” to receive “a slew of Yawp offerings from some bright and brilliant students at CCAD.” She wrote, “I’ve been absolutely blown away with their work, which is sophisticated and shows a sense of honesty and dedication to art and truth-speaking and sooth-saying.”

The first CCAD response that Bolden received was from Katherine Adkins. The Fine Arts senior’s work is posted online at The Yawp, a public poetry project. To read it and to understand more about “yawp” go to http://theyawp.com.

Bolden also was impressed and appreciative that Kartsonis decided to incorporate the assignment into her teaching. A thank-you note she sent to the professor said, “I’ve been so very impressed with your students’ work — they’re a wonderful group, and they’re lucky to have you as a teacher. I wish I could take your class!”

Go to CCAD faculty bios to learn more about Kartsonis.

Cover image from thebutchersthumb.blogspot.com

A book reading and signing with Robert Loss, adjunct instructor, Liberal Arts, and his co-author, will be Tuesday, Oct. 5 in Columbus.

Loss co-wrote with Greg Haas The Butcher’s Thumb, a political thriller which was released in 2010.

The free event will begin at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble’s Lennox Center store in Columbus. For store location click here.

To learn more about the book and some of its reviews visit the authors’ blog at thebutchersthumb.blogspot.com. To read Loss’s faculty bio go to www.ccad.edu.

thebutchersthumb.blogspot.com

The Butcher’s Thumb, a novel by Robert Loss, adjunct instructor, Liberal Arts, is now available on Amazon in hardcover and softcover versions.

The political thriller was written in collaboration with Greg Haas.

For more information check out the authors’ blog at http://thebutchersthumb.blogspot.com or go to Amazon’s website.

To see the current literary journal go to http://www.alimentumjournal.com.

David Burghy

David Burghy, associate professor, Foundation Studies, was presented with the fourth annual Award for Teaching Excellence during an April 29th ceremony in the Canzani Center. The award recognizes the exemplary efforts of CCAD’s faculty, their overall contributions to the college as a whole, and use of classroom settings to engage and enhance student experiences. Nominations are submitted by current CCAD students, faculty and alumni. Burghy (Industrial Design, ’89) teaches three-dimensional design and structural drawing and is co-author of Structural Drawing and Applications, 1998 and 2003 editions.

The ceremony also honored four faculty retirees: Margaret Armbrust, Ph.D., professor, Liberal Arts; Tom Kier, professor, chair, Industrial Design; Robin McKell, associate professor, Liberal Arts; and Bruce Robinson, professor, Fine Arts.

Perpetual Obsolescence is on view until Feb. 5, 2010 and a reception is 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.

Boram-Hays is a Liberal Arts adjunct instructor at CCAD.

For more information go to http://www.otterbein.edu/Art/news-events.asp.

Veritas, on display in the Main Hall Gallery, includes Julian-Norton’s sculptures made of sugar and Smith’s printmaking, drawing, and video installation.

The exhibition is on view until Jan. 30, 2010 with a closing reception from 6:30–10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.

For more information go to http://culturalartscenteronline.org/exhibits.

The gallery is open 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Or to schedule another time to visit call 614.291.8050.

Go to faculty bios on CCAD’s website for more information about the artists.

The show is at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave. in Columbus. As Mr. Winford Doke, Isaac opens the doors to his company holiday celebration and his annual reading of A Christmas Carol.

Performances are at 8 p.m. Dec. 10 , 11, 12,  and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13.

Field Corn by Sarah E. Fairchild

CCAD alumni and faculty are participating in the Ohio Art League’s 100th anniversary exhibition.

HERE and Beyond: Ohio Art League’s 100th Anniversary Exhibition, is at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe gallery in downtown Columbus.

The 16 featured artists include CCAD alumni Sandra Aska (’61-64), Mary Fahy (’94), Sarah Fairchild (’94), Curtis W.M. Goldstein (’84-’86), Brent Payne (’06), Stephanie Sypsa (’04), and Alicia Jean Vanderelli (’08); and CCAD Liberal Arts instructor Carol Boram-Hays.

The exhibition is on view through October 25, 2009.