Graphic Design Students Design Book Covers

• The students Lindsay Stokes, Megan McCleary, Andrew Kerr, Alex Ehlen, and Erin Malkowski designed book covers for various authors on the New Rivers Press.
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• Lindsay Stokes designed the cover of ‘Whiskey Heart’ by Rachel Coyne
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• Megan McCleary designed the cover for ‘Interference’ by Richard Hoffman
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• Andrew Kerr designed the cover for ‘Friends Among Stones’ by Maya Pindyck
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• Alex Ehlen designed the cover for ‘When Love Was Clean Underwear’ by Susan Barr-Toman
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• Erin Malkowski designed the cover for’ Fallibility’ by Elizabeth Oness

BA/BS Exhibition reception tonight!

Come see your fellow students exhibit their work for the BA/BS Exhibition in the MSUM Gallery. There will be an opening reception tonight, February 18th, from 4-6 pm.

The Students showing their work are:

Rachel	Brouillard
Brittany	Carlisle
Claudia	Chenard
Abbigale	Cline
Sonia	DeBenetti
Alexis	Dietz
Heather	Donarski
Hilary	Elison
Kaylyn	Gerenz
Jessica	Gloege
Elizabeth	Haugen
Danielle	Heschke
Morgan	Hoyt
Elise	Hylden
Tessie	Jones
Bridget	Kittok
Katie	Klimek
Jesse	Larson
Emi	Maezawa
Danielle	McGhan
Brok	Merrill
Katie	Monson
Bryan	Murphy
Mandee	Nyhus
Michael	Riemann
Brittnee	Tarang
Matthew	Thompson
Jennifer	Vincent
Cheryl	Wald
Benjamin	Walker
Kristen	Wann
Timothy	Wegscheid
Elizabeth	Wolf

Don Clark has Photos in PIEA Traveling Photo Exhibition

Don Clark, Professor, Art & Design, recently received an honorable mention in the faculty – portfolio category of the 2010 Photo Imaging Education Association Faculty/Student International Photography Competition.  Two of his images will be exhibited at the Photo Marketing Association Imaging 2010 Convention in Anaheim, CA February 21-23, 2010.  His work will be included in two 2010 PIEA International Traveling Photo Exhibitions that will tour major conventions, schools, colleges and museums for three years in the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The top prize-winning images will be published in Photo Marketing Magazine. Winners are also posted on the World Wide Web on the PIEA Home Page Gallery at: http://pieapma.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=74

Three Department Professors Exhibit Their Work in the McKnight Gallery

Don Clark, Professor; Lana Leishman, Assistant Professor; and Jim Park, Associate Professor, Art & Design, currently have work in the Lake Region Arts Council’s McKnight Gallery Inaugural Exhibition.   The exhibition was juried by Michael Eble, assistant professor of studio art at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

The exhibition runs from Jan11 through April 9, 2010.  The LRAC McKnight Gallery is located at 133 S. Mill St. in Fergus Falls.  Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm.  A reception will be held February 16 from 5:00-6:30pm.

Image #1

Don Clark

Donald John Morrison, Tarbert Store, Tarbert, Isle of Harris, Scotland

Digital Pigment Print

2008

Image #2

Lana Leishman

Birch Stump, Maplewood State Park, MN

Digital Pigment Print

2009

Professor Don Clark’s Photography on Display in Italy at the Palazoo Ricci

Don Clark, Professor, Art & Design, currently has a portfolio of work included in an invitational exhibition in Ascea, Italy.  The exhibition is being held in conjunction with the Parmenideum: Philosophy Retreat of Elea Italy.  The retreat has the purpose of increasing knowledge of the Eleatic School of philosophy.  The exhibition will run from February 7-13 at the Palazoo Ricci, Ascea, Italy.  Professor Clark spent five weeks photographing in Italy while on sabbatical in the spring of 2008.

Heartland Broadside for sale

The Heartland Broadside, a collaborative between local artist is now for sale at the Plains Art Museum, Total Picture Interiors Design Group, The Spirit Room and Zandbroz Variety in Fargo, the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis. The Broadsid was created by Poet Mark Vinz, Artist Carl Oltvedt, Jerry Richardson, John Volk, and Jennifer Scheur.

Bjorn Anderson Publishes an Article

Bjorn Anderson published an article titled “Achaemenid Arabia: A Landscape-Oriented Model of Cultural Interaction” in The World of Ancient Persia, ed. St. John Simpson and John Curtis London, 1B Tauris, 2010.

Excellence Scholarhip recipients presented on their artwork

Yesterday evening the excellence scholarship winners for the 2009-10 year gave presentations on their work. This event was held in the Center for Business room 111. There was a great turnout for the six students; almost all seats were filled. The six presenters collaborated to host a reception with refreshments after the presentation. In the library there is an exhibition of their work, “the faces of excellence”. The exhibition will run through Feb. 7. The recipients are: Kaylyn Gerenz (sculpture), Kellie Hames (printmaking), Chelsea Lee (ceramics), Tate Mlady (drawing), Jill Peterson (painting) and Elise Hylden (drawing).

Congratulations to all of you on your scholarships and great job on your presentations!

Lewis Burris at Gallery 4

MSUM ceramics student, Lewis Burris, is the featured artist for the month of February at Gallery 4 in downtown Fargo. There will be an artist reception for him on February 13th from 2-4pm.

Don Clark gets 2nd prize at Mpls Photo Center

An exhibition on display all this month at the Mpls Photo Center invites viewers to ponder what exactly makes a compelling portrait. Minneapolis Institute of Arts curator David Little was asked to jury the show. Little says while the portrait is as old as art itself, photography excels at the task.

No other medium offers such a direct sense of human form and psyche. And no other medium gives us the uncanny sense of being there in time and space with the subject depicted. Our vast collective archives of pictures of friends, family, and acquaintances are proof of this resilient power of the photographic image.

Little whittled down more than 1200 submissions from 232 photographers using a technique that was at once both methodical and instinctive. His first choice amongst them all is the image you see above – “Hugo” by Joseph Holmes. Taking second prize was the work of a Minnesota photographer (and MSUM Art Professor) Don Clark’s “Young Kate in Sheep Fank.”

Read the complete story at: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2010/01/mpls-photo-center-celebrates-the-portrait.shtml

Image and article taken from minnesota.publicradio.org