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44 INNOVATION (top to bottom) Aaron McIntosh; Mark Sanders; Shadra Strickland; and Eva Wiley, Embedded Threads, silkscreen on the wall, installation at Gallery Joe, 2010. New Faculty Faces as ProGramminG exPands aCross CamPus, so has the number of full-time faculty members who have joined the College’s roster of instructors during the 2011-12 school year. Coming from world-renowned, wide-ranging, successful careers as artists, designers, and educators, the new freshman class of faculty includes: Curatorial Practice Jeffry Cudlin has worked as an artist, critic, educator, and curator. He often uses performance, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and parody to create opportunities for awkward encounters. In his most recent project, By Request at Washington, DC’s Flashpoint Gallery, Cudlin used polling data to create what he claimed was the ideal art exhibition—featuring only images of himself. Cudlin also served as director of exhibitions for the Arlington Arts Center for the past five years and is a freelance art critic for The Washington Post and Washington City Paper. Foundation Stephen Hendee produces ambitious sculpture and installation works for art museums and public commissions inspired by architecture and speculative fiction literature. Hendee’s work has been shown at SculptureCenter, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 in New York. Ulric Joseph, Jr. ’99 ’00 studied computer science at the University of the West Indies and left the Caribbean to receive a BA in painting and an MFA in Digital Art from MICA on a scholarship. He has exhibited extensively in America, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. Joseph combines diverse elements to create highly evocative pieces that speak to the human condition in the digital age. Aaron McIntosh grew up in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, where his family’s economic challenges and domestic activities such as quilt making have figured largely in his visual vocabulary. His work explores the intersections of material culture, family tradition, and identity-shaping. His teaching experience includes positions as adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University and as the fiber area head at James Madison University. Graphic Design Sandra Maxa is a graphic designer and educator with an extensive background in typography and systems design. Maxa worked on corporate branding projects in Minneapolis and with publishing clients in New York before forming the multidisciplinary studio, Q Collective. Maxa has taught visual studies, typography, and publication design at Rutgers University, Parsons The New School for Design, and Pratt Institute. Mark Sanders worked as a project designer and manager of large-scale hotel projects in Atlanta before choosing to earn an MFA in Visual Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University. Sanders has taught identity, systems, and publication design at Rutgers University, experimental typography at Parsons The New School of Design, and typography, design, and technology at Pratt Institute. Illustration Shadra Strickland has worked as a teacher, book designer, and artist’s assistant along her artistic path. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in 2009 for her first picture book, Bird, written by Zetta Elliott, and co-illustrated Our Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She also illustrated A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, a story of four children in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina written by Renee Watson, as well as White Water, which tackles the subject of segregation in the Jim Crow South. Deanna Staffo ’03 is a Philadelphia-based illustrator whose work has been recognized by American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators West and The Altpick Awards (2nd place in Series Illustration). Her work has been published in the Communication Arts Fresh List (August 2005) and Taschen’s Illustration Now!. She received her BFA in illustration with honors from MICA, where she later taught sophomore and junior illustration students. She also teaches junior illustration majors at The University of the Arts. Printmaking Eva Wylie’s work juxtaposes organic imagery with images that intimate how humanity and its detritus merge into the natural world. She was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007 and is a 2006 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant recipient. Wylie was a member of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia for six years and has upcoming exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and Space 1026.
School for Professional and Continuing Studies Open House Monday, November 28—Thursday, December 1, 5-7 pm School for Professional and Continuing Studies, 1229 W. Mount Royal Ave. eaCh eveninG from 5-8 Pm, come meet faculty, visit classes, tour facilities, and learn more about MICA’s School for Professional and Continuing Studies courses and program offerings. Please visit www.mica.edu/SPCS for more information. Graduate Open House Sunday, November 13, 9:30 am-3:30 pm Campuswide; sign in at Brown Center: Leidy Atrium, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave. the CamPus Will be oPen to allow prospective graduate students to meet program directors and enrolled students, tour graduate facilities, and learn how MICA’s graduate and post-baccalaureate study can help achieve career goals. All attendees must pre-register at www.mica.edu/gradopenhouse. “I can’t even begin to thank my scholarship donors enough for everything they have done for me and my family. Because of their kindness, I will be able to finish my education.” — James Bouché ’12 Master of Professional Studies (MPS) Open House Friday, December 2, 4-6 pm Main Building, Room 110, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave. YOUR SUPPORT EMPOWERS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WHO WILL CHANGE THE WORLD. EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS 45 meet faCulty and learn more about MICA’s Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree programs—the MPS in The Business of Art and Design, and the MPS in Information Visualization that will be offered in September 2012 (for more information see page 12). National Portfolio Day Sunday, December 4, 9 am-5 pm Campuswide rePresentatives from more than 50 leading art colleges and universities will be at MICA to review high school students’ artwork, discuss educational and professional goals, and share information about programs, careers, admissions, and financial aid. For more information, visit www.mica.edu/portfolioday. Join the growing family of MICA donors and support students like James at www.mica.edu/give or return the enclosed envelope.
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