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Kresge Arts in Detroit continued Kresge Artist Fellowships annually, each consisting of a $25,000 award and customized professional practice opportunities by ArtServe Michigan for metropolitan Detroit artists. Please note: Applications in the visual arts will be available in the fall of 2012. For more information on the Kresge Artist Fellowships, to apply or to RSVP for an upcoming Information Session, please visit www.kresgeartsindetroit.org. Advertising Design Seniors in adjunct faculty Larry August’s DAD 433 Television Commercial Production course began the semester with a visit to an actual commercial shoot for agency Simon Michelson Zieve and its client the Michigan Lottery on Sept. 8. Students were able to observe and speak with the director, assistant director, cameramen, actors and technicians as well as SMZ art directors, creative directors and art buyers. Eight students from adjunct faculty Maureen Evans’ DAD 485A Get Famous: Social Media & Celebrity course attended the TedX Detroit conference, an independently produced offspring of the annual California TED gathering of big brains and cool creators, on Sept. 28. More than 20 Advertising Department students and faculty members attended the Sept. 22 talk at the Fillmore by creatives from agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. The talk by Goodby Silverstein & Partners design superstars Rich Silverstein, Keith Anderson and Christian Haas was part of the Detroit Design Festival. Chair Mark Zapico and Professor Ryan Ansel, along with chairs and faculty from Product Design and Photography, met with Howard Lichter from Nike regarding a sponsored project that involves collaboration between the Advertising, Photography and Product Design departments for the Winter 2012 semester. Judging for the annual Detroit “D” Awards took place in the Advertising Department at CCS on Oct. 14. The judges were Tim Case, founder/managing partner at Supply & Demand Integrated; Curt Detweiler, executive vice president/executive creative director for McCann Erickson North America; Minda Gralnek, chief creative officer, Minda Gralnek and Company (and former vice president/ creative director at Target Corporation); and Chiwei Lee, strategist at Facebook. Eighteen of 25 pieces that were entered for CCS Advertising students were selected as finalists. The D Show Awards will be presented at the “D” Show on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the Max Fisher Center. Ryan Ansel’s DAD 422 Senior Advertising Studio II students are working on advertising campaigns for a competition for the Cell Phones for Soldiers charity. CPFS collects used cell phones and accessories for recycling then uses the funds to purchase phone cards for soldiers stationed overseas to call home and stay in touch with family and friends. As a tie-in, the department asked the student leaders in the department (Student Government reps and Ad Society officers) to organize a cell phone collection drive on campus that will run through November. On Sept. 28, Senior Account Planners Melanie Reynolds and Jessica Perry from Leo Burnett reviewed the students’ strategy statements and Richard Roy, director and consultant with Digital Images, critiqued student presentations on resurrecting Zombie brands — the “walking dead” …old, tired, limping along, the initial assignment in adjunct faculty Brad Phillips’ DAD 421 Senior Advertising Studio I course. Susan Hovsepian, executive director of the Beatrice & Reymont Paul Foundation, met with Department Chair Mark Zapico and adjunct faculty Greg Moy on Oct. 7 to discuss the Foundation’s continuing financial support of the Advertising Department through its scholarship and Creative Emergency Relief Fund. Zapico and Department Administrator Laura Zimmerman joined Multicultural Affairs Director Cliff Harris in meeting with advertising agency Campbell-Ewald to discuss the launch of the C-E CITY 4 (Creatively Inspiring Talented Youth) program, collaboration between the agency, CCS and Youthville to introduce Detroit high school students to the world of advertising. Representatives for the Adcraft Club of Detroit visited the department on Oct. 4 to explain the club’s mission and activities to students and invite them to join at a special half-off membership rate. Campbell-Ewald Interactive Art Director Christina D’Aristotile and Account Coordinator Jennifer Wolff along with Doner copywriter Bruna Camargo (AD ‘11) and Associate Creative Director Nick Allen were the guest speakers. Department Administrator Laura Zimmerman arranged for Advertising students and adjunct faculty Greg Moy to join her in attending the Oct. 17 meeting of the Detroit Economic Club. They had a private reception with guest speaker Shelly Lazarus, chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies. CCS students in attendance were seniors Brian Mekjian and David Kazaryan and juniors Joni Osuga, Christian Mulligan, Natasha Guimond, Mazen Ghamlouch and Jack Douglas. Art Education Art Education Chair Nancy Lausch and Department Coordinator Sherry Fredericks attended the Michigan Department of Education 2011 Certification Update Meeting on Sept. 28, held in Lansing, Mich. Lausch and Fredericks also attended the State of Michigan DARTEP meeting on Oct. 7, in Spring Arbor, Mich., along with other directors and representatives of Teacher Education Programs. Lausch also attended a quarterly MITPPI meeting in Lansing and also participated in a joint professional development day with HFA: SCS administration and faculty. Lausch has secured six partners (adjunct faculty and outside artists) for HFA: SCS for 6 – 11 grades special projects including: quilt making, creativity in the work place, and artist contributions to their community. Current Art Education student Nichole Thompson attended Repair Days Weekend, sponsored by the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tenn., and volunteered 18 hours in the kids tent working one-on-one with customers and ring-making activities. Erin Maday, Abby Hoot and Bailey Smith completed their Service Learning projects at Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Eton Academy and Clarkston High School. Five student teachers have completed their elementary teaching and are moving into their secondary teaching. Twelve students are completing their field experience at HFA:SCS this semester. Crafts On Oct. 6, Professor Susan Aaron-Taylor’s Fiber Major’s Studio took a field trip to the Elaine Jacobs Gallery on Wayne State University’s campus to view the Jim Hay quilting show. The large figurative quilts feature imagery and fabrics merging Japanese and American cultures. On Oct. 13, Gypsy Modina (CR ’98) visited Fiber Design Majors Studio. Modina, a Honda Color and Trim Designer from California, presented a power point demonstrating creative portfolio preparation for industry. Her lecture was followed by an afternoon of student portfolio critiques. On Oct. 27, Brittany Campbell, second-year graduate student in Fiber Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, presented a sculptural pattern making workshop to Aaron-Taylor’s Major’s Studio class. The students deconstructed plush toys, made tape molds of the toys, and deconstructed the molds to use as patterns to make multiples for future pieces. Campbell will be returning next semester to teach a pleating and draping workshop. Aaron-Taylor’s Art& Artifact class exhibited their final work in an exhibition, entitled “Artifact, A Blending of Art and Artifact,” at Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. 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Crafts continued Oct. 7 and will run through Nov. 13. Students chose objects from the Ford House collection for inspiration and then created contemporary pieces utilizing a multitude of mediums. It is an interdisciplinary class. Professor Susan Aaron-Taylor participated in a group member’s show of SWAN, Southwest Artists Network of Detroit. The opening was on Oct. 29 and runs through Dec. 10, 2011. The exhibition is located at the Mexicantown International Mercado in Detroit. Ceramic Major Sean Barber won first place in the Brighton Art Guild’s Art Harvest 2011. The exhibition ran from Oct. 14 – 23 at the Howell Opera House in downtown Howell. This is an annual Fine Art Exhibition and Scholarship Award. For more information, go to www.brightonartguild.com/artharvest/php. Entertainment Arts Faculty and students attended the Ottawa International Animation Festival from Sept. 22 – 25. Entertainment Arts Senior Steve Smith was invited to screen his recent animated short GEEK DOWN at the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) in the program “Don’t Stop: Animating Hip Hop, “ which screened multiple times throughout the weekend. This year’s festival also featured “FRAMES,” an experimental mixed media short by Martin Thoburn (EA ’09), and the new Bill Plympton film “GUARD DOG GLOBAL JAM,” which included sequences animated by Jodie Hudson (EA ’07) and EA Assistant Professor Joshua Harrell. This past month, Entertainment Arts sponsored the second annual ‘Animation Rarities’ festival, a showing of classic and forgotten animated films on 35mm and 16mm film. The showing was at the Redford Theatre, which advertised the show in the Metro Times and other publications. It was programmed and presented by Steve Stanchfield. The show was well attended by more than 600 people. Assistant Professor Steve Stanchfield recently finished an animated commercial for Vito’s Pizza, a 25-store chain in northern Ohio. Eleven current and former CCS students worked on various aspects of production of the spot over the summer, produced for Tailford and associates. Fine Arts Assistant Dean Vince Carducci is acting as the interim Chair of Fine Arts in addition to his duties in the Dean’s Office. A position opening has been posted and the search committee will begin its work very shortly. Carducci is well known in the fine arts community in Detroit and nationally. He has written about the fine arts for many publications, including Artforum, Art in America and Sculpture. He is the former editor of the Detroit Focus Quarterly, contributing editor of New Art Examiner and contributing writer on the arts for Metro Times. In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship for his art criticism. He also has been an exhibiting artist with work in a number of corporate and private collections, including the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Foundation. Documentation of his performance piece “Getting Over at the Office” (1988 – 2000) is in the Franklin Furnace Archives, now part of the Museum of Modern Art library in New York City. Carducci will maintain an office in the Fine Arts Department in the Kresge-Ford Building. Carducci will be assisted in his duties by Lisa Rigstad, who has worked at CCS for seven years as a department administrator in Photography and more recently Fine Arts. She also has taught in Fine Arts, Foundation and Photography. Carducci published an entry on the media-intervention tactic culture jamming in “The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture” (Sage, 2011) and an essay on the commemorative sculpture of Marshall Fredericks in the catalog, “Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall Fredericks,” which accompanies 5 an exhibition of the artist’s work that will travel the United States starting in January 2012. He also contributed an essay on selftaught artist Elijah Pierce for a forthcoming book on masterworks in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Fine Arts faculty Scott Hocking and Chido Johnson have their work on view in the exhibition “here” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Co-curated by Detroit Institute of Arts Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Becky Hart, the show acknowledges that a work of art is saturated with the artist’s concrete experience of place. “here” features 24 artists from six particular regions—Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit and Kansas City. The exhibit challenges the idea of “regionalism” as an unfashionable term that references only the parochial or the provincial, highlighting instead the fact that many communities have begun to place greater importance on how history and place define them in a globalized world. The exhibit runs until Dec. 31. Johnson also is featured in the November issue of W magazine in the article “Detroit Motors On” by New York-based critic Linda Yablonsky, which surveys the current local art scene. Hocking also is represented in the DIA exhibition, “Detroit Revealed: Photographs, 2000-2010,” which sheds light on life in the Motor City during the past decade, a time characterized by unique challenges that continue to influence the landscape and society of Detroit in the post-automotive era. Adjunct faculty Kate Daughdrill won a $40,000 grant from Community + Public Arts Detroit for the project “Edible Hut,” to be constructed in the Osborn community in the Calimera Park in southwest Detroit. A collaboration with Kresge Arts in Detroit Assistant Director Mira Burak, the project combines elements of a traditional hut, an outdoor sculpture, a neighborhood garage and an edible garden using a collaborative process that includes a team of artists, architects, community members, youth from the neighborhood, and teachers and students from the Nsoroma Institute. Daughdrill also is represented in the Windsor Biennial, in a collaborative project with artist Narine Kchikian, on view at the Art of Gallery of Windsor until Dec. 31. Foundation Adjunct faculty Hartmut Austen is showing in the “DTW to LAX: Austen, Beasley and Shaouni” exhibition at the Butchers Daughter Gallery in Ferndale, Mich. The exhibition runs until Nov. 23, 2011. Graphic Design On Sept. 20, Adjunct Faculty Dave Buffington’s Business & Professional Practices class took a field trip to group [eX]. This included a studio tour, portfolio presentation and business review by Don Button and Doug Shimmin, principals at Elevator Design. The Advanced Visual Communication I class is participating in a sponsored project with ecoStore. They are developing a brand system, media strategy and communication strategy. Students took a field trip to ecoStore on Sept. 21 for the project kick-off and an overview of the facilities and its product development areas. Students met with Lyne Downing, vice president of operations, Charles Kaye, president, and other members of the ecoStore management and production team. On Sept. 28, the Advanced Visual Communication I students presented their initial research findings to ecoStore. The presentations to Lyne Downing and Charles Kaye included a 15-minute digital presentation by the six teams and six books documenting the research of each team. Graphic Design students in the Practicum class are working with Compuware on a sponsored project where they are researching, designing, prototyping and developing sets of connected customer experiences that break from Compuware’s traditional user experience. The kick-off for this project was held at CCS on Sept. 7, 2011. Students visited Compuware on Sept. 21 to tour the facility as well as receive a product overview and project goals overview. In attendance were Bob Paul, CEO; Mark Hillman, vice president of
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