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Crafts continued<br />
Oct. 7 and will run through Nov. 13. Students chose objects<br />
from the Ford House collection <strong>for</strong> inspiration and then created<br />
contemporary pieces utilizing a multitude of mediums. It is an<br />
interdisciplinary class.<br />
Professor Susan Aaron-Taylor participated in a group member’s<br />
show of SWAN, Southwest Artists Network of Detroit. The opening<br />
was on Oct. 29 and runs through Dec. 10, 2011. The exhibition is<br />
located at the Mexicantown International Mercado in Detroit.<br />
Ceramic Major Sean Barber won first place in the Brighton Art<br />
Guild’s Art Harvest 2011. The exhibition ran from Oct. 14 – 23 at the<br />
Howell Opera House in downtown Howell. This is an annual Fine<br />
Art Exhibition and Scholarship Award. For more in<strong>for</strong>mation,<br />
go to www.brightonartguild.com/artharvest/php.<br />
Entertainment Arts<br />
Faculty and students attended the Ottawa International Animation<br />
Festival from Sept. 22 – 25. Entertainment Arts Senior Steve<br />
Smith was invited to screen his recent animated short GEEK DOWN<br />
at the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) in the<br />
program “Don’t Stop: Animating Hip Hop, “ which screened multiple<br />
times throughout the weekend. This year’s festival also featured<br />
“FRAMES,” an experimental mixed media short by Martin Thoburn<br />
(EA ’09), and the new Bill Plympton film “GUARD DOG GLOBAL<br />
JAM,” which included sequences animated by Jodie Hudson<br />
(EA ’07) and EA Assistant Professor Joshua Harrell.<br />
This past month, Entertainment Arts sponsored the second<br />
annual ‘Animation Rarities’ festival, a showing of classic and<br />
<strong>for</strong>gotten animated films on 35mm and 16mm film. The showing<br />
was at the Red<strong>for</strong>d Theatre, which advertised the show in the<br />
Metro Times and other publications. It was programmed and<br />
presented by Steve Stanchfield. The show was well attended<br />
by more than 600 people.<br />
Assistant Professor Steve Stanchfield recently finished an<br />
animated commercial <strong>for</strong> Vito’s Pizza, a 25-store chain in northern<br />
Ohio. Eleven current and <strong>for</strong>mer <strong>CCS</strong> students worked on various<br />
aspects of production of the spot over the summer, produced <strong>for</strong><br />
Tail<strong>for</strong>d and associates.<br />
Fine Arts<br />
Assistant Dean Vince Carducci is acting as the interim Chair of<br />
Fine Arts in addition to his duties in the Dean’s Office. A position<br />
opening has been posted and the search committee will begin its<br />
work very shortly.<br />
Carducci is well known in the fine arts community in Detroit and<br />
nationally. He has written about the fine arts <strong>for</strong> many publications,<br />
including Art<strong>for</strong>um, Art in America and Sculpture. He is the <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
editor of the Detroit Focus Quarterly, contributing editor of New<br />
Art Examiner and contributing writer on the arts <strong>for</strong> Metro Times.<br />
In 2010, he received a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship <strong>for</strong> his art<br />
criticism. He also has been an exhibiting artist with work in a<br />
number of corporate and private collections, including the Lila and<br />
Gilbert Silverman Foundation. Documentation of his per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
piece “Getting Over at the Office” (1988 – 2000) is in the Franklin<br />
Furnace Archives, now part of the Museum of Modern Art library<br />
in New York City. Carducci will maintain an office in the Fine Arts<br />
Department in the Kresge-Ford Building.<br />
Carducci will be assisted in his duties by Lisa Rigstad, who has<br />
worked at <strong>CCS</strong> <strong>for</strong> seven years as a department administrator in<br />
Photography and more recently Fine Arts. She also has taught<br />
in Fine Arts, Foundation and Photography.<br />
Carducci published an entry on the media-intervention tactic<br />
culture jamming in “The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture” (Sage,<br />
2011) and an essay on the commemorative sculpture of Marshall<br />
Fredericks in the catalog, “Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered<br />
Reality: Sixty Years with Marshall Fredericks,” which accompanies<br />
5<br />
an exhibition of the artist’s work that will travel the United States<br />
starting in January 2012. He also contributed an essay on selftaught<br />
artist Elijah Pierce <strong>for</strong> a <strong>for</strong>thcoming book on masterworks<br />
in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art.<br />
Fine Arts faculty Scott Hocking and Chido Johnson have their<br />
work on view in the exhibition “here” at the Pennsylvania Academy<br />
of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Co-curated by Detroit Institute of Arts<br />
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Becky Hart, the show<br />
acknowledges that a work of art is saturated with the artist’s<br />
concrete experience of place. “here” features 24 artists from six<br />
particular regions—Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham,<br />
Detroit and Kansas City. The exhibit challenges the idea of “regionalism”<br />
as an unfashionable term that references only the parochial or<br />
the provincial, highlighting instead the fact that many communities<br />
have begun to place greater importance on how history and place<br />
define them in a globalized world. The exhibit runs until Dec. 31.<br />
Johnson also is featured in the November issue of W magazine<br />
in the article “Detroit Motors On” by New York-based critic Linda<br />
Yablonsky, which surveys the current local art scene. Hocking<br />
also is represented in the DIA exhibition, “Detroit Revealed:<br />
Photographs, 2000-2010,” which sheds light on life in the Motor<br />
City during the past decade, a time characterized by unique<br />
challenges that continue to influence the landscape and society<br />
of Detroit in the post-automotive era.<br />
Adjunct faculty Kate Daughdrill won a $40,000 grant from<br />
Community + Public Arts Detroit <strong>for</strong> the project “Edible Hut,” to<br />
be constructed in the Osborn community in the Calimera Park<br />
in southwest Detroit. A collaboration with Kresge Arts in Detroit<br />
Assistant Director Mira Burak, the project combines elements of<br />
a traditional hut, an outdoor sculpture, a neighborhood garage<br />
and an edible garden using a collaborative process that includes<br />
a team of artists, architects, community members, youth from<br />
the neighborhood, and teachers and students from the Nsoroma<br />
Institute. Daughdrill also is represented in the Windsor Biennial,<br />
in a collaborative project with artist Narine Kchikian, on view at<br />
the Art of Gallery of Windsor until Dec. 31.<br />
Foundation<br />
Adjunct faculty Hartmut Austen is showing in the “DTW to LAX:<br />
Austen, Beasley and Shaouni” exhibition at the Butchers Daughter<br />
Gallery in Ferndale, Mich. The exhibition runs until Nov. 23, 2011.<br />
Graphic Design<br />
On Sept. 20, Adjunct Faculty Dave Buffington’s Business &<br />
Professional Practices class took a field trip to group [eX]. This<br />
included a studio tour, portfolio presentation and business review<br />
by Don Button and Doug Shimmin, principals at Elevator Design.<br />
The Advanced Visual Communication I class is participating in<br />
a sponsored project with ecoStore. They are developing a brand<br />
system, media strategy and communication strategy. Students<br />
took a field trip to ecoStore on Sept. 21 <strong>for</strong> the project kick-off and<br />
an overview of the facilities and its product development areas.<br />
Students met with Lyne Downing, vice president of operations,<br />
Charles Kaye, president, and other members of the ecoStore<br />
management and production team. On Sept. 28, the Advanced<br />
Visual Communication I students presented their initial research<br />
findings to ecoStore. The presentations to Lyne Downing and<br />
Charles Kaye included a 15-minute digital presentation by the<br />
six teams and six books documenting the research of each team.<br />
Graphic Design students in the Practicum class are working with<br />
Compuware on a sponsored project where they are researching,<br />
designing, prototyping and developing sets of connected customer<br />
experiences that break from Compuware’s traditional user experience.<br />
The kick-off <strong>for</strong> this project was held at <strong>CCS</strong> on Sept. 7, 2011.<br />
Students visited Compuware on Sept. 21 to tour the facility as<br />
well as receive a product overview and project goals overview. In<br />
attendance were Bob Paul, CEO; Mark Hillman, vice president of