st. lawrence university: department of fine arts

Required reading (viewing) for those nervous about graduating, or any other human for that matter:

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Our annual juried student show, this year titled BE(COM)ING, and juried by Dave Beck, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Clarkson University was a big success and lots of people showed for the opening!

Below are some images from the opening reception:

April 9 – 22, 2009

Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Artist’s lecture by David Beck, juror
Opening reception to follow

For this year’s juried exhibition, students were asked to create up to four works that explored the concept of be(com)ing.

David Beck teaches digital art at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, and has shown his work extensively throughout the United States. His artwork is featured in the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (John & Levi, 2006), the first volume entirely dedicated to game art.

The department of fine arts presents the student exhibitions with assistance from the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment Fund and the gallery’s Barnes Endowment Fund.

AMY ATKINS '10

Amy Atkins ‘10, Fine Art and Environmental Studies double major, just received word that she will be at internationally renowned Penland School of Crafts this summer to study a variety of cold glass working techniques in a class led by artist Judith Schaetcher. Amy was awarded a student work-study scholarship to attend.

Congratulations Amy!!

After adventures in Japan and back in the states, Lee Welch ‘06 is off to Smith College to get her MSW degree!

Lee writes:
“Just recently I made my final decision and will be starting at the Smith College School for Social Work on June 1st. It is a wonderful school and a great program and I am thrilled to have this opportunity! I am very excited- in just two months I will be starting grad school. YIKES!!!

One of the reasons I am so excited about attending the Social Work program at Smith College is because it has a very unique schedule. This summer I will study on the Smith campus (with about 100 first years and 300 total social work students) during which an entire years worth of coursework is squeezed into 10 weeks…. and then from September through May, I will have a field placement. For my first internship, I have requested to be placed in either a school setting or a facility working with children and families. Smith’s program focuses on Clinical Social Work, so I know that wherever I am placed, it will provide me with a strong clinical background. ”

Best of luck, Lee!!!

It has been a long time since I have posted here…. my apologies. I am maintaining a ton of blogs, for courses and other SLU-related things at this point, and this one has suffered.

I am writing to announce that SAM GOETZ IS COMING!!
Sam will arrive in Canton on Thursday, Feb 26 to do a super-8 experimental film project with the Senior Seminar students. The project is in the same vein as straight 8. This should be super fun!

At 7pm on Thursday February 26 in GR 123, Sam will show some of his short films, including BRUNO, which has screened internationally thorough various independent film festivals. Afterward, we will have a friendly and casual discussion with this young film maker and recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School.  Please join us!

Correction: David Rees will be visiting campus NOVEMBER 19, 2008, not November 11 as was announced earlier. Please see the previous (corrected) post for more details.

DAVID REES, visiting artist, November 19, 2008, Griffiths 123, 7pm

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The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, with support from several SLU departments and programs, is pleased to present a return lecture presentation by David Rees, author of the well-known syndicated comic series, Get Your War On and Get Your War On II.  The lecture will be presented on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, in Griffiths Room 123 at 7:00 p.m.

David’s newest book, Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror 2001-2008, is hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most original cartoon to emerge since… well ever.  Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious, despairing, and impossible to pigeonhole” while Comedy Central writes that David Rees is “the Thomas Nast of the Internet.”

Matt Taibbi writes in his introduction the book,

“[Get Your War On] is a tale of a guy pacing back and forth in his pajamas in his New York home, trying to find his way back to humor, only to keep getting dragged back down by disgust and mortification over the state of things in “War on Terrorism” America.  It’s an honest portrait of who we were, written in a time when no one else had the guts to tell the truth about ourselves.  Get Your War On exposes us as the cowardly, self-pitying, half-educated violence addicts that we are — and exposes the “War on Terrorism” as a pathetic excuse to cosmetically enhance our flagging self-esteem, a national boob job that didn’t come close to looking real and will only look worse as we get older.”

You can learn more about David Rees and his work at http://www.mnftiu.cc/.

According to the author, Get Your War On will be retired after this year’s Presidential election, so David is calling his final presentations “post-election post-mortems.”

All author royalties from the Get Your War On books are donated to the Mine Detection & Dog Center Team #5, which clears land mines and unexploded ordnance in western Afghanistan.

***The presentation will undoubtedly include swear words, so parents, please check David’s Web site before you consider letting your children attend.***

Check it out!!
And please send any information that you get from former students/alum to Lucia Bonsack at labons06@stlawu.edu.

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St. Lawrence University Department of Fine Arts 2008-2009 presents:

Wednesday October 15, 2008 at 7:30pm Griffiths 123
Dr. Marla Berns, Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA will present her lecture:

DR. MARLA BERNS - Africa on My Mind, The Arts of Magdalene Oduno and Renee Stout

Free Admission. Open to the Public
Supported by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for the Fine Arts.