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Dean Kimberly Leonard and Gill Holland (Founder, Portland Investment Initiative) gave a tour of the new MFA building to President Neeli Bendapudi. We're so excited! For more information, visit: http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/growwest/mfa

#‎WeAreUofL‬

Leslie Friesen, a faculty member in our graphic design BFA program, will be giving one talk and one workshop during AIGA Louisville Design Week 2018, September 10-14. Her talk on "Design Process—A Missing Step," on Monday, September 10, at 12:30 in the Hite's Schneider Hall Gallery X. Her "InDesign Tips & Tricks, v2018" workshop is being hosted by Power Agency, Thursday, September 13, at 12:30.

A number of the Design Week presenters are also alums of our graphic design program, including:

// Morgan Plappert (BFA 2015) and Ben Wilson of Via Studio: Wireframing with Soul (and Purpose)
// Deryn Joy (BFA 2018): How Design School Changed my Life.
// Carrie Donovan (BFA 2016), Andy Perez, and Joshua Nicholson: Art Work: Thoughts on art, design, and life.
// Jessica Bellamy (BFA 2012): Doodle Agriculture: An augmented reality experience.

In addition, two of our alums, Jaclyn Mullin (BFA 2007) and Matt Zoeller (BFA 2015) are part of the AIGA leadership making this all happen. For more information about Design Week visit AIGA Louisville Design Week 2018.

Luke Parker (Graphic Design ℅ 2019) received the 2018 SIGUCCS Communication “Award of Excellence” for his CardBox Departmental Folders animation, done during his internship in UofL’s Performance Improvement & Business Analytics office.

SIGUCCS is the Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Each year ACM SIGUCCS sponsors a competition to honor the best publications, websites and promotional material produced by university and college centers. It is a highly competitive, international, peer-juried competition recognizing excellence in developing useful and attractive communications in a variety of media categories. •

The category for this specific award provides an opportunity to specifically recognize and reward the creativity and professionalism of our students. The judges look at the function of promotional materials and digital publications in order to increase the visibility of IT services and information about special projects.

Check out the video of this animation at https://vimeo.com/266751549

@lpgraphix #graphicdesign#studentwork#awardofexcellence#universityoflouisville @uoflasthinker @universityoflouisville

Meena Khalili, Assistant Professor of Design, will be showing her work Typo/Topo at Sheherazade Gallery in Old Louisville, August 25–Sept 28.

"TYPO / TOPO is a rotating digital projection that also resists being read. Fragments of words appear and then dissipate. Recognizable forms such as letters and architectural shapes move constantly across three multi-faceted plains, which further distort the images. These sculptural screens were developed by Khalili as an exploration of mapping both geographic terrain and volumetric sound waves."

[read the rest of the press release and find more information about Sheherazade at www.sheherazade.org/5-meena-khalil-upcoming ]

Carrie Donovan (BFA in Graphic Design, 2016) has been promoted to Design Manager at the Speed Art Museum, where she will lead the design team's effort to have a consistent brand across print, digital, and environmental design projects, all with the goal of celebrating the art and inviting our community to the Speed.

Congratulations!

Matt Weir (BFA 2004) has completed a commission of a 7-foot statue of Colonel William (Will) Oldham (1753-1791) for Oldham County. Congratulations!
Oldham County was named for Colonel William Oldham, a Revolutionary War patriot, and early pioneer.

For more information about this project, visit
https://www.louisvillevisualart.org/…/vignette-matt-weirs-s…
http://www.oldhamcountyky.gov/colonel-william-oldham-statue

To view Matt Wier's work, visit his website at
http://mweirworks.com/

Matt Weir is also one of the three co-founders of Fall Arts Foundry.
http://fallsartfoundry.com

Falls Art Foundry @mpweir #sculpture#oldhamsculpture#WillOldham#bonniePrinceBilly#bronze#ContemporaryStatues#mattweir@fallsartfoundry

Katelyn Brown (BFA in Interior Design, 2018) is an Interior Designer at Set The Stage, an interior design studio in Louisville. Her team won the first place/best design award at 2018 Homearama, an annual event that showcases custom built new homes representing the latest building trends, technology and interior design in Louisville. Very proud of our Interior Design alums. Congratulations!

Cecelia Perez (BFA in Interior Architecture, 2011) is an interior designer for Royal Caribbean International. She is the Venue Coordinator for Public Venues as well as Crew Areas & Cabins for Celebrity Cruises in Miami, Florida.

Hite Alumnus 2016 Kevin Warth is featured on Ruckus Louisville for a show review titled, "Breaking the Mold," for the exhibition "Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender at the Speed Art Museum." Warth focuses on two “particularly powerful” sub-themes in a curatorial and conceptual manner to discuss the “important perspectives on issues of gender and sexuality and challenge how we conceive of these ideas.”

Read the article here
https://ruckuslouisville.com/Breaking-the-Mold

Image: Tavares Strachan, "What Will Be Remembered in the Face of All That is Forgotten," 2014-2015. Neon, pyrex, stainless steel, transformers, steel wires, cable. Gift of Speed Contemporary. Image courtesy of Tavares Strachan. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

Julie Leidner (BFA 2006) is in a group exhibition at El Museo de Los Sures in Brooklyn, NY. Julie also received the 2018 Artist-in-Residence grant from the Great Meadows Foundation.

The exhibition, entitled "Scrims & Blurs," featuring current Residency Unlimited artists Kinu Kamura (France), Julie Leidner (USA), Mads Lindberg (Denmark) and Theresa Volpp (Germany), is curated by Paul D'Agostino. 

Professor of Graphic Design, Meena Khalili has been invited to serve on the esteemed AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee. This national committee is comprised of 13 dedicated design educators who represent diverse institutions and geographic regions across the nation, all of whom have undergone an extensive application process. This group is charged by the AIGA national office to provide service and leadership to the Design Education Community.

This week professor Chris Reitz (Critical and Curatorial Studies) was interviewed by WHAS and WDRB news about his role on the Louisville Public Monuments Commission and their recommendations to the mayor regarding Louisville's most contested public sculptures.

http://www.wdrb.com/…/mayors-committee-finds-no-place-for-c…
https://www.whas11.com/…/public-art-committee…/417-569541242

Reception for "Visiting Artist Open House - Miller / Weeks"

New work by Douglas Miller (MFA 2018) and Karen Weeks (MFA student), at Lenihan-Sotheby's at 3803 Brownsboro Road, on Thursday, July 12, 5-7:30 pm.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/180933526085468/

Image: work by Douglas Miller and Karen Weeks

Layne Wegenast (Art History major) and Bailey Koval (Liberal Studies major) are participating in the 2018 Hong Kong Exchange Program taking place July 3 through August 3. This five-week program provides students the opportunity to study at the Academy of Visual Art at the Hong Kong Baptist University. This exchange program is sponsored by the Hite Art Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The program combines classes, field trips, and cultural activities. The classes provide unique opportunities for students to learn cross-culturally, as local Hong Kong students, Mainland Chinese students and international students from around the world enroll in integrated classrooms.

Image: Layne Wegenast and Bailey Koval at the Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island.

This week professor Chris Reitz (Critical and Curatorial Studies) was interviewed by WHAS and WDRB news about his role on the Louisville Public Monuments Commission and their recommendations to the mayor regarding Louisville's most contested public sculptures.

http://www.wdrb.com/…/mayors-committee-finds-no-place-for-c…
https://www.whas11.com/…/public-art-committee…/417-569541242

Jessica Bellamy (BFA 2012, in 2-D Studio and Graphic Design) will give a talk at the Governor School for the Arts at Centre College on "Access, Design, and Community" on July 3.

John Haley (BFA 2015) is featured in UofL Magazine's Spotlight:

Hite Art Institute alumnus John Haley was tasked with a big job right after graduation: take an iconic, but dated, fast food restaurant design and make it modern, inviting and as fresh as the fish they serve.

Haley, the brand director for development at Long John Silver’s, used his architecture and interior design skills to completely redesign the flagship Long John Silver’s in east Louisville. Gone are the wooden planks reminiscent of a seafood shack; they’ve been swapped out for a contemporary design that Haley hopes evoke a coastal fishing experience.

“The challenge was to make us stand out,” Haley said. “We wanted everything from the design to the furniture to be simple, direct and comfortable.” Haley, who earned degrees in communication and interior design, incorporated cutting-edge technology for the menu boards and drive-thru, and included modern furniture with a nautical twist. He also added a Kentucky touch by using a local artist to paint a mural on the side of the building.

“My goal is to make this restaurant homegrown and relevant to the community,” he said.

Alex O'Keefe (BFA 2014) receives the Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Yale University. She will work and conduct research in the Haas Art Library and Yale Center for British Art Library. Congratulations!

Lawrence Tobe (BA 1954, MA 1957) is having a solo show at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA. The exhibition "Lawrence Tobe: Exploring the Present Through the Past” is currently on view from June 11 to July 25 in the Price-Campbell & Mittiga Galleries.

http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/…/article_e68be6b7-ea84-5…

Professor Kate Byun exhibited her design and research work titled “ third place driven from place attachment” in Korea. She also had talked about the exhibition and human-centered design to Architecture and Interior Architecture students at Halla University and Inje University, Korea.