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Design for Interaction students in Professor Meena Khalili’s class met with designers Carrie Donovan and Andy Perez of the Speed Museum creative team this morning as they begin an interactive exhibition project incorporating the Speed’s gallery spaces.

Amber Kleitz, BFA Graphic Design 2018, defended her Senior Honors Thesis. Her topic — Prescription Design for the Impaired — looks at current and potential designs to make managing prescription medications easier and safer for people living with visual, physical or cognitive impairment. She researched current options including visual design, physical design, and speculative design. March 2018.

Today in Printmaking Visiting Artist Patrick Vincent shared his work and critiqued with students! With his foundation in books, printmaking, and design, Patrick creates original works of art as well as collaborates with individuals through print media. Presently, Patrick is the Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.

Overshadowed, a photographic exhibition directed by Hite Professor Mary Carothers and British artists Brian and Gareth McClave is currently on display at DC 1 Gallery in Eastbourne, England. The images are the result of 18 photographers who documented the shadow on the moon as it passed over the American continent on August 21, 2017. Among the photographers included in this exhibition are Hite Professors Mary Carothers and Mitch Eckert, Professor of Astronomy Benne Holwerda, current Photography MFA student Zed Saeed, and Hite alums Mary Yates, Kesi Wermuth, Jimmy DeVore and Vaughn Corum.

This March, the University of Louisville’s Cressman Center for Visual Arts is hosting work by the artist collective For Freedoms. The group is the first artist-run Super PAC (“Political Action Committee”), an organization that raises money in support for or against a political cause, but cannot directly support a candidate.

As part of the Cressman Center’s “New Monuments” series, the exhibition will display For Freedoms’ Make America Great Again billboard, a large-scale work that superimposes the slogan from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign over a well-known image from the Selma, Alabama “Bloody Sunday” civil rights protest. This was one of many billboards that For Freedoms installed all over the US during the last presidential election (including in nearby Lexington, KY) in order to provoke conversations about art and political action. The work is part of a larger national campaign that investigates the relationship between art and speech, aesthetics and politics, and design and propaganda. For this iteration of “New Monuments” the Cressman Center will be reimagined as a campaign headquarters, and the exhibition will be punctuated by Thursday presentations that grapple with many of the For Freedoms’ themes (please visit http://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions for a schedule).

For Freedoms was founded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, and now also includes a core team of five — Elizabeth Baribeau, Michelle Woo, Taylor Brock, Emma Nuzzo and Evan Blaise Walsh — and a growing network of over 140 contributing artists and hundreds of institutions nationwide.

Professor of Painting Tiffany Calvert participated in a panel discussion after the Bunbury Theatre Company's Sunday performance of Red, a play by John Logan about midcentury painter Mark Rothko. Also on the panel was Bryan Warren, Director of the Louisville Metro Office for Globalization.

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce
Dan Cameron
Great Meadows Foundations inaugural Critic in Residence

Dan Cameron is a New York-based independent curator, art writer, and educator who is currently Artistic Director of Open Spaces, a biennial of visual and performing arts that will run in Kansas City, MO, from late August to late October 2018. He was Curator of the 2016 Bienal de Cuenca in Ecuador (Nov 2016- Feb 2017), which featured 47 artists from 20 countries. He is also known for being the founder of Prospect New Orleans, an organization he ran from 2006-2011—a period when he was also Director of Visual Arts for New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts Center (CAC).

ID Junior studio had final presentation about Urgent Care Center in Professor Kate’s class. 8 professionals (commercial inteior designers, residential interior designers, architectural specialists, a ADA & Code reviewer and a branding environmental designer) came to the presentation. Sophomores also had a chance to learn about design presentations and network with juniors and professionals.

Professor Jongwoo Jeremy Kim presented his paper "Bathers and Lotus Eaters" in the Linda Nochlin Memorial Session (February 22) at the College Art Association's 106th Annual Conference in Los Angeles. Professor Kim discussed Nochlin’s writings on bathing and queer notions of “tomb/womb” in the works by Richard Hamilton, Frida Kahlo, and Robert Gober. Professors Patricia Mainardi (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Peter Kalb (Brandeis University) also spoke during the Memorial Session, which was organized by the Women's Caucus for Art.

The Graphic Design Portfolio class learned about life at a dynamic digital agency. Thanks for hosting the field trip Leap Agency Life. Senior Art Director Keith Adams (Hite graphic design alum), Lead Creative Sarah Powers, Senior Designer Brian Patrick Todd, and Ember Marr generously shared their time and insights with our seniors. They also have two of our seniors—Amber Marsden and Caitlin Bender—working as design interns. Thanks, Leap, for your involvement with the Hite.

It was a GREAT night for @hiteart students at the @adfedlou ADDY’S tonight! Gold awards went to Luke Parker and Carol de Lucca! BEST IN SHOW Student award also went to to Carol de Lucca. Silver ADDY’S earned by Emi Johnson, Zach Downs, Amber Kleitz, Kendra Malone, Amber Marsden, Sam Morrell, and Jake Schultz. We are so proud of our students! Congratulations Hite Art Graphic Design!

Nice to see the cheerful Atherton High School students this morning! @hiteart #hiteartinstitute @mrsgibbsart @rachelricephotography @atherton_high

Meeting of IIDA (International Interior Design Association) campus chapter at UofL.

Becky Whitehead, student coordinator for UofL came to the meeting to inform IIDA benefits and upcoming events to ID students

- Mentoring program currently going on
- Take over Tuesday (Instagram) in Feb, UofL
- Design Crawl & Charrette on 04. 14 at L&F

Kendra Malone, Graphic Design BFA senior, was selected as a Fellow by the American Association for Advertising Agencies (4A’s) for their summer 2018 Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) [maip.aaaa.org/fellows]. Each year, MAIP selects approximately 200 fellows nationwide and places them in agencies around the country. Kendra will be working as in art direction internship at 22squared in Atlanta. [www.22squared.com/work] Kudos, Kendra, for getting this national fellowship!

Students in Professor Meena Khalili‘s Design for Interaction course practice story mapping during a User Experience team workshop.

Hite BFA candidate Francis Dumstorf is the current Photography intern for LEO. This week his photography is featured on the front cover and as a layout within LEO's Valentines issue.

Schneider Hall Galleries
On View: February 16 - March 2, 2018
Reception: February 16, 2018 5-8 pm

Presented by the nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. This program year, more than 330,000 works of art and writing were submitted to 118 Affiliate regions across the country. 323 creative teens from the Louisville Metropolitan Area Art Region (8 counties in Kentucky, 5 in southern Indiana) received 609 regional honors, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, and American Visions nominations

 In celebration of this year’s regional recipients, two exhibitions and an awards ceremony will be held.

• Gold Key and American Visions Nominees Exhibition
  Feb. 2 – 25, 2018 during museum hours
  KMAC Museum
  715 W. Main St., Louisville, KY
  (Exhibition Opening is Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. in conjunction with the First Friday Trolley Hop)

• Silver Key and Honorable Mention Exhibition
  Feb. 15 – March 2, 2018 during building hours
  Schneider Hall, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of Louisville
  2300 S. First Street Walk, Louisville, KY
  (Exhibition Opening is Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with After Hours at the Speed)

• Regional Student Awards Ceremony
  Feb. 15, 2018
  6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
  Sallie B. Durrett Auditorium
  4425 Preston Highway, Louisville, KY 

Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students, including renowned alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Richard Avedon, Ken Burns, Red Grooms, Arnold Hurley, Robert Indiana, Zac Posen, Robert Redford, Kay Walkingstick,and Andy Warhol.

For more information about the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit the Scholastic News Room: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting.