New award in design announced this year; opening ceremony is Thursday, May 30
Excerpted from a story by Jeffrey Day, College of Letters and Science
An expansive exhibition by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis graduate students from various arts disciplines, including English and cultural studies, opens May 29 at the on the university campus. The annual exhibition by students in the College of Letters and Science will be on display through June 16.
Organizers also will announce, at the opening reception on Thursday, May 30, 6 to 9 p.m., the winners of the Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize, given to an art studio student, and the new Savageau Award for a design. The exhibit and all related events are free and open to the public. More details on the exhibition and the students involved are available .
About the Awards
- The new Savageau Award is aimed at furthering the career of a graduating design MFA and to encourage, recognize and celebrate creative and original contributions to the discipline of design. It is named for Ann Savageau, a professor in the design department from 2007 to 2014. A widely admired professor, writer and curator, she has continued to collaborate with the department and the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Design Museum, most recently co-curating 鈥淲eaving and Woodwork.鈥
- The Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize is awarded annually to a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis graduating MFA student in Art Studio. Thanks to the generosity of the donors, Shaun Keister and Walter Allen, this award ensures that one piece chosen from a student artist鈥檚 body of thesis work will be added to the university鈥檚 Fine Arts Collection each year.
Artists explore topical and personal issues
Student work from the disciplines of studio art, design, music, creative writing, English, art history, theater and cultural studies are included in the exhibit.
Master of Fine Arts students will show a wide range of works, including paintings, installations, mixed media and sculptures, with six students participating.
Through a wall of 50 paintings, Adam Cochran explores how movies, television shows, sports, politics, and even comic books perpetuate a patriarchal, hyper-masculine ideal that has a negative impact on society and individuals.
Rachel Deane鈥檚 鈥淭he Home I Had to Live In鈥 is a three-dimensional environment of intricate patterns, repetitive shapes, bold colors and ornamentation inspired by stories she has written about dating culture, female sexuality and trauma.
Sarah Frieberg draws on her background in science and horticulture, using soil, honey, tea and eggs to make pieces that change over time and involve high levels of experimentation and uncertainty.
Designing for immigration, voting and social awareness
MFA students鈥 projects involve political posters, elections, interactive storytelling, landscape design, and designs based on microscopic animals. Six students are participating.
Among the student work, Adriana Arriaga's project focuses on contemporary Xicana posters and how they can be used to build community. Her work tackles social justice issues and she has taken part in many community events throughout the region.
鈥淟ocal Actions, National Outcomes: How Piecemeal Election Design Has Led U.S. Voting Into Chaos鈥 by Adam Taylor employs several 鈥渧oting booths鈥 where one can learn about gerrymandering, ballot design and political candidates鈥 visual identity.
Persia Masoudi鈥檚 interactive video takes viewers through a fictional immigrant鈥檚 journey and adaptation to living in a new and very different place.
Musicians, writers, historians part of the mix
While studio art and design students鈥 work makes up the bulk of the exhibition, music, creative writing, cultural studies and theater students are also taking part.
Combining an 18th-century dice game with modern technology, doctoral student Sarah Wald鈥檚 interactive project allows visitors to use snippets of music to create their own compositions.
Doctoral music composition student Ryan Suleman and creative writing graduate student Cristina Fries collaborated on a 17-minute mini-opera titled "Moon, Bride, Dogs鈥 that will be available for listening.
Joseph Schupbach, , and Joy Ding, , have jointly created 鈥淢other-Daughter, Daughter-Mother,鈥 an experimental piece exploring the cyclic nature and role reversals in parent-child dynamics. It will be performed May 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Pages from a graphic novel by doctoral student Maureen Burdock will be on display. The novel, The Baroness of Have-Nothing, examines reverberations of war and displacement as seen through three generations of women across two continents.
Jennifer Tinonga-Valle, a doctoral student in , will present several objects and text representing her research on the long association between women鈥檚 writing and craft culture.
students will speak on topics including Roman mosaics; James Abbott McNeill Whistler鈥檚 鈥渘octurne鈥 paintings; Philippine dress and identity; and the intersection of art philosophy and criticism. Luiza Berthoud, Graham McLean, Katharine Schultz, Caitlin Schwarz and Catharine Serou will give presentations on June 1 from 1 to 5 p.m.
A video slide presentation of the exhibitions is viewable below.