Dr. Anne Muraoka publishes Art History text

Assistant Professor of Art History Dr. Anne Muraoka‘s book The Path of Humility: Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo has been published by Peter Lang Publishing. The book establishes a fundamental relationship between the Franciscan humility of Archbishop of Milan Carlo Borromeo and the Roman sacred works of Caravaggio. This is the first book to consider and focus entirely upon these two seemingly anomalous personalities of the Counter-Reformation. Dr. Muraoka serves as the Art History Program Director, and is a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Rome, Italy, 2006-2007) and a Summer Research Fellowship (2013) from the Office of Research at ODU. She has presented her research on Caravaggio, Gabriele Paleotti, and Carlo Borromeo at several professional conferences, including the Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Society, and College Art Association conferences.

Greta Pratt in Blue Sky Books

The work of Associate Professor of Photography Greta Pratt has been included in a “special publishing initiative promoting work by photographers who have exhibited at Blue Sky,” the gallery of the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. To celebrate its 40^th anniversary, Blue Sky has produced 37 brief monographs featuring a previously unpublished series of photographs exhibited during the that time. One of these is Professor Pratt’s series The Wavers. Available only online as print-on-demand publications, each monograph is available at www.blueskygallery.org/books—spread the word!

Greta Pratt in NY Times Magazine

Associate Professor of Photography Greta Pratt and her husband photographer Mark Peterson are featured in a joint commission for the New York Times Magazine story “Kingdom Come” about the Hawaiian Island of Lanai. You can view the photographs on the website here.

Greta Pratt at Dorsky Gallery, in Oxford American

Assistant Professor of Photography Greta Pratt is showing work from her series The Azalea Trail Maids and Liberty Wavers as part of the group exhibition Art Meets Life at Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, NY. The exhibition runs July 14 – August 16, 2013, with an opening reception July 14. In addition, her photograph Log Cabin RV, Hodgenville, Kentucky, 2000 appears in Oxford American‘s summer fiction issue.

Kenneth FitzGerald for Graphic Advocacy

Professor of Graphic Design Kenneth FitzGerald contributed the catalog essay for the national touring exhibition Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012. The exhibition showcases a selection of 122 works from around the world demonstrating the poster “as a medium for social change … struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression.” FitzGerald’s essay can also be found here.

Richard Nickel in Humor in Craft

Art Education Associate Professor Richard Nickel and Art students Nikki Hawkhorst and Ariel Marin have work featured in the book Humor in Craft, edited by Brigitte Martin and published by Schiffer Publishing. The book showcases numerous ceramic, woodworking and metalworking artists exploring the theme of humor. Students in Nickel’s Introduction to Ceramics course were asked to design salt and pepper shakers exploring the idea of objects that are always separate but together. The students then photographed and submitted the work for the jury. Professor Nickel was represented by his earthenware/glaze sculpture “Sprout.”

Greta Pratt in The New Yorker

Photography professor Greta Pratt‘s work is included in the current The New Yorker on line. Her photograph, “World’s Largest Buffalo, Jamestown, ND” is the ultimate image in the “Beautiful Tourists”  Photo Booth slideshow.

Kenneth FitzGerald in étapes

Graphic Design professor Kenneth FitzGerald is included amongst the “200 voices of graphic design” in the special 200th issue of the French graphic design magazine étapes. The issue features an international collection of practitioners, educators, writers, and critics commenting on aspects of contemporary graphic design. FitzGerald responds to five questions on the state of critical writing. The text of the magazine is in French, but you can read a translation here.

Kenneth FitzGerald nominated and in print

Graphic Design professor Kenneth FitzGerald has been nominated for a 2012 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the category of “Design Mind.” “A project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards…are bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life.” Design Mind is “in recognition of a visionary, such as an educator, author, critic, curator, or designer, who has had a profound impact on design theory, practice, or public awareness.” Professor FitzGerald’s most recent publication is the essay “I Believe in Design,” published in the Trust Design project of Premsela, Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion. Trust Design “explores the relationship between trust and design through various publishing, research and discussion platforms.”

Jiwon Lee at Design Observer

Graphic Design professor Jiwon Lee‘s article “What’s “Crystal Goblet” in Korean?” has been posted on the influential design blog Design Observer. The article addresses the scarcity of design book translations and the poor consequences for design culture, and draws upon Professor Lee’s experiences translating graphic design texts.