thanks to Tommy's in Cleveland Heights and Midwest Box for Fundred help!

Special shout out to Tommy's in Cleveland Heights for the delicious food they hooked us up for our Cleveland Fundred Kick-off event at CIA's VAT Coventry Center (1854 Coventry Rd. - upper level).

Also thanks to Midwest Box Company for donating boxes to make it easier for people to make take-away Fundred Stations.

Midwest Box Comapny
9801 Walford Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102-4788
(216) 281-3980

We'll be posting pics and updates on the ACT-C blog

Thanks to everyone who came out and if you want to participate go to ACT-C or the Fundred Site, just click on "Get Involved Now" ... you don't need us to participate!

the fall and an amazing line up beginning Aug 13

Mel Chin: Cleveland Fundred Drawing Station


below is a preliminary schedule of events associated with CIA ... mark your calendars and keep a weather eye for changes in events ...


CC = the Coventry Center at 1854 Coventry Road, upper level next to McNulty's ...
LOF = the Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series ...

All of the events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

All LOF start at 12:15 and take place in CIA’s Gund Building. LOF is generously sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments.

CC -- Friday, August 13 – “30 Fundred Stations (more or less)”, 6 to 9 pm ... Featuring Fundred Drawing Stations designed by area artists and concerned citizens ... with a special submission by Mel Chin ...

Make a Fundred, lobby congress, change lives.

Fundred, specifically, is a drawing project in which citizens are asked to “donate” by doing their own redesign of the hundred-dollar bill. These redesigns, dubbed “fundreds”, are then collected at various Fundred Collection Centers. Once a total of 3 million Fundreds has been amassed, the equivalent of $300 million dollars, an armored truck, retrofitted to run on waste vegetable oil, will complete a cross-country collection journey by delivering the Fundreds to Washington D.C. with a request for an even exchange for the value of the art currency for actual funds. (http://www.fundred.org/)

As a project, Fundred was first initiated by internationally known artist and activist, Mel Chin, in order to address issues of environmental contamination through lead. Since 2008, Chin has worked on “Operation Paydirt” which is targeted at addressing lead contamination in New Orleans, and even more importantly, providing a model for attacking the issue across the Nation’s most lead-contaminated cities including Cleveland.

“30 Fundred Stations (more or less)” is an exhibit of Fundred Stations designed locally (some by area artists) … after the show these stations will be distributed throughout the area to assist in the making and collection of Fundreds.

For more information: http://act-c.blogspot.com/
And
www.fundred.org


Monday, August 23 – CIA classes start

LOF (sort of) - Friday, August 27 – Convocation, meet the New President, Grafton Nunes!!!

EMIT & THE FACULTY EXHIBITION -
Thursday, September 2nd ... Faculty show opens at 6 pm with remarks from our new president, Grafton Nunes!! the show is followed by EMIT video festival in Aitken Auditorium. This is going to be an amazing night ... a do not miss kind of event. Music and food and wonderful people!!

LOF -- September 3 -- Year One at CIA (special for 1st year students at CIA)

CC – Thursday, September 9, 6 to 9 pm, “Degrees of Separation: a Show Offering Proof of Life after Graduation”

A show in part organized by CIA alum and Forum Gallerist, Karl Anderson. The exhibition references the networks and synergy of young artists creating a professional practice while making an art world of their own. Show closes Sunday, October 3.

LOF - Friday, September 10 -- Karl Anderson, CIA drawing alum and co-director of Forum Gallery talks about his experiences since graduation and what it’s taken to survive while cultivating a career in art. Karl will also reflect on the Coventry Center Exhibition “Degrees of Separation” which includes his work and which he helped organize.

LOF - Friday, September 17 – Mark Gottsegen of Amien

AMIEN is part of the Education Department of the ICA, America's oldest regional art conservation laboratory. This talk will introduce artists at the CIA to both the ICA and the free services of AMIEN, the Art Materials Information and Education Network. AMIEN is a Discussion Forum for questions and answers about art materials; we do not discuss esthetics, promote or recommend brands of art materials, or prescribe methods of making works of art.

Mark Gottsegen studied painting with Philip Guston, taught (drawing, painting, materials of art) in North Carolina from 1976 - 2007, and is the author of The Painter's Handbook. He has participated in more than 50 group and solo exhibitions. Since 1978 he has been a member of ASTM International, which has written 14+ standards for artists' materials and other similar organizations; he is the recipient of grants for research from the National Park Service and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and has given numerous talks about art materials throughout the US and in western Europe since the early 1980s.

LOF - Friday, September 24 – Tommy White
CIA welcomes new faculty member Tommy White to its Painting program. White has works in many private collections as well as the permanent collections of Binney and Smith and with exhibitions in locales as far flung as Seoul, South Korea; Melbourne, Australia; and St Louis, Missouri, White exemplifies the professional artist practice which is the hallmark of CIA faculty. He brings to the Institute an extensive teaching experience including nine years at Virginia Commonwealth University and most recently three years at the University of Oklahoma. He now maintains his studio in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

LOF - Friday, October 1 – Kristen Baumlier

Integrated Media Environmental Chair Kristen Baumlier discusses her own practice as an artist and the impact of environmental issues on her work. Including the recent release of her album “Deplete Me.”

Kristen Baumlier’s work spans the full spectrum of interdisciplinary media, including performance, interactive installation, video and audio works. She received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1994, where she began utilizing humor, combined with interactive performance as core elements in her work.

In 1996, Baumlier transformed herself into the role of a fitness guru and developed a performative exercise program, “Buns of Butter,” where food was used as exercise equipment to explore issues of irony as related to food and body perception.

She received an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in 2004, and an ArtsLink project grant in 2005 to produce a site specific collaborative work in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

During a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2005, Baumlier developed “Oh, Petroleum,” where she transformed into “The Petroleum Pop Princess;” a pop icon engaging viewers in debate over materialism and oil consumerism. She is a founding member of the collaborative group, Fossil Fools, which presents issues about energy and fuel consumption.

Baumlier has performed at the Mattress Factory, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and at the Select Media Festival in Chicago, IL.


CC – Thurday, October 7, 6 to 9 pm, “Self-Initiated” an exhibition curated by Senior Industrial Design students exploring the intersection between art and self-initiated design. Under the direction of CIA Industrial Design faculty Matt Beckwith. Closes Sunday, October 24.

LOF - Friday, October 8 – Gretchen Goss

Through the work of her own practice, Gretchen Goss will introduce the audience to unique and wonderful qualities of enameling as a discipline and an art form. She will discuss her own career and her passionate investment in natural forms thus setting the stage for our next LOF speaker Brinsley Tyrrell and giving audience members a delicious glimpse into her own art-making.

Gretchen Goss, one of the school’s most revered faculty is a twenty year veteran of the Institute. She is Professor and Chair of the Material Culture Environment at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work has been supported by Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Grants, and is shown in exhibits nationally and internationally. She has been a visiting artist and taught numerous workshops on enameling nationally and in England. Her work is driven by her intrigue with the natural world.
Education: M.F.A., Kent State University; B.F.A., Kent State University


LOF - Friday, October 15 – Brinsley Tyrrell, Visiting Artist in Enamel

A local legend known for his work as a sculptor and as a public artist, Brinsley Tyrrell, a native of Godstone, England, has embedded himself deeply into the local culture in a profound way. Areas of our life are regularly punctuated and enriched by his work as we walk down a street or through an airport where his work is installed. He has recently turned to landscape and enamel in truly spectacular work that was first seen at William Busta Gallery here in Cleveland. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to hear this accomplished artist speak and to hear of his life and work particularly as it relates to his recent experiments in enamel.

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/10/brinsley_tyrrell_enamels_at_wi.html

LOF - Friday, October 22 – special performance

CC – Thursday, October 28 – Realtime Animation with sound and light artist’s Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … doors open at 6 pm … performance at 7 pm

Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department


LOF - Friday, October 29 – Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … artist’s talk
Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department

Born in Newfoundland, Joe Kelly is a Canadian artist who builds “filmic” devices based on old technologies such as zoetropes. In performances that can only be described as mesmerizing, he and his creative partner Jay Crocker create real-time animations to real-time music. Crocker is a professional dj and musician who creates his own instruments and sound-making devices from found objects such as discarded toys. Kelly, widely known as an artist exploring the limits of technology and the moving image, has made a number of films that have screened internationally. He has shown work throughout North American from Halifax to Victoria, Canada and all over the United States as well as having shown in Europe and Asia. In addition he has had work shown at a variety of festivals including: Images; Black Maria; PS1 and Ann Arbor.

http://www.renoworks.com/websites/joekelly/bio_cv/cv.htm
http://www.joekelly.ca/


LOF - Friday, November 5 – Jenniffer Omaitz

In a talk sponsored by the Bickford Painting Visiting Artist fund, Jennifer Omaitz, a nationally exhibited painter and installation artist, will discuss her work and her career. Omaitz received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA in Painting from Kent State University. Omaitz has been exhibiting her work in Cleveland and Denver since 2002. Her most recent shows include a site-specific installation commissioned for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas in Denver. Omaitz is the recipient of an award from the Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio and her installation work will be featured in a solo show at the Center in 2011. Omaitz lives and works in Kent, Ohio.

Artist’s Talk - Tuesday, November 16 – Jim Campbell

Internationally known as an artist working at the edge of electronic media, Jim Campbell holds degrees from MIT in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Born in Chicago in 1956 and now living in San Francisco, Jim Campbell is a former Silicon Valley engineer turned artist who explores the inherent qualities of electronic media forgoing the seductive lure of its capacity through digital to produce high resolution imagery. He instead chooses to investigate the limits of perception working with LED lighting and pixelation. He is most interested in the limits of visual information to transform into meaning. An internationally known artist his work relates to many disciplines including photography and installation.

He shows regularly in New York, Canada, San Francisco and throughout Europe. Most recently his work was on view at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/


LOF - Friday, November 12 – Panel discussion with some alums … “Life after Graduation: a Survivor’s Guide”

CC – Thursday, November 18, 6 to 9 pm – “Creative Resistance”

Through the guidance of faculty and multi-media artist Sarah Paul, CIA students will present a semester culminating media installation employing strategies integrating social change with media art and performance designed to operate as social commentary and critique. Show closes Friday, December 10.

LOF - Friday, November 19 – Kidist Getachew

An alum of CIA’s TIMe program, Getachew makes work that exploits the full potential of digital as media. Born and raised in Ethiopia, she has lived in the United States since 1982. This has given her a cosmopolitan vision which has poetically and elegantly informed her work.

New York, New York ... and a giant rat

students viewing Peter Halley at Mary Boone









the rat from the Independent Art Fair in Chelsea

Every year CIA’s Visual Arts and Technology Environment hosts a New York Art Excursion for students. Students from all over the school participate and while there they have the opportunity to engage a board spectrum of contemporary art. It’s a strictly low frills affair but the chance to see work of such scope is priceless and the trip further adds to the sense of a lifelong community among the students.

This year students were doubly lucky in that both the Whitney Biennial and the Armory Show were available for viewing. In addition students visited the Metropolitan Museum and walked the Chelsea Galleries with CIA Professor Saul Ostrow who also happens to write for Art in America and is the Art Editor for Bomb Magazine.

so much to do ... Wook Kim, et. al.

LOF - Friday, March 19
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
William Brouillard
Professor of Ceramic Art – The Cleveland Institute of Art

Listen in as master ceramist William Brouillard discusses a personal practice which merges edgy imagry with superior craft.

William Brouillard has been inspiring young artists at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the past 30 years. A ceramist of renown, his work is held in private and public collections around the world and is included in collections owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. From 1975 to 1979 he was a resident Potter at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina which is known as a epicenter for the promotion of contemporary craftwork and cutting edge craft skills. Brouillard has shared his personal expertise through lectures and workshops throughout the United States while maintaining his own practice through his studio on Cleveland’s near west side.

Foundations Visiting Artist
Wook Kim
Tuesday, March 23
7 pm – Aitken Auditorium, The Gund

Wook considers art an integral presence in the every day.

His wall coverings, eschewing distinctions made between “art” and the “decorative arts,” reflect his philosophy. His limitless inspirations range from a mix of decorative histories, entomology, tessellation, the urban landscape and beyond.

Wook Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in the United States. His passion for textile design first emerged while a student. Wook continued to hone his craft as a designer at Sunbury Textile Mills in New York, and later as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Wook's design and installation work has been featured in the New York Times, Wallpaper Magazine, Lucky magazine, among others. A recent project is an installation in the flagship store for Philip Lim in Seoul South Korea.


LOF - Friday, April 2
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Gary Sampson, PhD
Professor of Art History – The Cleveland Insitute of Art

Currently an important member of the Insitute’s Liberal Arts Faculty, Dr. Sampson has taught at California State University, St. Lawrence University and Grand Valley State University. He has acted as a curator and is known for his expertise in Photographic History. He has contributed articles to such publications as Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography: Transitory Propositions and Unmasking the Colonial Picturesque: Samuel Bourne’s Photographs of Barrackpore Park.

He has helped to develop the undergraduate program in digitial media. Further since coming to CIA in 1998 he has been seminal in promoting intellectual exchange and generating opportunities for professional dialogue between Studio and Liberal Arts. He is the former Chair of Liberal Arts and served as Dean of Graduate Programing.

Of his upcoming Lunch on Friday talk, Sampson says:
“This is a work-in-progress talk. As an art, design, and photography historian, my primary research interest is in the representation of landscapes and space through photography and digital media. One of my current projects involves the modern industrial and urban environment in relationship to the emerging city of globalized systems, which grew out of my own photography and a recent interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. What concerns me especially is how utopian impulses of the early twentieth-century are evident in the architecture and technological infrastructure of the contemporary urban landscape; and how such impulses are portrayed in visual culture.”

LOF - Friday, April 9
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Sarah Kabot: Artist’s Talk
Head of Drawing – Cleveland Institute of Art
West Prize Finalist

Kabot has given new meaning to what it means to emerge as an artist. She has been included in gallery shows at Mixed Greens, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. She has been a resident artist at Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC; and at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. Most recently she is one of the finalists for the highly prestigious 2010 West Prize.

With unique authority and through the impetus of work that is exquiste in its fragile vision, Sarah Kabot speaks to what it means to have a career beyond locale demonstrating clearly those possibilities in her own practice.

LOF – Friday, April 16
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Petra Soesemann: Artist’s Talk
Environmental Chair – Cleveland Institute of Art
2009 Roswell Resident

In 2009 Soesemann, the Chair of the Insitute’s Foundation Environment, went on sabbatical to focus on her work while in residence at the Roswell Program. Noted for her works constructed of layered shears, evocative of mystery, she is the subject of the recently published biographic poetry collection Incident Light by H.L. Hix. She has also been the reciepent of of a Fulbright Fellowhsip which took her to Peru to student Incan Arachitecture. She has studied Mayan Art and Architecture in Mexico, Honduras and Gatemala with the support of travel grants. Grants and awards include support from Cornell University; the Illinois Arts Council; and the Ford Foundation. More recently her studies have taken her to Turkey to explore historic and contemporary Islamic and Turkish art.

ChromaWaves

Open to the Public!!

Cleveland Institute of Art's Lunch on Fridays
Presents -
Chromawaves - with Professor Knut Hybinette

Friday, Feb. 26
12:15
OBA
Free and Open
Pizza

Listen in on game design professor Knut Hybinette and student game-developers from the T.I.M.E. -Digital Arts department as they host a panel discussing both the pitfalls and liberties of game development in an educational environment. The panel will be focusing the topic towards ChromaWaves, which was developed last fall by artists and programmers in the Game Production course – a collaborative seminar between CIA and CWRU.

ChromaWaves is an ambient color mixing game for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Meant to be played in quick pick-up-and-play sessions, ChromaWaves adopts the multi-touch features of the iPhone for basic color-mixing and matching play mechanics. Backed with abstract visuals and sound, ChromaWaves is currently intended to be available on the AppStore this coming March.

Lunch on Fridays is generously sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Chromawaves is presented through the support of the Integrated Media Environment and the TIME department.

Judith Salomon and then Chroma Wars ...

Lunch on Fridays at CIA presents:
A former winner of the Sckreckengost Teaching Award Winner and distinguished artist:
Judith Salomon
Friday, Feb. 19
12:15
OBA - in the Gund

Free and Open + Pizza

Judith earned her BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975 and her MFA at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York in 1977, the same year she began teaching at the Institute. In the decades since, Judith has nurtured, challenged and inspired hundreds of ceramicists.

As a successful working artist, Judith is an inspiration and fabulous role model for her students. She creates and exhibits distinctive ceramic work that is in numerous private collections and in prestigious public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In recognition of her accomplishments, Judith has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council and she is a winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, among many other honors.

LOF is generously sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Judith Salomon appears through the support of the Craft and Material Culture Environment and the Ceramics Department.

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LOF -
Chroma Wars
Friday, Feb. 26
12:15
OBA - Gund

Listen in on game design professor Knut Hybinette and student game-developers from the T.I.M.E. -Digital Arts department as they host a panel discussing both the pitfalls and liberties of game development in an educational environment. The panel will be focusing the topic towards ChromaWaves, which was developed last fall by artists and programmers in the Game Production course – a collaborative seminar between CIA and CWRU.

ChromaWaves is an ambient color mixing game for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Meant to be played in quick pick-up-and-play sessions, ChromaWaves adopts the multi-touch features of the iPhone for basic color-mixing and matching play mechanics. Backed with abstract visuals and sound, ChromaWaves is currently intended to be available on the AppStore this coming March.

first week in Feb - Sam Bower, Cinematheque and Shannon Stratton

Just to note ... I have so many great colleagues who really push my own level of professionalism. I have to give shout outs to everyone and am looking to (if i find the time lol) writing something here on all there great accomplishments. In the meantime here are some things happening at the Cleveland Institute of Art that you really should know about....

Sam Bower is an artist, Executive Director of the Green Museum as well as a founding member of the organization. Through his work he advocates for positive change for humans and their environment. He is pro-nature and pro-people.
Bower will speak in The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Aitken Auditorium to introduce the SEEDs project.

The SEEDS project will offer a collaborative base for artists, curators,
producers (of all ages,) and presenters for the production and distribution
of - artistic, cultural, social, political projects that will serve the
environment and the community, as well as sparking the imagination and
challenging existent practices in the cultural field.

Consequently, we are asking artists, designers, and activists to submit
plans and instructions for works focusing on the public sphere and in
particular on issues of sustainability. These projects should be do-able
anywhere and by anyone for a budget of 300 dollars or less. The first
compilation will be published as a PDF publication, which will be available
for free from greenmuseum.org's website. There will also be an archive
documenting executed projects, a social network, and real world exhibitions
and publications, which should serve as a resource to participants, curators
and presenters interested in organizing projects based on the SEEDS project.




Sam Bower
and
the launch of the SEEDS project

February 1, 2010
7:00 pm
in CIA's Aitken Auditorium

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Show Cinematheque the love! Come ...

Tuesday, Feb. 2 ... 7 to 9 pm

Be among the “first responders” to this year’s Oscar nominations during this special event on Tuesday, February 2, from 7-9 p.m. in the Institute’s Aitken Auditorium. “Oscars 2010: Cleveland Reacts” will take place only ten hours after this year’s nominees are announced.

Co-sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, CIA’s Office of Continuing Education, and CINEMA Cleveland, this event is an interactive first look at the 2010 Academy Award nominations by a panel of local film experts. Cinematheque Director John Ewing will serve as the panel’s moderator.

The panelists
Eric Swinderman, executive director of CINEMA Cleveland
Clint O’Connor, film critic for The Plain Dealer
David Huffman, marketing director of Cleveland Cinemas
Kim Neuendorf, film studies professor at Cleveland State University

(this entry is a repost of an entry by Julie Mason on the CIA blog ...

be sure to check out the Cinematheque film schedule

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LOF
Shannon Stratton
Friday, Feb. 5
12:15 - Ohio Bell Auditorium


Shannon Stratton is a Canadian born cultural worker living in Chicago. She is a co-founder of threewalls where she remains Director and Curator. Stratton curates independently and with colleagues Jeff M. Ward and Judith Leemann, current projects including Ps & Qs with Ward at the Hyde Park Art Center and Gestures of Resistance with Leemann at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, both in 2010. She teaches in Art History and Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.