We are excited to announce that graduating MFA Gwen Kelling will begin a three-year artist residency at Sloss Metal Arts in Birmingham, Alabama this June! Congratulations Gwen.
From SMA’s website: “Resident Artists are the lifeblood of the Sloss Metal Arts program. They perform all foundry-related tasks as well as fabrication, maintenance, & education. They work closely with the Foundry Manager and Operations Manager to meet Sloss Metal Arts’ mission through compelling artistic programming and visionary strategic planning.”
Window to the Soul
School of Art and Design Professor Najjar Abdul-Musawwir was a co-Juror with Dawn Blum, of the exhibition Window to the Soul at Art Saint Louis. Featuring works by 49 St. Louis and regional artists from Missouri and Illinois. The exhibition is open from April 13 - May 16, 2024, with a public reception on Saturday, April 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. This exhibit continues through Thursday, May 16, and the Art Saint Louis Gallery is free and open to the public 6 days a week: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday, 9- a.m.-3 p.m.
Tony Fehm Memorial Art History Achievement Award
Congratulations, Dangelo Kwasny-Black on being awarded the Tony Fehm Memorial Art History Achievement Award. The $1,000 prize is awarded for the best undergraduate paper demonstrating critical analysis and excellent art historical research. As a senior who will graduate in May 2024 this award also recognizes how Dangelo has excelled in his classes and studies as an Art History Major, as demonstrated by his high GPA and the unanimous support of the art history faculty. Pictured are Professors Angela Reinoehl, Dr. Carolina Alarcon, Dangelo Kwasny-Black Dr. Laurel Fredrickson
Year of the Dragon
Congratulations, Professor Jiyong Lee, for your exhibition Year of the Dragon at Duane Reed Gallery, in collaboration with The Very Asian Foundation. The exhibition presents Asian American artists and works inspired by the Lunar New Year. The exhibition features:
Congratulations, Professor Pattie Chalmers and SIU Alum Caro Burks, on your exhibition, Dusty Old Darkness, at the Marvin Cone Gallery and for being invited as the Kocher Visiting Artists at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art
Congratulations Laurel Jean Fredrickson, PhD, for your article in the November 2023 issue of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. The article is titled "Deterritorialized Identity: Sonia Boyce, Latifa Echakhch and Zineb Sedira at the 59th Venice Biennale. It is based on a talk that I gave at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York in February of 2023.
I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws
Congratulations Alumni Sun Young Park (MFA Ceramics) and Padyn Humble(MFA Sculpture) for your exhibition, I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws, at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
Recurring Headstones
Congratulations, Benjamin Kaita, a third-year graduate student in painting at SIU, for winning Best in Show with your piece Recurring Headstones in the International Master of Fine Arts annual online exhibition Daydreams 2023.
Congratulations Sarah-Anne Winchester, a third-year graduate student in ceramics on having her work selected by Juror Kathy King from over 500 entries for the upcoming juried exhibition Fahrenheit 2024 at the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, AMOCA, in Pomona, California. On view at AMOCA from January 20-September 8, 2024.
Manitoba Sugar
Ceramics Faculty Pattie Chalmers presented an exhibition of her work titled Manitoba Sugar at Arkansas State University Fine Arts Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The exhibition, which includes over one hundred clay and mixed-media objects, will be on view until the end of December 2023.
“Transnational Art and Identity: Landscapes of Displacement”
Congratulations Art History Professor, Dr. Laurel Fredrickson, on organizing the session titled: “Transnational Art and Identity: Landscapes of Displacement” at the College Art Association Conference in New York.
Dr. Fredrickson led the panel and also presented her paper titled “The Politics of Gender and Deterritorialized Identity: The 59th Venice Biennale Installations of Sonja Boyce, Latifa Echakhch, and Zineb Sedira.” Her essay will be published in the November 2023 issue of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art.
Congratulations Jody Paulson
Art Education ProfessorJody Paulson is the recipient of The Illinois Art Education Association Higher Education Art Educator of the Year award. Jody has been instrumental in mentoring our future art educators through her excellent teaching and programming of art education events on and off campus. Congratulations!
Empty Bowls Fundraiser
This year Ceramic Students and Faculty raised just under $3000 in support of the Survivor Empowerment Center of Carbondale with their Empty Bowls Fundraiser. A big thank you to everyone who came out to buy bowls, and the Neighbourhood Co-op for partnering with us on this event. Way to Go Salukis!
The Mudmaid Museum
Ceramics Faculty Pattie Chalmers is exhibiting the Mudmaid Museum at the Sheldon in St. Louis from September 7 - January 20.
The Mudmaid Museum exhibition reveals an alternate history, a museum filled with artifacts from when Mudmaids were encountered in American waterways. Chalmers has created a whimsical world within a museum (and gift shop), housed within a gallery exhibition.
ISC Outstanding Student Achievement Award
Congratulations to third year sculpture grad student Gwen Kelling on her exhibition at the Seward Johnson Atelier for the ISC Outstanding Student Achievement Award exhibition! Her work Capacity 1 will be on view at Seward Johnson Atelier until mid-January.
