AU Art Alums in the News

The AU ART ALUMS are out in force this week ! 

Kari Ganoung Ruiz featured in the Main Street Arts blog article.

Main Street Arts Gallery Blog


 Painting near Saranac Lake, NY August 2015. Photo by Dave Martin

Kimothy Pikor-interviewed at a"Cleveland Rocks" meeting to become part of a Cleveland based story for R Magazine. Kimothy is a photographer, blogger, doodler, style-obsessed, creative-type living in Denver, Colorado. Check out her website-  Kimothy Pikor Website

AU Art Alumnus Joshua Risner Named Master Painter

AU Art Alumnus Joshua Risner (BFA 2012) has recently been named master decorative painter of the Michigan state Capitol. The position of Master Decorative Painter at the 1879 Michigan State Capitol is responsible for the restoration, maintenance, and preservation of over nine acres of decoratively painted surfaces in the building. Including the analysis, documentation, surface preparation, and use of traditional techniques such as marbling, wood graining, gilding, glazing, striping, stenciling, and free hand painting the replication.

Risner grew up in rural central Ohio and earned his BFA in painting with an art history minor at Ashland University and his MFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. He has won numerous awards for his oil paintings and drawings.

To learn more about Joshua or his paintings visithttp://www.joshuaadamart.com/ .

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Successful Senior Art Exhibition Opening

Each fall, the Ashland University Coburn Gallery hosts the Senior Art Exhibition that features the capstone experience for graduating art majors. Bringing together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Department of Art, the Senior Art Exhibitions will open on Thursday, Nov. 12, with an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Coburn Art Gallery located in the Center for the Arts on the Ashland University campus. 

“While the Senior Art Exhibition provides the capstone experience for graduating art majors, it represents more than just the students’ studio art experiences,” said Cynthia Petry, director of the Coburn Gallery. “For these students of the liberal arts, the exhibition is the culmination of their undergraduate careers at Ashland University.”

The event brings together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Department of Art and includes graphic design, digital art, printmaking and ceramics. 

This year’s exhibiting seniors include: Taylor Menhart of Twinsburg, Ohio, B.A. in Commercial Art with a concentration in Graphic Design; Olivia Glass of Mount Vernon, Ohio, B.S. in Art Education, with Ceramics concentration; Randi Schimmoeller of Ottawa, Ohio, B.A. with a concentration in Printmaking; and Mary Jean Ferretti of Ashland, Ohio, Digital Art concentration.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Senior Art Exhibition Opens This Thursday @4:30pm

AU Professor Roggenkamp Offers Workshop at OAE Conference

 

Associate Professor of Art Priscilla Roggenkamp will be offering a workshop, "Developing Personal Content Inspired by Vanitas Paintings", at the Ohio Art Educators Conference Nov 6th and 7th. Roggenkamp will be presenting with two Ashland University students, Kara Mewhinney and Emily Minns. 

Artwork credit Kira Kim.

Senior Art Exhibition Opening Nov 12th

Each fall, the Ashland University Coburn Gallery hosts the Senior Art Exhibition that features the capstone experience for graduating art majors. Bringing together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Department of Art, the Senior Art Exhibitions will open on Thursday, Nov. 12, with an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Coburn Art Gallery located in the Center for the Arts on the Ashland University campus.

“While the Senior Art Exhibition provides the capstone experience for graduating art majors, it represents more than just the students’ studio art experiences,” said Cynthia Petry, director of the Coburn Gallery. “For these students of the liberal arts, the exhibition is the culmination of their undergraduate careers at Ashland University.”

The event brings together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Department of Art and includes graphic design, digital art, printmaking and ceramics. 

This year’s exhibiting seniors include: Taylor Menhart of Twinsburg, Ohio, B.A. in Commercial Art with a concentration in Graphic Design; Olivia Glass of Mount Vernon, Ohio, B.S. in Art Education, with Ceramics display; Randi Schimmoeller of Ottawa, Ohio, B.A. with a concentration in Printmaking; and Mary Jean Ferretti of Ashland, Ohio, Digital Art concentration.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Visiting Artist Traci Molloy Collaborates with AU Students

The Project is called "I Am, I Will, I'm Afraid" ( Ashland ) -

Visiting Artist Traci Molloy from Brooklyn, New York collaborated with 20 female AU students to create an art project that will be displayed in the spring 2016.

AU Art Alumnus Mauricio Uranga's-Kawi Planet Kickstarter Campaign

AU Art Department Alumnus Mauricio Uranga's Kickstarter campaign will go live on October 12 to fund his current eco- friendly backpack design. The design was created by his company Kawi Planet which founded with his two brothers in Mexico. 

Maurico graduated from Ashland University in 2013 with a degree in Painting  and Commercial Art with a concentration in Industrial Design.

"The backpack is made with organic, compostable, vegan materials without the addition of chemicals that harm our environment. It is ergonomically designed, which you will notice as soon as you put it on. The inspiration behind this backpack is the Tarahumara culture; however, we designed it to suit the lifestyle of enthusiastic travelers, exotic artists, book lovers, and people not afraid of expressing their true selves." Kawi Planet Webpage

To contribute to the Kickstarter campaign or to learn more about Kawi Planet Eco Friendly products -

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kawi/1078297533?token=5c96de2e

http://kawiplanet.com/

Art Department Visiting Artist-Traci Molloy This Thursday @7pm

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE THIS THURSDAY-TRACI MOLLOY
7:00pm Dauch College’s Ridenour Center

Ashland University’s Coburn Gallery will host artist and activist Traci Molloy on Oct. 8 and 9 as part of a visiting artist program.

As part of her visit to Ashland, Molloy will be working with AU students in a hands-on collaborative project that relates to social justice while expanding participants thinking around activism and social change. Molloy also will present a special artist lecture on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Dauch College’s Ridenour Center. Admission to this lecture is free and open to the public.

Molloy’s visit to Ashland University is made possible by the generosity of the Art Department, the Coburn Gallery, Ashland Center for Nonviolence, Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology and Student Activities.

Molloy is known for her works that explore adolescent culture, loss and violence through photography, digital arts, installation, painting and printmaking. Molloy has worked with youth who lost a parent on 9/11 through American Camps, with refugees at the Center for Grieving Children’s Multicultural Program, with high school students in the Bronx to address race and gun violence, and has taken on the theme of human trafficking in “Freedom Expressions” held at the Atlanta airport.

Molloy has exhibited her work in over 130 different venues. Select venues include: Taller Boricua (New York City), SPACE (Pittsburgh), Ruby Green Gallery (Nashville), IPCNY (New York City), The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (Long Branch, New Jersey), Triple Candie (New York City), the Kansas City Artists Coalition, The Contemporary (Atlanta), Artemisia (Chicago), SPACES (Cleveland) and the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ga.). Her artwork has been reviewed in national and regional publications, including Art Papers, Review Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Reader, and Creative Loafing. She has been interviewed on NPR in Atlanta and eHarlem TV in New York.

Her collaborations have been exhibited in Johannesburg, New York City, Tokyo, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Cleveland, and featured on Good Morning America, WPIX Channel 11 News (New York City), WCVB Channel 5 News (Boston), and CBS Evening News (Atlanta). Molloy has participated in residencies at the Lower Eastside Printshop, the Newark Museum and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (forthcoming).

For more information about Coburn Gallery events and programming, call (419) 289-5652.

AU Art Majors Serve As "Power of the Press" Exhibition Research Assistants

One of the goals of the exhibition Power of the Press, which features socially and politically themed prints, was to provide a unique opportunity for Ashland University art majors to be fully immersed in the experience of planning and implementing an art exhibition.  Senior art majors, Kaylin Henry (graphic design), Danielle Rhonemus (art education and printmaking), Randi Schimmoeller (printmaking), and Hannah Thome (art education) were selected as research assistants, bringing a broad range of artistic knowledge and skills to the project.  Beginning in fall semester 2014, these students worked closely with the exhibition curator, Dr. Wendy Schaller and Coburn Gallery director Cynthia Petry to plan the exhibition and determine how best to engage and educate viewers through the experience of the art of the print.  Initial brainstorming sessions led to the decision to complement the Ashland University print collection with a juried exhibition of contemporary prints that shared a similar theme.  Students assisted in writing the call for entries for this portion of the exhibition which received a very positive response from artists across the United States.   These students designed the marketing logo, advertising posters, postcards and even a Power of the Press t-shirt.  They prepared the gallery space and installed the works of art.  At the exhibition opening they demonstrated printmaking techniques and fielded questions from the public.  

Additionally, they volunteered through the Art Saturday program to educate area school children by creating prints that focused on the theme of bullying.  Most notably, these students engaged in research on the historical artists featured in the exhibition as well as into the various printmaking techniques represented in the show as a whole.  Students were then tasked with learning how to condense their research into concise, but engaging and informative panels that would speak to a broad audience.  Given the success of this initial project, we hope to be able to offer similar opportunities for our students as a regular part of Ashland University’s art program.

WASTE LAND FILM- October 5

Waste Land: What happens in the world's largest trash city will transform you-

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

All films will be shown at 7:00 pm in the Ashland University Hawkins-Conard Student Center auditorium and will be followed by a brief discussion. 

The film series is part of the AU College of Arts and Sciences Symposium Against Indifference, which this year is focusing on environmental sustainability. 

All are welcome; free admission.

Art Dept Faculty Member Exhibits in "Fiber Arts of Ohio"

FIBER ARTS of OHIO
Featuring AU Art Department Professor Priscilla Roggenkamp

VISITING ARTIST TRACI MOLLOY - OCTOBER 8

VISITING ARTIST TRACI MOLLOY - OCTOBER 8

Traci Molloy -a Brooklyn-based artist and social activist will be coming to Ashland University as part of the "Power of the Press" exhibition events. Traci's work explores adolescent culture, loss, and violence through photography, digital arts, installation, painting, and printmaking. 

Public lecture October 8 at 7:00pm Dauch-Ridenour Center.

On Friday October 9 -Traci will be working with AU students and community members in a hands-on art collaborative project that relates to Social Justice revolving around the topic of bullying while expanding participants thinking around activism and social change. Time to be announced. Location -Center for the Arts

Sponsored by the Art Department , Coburn Gallery, Ashland Center for Nonviolence, Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology and Student Activities.

Printmaking Workshop Sept 19th

Printmaking Workshop at Ashland University on Saturday September 19 from 10am to 2pm / Ages 16 and over/ $30.00 includes all materials.

This is the perfect opportunity to become acquainted with a variety of printmaking techniques. AU Printmaking Professor, Keith Dull, will provide demonstrations on copper plate etching, and polyester plate lithography, and linoleum relief printing, that will be followed by an opportunity for participants to draw, process and print their own image using one of these techniques. Be sure bring aprons, and an idea for a print, so we can hit the ground running! 

The workshop is offered in conjunction with the AU Coburn Gallery’s Power of the Press printmaking exhibition, so participants will have the additional opportunity to see the artistry of printmaking through the works of contemporary printmakers and the historical prints of Daumier, Goya, and Kollwitz.

AU Art Alumni News

Ashland University Art Alumnus Matthew Schiemann is featured in September 2015 issue of Ceramics Monthly- "From Idea to Finished Form".

Matt Schiemann's flask, 6 in. (15 cm) in height, wheel-thrown stoneware, natural ash glaze, wood fired, 2014.

Matthew Schiemann is a second-generation potter that grew up watching and helping his dad create ceramic works. This early exposure taught Matt to appreciate the handmade object and eventually to choose the field of ceramics for himself. He received his Bachelors of Arts in Sculpture and Ceramics from Ashland University in 2005 and his Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2009.

While in graduate school, Matt worked as Harris Deller’s personal assistant and as a Teaching Assistant for the wheel throwing and industrial design courses. During this time, he began building his own body of work focused on functional pottery fired in atmospheric kilns.

After graduating from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Matt was accepted as an artist in residence at the St. Petersburg Clay Company. Shortly after being accepted as A.I.R. Matt became an adjunct professor at Eckerd College for PEL program’s ceramics department. In October of 2010, Matt became co-owner/director of the St. Petersburg Clay Company.
Matthew is now currently the manager for the St. Pete Clay Artist in Residence Program at the Morean Center for Clay and is an adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College.

Ashland University Art Alumnus -Joshua Risner Artist Talk- Rediscovering Allegory

Thursday September 10- 6:00 PM · Mansfield Art Center

Joshua Adam Risner grew up in rural central Ohio.  Following high school he pursued a career in commercial art holding jobs such as sign painter, graphic designer, creative director and business owner.  At the age of thirty he left the commercial art industry to attend Ashland University where he earned a BFA in painting with an art history minor.  After finishing his undergraduate degree Risner moved to Michigan to pursue a graduate degree.   He earned his MFA from Kendall College of Art and Design where he received a full tuition fellowship.  He has won numerous awards for his oil paintings and drawings.  He considers his artwork to be a material representation of the process within himself that seeks to understand his reality.  Risner’s work might best be described as allegorical images that appear to be from the past, but speak a language that could only come from the present.  He considers them amalgamations of the entirety of human history, not just a fragment of his contemporary situation dislocated from history.  They are objects culminating from the past and filtered through the present.  His current research interests include topics related to allegory and narrative. 

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Senior Art Exhibition Awards

The 2015 Senior Art Exhibition awards were presented by Dr. Wendy Schaller , associate professor of art, on Thursday April 9 at the Coburn Art Gallery opening reception. Shauna Spiesz was selected as the senior art award recipient by the AU art department faculty. Shauna’s artworks use the human figure to explore trauma and its emotional states, struggles and empathy in the aftermath of such events in our lives.  Shauna Spiesz –a double major -BFA with concentration in Painting and BS in Art Education from Bay Village, Ohio. Cecelia Maxwell was awarded honorable mention for her senior art exhibition. Celica Maxwell is receiving a BFA with a concentration in Printmaking and Digital Art, from Wooster, Ohio. The Senior Art Exhibition runs from April 9-May 9, 2015. 

Senior Art Exhibition

Held each spring, the Coburn Gallery hosts the Senior Art Exhibition which features the capstone experience for graduating art majors, the 2015 Senior Art Exhibitions represents more than just students’ studio art experiences. For students of the liberal arts, the exhibition is the culmination of their undergraduate careers at Ashland University. Bringing together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Department of Art, the Senior Art Exhibitions opens on April 9 at the Coburn Art Gallery located in the center for the arts on the Ashland University campus. The exhibition includes graphic design, digital art, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture.  Exhibiting seniors include: Danielle Rhonemus, Shawna Spiesz, Taylor Wade, Tricia Dasco, Jennifer Clingerman, Cecilia Maxwell, Ashely Palmer and Alex Myers. An opening reception will be held from 4:30pm-6:30pm on the April 9, with senior art awards announced at 5:00pm at the reception. The senior art exhibitions run from April 9-May 9, 2015.

AU Art Education Grad-Ashley Roberts Featured In Article

http://www.richlandsource.com/education/western-elementary-hosts-record-numbers-at-family-art-night/article_a3438b68-ccc7-11e4-ad7d-df9be35357c4.html#.VQi8uNG1mes.facebook

   

AU Professor Awarded Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

AU Professor Awarded Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
FOR RELEASE March 18, 2015

ASHLAND, Ohio – Priscilla Roggenkamp, associate professor of art at Ashland University, has been awarded a two-week residency in art for the summer of 2015 by the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.

"I was very pleased to receive the offer from the Haystack School of Crafts,” Roggenkamp said. “The residency is quite an honor and it will be a great way for me to focus on continuing my study leave artwork.”

Roggenkamp was one of 45 artists selected from the more than 260 applicants. The confirmation letter from Haystack director Stuart Kestenbaum noted that the quality of the applications was high and the selection process rigorous.

Haystack, which was founded by a group of craft artists in 1950, offers intensive studio-based workshops in a variety of craft media including clay, glass, metals, paper, blacksmithing, weaving, woodworking and more. Programs range from short workshops to two-week sessions.

Roggenkamp, who is a native of Maine, studied art at Kent State University (M.F.A.), University of Arkansas (M.Ed.) and Heidelberg College (B.A.). Working primarily in drawing and painting, she began creating three-dimensional work in the mid-1990s. She has conducted art education workshops in Florida, Ohio and Maine and has co-authored several publications related to art and interdisciplinary curriculum. She is interested in inspiring and mentoring exemplary art educators who will then be prepared to inspire and mentor tomorrow’s creative young people.

Ashland University is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong, applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students. ###