Faculty & staff news

Charlene Fix won the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. A sample poem and judge Eleanor Wilner's comments can be seen on the PSA website: http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyseven.htm

Charlene Fix will be reading her poetry on the fourth Tuesday in April, April 22, at Sips Cafe in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 101 S. Main Street. Music starts at 6:30, poetry at 7:00.

Charlene Fix will be reading at Joe Sundae's, 1119 W. Washington St. in Sandusky, Ohio on Sunday, June 1, 2-4 pm.

Matthew Ladd, Liberal Arts, will read at Larry's Poetry Forum on Monday, April 14th. Matthew's poems appear in current issues of New Letters, Bellevue Literary Review, and Gulf Coast, and his book reviews have recently appeared in Threepenny Review and The Humanist. In February, he became a regular reviewer for West Branch, the literary journal of Bucknell University.

Professor, Charlene Fix attended: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery: THE IMAGE OF THE OUTSIDER in Literature, Media, and Society Conference held in Colorado Springs, Colorado on March 13 - 15, 2008.

Carol Boram-Hays is fascinated by the man-made nature of much of our environment and by the impending decline of this country's heavy industry. Her work is a kind of post-modern industrial archaeology whereby she creates poetry from unlikely elements- fragments of discarded metal and concrete.

STRUCTURED INCIDENTS
An exhibit by the National Artists of A.I.R.Gallery curated by Charlotta Kotik

AIR
511 West 25th Street, Ste. 301
New York City, NY 10001
(212) 255-6651
www.airgallery.org

Through March 29.

Professor Carol Griffith, Chair of Painting, has work included in "The Commercial Woman" show at WomanMADE Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago IL from Jan 18-Feb. 21. The opening is Jan. 18 from 6:00-9:00 PM. Email for more information: gallery(at)womanmade.org

Akhim Cabey, Maggie DiVito, and Matt Ladd from Liberal Arts English Department are attending the AWP Writer's Conference in New York City, NY.

Joan DeMartin Liberal Arts, English department will be attending a Creative Nonfiction Writer's Conference/Workshop at the end of February 2008 in Mississippi at The University of Mississippi.

Charlene Fix, Chair of the CCAD English Department did a Columbus State Community College workshop and reading in January 2008.

Eric Homan gave informative lecture on Comic Book Culture based upon his design of a fantastic DVD with the same title. He spoke about the power of the writers of comic books, power of the illustrators of the comic books, and how this activates the imagination for young artists and old alike.

Ric Petry will be attending the SPE Confernce in Denver, CO in March 2008.

Hiroshi Hayakawa has a Solo Exhibition of 15 Photography works at The Sherrie Gallerie at 694 North high Street, Columbus, OH 43215.

IN and ID Faculty member, Tom Williamson, Tom Kier and Joel Gundlach will be taking a group of their talented students to Chicago, Illinois for the International Housewares Show in March 2008.

Brooke Hannan, Fashion Design Faculty member gave a one-day quick workshop/demonstration on scarf painting with painting on fabric tools, hand mixed dyes, color arrangement, and design all incorporated into the workshop with some spectacular results from all who attended.

Charlene Fix, liberal arts, read from Flowering Bruno: A Dography at The Readers' Garden, 143 East Broadway, Granville, Ohio 740-587-7744 on February 14th, 2007. Charlene also read a short story, The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami, at the Wexner Center Cafe on February 22, 2007 for the OSU Read Aloud Program. Her book, Flowering Bruno, is a poetry finalist in the Ohioana Library's Book Awards. In addition, Charlene was chosen by poet Eleanor Wilner to win the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America for 2007 and her poem, Parable of Nails, is featured in The Cincinnati Review, volume 4, number 1.

Brooke Hunter-Lombardi, fine arts, had a book piece, Text, Image, Form, included in an exhibition at OSU Hopkins Hall. The show will run from January 30 through February 15, 2007. Visit: http://arts.osu.edu.

Matthew Ladd, liberal arts, has a poem, Appalachian Diurnal, in the most recent issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Carol Boram-Hays, liberal arts, has two sculptures in Made Out of Ordinary curated by Lesley Wright at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City from January 10 through February 3, 2007.

Charlene Fix, liberal arts, was the featured poet and season opener at The Poetry Forum at Larry's in October 2006. In addition, her book, Flowering Bruno: A Dography, with illustrations by Susan Josephson, is available.

West coast met East coast as CCAD associate provost Char Norman and her brother Kurt Steger presented Confluence of Form at the Cultural Arts Center, August 27 through October 8, 2006.

Using a weaving process to create 3-dimensional forms, Ms. Norman’s work reflects natural elements. These are combined with cast handmade paper embellished with drawings. The sculptures are often encased in plastic suggesting entrapment while at the same time incorporating pieces, which protrude from the case. Included in the exhibition were earlier pieces developed as the sculptural artist’s books and a recent series of drawings derived from her childhood home on the beaches of Southern California.

Kurt Steger is a well-known sculptor in Northern California. He has work in numerous collections and has just completed a major installation in the new Sacramento City Hall. Mr. Steger has a background in fine woodworking. His sculptures incorporate not only wood but also concrete, paper, and natural elements.

CCAD fine arts faculty member Bill Hunt was elected in August 2006 to the board of Advocates for Kids, a nonprofit foundation that funds other organizations serving special needs children.

Carol Griffith, fine arts, had work included in the Works on Walls exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of Carnegie-Mellon University's College of Fine Arts. Carol also had work in the OH+5 juried exhibition at the Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center in Athens, OH.

Charlene Fix, liberal arts, was a featured poet at Scottie MacBean's Coffeehouse in Worthington. Charlene also has a poem, Lincolnesque, in the winter 2006 issue of Artful Dodge.

Char Norman, associate provost, and Doug Norman, fine arts, had an exhibition at the Louis O. Palmer Gallery at Muskingum College. Unfinished Business featured fabric works by Char and paintings by Doug. Visit: www.muskingum.edu/~art/.

Charlene Fix, liberal arts, had a poem, Gardenias, in Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century (winter 2005 issue.)

Ron Anderson, visual communications, was interviewed by Cindy Gaillard of WOSU for an episode of Artzine. The interview focused on Ron's triptych painting chosen for the permanent collection of the King Arts Complex. The painting, Cargo, depicts the interior of a slave ship and was the focus of the exhibition titled Cargo: the Middle Passage. Each oil on canvas panel measures 93" x 48". Visit: www.ronandersonstudio.com. For more information on the interview, visit www.artzine.tv.

Danielle Julian-Norton, foundation studies, had work included in the exhibition Multiplicity at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland.

Chris Yates, foundation studies, had work included in The Third Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition at Cleveland State University. Visit: www.csuohio.edu/art/gallery/3rd_biennial/.

Carol Boram-Hays, liberal arts, had a sculpture included in the exhibition Unseen City in Schumacher Gallery, at Capital University in Columbus. Carol also had an article, Borders of Beads: Questions of Identity in Zulu Beadwork, published in the journal African Arts.

George Felton, liberal arts, had an essay, How to Write a Letter of Recommendation, published in the July/August 2005 issue of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors. You can read it online at www.aaup.org/publications/

Dorenda (Crager) Watson, SMAC and CE, had two paintings accepted in the John A. Logan College National Wildlife and Nature Art Exhibition in Illinois. Dorenda was also asked to issue a commemorative print of Central High School, (now COSI,) in Columbus, OH.

John Kortlander, Julie Taggart, and Kaname Takada, fine arts, had work included in Summer Salon at Gallery V, Columbus, OH.

Danielle Julian-Norton, fine arts was awarded a 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship by the Ohio Arts Council.

Curt Benzle, fine arts, lectured and demonstrated his signature style of sculptural porcelain at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan.

Arthur Wang, fine arts, was awarded a second-place Jury Award in the 2005 All-Ohio Juried Exhibition at OSU-Mansfield.

Charlene Fix, liberal arts, had a poem, Weatherman: A Confession, published in The Manhattan Review, winter/spring 2005, Vol. 11, no. 2.

Dwayne Todd, dean of students, was elected president of the Ohio College Personnel Association (OCPA). OCPA is a comprehensive student affairs organization dedicated to providing quality professional development opportunities, and is the state-affiliate of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA.)