Mary Babcock and Kanako Nagai featured in Exist-ence

Assistant Professor and Fibers Area Chair Mary Babcock and BFA alum Kanako Nagai both have screenings in Exist-ence: Performance Art Live, Film & Artifact. Exist-ence is occuring January 15th and 16th, 2010 at White Canvas Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.

32nd Annual Graduate Student Exhibition

Sunday January 17th is the opening of the 32nd Annual Graduate Student Exhibition. The exhibition features the recent work of MFA students: Jessica Beck, Megan Bent, Chen Carmi, Roxanne Chasle, Elizabeth Curtis, Dustin Hart, Shannon Leitch, Jason Lowe, Emily McIlroy, Kumi Nakajima, Alyssa Olivier, Jessica Orfe, Jeannie Randall, J. Robert Reed, Jennifer Rubin, Boz Schurr, Katie Small, Chad Steve, Adam Stratton, and Satoshi Takahira. The 32nd Annual Graduate Student Exhibition will be up from January 17th to February 5th. The opening reception is Sunday January 17th from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.

Erika Molyneux

Students in Erika Molyneux's [BFA Alum] digital art course at Sacred Hearts Academy have their work on display in the exhibition Black and White. For their final project Molyneux had students organize every aspect of the exhibition. Black and White is on display at the Hawaii State Library [478 s. King St.] and is up through January 8th. Library hours are Mondays and Wednesdays 10-5 Tuesday, Fridays, and Saturdays 9-5 and Thursdays 9 to 8 pm. Pictured above is an image by student Arsenia Miyai. Please click here to view more images.

Kanako Nagai

BFA Alumni Kanako Nagai's performance video, Performance Art Project- Rice Culture in Hawaii, will be shown at Exist-ence: Performance Art Live and on Film, Two Days of Live and Documented Performance Art! This exhibition, curated by Rebecca Clunn-Cunningham will run on January 15th and 16th in Brisbane, Australia. Kanako will also perform at Performance Art Today, Volume 10 at Nippon International Performance Art Festival [NIPAF] from January 19th and 20th in Tokyo, Japan. This event was organized by internationally acclaimed performance artist Seiji Shimoda.

Niho Kozuru showing in San Francisco

"Liquid Sunshine" by Niho Kozuru (MFA alum) is on view from December 26 – March 6, 2010 at 555 California Street, Bank of America/Concourse Gallery, San Francisco.

Kozuru also received a fellowship in the Sculpture/Installation category from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. 50 artists were selected from more than 1,200 applicants in multiple disciplines.

Chae Ho Lee

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Chae Ho Lee is the designer of Farout_ Library_ Software a collection of poetry by Maged Zaher and Pam Brown, published by Tinfish Press. The design by Lee was also chosen to be featured in the art and design journal Creative Quarterly.

Roxanne Chasle

MFA student Roxanne Chasle received Best in Show in Mailed 2.0 annual postcard competition at Anton Art Center in Mount Clemens MI. Mailed 2.0 was exhibited from November 20th to December 20th.