Emily McIlroy news

After having completed her MFA recently, Emily McIlroy is currently an artist in residence at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and has an essay published  in Omega: Journal of Death and Dying.

Nicole Naone - solo exhibition at Human Imagination

 

MASS, a solo exhibition by BFA student Nicole Naone
at The Human Imagination
1154 Nu’uanu Avenue
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 2, 2012 @ 5 pm - 9 pm
Exhibition runs through September 7

Robert Reed news

 Recent MFA recipient Robert Reed will be showing in the exhibition Big Art / Miniature Golf (July 18- October 7, 2012) at Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, Florida. The exhibit is part of a fully playable miniature golf course from artists across the United States. In addition, Reed will also be designing a piece for the museum window.

Megan Bent News

Recently graduated MFA Megan Bent is included in 10x 10x 10x 2012, a juried exhibition of small works in Tieton Washington. She was also been selected (competitively) to be a member of the McGuffey Art Center. As a member she has access to a studio space and participate in their summer exhibition which opens on July 7 until mid August.

John Szostak and the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Faculty member John Szostak recently traveled to Sydney, Australia, where he participated in a symposium on the Japanese artist and modern inheritor of the Rinpa tradition, Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942). John's paper was entitled "Neo-Rinpa and Other Historical Re-Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art." The paper was based on an essay he contributed to the exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The exhibition is the first in Australia (and in the southern hemisphere) to feature Sekka, an important figure in the history of modern Japanese painting and design.

UHMers in FIND ART

 

UHMers Eli Baxter, Dana Paresa, Kirsten Simonsen, Robert Reed and more to participate in this week's FIND ART events. "Exquisite Corpse" at Mercury Bar lead by Marika Emi, with prints donated by, Ryan Chapman, Rex Vlcek, Joseph Name, Jeremy Pang, Kelsey Hughes, Brady Evans, David Randall, and Travis Sasaki. See complete schedule here.

Julia Cornell published in the Corning New Glass Review

BFA student Julia Cornell is published in the Corning New Glass Review 33, an international survey of contemporary glass art.