National Print Exhibition in High Point
November 13, 2009 - January 15, 2010

Merrill Shatzman, Inaugural Address Triptych, woodcut construction,
36" x 40", 2009.

Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual art, and Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of the practice of visual art, have works in the upcoming nationally curated exhibition of forty-five printmakers, The Print Fantastic, at the Theater Art Galleries in Highpoint, North Carolina. John D. Gall, a North Carolina artist and printmaker specializing in intaglio, curated the exhibition and notes that the opportunity was "a curator's dream: to select artists whose works I personally liked, with no restriction of theme and no requirement that the show be a 'survey of printmaking,' where the emphasis is to show all types and techniques being done today in the world of printmaking from old to cutting edge."

Bill Fick, Terrorist #1, #2, #3, linocut on hand-painted cardboard.

ISIS Director Joins Department

Victoria Szabo was appointed Assistant Research Professor in the department this semester. She joined Duke University in August 2006 as Program Director for the certificate program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS). She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Duke Visual Studies Initiative Steering and Executive Committees, where she works primarily on curriculum development and infrastructure, including the new Visual Studies Initiative interdisciplinary space in the Smith Warehouse, Bays 11-12.

As a Victorianist and as a digital media specialist, Szabo is especially interested in emergent media forms and their impact on conventional forms of authorship, in theory and in practice. She has received with her collaborators CIT Visualization and Strategic Initiative Grants, as well as funding from the Duke Digital Initiative, to support her projects. Her avatar, Ouida Basevi, manages the Duke ISIS Oasis and Duke Metaverse islands in Second Life.

Print Americas Exhibition

Merrill Shatzman, Inaugural-Address-#1, woodcut construction, 2009.

Three woodblock prints by Merrill Shatzman, associate professor of the practice of visual arts, will be included in Print Americas 2009 from November 22 - December 23, 2009 at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut. Works for this show were selected by Jacob Lewis, Director of Pace Prints, New York.

Japanese Design Article

Gennifer Weisenfeld, associate professor of art history, published "Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method" in Design Issues, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn 2009): 13-28.

Symposium at Henry Moore Institute

Henry Moore Institute, exterior, Leeds, England

Mark Antliff, professor of art history, is speaking in the symposium, "The Plastic Expression, the Fruitful Sphere": European Poets and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England on November 20. Antliff's lecture is titled, "Anarchist Vortex/Sculptural Nominalism: Gaudier-Brzeska and Pound." The Henry Moore Institute is sponsoring the symposium in collaboration with The Centre for Modern European Literature of the University of Kent.

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Graduate Student/Travelling Scholar

David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland

Rebecca Keegan will be an Inter-Institutional Academic Collaborative Traveling Scholar for Spring Semester 2010 with residency at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African-Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland-College Park. Keegan also received the University of Iowa Symposium Honorarium for 2009.

Public Lecture

"Experiencing the Past: Cyber-Heritage, Research and Education"

Maurizio Forte

Professor of World Heritage
University of California, Merced

Professor of Virtual Environments for Cultural Heritage
University of Lugano

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:30 PM
108 East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University

Major funding provided by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Sponsored by the JHFHI Working Group on Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts: Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age.

 
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