COLLECTION NAME:
University Art Galleries (UMassD)
Record
exhibition_title:
Sabbatical Exhibition
exhibition_dates:
November 14 - December 14, 2012
exhibition_year:
2012
exhibition_location:
CVPA Campus Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
exhibition_note:
The Sabbatical Exhibition at the CVPA Campus Gallery showcases four UMass Dartmouth professors and the results of their quest to improve their design, installation, sculptural and painting work through active sabbatical research. Jean-François Allaux, Laura Franz, Rebecca Hutchinson, and Tony Miraglia went in depth and, in some cases, abroad, in an attempt to explore their personal artistic inspirations as well as the themes and concepts that drive their work. JEAN-FRANÇOIS ALLAUX "As a child in colonial Morocco, I spent many afternoons with my father visiting the potters whose primitive kilns dotted the landscape on the outskirts of Rabat, bringing home a variety of clays from which I fashioned an ever-expanding menagerie of animals and figures. At the age of twelve, I was accepted in the studio of Russian sculptor Marounia de la Serve where my evenings were spent doing clay modeling and figure drawing for the next five years. Then, illustration took over. While in Marseille on my sabbatical semester, I was drawn anew to the magic of a potter's world, visiting many studios in Provence and bringing back home clays of different hues. Exploring new forms of artistic expression in the context of a complex French melting pot had been my goal. And while I studied calligraphy, attended many figure drawing sessions and attempted new media and graphic approaches, I kept going back to my clay, thrilled by the miracle of watching life emerge from mud. The diversity and contrasts of Marseille have guided the work presented here. Diversity of people as well as of emotions. I have tried to capture the grace of a young Romanian gypsy glimpsed on a street, the nobility of a Comoro Islander leaving a nearby mosque. I have attempted to convey the passion of love and the folly of violence. I have also endeavored to express the sense of dislocation, rejection, longing and social injustice felt by a large immigrant population." LAURA FRANZ "I spent my sabbatical focusing on the details of web typography, testing web type solutions and publishing the results. I researched typefaces and lettering in old books, journals, and broadsides in order to contextualize web fonts, and learned to use voice software in order to test the accessibility of web type solutions for sight-impaired web users. I also learned to create a customized WordPress site in order to share web font recommendations with others. In this exhibition, I share videos for a course I developed for lynda.com (Choosing and Using Web Fonts), as well as screenshots of articles and my online web font specimen site, goodwebfonts.com." REBECCA HUTCHINSON "During my sabbatical, I conceptually explored viewing peak and vivacious bloom in nature and its negotiation within its surroundings. This content development has specifically encouraged new wooden structures engaging with built paper clay growth. Realizing growth orientation materially within specific contexts, I additionally initiated and learned new technical paper clay construction methodology which consisted of utilizing papermaking processes; casting, large-scale sheet formation construction, paper clay mache, slip and pulp painting, and embossing. Each of the two built installation pieces (solo show opening at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design and solo show opening at Linda Darke Gallery, Houston, Texas) is significant in its use of new individual components from newly learned construction methods, thousands of parts per installation." TONY MIRAGLIA "I began my sabbatical leave in January of 2012 with the goals of painting every day and conducting historical research on the work and life of Antoni Tàpies, a Catalan painter, who died at the age of 88 on February 2012. In June, I spent some time at the Fundacio Antoni Tàpies in Barce."
exhibition_genre:
design
exhibition_genre:
installation
exhibition_genre:
painting
exhibition_genre:
sculpture
resourceID:
12009_012
resource_type:
ephemera - poster
copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
credit line:
UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
artist name:
Tony Miraglia
artist_biographical note:
Anthony Miraglia is a Professor of Painting in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His works have been included in National Juried Exhibitions in New Jersey, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Texas, Virginia and invitational exhibitions at the New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA. His works, in the past, have been exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally in prestigious institutions including the Attleboro Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, the Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, the Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York City and Art Toronto 2010 (International Art Fair). Professor Miraglia has been the recipient of many awards and his works are held in numerous private, 2 public, and 14 corporate collections throughout the USA, Italy and Asia. Additionally, he is the International Program Advisor for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and instructor of painting and on-site coordinator for the Mediterranean Studies Program at the University of Messina in Sicily.
artist name:
Rebecca Hutchinson
artist_biographical note:
Rebecca Hutchinson, Professor of Ceramics, joined the Artisanry faculty at UMass Dartmouth in 2001. Her BA in Ceramics is from Berea College and she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia. Her work is large-scale, installation in format, and engages concerns for both the observation of place and the myriad of construction possibilities in building site-specific work. The work embraces qualities of craft, developmental theory, and observation of both animal and human architecture and systems. With this personal and equal interest in both the human and natural world, recent pieces have been influenced by observing plant growth and ecosystem dynamics. Exhibitions include solo shows and installations at San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, 2012; Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan; Keramikos Internationale della Ceramica D'Arte, Bracciano Museum, Bracciano, Italy; Racine Museum of Art; Fuller Craft Museum; Holter Museum of Art; The Society of Arts and Crafts; University of Tulsa; Lowe Museum of Art; Vertigo Gallery-Denver; Islip Museum of Art; Skidmore College; University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Rebecca Hutchinson was a New England Artist Award recipient, fellowship recipient from: The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Virginia Cultural Commission, The North Carolina Arts Council, Virginia Commission of the Arts, a NEA fellowship finalist for the Southern Arts Federation and was awarded grants from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Kalamazoo College, and Myrna Loy Art Center. She has curated and juried exhibitions and participated in residencies including the Archie Bray Foundation, Banff Centre for Fine Art, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, the Greenwich House Pottery and Vermont Studio Center. She has taught Large-Scale and Paper Clay workshops internationally and nationally at Anderson Ranch, Mendocino Art Center, Clay Art Center, Appalachian Craft Center, Southwest Craft Center, Peters Valley Art Center, Northern Clay Center, and Mudflat Ceramics, amongst others. Her work can be found in collections private and public including Bracciano Museum, Bracciano, Italy; Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana; Banff Centre for Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; La Suerte Biological Station, Cariari, Costa Rica; Concordia University, Quebec, Canada; and Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in Ceramics Monthly, American Crafts, Sculpture, Korean Ceramics, Studio Potter, Critical Ceramics, Ceramics Art and Perception, in numerous catalogs and books such as Paperclay Community and Beyond (AC Black-London, 2011), Additions to Clay Bodies (A&C Black-London, 2011) and 500 Ceramic Sculptures (Lark Books, 2009). Prior to coming to UMass Dartmouth, she held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Washington, Seattle, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
artist name:
Laura Franz
artist_biographical note:
Professor Laura Franz teaches a wide range of type classes at UMass Dartmouth, including Typography I, II, and III, and a Web Typography class in The Graduate Certificate in Web and Interaction Design. Inspired by the intersection of tradition and technology, Laura shares her web font recommendations on goodwebfonts.com and her typography knowledge via "Typographic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typographer in HTML and CSS" (Wiley), "Typography for Web Designers" (lynda.com), and "Choosing and Using Web Fonts" (lynda.com). A presenter at the 2012 HOW Magazine Interactive Design Conferences, she also writes for SmashingMagazine.com. She holds an MDes in Communication Planning and Design from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University. Laura Franz is an associate professor of design and chair of the Design department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Professionally, Laura designs for both print and the web. Ongoing creative research projects include historictype.com, goodwebfonts.com, and the New Bedford Typeface Project, and she is author of the ebook Typographic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typographer in HTML and CSS. She is particularly interested in how to teach future typographers the art and responsibilities of the craft.
artist name:
Jean-François Allaux
artist_nationality:
French
artist_biographical note:
Jean-François Allaux was born in Rabat, Morocco. After Moroccan independence, he moved to France and then on to the US in 1975. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Allaux studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Sorbonne, Paris. Since 1999 he has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has received awards from the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts and the Art Directors Club. Allaux is a a founding member of INX, the premiere editorial illustration service that since 1980 has provided journals of opinion worldwide easy access to the best in pointed political art. His work has appeared in exhibitions at Galerie Petron, Pau, France, Matsuda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and the Newport Art Museum, RI. Some of his illustration clients have included The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Time, Newsweek, Encyclopedia Britannica, United Nations Development Program, American Express and Mercedes Benz.
date_of_ record:
10/30/13
name_cataloger:
jtrinh
