ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART/PHOTOGRAPHY

The Offutt Center for Business building is now 53,000 square feet and includes 14 classroom spaces with state-of-the-art learning technology and green technologies designed for saving energy.  The Bachmeier artwork is the focal point of the RDO Friends and Family Conference Room, an ultramodern space open to area businesses and organizations.

The April 27, 2013 grand opening was a special day in the history of Concordia College. Not only was the newly renovated Offutt School of Business officially dedicated, billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates was part of the dedication festivities.

The Intro to Illustration class is having their annual caricature drawing event Monday, May 6 from 2-4:45 p.m. The event will be located in the CMU lobby.

Students are working towards fulfillment of requirements for the BFA in Art. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 17 the gallery will be open 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Montreuil, known for his published criticism and arts journalism, has developed a following in New York City among writers as well as artists. His byline can regularly be found in Cover, The New Art Examiner, Contemporary, Flash Art, The Villager and Art Papers. As artist, he has shown extensively throughout France and Europe, and in New York with legendary gallerist Julian Pretto. His work is in such public and private collections as The National Gallery in Washington DC; Yale University, New Haven, CT; and the Wadsworth Athenium in Hartford Ct.

The Rourke Art Gallery is located at 523 4th St. S in Moorhead. More information about the exhibition can be found at therourke.org.

Ashley Strazzinski is currently exhibiting in International Open, an exhibition juried by Kelli Connell at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL. Her work was selected, along with 36 others, from over 400 entries.

Courtney Johnson recently exhibited in the Light, Space and Time on-line gallery show, Nature. She received a Special Recognition Artist Award. The exhibition was juried by John R. Math. Her work was chosen from 672 entries from 20 countries.

Brittany Cossette is currently exhibiting in the Light, Space and Time on-line gallery show, Abstract. The exhibition was juried by John R. Math. Her work was chosen from 970 entries from 26 countries.

Caitlin Abram and Angela Buchanan have both had work accepted into the Savage Arts Council’s Seventh Juried Art Competition & Show. The jurors are Deb Magellsen, Jean Loy-Swanson and Rachel Daly Flentje. The Exhibition will take place in Savage, Minn., from April 28-May 29. The Savage Juried Art Competition & Show is unique in that it engages with area businesses to exhibit the award-winning artwork in public-facing venues throughout the Savage community.

Solien’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York, at the Tate Gallery in London, and at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC. He received an Young Alumni Award from MSUM in 1983.

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Meghan McLaughlin to present at Tuesday’s SAC Conference

By Kalicia Kamranian

Young children grow to understand the world around them through trial and error. They fail forward to success. Freshman Meghan McLaughlin believes that as we age, the development of our creative minds decreases. McLaughlin will discuss this issuer in her SAC presentation, “Stepping Away from Creativity.”

Double majoring in studio arts, with an emphasis in sculpture, and theater arts, with an emphasis in theater technology and design, McLaughlin clearly has a passion for creativity. She likes people to see different perspectives in both art and life. Her presentation is inspired by TED talks, a series of documentaries based in the U.K., and by the late philosopher Alan Watts, from whom McLaughlin has studied ideas on creativity in life.

Throughout life, we learn with our senses, we reach goals, and once we have reached a goal, we move on to the next. Life progresses and we work less with our creative minds and more with the fear of failure, McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin hopes she inspires people to take away a new idea, or an old idea with a new person saying it. “I want them to have the understanding that we need to change something in school. It is okay to feel fear, but face it.”

McLaughlin will discuss the reasons our minds slowly lose the creativity we had as children, and plans to include information and quotes from well-known inventors and philosophers, such as Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison.

McLaughlin hopes others will share her desire to change how we learn things as we age. “Some people might feel it’s important, and that’s what I hope for.”

The Fabulous Ice Age

Pickett’s film chronicles a century of theatrical skating, from Berlin’s Charlotte, to America’s Ice Follies, Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice, and the Sonja Henie shows, illustrating how those programs dominated live entertainment for decades. The film features never-before-seen footage, photos and rare archival material of a handful of skaters, producers and entrepreneurs. Starting in America with the Hippodrome and hotel shows and big arenas, the film also portrays how Holiday on Ice brought skating to Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, to Asia, Africa and South America, places where ice had never been seen before. The film also depicts the work of skater Roy Blakely to keep the history of theatrical skating alive.

Pickett is an award-winning photographer based in Minneapolis whose work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Her journalistic work focuses primarily on human-interest feature stories and environmental portraits. Her photography has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including People, Time, Life, Geo, Parenting, Christianity Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Der Spiegel, and numerous others. She is the author of three books of photography, including Saving Body & Soul: The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland; FAERIE: Visions, Voices & Pretty Dresses; and Love in the 90s: BB and Jo, The Story of a Lifelong Love: A Granddaughter’s Portrait.

She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts photography fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, three Jerome Foundation grants, and three McKnight Foundation photography fellowships.

The Fabulous Ice Age is featured in April issues of Skating Magazine and Minnesota Monthly. Reviews of the movie, articles and interviews with Pickett are accessible from the film’s website: www.fabulousiceage.com.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

$20 for 20 minutes and you get all the photographs.

To book appointments, or if you have nay further questions, please contact msumphotoguild@hotmail.com.

Mirer has exhibited internationally and his work is represented in many key collections, including the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Contemporary Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.

Mirer was born in Brooklyn New York, and currently lives and works in both the United States and the Netherlands. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He is a professor of photography and media arts at Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Go to www.danielmirer.com for more information about his work.

For more information about Mirer’s MSUM visit, contact Shirlee Holland at 218.477.2317 or email her at shirlee.holland@mnstate.edu.

Mirer Poster

Photograph by Mirer

Photographer Daniel Mirer will meet in March with students studying photography at MSUM, and talk about his work at a free public lecture Tuesday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in MSUM’s King Hall.

Mirer has exhibited internationally and his work is represented in many key collections, including the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Contemporary Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.

Mirer was born in Brooklyn New York, and currently lives and works in both the United States and the Netherlands. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He is a professor of photography and media arts at Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Go to www.danielmirer.com for more information about his work.

For more information about Mirer’s MSUM visit, contact Shirlee Holland at 218.477.2317 or email her at shirlee.holland@mnstate.edu.

AAF-ND is one of 210 local affiliates of the American Advertising Federation, a nonprofit industry association, and a member of the 8th District (clubs from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin). The AAF’s annual ADDY Awards program honors excellence in advertising and cultivates the highest creative standards. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry for the industry. Each year, AdFed members from around the country enter more than 60,000 samples of their best work, making the ADDYs the world’s largest advertising competition.