Blandy receives prestigious Ziegfeld Award for art education research
The United States Society for Education Through Art has awarded UO Senior Vice Provost Doug Blandy its National Ziegfeld Award for his research in arts education.
News
Kiara Galicinao named 2015 Hatfield Architectural Scholar
Kiara K. Galicinao, a third-year undergraduate in the Department of Architecture, is this year’s Hatfield Architectural Scholar, presented by the Architectural Foundation of Oregon (afo). The award, announced in 2014 for the 2015 award year, includes a $2,000 scholarship.
Warpinski exhibits in Evanston, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon
Professor Terri Warpinski opened a show, “Liminal Matter: Fences,” in Portland at the gallery at Passages Bookshop on Saturday, April 4. “Liminal Matter: Fences” is the inaugural exhibition at the gallery, a new exhibition space on the top floor of the Towne Storage building in Portland’s Central Eastside, 17 SE Third Avenue, #502. The show will be on display through April.
Nearly concurrently, Warpinski’s “Surface Tensions” exhibition opened at Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery in Evanston, Illinois, on April 2 and runs through May 8.
Miller Hull gift supports students
The Seattle-based Miller Hull Partnership, one of the nation’s leading design firms, demonstrates its commitment to student success in more ways than one.
The firm has established a new endowment fund at the UO to support architecture and interior architecture graduate student scholarships and continues its on-site internship program for undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture Program.
Collaborative exhibition opens April 11 at Pacific Sky Exhibitions
Artist, filmmaker, and designer Vincent Angel and writer Sommer Browning have collaborated on the upcoming exhibition Parker Venus Daylight, which opens April 11 at Pacific Sky Exhibitions, 180 West 12th Avenue, in Eugene.
Parker Venus Daylight will feature a new series of visual artworks from Angel supplemented with a written response from Browning, which will be printed as a take-away tabloid for visitors.
Architecture studio remembers Chinese exclusion
For many, immigration to the United States is symbolized by Ellis Island and its welcoming of the poor and oppressed from the Old World. While the story of European migration to the U.S. is well known, however, the experience of many Asian Americans is not.
Jepson article in Journal of the American Planning Association
Edward Jepson, courtesy research associate in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, has coauthored “Zoning for Sustainability: A Review and Analysis of the Zoning Ordinances of 32 Cities in the United States” in the December 16 issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association. In the “takeaway for practice” accompanying the article, Jepson, with coauthor Anna L.
Work by UO art faculty receives wide exposure internationally
From coast to coast and beyond, UO Department of Art faculty members have a number of major openings in March. All exhibiting brand new work, these shows display the rigor that UO faculty members bring to the art world. Testing new media, redefining old media, and developing new techniques, the works present a wide range of expertise and thinking.
Vandenburgh work provides ‘bravura moment,’ critic says
Artist-educator Laura Vandenburgh “delivers [a group] show’s one true bravura moment,” writes art critic Richard Speer in art ltd. about “Constructs,” a recent exhibition at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. “Vandenburgh’s wall sculptures of meticulously cut paper variously resemble webs, nets, and the warped Penrose diagrams that show how black holes distort space-time. Dazzlingly complex and immaculately pieced together, they deliver a genuine ‘Wow!’ “ Vandenburgh is associate professor in the Department of Art.
Yost Grube Hall begins design on environmental center project
Two A&AA alumni—Scott Brown (IIDA, LEED AP, BIArch ’93) and John Medvec (AIA, LEED AP, MArch ’90), of Yost Grube Hall Architecture—are on the team for a site restoration project at John Inskeep Environmental Learning Center (ELC). Regional planning agency Metro awarded the ELC restoration project a Nature in the Neighborhoods grant.