This week around the department of art:
Friday, April 5th – 4:30 PM – Allyson Klutenkamper – Randall 117
Allyson Klutenkamper will be presenting a slide lecture on her artwork and teaching in Randall room 117. Allyson Klutenkamper earned her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and BFA from the University of Missouri. Not only active with the Society for Photographic Education, she implemented and coordinates the photography program at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Klutenkamper is known for her photographs of women that are void of distinct individuality. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally.
Allyson Klutenkamper is one of three finalist for the Assistant Professor Faculty position in photography at CWU.
Next Week:
Monday, April 8th – 4:30 PM – Matt Siber – Randall 117
Matt Siber will be presenting a slide lecture on his artwork and teaching in Randall room 117. Matt Siber has a Bachelor’s degree in History and Geography from the University of Vermont, he received an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has worked as a freelance commercial photographer for a wide range of clients, but is now primarily a gallery artist working in photography, digital imaging, video, sculpture, and installation. His artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography and is represented by Galeria Antoni Pinyol in Reus, Spain, and Galerie f 5.6 in Munich. Matt also teaches beginning and advanced digital imaging at Columbia College Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Matt Siber is one of three finalist for the Assistant Professor Faculty position in photography at CWU.
Wednesday April 10th – 4:00 PM – Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith – Randall 117
Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith will be presenting a slide lecture on her artwork and teaching in Randall room 117. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the University of Kentucky. The imagery of Gonsalez’s photographs contains the metaphor of myths and dreams. Using the contemporary framework of her personal history and environment, she explores personal loss, religious and cultural identities as well as the qualities of everyday life. One of her current bodies of work, INTERIORS, is a series of prints based upon facets of everyday life expressed through the eye of abstraction. Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota.
Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith is one of three finalist for the Assistant Professor Faculty position in photography at CWU.
Announcements!
Congratulations! CWU Ceramic Professor Stephen Robison has been invited to participate and present at the 35th Yuma Symposium in Yuma, Arizona in 2014. The Yuma Symposium is a series of demonstrations, lectures and slide presentations given by both internationally recognized and emerging artists who have demonstrated unusual talent.
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