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BFA Exhibition, coordinated by Angela Smith

May 2009

Each year, this celebratory exxhibition represents for many of our graduates tehir first public exposure. The artists were, Kris Leach, Sean McCormick, Andrew Young, Stephanie Sutton, Yen Ly, Huong Ha, Luis Romo, Linda Dobson, Krista Devries, Jarrod Amis, Natalie Wiley, Dawn perry, Nadine Hough, Rosalynn Smith, Yuri Poole, Beth Bailiff, Kimberly Giedd, Erib Dodd, Katie Coleman, Danielle Harris, Kenneth Scott, Brenton Smith, Andrew McGourik, Stokes Holmes, Chris Silich, Jessica Dorman, Patrick Davis, Rosie Moss, Isabel Vidal, Alicia Wetzel, Amir Khalfani, Brian Culpepper, Nongpanga Elam, Armentria Favors, Krystal Cook, Erica Capps, Johnathan Chang, Colleen Hackett,Julie Sims, Temme Barkin-Leeds, and Courtney Hammond.

Juried Student Exhibition, coordinated by Mia Mcbeth

April 2009

The Juried Student Exhibition is an opurtunity for Georgia State Univerisyt students from all artistic disciplines to submit work that will be selected by a guest juror and displayed in a special spring exhibition as well as recieving generous awards from our numerous sponsors.

This year the guest juror was Scot Safon, the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Office for CNN Worldwise, where he is responsible for the branding, marketing, and promotion of CNN's multiple networks and services.

Mr. Safon's picks were Brandi Adams, Heidi Graf, Clarissa Berlioz, stephen Calsbeek, Jodaki Saeideh, Emma Adair, Sarah Adams, Alexandra Addleton, Nimer Alex II, Natalie Berrong, Jessica Blinkhorn, Robert Chamberlin, Karen Cleveland, Brian Culpepper, Patrick Davis, Yolanda Davis, Linda Dobson, Json Dooley, Elam Gaye, Justin Goodrich, Larissa Erin Greer, Cheris Hawkins, Danielle Harris, Huong Ha, Justin Kendall, Maryanna Kennedy, Rachel Lambert, Nathan Linkous, Faith McClure, Sean McCormick, John Milam, Thanh-Tam T Nguyen, Shauna Perry, Jeff Potenza, Frank Sanchez, and Chris Silich.

Thank you to the sponsors for their generous donations the Atlanta Film Festival 365, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Binders Art Supplies, High Museum of Art, MOCA-GA, Spruill Center for the Arts, Pearl Art & Craft Supply, Art Papers magazine, and all of those that provided individual monetary awards.

BFA Exhibition, coordinated by Waduda Muhammad

December 2008

The Fall BFA exhibition gives students who are graduating with a BFA at the end of the fall semester and oppurtunity to exhibit their work before leaving Georgia State University and the Welch School. Artists included in the Fall 2008 exhibition were Judson Akin, Stefani Byrd, Hillary B, Gore, Jonathoan B, Grainger, Nicholas Alan Hogan, Jared Hunter, Sarah Hurt, Tatiana jean-Louis, Jason Kemp, Jordan ligon, Joel S. Maroney, Radka Pulliam, and Cynthia Zarrilli.

BFA Exhibition, coordinated by Eric Lyons

May 2008

Each year, this celebratory exhibition represents for many of our graduates their first public exposure. The artists, divided by discipline, were Ben Mueller and Sarah Sevier (Art Education), Kaye Thomas and Justin Parker (Ceramics), Paige Adair, Gary Adamson, Lisandra Baez, Kathleen Flowers, Christopher Hood, Eric Lyons, and Joshua Warlick (Drawing, Painting, Printmaking), Erin Armstrong, Ben Bullock, Robert Burroughs, Tam Cao, Lamar Flowers, Elizabeth Gotham, Carrie Hawks, Andrew Jones, Edgar Lituma Soto, Diana Silva, Kris Chihi Wu, and Candy Zanabria (Graphic Design), Diana Brooks, Sarah Carter, Kerry Angel Conkright, Jennifer Martin, Amanda Millner, Kati Morrell, Jennifer Rodriguez, Elma Sjekirica, Selma Sjekirica, Soleil Smith, Alison Taylor, and Sidney Witt (Interior Design), Katherine Crosby, Jeani Elbaum, and Michael Young (Photography), Leah Cunningham, Haru Jeong Park, LaReine Meinersmann, and Chauncey Myshkin (Sculpture), Wendy Patton, Anna Reinberg, and Julie Reinberg (Textiles). Jeremiah Kauffman was also featured, in memoriam.

Ambient, Micah Cain/Parables, Erin Dixon MFA Solo Exhibitions

April 2008

Ambient explored the role of the viewer within an artistic situation. By combining function with sculptural form Cain presented a situation designed for interpretation, whether it was visual, tactile, or purely conceptual. Ambient is an opportunity for the viewer to access all aspects of the work I create.” Parables included personal narrative works which referenced a history of western painting.

Marilu Knode Selects: 2008 Juried Student Exhibition

March 2008-April 2008

This was the first year that selections for the Juried Student Exhibition were determined by a review of digital image submissions. Marilu Knode was our first juror from outside Atlanta. She is currently Associate Director / Head of Research at Future Arts Research at Arizona State University.

Glory B 2 God, Debra Elaine Johnson/Tailored, Lindsay Chenault MFA Solo Exhibitions

March 2008

Debra Elaine Johnson's exhibition collected collages and drawings that reference the aesthetics of the Pop art era with a contemporary edge. Within the context of womanism, themes of spirituality and liberation theology permeate the work.

Tailored explored clothing as communication. It told the story of the artist’s life through her body and the "designed" skirts she wore. The exhibit displays the artifacts and documentation of wearing the skirts to recreate performance for the gallery.

Not Directly Evident, James Kennedy, MFA Solo Exhibition

March 2008

James Kennedy gave the viewer an insight into how he sees the world and into his art making process. "See with your eyes and brain."

BFA Exhibition, coordinated by Heather Kravagna

December 2007

This BFA Exhibition featured work by Joslyn Dyer, Scott LaFlex and Kimberly Shelton (Ceramics), Jennifer Bridger, Betsey Cheney, Amie Esslinger, Becky Furey, Lindsey Geis, Edi Gonzalez, Roberto Hernandez, Thomas Jones, Shandra Lamaute, Andrea Sanders, David Dean, and Dorothy Stucki (Drawing and Painting), Lee Tesche (Graphic Design), Teresa Elrod (Sculpture), Ashley Nicole Fricton, Brandy R. Hayes, Marcella Howard, and Margaret Ann Quiggle (Textiles).

Feeding, MFA Solo Exhibition

December 2007

Graduating MFA artist Xi Li’ seven-minute animation, Feeding, was a fictional animation about the manipulation of news and how facts are conveyed through mass media. The show offered viewers an opportunity to think on how we consume news and what kind of role we play in the game between news producers and news consumers.

SALT, Tonia Indigo Hughes

December 2007

SALT was a video installation designed to pose questions and provoke discussion about the lesbian and bisexual female community. It featurds two video projections combined with a line of salt throughout the center of the gallery and connected by an audio track of an old world folk tale told by cross generational females.