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Faculty Successes

Spring 2007

Assistant Professor Christopher Ganz won a cash prize for his intaglio print entitled “Jonah’s Ark: The Leviathan Ascendant” at Artlink’s 26th Annual National Print Exhibition and was entered into a collection of the Kohler Art Library Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His image “A Mammalian Future?” was part of an invitational portfolio for the 2006 Southern Graphics Council Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His intaglio print “Self-Checkout” was accepted in the 2006 national juried exhibition The Printed Image: The First Biennial Midwestern Graphics at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery and Shawnee County Public Library, both in Topeka, Kan.

Associate Faculty Sayaka Ganz and alumni Jason Stopa (’04) and Kristy Jo Beber (’04) were featured in Sam Hoffman’s photo essay in The Journal Gazette entitled The State of Art. The presentation can be found at http://jordan.fortwayne.com/jgweb/specials/050706-Artists-Multimedia.

Sayaka Ganz was recently accepted into Bowling Green’s M.F.A. program for sculpture. She was granted a full assistantship as well as a scholarship.

Fine Arts Chair and Associate Professor Dana Goodman’s sculpture “The Rambouillet that Discovered Tomatoes” was included in the Sculpture Center’s Into View, the 15th Anniversary Window on Sculpture exhibition held at Cleveland State University and The Politics of Space held at Clackamus Community College in Oregon City, Ore., as part of the 2006 National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference. His sculpture “A Little Hot Though” was displayed in the Crafts National exhibition at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Pennsylvania as well as the 16th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition at the San Angelo Museum of Art in Texas. “Mr. Pumpkin Head” and “Hercules in the Garden” were part of the Thinking in 3-D exhibition at FWMoA.

Professor John Hrehov’s painting After the Flood was exhibited at Text and Textures at FWMoA. His paintings “Insomnia,” “The Sign of Jonah,” and “The Boulevard” were part of FWMoA’s 2006 Biennial: National Contemporary American Realism.

Together with the 2006 NCECA conference in Portland, Ore., Associate Professor Nancy McCroskey curated the exhibition The Politics of Space at Alexander Gallery at Clackamus Community College in Oregon City, Ore. Several of her tile works were featured in the invitational exhibition Thinking in 3-D at FWMoA. She gave two lectures this spring, one at FWMoA as part of the museum’s Art Scene series presenting her latest Botania works, another as a visiting professor at the University of Evansville.

Professor Audrey Ushenko was selected as an upcoming artist-in-residence at the Indiana State Museum. Her paintings will be featured in a new book, 100 New York Painters, authored by Cynthia
Maris Dantzic and printed by Schiffer Publishing. Ushenko’s paintings were shown in a solo exhibition at Huntington University in September.