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Faculty Successes

Fall 2006

AnnMarie LeBlanc was promoted to professor in fall 2006. LeBlanc, who is chair of the Visual Communication and Design Program, received a B.F.A. from Louisiana State University, an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, and an M.A. from Purdue University.

LeBlanc has an active career as an artist, with representation by Agora Gallery, SoHo, N.Y., and exposure throughout the world. Her works have been reproduced in publications such as Dust and Fire: Women’s Stories, Bemidji, Minn.; Delta Informatics S.A., Athens, Greece; and Computer Graphics World, Tulsa, Okla. She has exhibited at Digital Splash, Queens, N.Y.; National Women’s Exhibition, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and 2nd International Art Festival Chania 2004, Crete, Greece; among many others.

LeBlanc is the president of the IPFW chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and is a member of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Board of Trustees. In 1999, she was awarded the Friends of IPFW Outstanding Teacher Award.

In June, Associate Faculty Gary Travis attended the American Association of Woodturners 2006 Symposium in Louisville, Ky., where his turning in red burl oak was selected to represent the event on its Web site at www.woodturner.org. Travis also curated Hidden
Treasures at First Presbyterian Gallery from Sept. 8 to Oct. 15, featuring international woodturners, carvers, and furniture craftsmen.

Assistant Professor Benita Brewer’s pieces, “Circadian’s End” and “Metamorphosis,” were selected for the 6th Annual Summer All Media International Online Juried Art Exhibition at the Upstream People Gallery in Omaha, Neb.

Three digital works by VCD Chair AnnMarie LeBlanc were exhibited in the ACM/SIGGRAPH Traveling Exhibition at Cite des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, France. LeBlanc’s “Subtle Remembrances” was included in an exhibition entitled Sister City Images in May 2006 at Plock Photographic Society at the Zielinski Library in Plock, Poland.


Assistant Professor Richard Nelipovich recently completed the redesign and installation of the exhibition ‘Simply Droog: 10+3 Years of Creating Innovation and Discussion’ at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The exhibition is a thematic retrospective of the award-winning designs from this Dutch design collective, including over 200 objects by designers such as Gijs Bakker, Martí Guixé, Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders. The exhibition runs from Sept. 21, 2006 through Jan. 17, 2007.

Nelipovich worked with Droog Design in Amsterdam between December 2006 and June 2007 via a Fulbright Fellowship to study Design in the Netherlands. On Nov. 16, he will give a lecture at the The Museum of Arts and Design titled ‘Inside Droog.’