Fine Arts

Alumna Christine Cooper Hill (CCAD ’87) and Columbus-based jewelry-giant Diamond Cellar are partnering together to offer CCAD students the opportunity to have one of their designs sold by the company.

The 14 students in Kelly Malec-Kosak’s jewelry design course were given one week to sketch their designs before they were reviewed on Nov. 23 by Cooper Hill.

The Light Which Can Be Heard, a sculpture by alumna Olga Ziemska (CCAD ’00) was unveiled during the Nov. 6 grand opening of the Roe Green Center for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University (KSU).

Sculptures by alumna Soo Sunny Park (CCAD ’98) are on display in Jaffe-Fride and Strauss galleries in the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College now through December 5. Park is an assistant professor of studio art at the college.

Dartmouth’s website posted the following quotation from Park. “There’s a traditional idea of what sculpture is, and I try to stretch that definition. The whole idea of installations is to engage the viewer’s body; moving around in space is part of experiencing the work.”

Indianapolis Star newspaper recently profiled alumnus Jon Edwards (CCAD ’88) and partner Christopher Blice, their company Blice Edwards Inc., and the more than 500 commissioned works they’ve created in central Indiana.

The pair recently painted a mural for consumer-review powerhouse, Angie’s List. Star correspondent Mary Lee Pappas detailed the process in her article.

The old adage "if you want a job done, ask a busy person" describes the students and alumni who make CCAD’s annual art sales successful events.

Consider students Chavilah Bennett, Michiella Sturiano, Dion Utt, and alumna Molly J. Burke.

Between the four, they work 10 part-time jobs and one full-time position. In their spare time they create art for CCAD's Art Sale, held this year on Dec. 4 in the Loann Crane Center for Design.

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Kymberly Moreland-Garnett (CCAD ’91) has been honored with the 2010 Middle School Art Educator of the Year award by the Florida Art Education Association (FAEA).

Moreland-Garnett, who teaches sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at The Trinity Preparatory School (TPS), was also a member of the FAEA Board from 2007-2009. In addition to the statewide award, the CCAD alumna brought home Trinity Prep’s Teacher of the Year award in 2009.

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Sandra Kessler Kaminski (CCAD '93), who recently received a grant for a nine-month project to work with inner city girls in Pittsburgh, has completed the scholastic installation, LISTEN! The North Side Girls Have Something to Say!

Valued at $25,000, the Voices of Youth: Art in the Public Grant, funded a public project that brought together girls in grades six, seven and eight from different service organizations to show the hardships associated with living in Pittsburgh’s struggling North Side.

Celene Hawkins (CCAD ’92) was awarded one of Summerfair Cincinnati’s 2010 Aid to Individual Artists (AIA) grants and an invitation to participate in the 2013 triennial Summerfair Select exhibition.

She is one of four Cincinnati artists to receive the $3,000 grant for use in the creation of new works. Hawkins will use the grant to help finance an AutoCAD system to expand the possibilities of her work.

Miami-based urban artist Daniel Fila (CCAD ’02) was chosen to create a work for the National Basketball Association (NBA) sponsored event, The Art of Basketball.

Fila joined leading graffiti and street artists to create 36 works of art on officially-sanctioned NBA backboards and basketballs. As part of Miami’s annual Art Basel Miami, the exhibition will open to the public Dec. 2 and close Dec. 5.

Jimmy Baker’s (CCAD ’02) Sentinel exhibition is currently on display at Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles.

Sentinel is a collection of paintings and audio that work to record the residue of technology on our land. The paintings refer to specific geographic areas that have housed U.S. military testing and surveillance.

Baker’s works have been featured nationwide at galleries in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. He has also exhibited internationally in Paris, France; Basel, Switzerland; and London, England.