AFSart: Boundary Sculpture Pad Expansion

AFSart: Boundary Sculpture Pad Expansion, originally uploaded by afsart.

October 12, 2010. In little over 4 hours a 31 foot expansion of the Outdoor sculpture work area at Boundary Hall was completed. this will more than double the outdoor work space for sculpture students. It will also provide a covered area for classroom instruction and group critiques. It will also provide more space for grill and chill events at Boundary Hall.

Chakaia Booker:Sustain

Friday October 8, 2010. Artist Chakaia Booker gave an artist talk to a packed audience at the Pinnacle Gallery on the Savannah campus. Her Exhibit Sustain featured a large wall relief in her signature rubber material and six photoengrauve plates that were produced on the Atlanta campus. While in town she had lunch with students Ursula Dilley and Noah Conrath. The audience was wrapped by her presentation as she meandered through the audience as she spoke. A lively question and answer period followed. An excellent review of the Atlanta exhibit can be found on Atlanta's Burnaway website.

The In-Between: Opening Reception

On September 24, 2010. The In-Between opened at the Gutstein Gallery on The SCAD Savannah campus. If featured two sculptural installations, The Meditation Room and The Cave Installation that were the result of a collaborative project with artist JuYeon Kim during the spring quarter 2010. The meditation room were created by fibers students and the cave installation, a series of relief sculptures mounted to a hexangonal structure were created by a "dream team" of sculpture minor students.

AFSart: Grill and Chill I: Fall 2010

On October 1 2010 in conjuction with the Sculpture exhibition closing reception The Sculpture Minor and the SCAD Sculpture Forum student group sponsored our first Grill and Chill 1 for the Fall 2010 quarter. A good time was had by all. A special thanks to Professor Matt Toole and Chef Todd Yuratich for manning the grill. For more images check out the photos on flickr.

October 1, 2010:Hinesville Update

Students Chris Crowe, (Arcitecture) Capucine Gros, (Painting) and Brian Rogers (Architecture) met with engineer Matthew Barrow at his office to discuss design revisions on their proposed project "The Resonance" for the city of Hinesville. Once the revisions are approved they will be ready to begin fabrication on the $50,000 project.

Summer Sculpture Exhibition 2010

New sculpture created from the Spring 2010 quarter is currently on display at the Boundary Hall Gallery.

A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, October 1, 2010. 5:00 - 7:30.

Jeff Doran: Inaugural Fold

Digital Fabrication Sculptures by Jeff Doran Featured in Group Show

Digital Fabrication Sculptures created by Graduating Senior Jeff Doran were included in the group exhibit Inaugural Fold - Paintings, drawings and sculpture curated by Arthur Kouwenhoven and Casey Belogorska, including works by local artists Betsy Cain, Harry Delorme, Matt Hebermehl, Bertha Husband and Milutin Pavlovic at Atwell's Art and Frames , 228 W. Broughton St, Savannah Georgia. The works presented by Jeff Doran were created in SCPT 450 Computer Modeling for Sculpture Projectsduring the Summer Quarter 2010.

Marsha Kirk Receives International Sculpture Center's 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Award

Marsha Kirk, originally uploaded by afsart.

Marsha Kirk of Savannah, GA has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2010. Marsha is a MFA student at Savannah College of Art and Design. She was nominated for the award by her faculty sponsor Professor Christopher Nitsche.

The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award” program in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field. It was also designed to draw attention to the sculpture programs of the participating universities, colleges and art schools. The award program’s growing publicity resulted in a record number of participating institutions; including over 176 universities, colleges and art school sculpture programs from sixteen countries for a nominated total of 445 students.

A distinguished panel made up of artist and educator Creighton Michael, curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, and artist Oliver Herring selected twenty winners and fifteen honorable mentions through a competitive viewing process of the works submitted. The selection of the winners from a large pool of applicants, including international students, is a great accomplishment and testament to the artistic promise of the students’ work.

The twenty award recipients will participate in the Grounds For Sculpture’s Fall/Winter Exhibition, which will be on view from October 10, 2010-January 2, 2011 in Hamilton, New Jersey, adjacent to the ISC headquarters. The artist’s work will be included in Grounds For Sculpture’s 2010 Fall/Winter Exhibitions Catalogue and featured in the October 2010 issue of the International Sculpture Center’s award winning publication, Sculpture magazine as well as on the ISC award winning website at www.sculpture.org.

JuYeon Kim: The In Between

JuYeon Kim: The In Between, originally uploaded by afsart.

During the spring quarter 2010 10 students and one graduate assistant from the Savannah campus worked with visiting artist JuYeon Kim to create the Cave Installation for the "In-Between" exhibit.

Inspired by the artist's and students' interpretation of the eighth-century Buddhist text "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," these ambitious works signify the range of human experience, reminding us of the volatility of the physical world and our illusory perception of it.

Seeking to bridge the gap between divergent cultural traditions, Kim began studying the bardo—the "in-between" space in Tibetan Buddhist practice. From this study she set forth on the journey of creating two sculptural installations for "The In-Between."

The cave installation consists of six hardwood panels (representing the Six Realms of rebirth) arranged to form a hexagonally shaped interior space. The walls of the cave-like interior are covered with sculpted figures in both high and low relief. Kim developed the smoothly polished wood exterior of Untitled_ci10 to contrast with the encrusted interior in order to provoke a sense of disorientation. She notes: "I try to create unusual environments that bring out viewers' primitive inner feelings and draw them back to the basic question of who we are."

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Hinesville Public Art Competition

Hinesville Public Art Competition, originally uploaded by afsart.

The City of Hinesville & Hinesville Downtown Development Authority proposes to construct a memorial monument at the intersection of North Main Street and Memorial Drive in downtown Hinesville. The City of Hinesville will be collaborated with the Sculpture Department at the Savannah College of the Arts and Design on this project. The winning proposal was "The Resonance", created by Capucine Gros, Christopher Crowe and Brian Rogers. The proposed budget for the sculpture is $50,000.

C.J. Miller: Goarax

C.J. Miller: Goarax, originally uploaded by afsart.

For SCPT 450, Computer Modeling for Sculpture Projects SC.J. Miller created "Goarax" using laser cut luan combined with wood elements. http://digitalsculpture250.blogspot.com/2010/02/robot-space-lion-with-four-wings.html

shannon slane: factory

shannon slane: factory, originally uploaded by afsart.

During Winter quarter 2010 for SCPT 450, Computer Modeling for Sculpture Projects Shannon Slane created "Factory" using laser cut cardboard combined with mixed media elements she was able to create a metaphor for the way our meat gets to our tables. http://digitalsculpture250.blogspot.com/2010/02/400-level-section-of-digital.html