Welcome and Welcome Back!!
We are looking forward to an exciting fall semester together!!
Here is some news:
Spring 2008—JoLynne Holloman ’10, recently received a scholarship through the Philly Ad Club. The scholarships, open to juniors in the Greater Philadelphia area, were given to 13 local university students. After being nominated by faculty member Dr. Lisa Holderman, Holloman went through an application and interview process. As a recipient of the award, she has been invited to attend the Fall TV Preview Line-Up, scheduled for September 11, 2008 at the Loews Hotel in Downtown Philadelphia, where local networks will present their Primetime Fall lineup.
Dr. Shekhar Deshpande is at the Democratic Convention this week (August 24th through 29th) to write a blog and to cover it for the media.
You may read his blog at www.littleindia.com click on Election 2008 page in the right column.
Alan Powell has busy with several projects:
1. The traveling photo exhibition, “South of Here” documents the living conditions and community outreach programs in Mexico and Honduras. There are additional photographs that document the working lives of the working poor from the fishermen in Chennai, India; silk weavers, and silk dyers of Kanchipuram, India. The Honduras Project documents a public health project in northern Honduras among the Sugar Cane workers in the cloud forests. The first Exhibition of the photographs will be at Squeaky Wheel Media Center in Buffalo NY from September 19th – November 30th. That Show is funded through the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment on the Arts. The exhibition consists of 32 9” X 15" color photographs.
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2. Cough-up, a video document of art critic and performance artist Willoughby Sharp. This 1975 video documents the transition from art critic to performance artist by Willoughby Sharp. In the Late 1960’s Willoughby Sharp introduced America to the Conceptual art movement and artist Joseph Beuys. In 1975 Alan Powell and the Video art Collective “Electron Movers” were commissioned to produce Willoughby Sharp’s video installations and performance art pieces. The performance art piece “Cough up” is famous for Willoughby confronting the audience about who is in control and then sets the gallery on fire by accident. During the summer of 2008, Alan Powell resurrected the last playable copy of Cough Up for an exhibition at the Artissima Gallery in Torino, Italy. An article of Professor Powell recollection of the event will be published in Nero art magazine in Italy this November.
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 3. Poster Design and painting exhibition. Oregon City, Oregon October 2008
In August of 2008., Professor Alan Powell and his Arcadia assistant, Kimberly Marchese were invited to design the posters for the Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign for the month of October in Oregon City Oregon. The campaign also includes an art exhibition which Professor Powell donated a painting. From 1999 until 2002, Professor Alan Powell and Professor Connie Coleman were Artists –in Residence at “A Woman Place” a domestic violence outreach program serving Bucks County Pennsylvania. During that time, Coleman and Powell were given unlimited access to women and children who were clients in the domestic violence shelters of A Woman’s Place. From that residency they made videotapes, paintings and websites from their documentation. Professor Powell’s poster of the broken window is being used as one of the themes of the Oregon City’s month long campaign of looking through a window into the lives of these shattered women and families.
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