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Evolve

Foundations Plugged and Unplugged This panel will look at how courses are building traditional skills and aesthetics based on historical precedents and techniques and evolving those skills and techniques by incorporating new technologies such as digital imaging, and video. Foundations must look to the future where digital technology has a …

Connect

Assessing Assessment: The role of evaluation in the foundations program As studio pedagogy continues to shift from a modernist context, how does, or how should, the evaluation of foundations programs and student performance shift in correspondence? What aspects of the foundations program should be assessed? In the midst of a …

SHIFT

Assess, Situate, Disperse Addressing Diversity of Artistic Approaches in Foundations In addition to students who continue to navigate and place themselves within more traditional contexts, many students will invent paths that will lead them to structure their own specialties (e.g., to become a sculptor/writer/geographer). A foundations program can …

Home Furnishings

Liz De Decker and Sara Mulloy are hosting a show, titled Home Furnishings, at 2485 N. Frederick Ave., on Milwaukee’s East Side. The exhibition will feature the work of two other alums graduates, Kendra Barron and Ben Bowman, in addition to a few works by Mulloy. All four are recent …

Wolkowicz Set Design for Closer in Chicago

Lindsay Wolkowicz (Painting, 2003) created the set design for the production of Closer by British playwright Patrick Marber at the Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago …

Sonja Thomsen in Seattle Exhibition

Adjunct faculty member Sonja Thomsen is participating in the group show, “Resonance,” at the Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), from July 14 – August 30,2006. The show was juried by LA gallery owner Paul Kopeikin …

Written and Directed by Mary Diaz

An experimental play, “While I Hold Your Body Against Mine,” written and directed by Mary Diaz (Photography, 2004), runs Thursdays-Sundays, July 13-22 at the Broadway Theatre Center. The progra …

Wiedeman, Lubahn at Elaine Erickson

The work of two MIAD alums, Heather Wiedeman (Printmaking, 2004) and Steve Lubahn (Drawing, 1994), is currently on display at Elaine Erickson Gallery, as part of a group show, Works on Paper. The show runs from July 1 – July 25.