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Senior Class please congratulate those listed below who will follow in your footsteps as the new Junior Class, the Graduating class of 2013!

Congratulations to the Class of 2013!
1. Nusrat Alam
2. Kwame Amerlu-Marshall
3. David Bardis
4. Deborah Bush
5. Shu Chen
6. Eric Davis
7. Amy Dinsmore
8. Ben Emerson
9. Lauren Harvill
10. Alexandria Hepburn
11. Jerad Hill
12. Macy Hilliard
13. Sean Jones
14. William Kweon
15. Anna Masuzawa
16. Nevena Peeva
17. Matt Rinehart
18. Laura Sharp
19. Morgan Sjoblom
20. Simmeyon Strickland

Missing CDs of Work

I still am missing several CD/DVDs of work I requested from your class for the semester.
It is mandatory you turn this in so I can review all your work one last time before grades are turned into the Registrars Office. You should have the 4 projects on the CD/DVD (Poster Designs, MODA, Kinetic Typography and Film Titles.) Thanks and have a great summer.

Happy Easter

Leonardo Castro: Film Title Sequence "La Dolce Vita"

This wonderful film title sequence (still in progress) is created by Leonardo Castro who has been working with me this semester in the Special Problems class. It should inspire you to great heights in your own film title sequence. If you haven't seen this film then please do. Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée. (1960) Oh my!

Those Wonderful Kinetic Typography Animations

Toni Rogers

Kinetic Metal from Toni Rogers on Vimeo.

Stephen DeLorme

Mr. DNA- Jurassic Park Kinetic Typography from Stephen DeLorme on Vimeo.

Sarah Adams


Jono Herrington


Mario Reid


Adam Bueb

Arrested Development Kinetic Typography from adam bueb on Vimeo.

Lucas Alvarez


John Hallman


Saif Khan

Stephen Fry - How to be Gorgeous Kinetic Type from saif khan on Vimeo.

Jonathan Hart


Avi Gelfond


Charles Gary


Jacolby Chatman

Kevin Hart Kinetic Type: Uncle Clip from Jacolby Chatman on Vimeo.

Nick Higgins


Michael Manisa


Christine Rivera

Dr. Cox Kinetic Typography from Xtine Rivera on Vimeo.

Misty Marquis


Tiffany Forrester

Shout Out!

I didn't forget you Lucas! I just had a fuzzy shot of the piece you put into the Juried Student Exhibition so I had to go back and re-shoot. This is for you!

Facetime with Juniors in the Student Art Exhibition

Thanks to John for sending this to me via Photographer Paige Taylor.

Young Harris College Juried Student Art Exhibition

As you may or may not know I was invited to return to my old alma mater, Young Harris College, to serve as Juror for this years 2011 Juried Student Art Exhibition.

Young Harris College is located in the most scenic area of the North Georgia Mountains. It is almost at the North Carolina line and is surrounded by Lake Chatuge on one side and Brasstown Bald on the other side. It currently has approximately 850 students. When I attended it had 150 students. It is where I began my life as an artist in 1970. I bought my first sketchbook there. It's where I learned how to draw.It's where I learned how to see and to speak up and to sit and listen. It's where I became independent. It's where I began to be less insecure because I knew I had finally found something I loved doing. Art. It's where I first fell in love and where I found a group of kindred souls who also loved art. My tribe of artist, musicians and theatre majors. It's literally where I grew up. It's where I got my first cash drawing award and over the past 40 years I've continued to return to YHC to be a part of it's continuing growth. I've donated artwork to different alumni events and lectured to students about art and design. It's also been a place where I could just go and sit on campus and hear the echo of my own footsteps that are a part of it's history. Don't get me wrong I love my life at GSU with each of you. Both campus' are very different in atmosphere and aesthetics but it is remarkably similar in the talent of the art students. Great art and design has no campus.

That small little Methodist college nestled in the Appalachian Mountains is where I shed all my high school stigmas and started the voyage to who I am today. I hold it dear to my heart. We all have those Polaroid moments, an epiphany, when we know why we were put here. YHC was the place where I began my life long trek as an artist. I learned the respect for my chosen career there and had one of the best teachers anyone could ever have, Ezra Sellers. It was his belief in me as an artist that gave me the encouragement to continue.

Perhaps you can imagine just how much it meant for me to return to that familiar campus this spring, when the campus is laced with tulips and dogwoods and mountain laurel, to go through the almost 100 pieces of art and choose what would be included in this years students exhibition.

I told the Chair of the Art Department, Ted Wisenhunt, that I wanted this year's exhibition to be inclusive of as much great work as possible. In the fall of 2012 YHC will officially become a 4-year art program (BFA) whose curriculum will include photography, graphic design, painting & drawing, sculpture, and foundations. The Art Department recently moved into an old elementary school across from the main campus and it's gorgeous. Complete with a renovated cafeteria turned in to studios, a foreshortened auditorium with a stage and curtains and numerous other classrooms and those familiar tiny elementary restrooms. It's like a 1950's movie set.

I just wanted to share with you my experience with being a juror and tell you that picking out art for an exhibition is more difficult than you think. You want to encourage those just starting out in art (freshman and sophomores) while also including students work that might be potentially be a powerhouse one day. It's about seeing the potential in the work. Much like when many of you applied to get into the graphic design program. It was about choosing students whose work showed dedication and commitment and passion. I chose "Best of Show," second place, third place and 5 Honorable Mentions. The final show included close to 50 various art pieces. Last night was the opening and it was great fun for me to see the students arrive to the gallery to receive their awards and to see whose work was actually selected. The students didn't know if their work selected until they got to the opening. I was reminded of of the juried student exhibition here at GSU when many of you were long overdue for some recognition and some type of award. Any teacher worth their weight is happiest when a student of theirs is singled out with an award or recognized in front of their peers.
It might be inside the classroom on a particular project or in front of a large group at an art opening. It's all the same to me. Getting to see each of you stand tall and grow into the designer and artist you were meant to be. I love seeing each of you become more secure in yourself and embrace your creative self.

You are about to move into your Senior year. One group moves out and you move into their place. I hope you fill this next year with as much enthusiasm and care as you've done this past semester in my Film/Television class. Don't loose your edge nor your gift for sharing with one another. You are building a legacy amongst yourselves as a class to be reckoned with in the days ahead. Stay on message. Stay focused and each of you will sail through the next year with wild abandon as you make new art and creative designs.

www.yhc.edu




Best in Show
"Like a Pinball Machine"
Jacob Rhodes


Second Place
"Shot of Love"
Jill Tuttle



Third Place
"Dreams Unfulfilled"
Kyle Honeycutt



Selected Drawings


My first Art Instructor, Ezra Sellers.

2011 Juried Student Art Exhibition (Designers)

I will be putting up more photographs from this years Juried Student Exhibition.
In the meantime, enjoy all the work submitted by those in the graphic design classes this semester.

Congrats Jon!

Congratulations to Jon Hart for being awarded the 2011-2012 Susan Babush Graphic Design Scholarship. This annual scholarship is awarded each year to a deserving graphic design junior who has demonstrated the love and dedication to their chosen profession. This award is voted on by the full time graphic design faculty. Congratulations Jon!
(In recent years the Susan Babush Scholarship recipients have been Sean Stanley (Senior) and Nathan Linkous (Alumni.)

Jon also has design work in this years 2011 Juried Student Art Exhibition. Jon was also responsible for designing the graphics (wall graphic and post card invitations) to this years exhibition.

Congrats Adam Bueb and John Hallman!

Congratulations to Adam Bueb for winning the Directors Award at the 2011 Juried Student Exhibition on Thursday evening in the Welch Art Gallery. A great typographical calendar composition that is timeless. (no pun intended.) Congrats Adam!

Congratulations to John Hallman for winning a Jurors Award during the opening reception for his work.

Film Titles Site

http://www.watchthetitles.com/

Thanks to Adam for finding this one!

Film Title Project: Due: Monday April 25

Film Title Sequence Project
I know time is limited but you should have enough time to produce a short film or television title sequence as your final project in Film,Video and Telelvision Design.

Think Hitchcock (Saul Bass) or David Lynch or Tim Burton when it comes to starting this project. Think back to some of your most favorite and interesting visual treatments for a film. You should be familiar with the film or TV series you are choosing and then figure out a style that is comparable and tied to that film or series in its mood or attitude or genre.

Check out www.artofthetitle.com

The film or television series you choose can be from an independent film company or a major film corporation.If you know of someone who is shooting a film and asks you to assist in the film titles then that is fine too. Only you will make that choice as to subject matter.

-You must include 10-12 title credits (Director, Actors, Director of Photography, etc.)

-The entire length of the film title sequence can be from :30 to :60 seconds.

-You have the option of including at least 10 seconds (minimal) of original footage from the original film…this original footage can be interwoven throughout your sequence or can possibly be used at the end of your sequence as the sequence moves into the original movie itself.

-You can recreate the original film title sequence but in your own way.

-You can use stop-motion or flipbook or a mix of any style you wish.

-You can use the original film company animation prior to your own opening title sequence.

-You can create your own music or use the soundtrack from that movie or any other movie that you feel best represents your concept. You can also sweeten your audio with sound effects or visual design elements (lens flare, type explosions, etc.) You can video original footage or create collages ala old school and then create images frame by frame.

-You can use any technique, any software or hardware you want to use is up to you. (Possibly Studio3D Max or After Effects or Final Cut Pro or direct shoot from a digital camera,etc.)

Again, sometimes when you have too many options the focus or message of the film trailer can get lost. Stay simple in concept, but big in production and creativity.
The last day of class will simply be a "Film Festival" of your work. Popcorn provided.

Inspiration

“Grant Wood saw a house in Iowa that he decided to paint along with ‘the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.’ He chose his sister and his dentist."

Summer Internship Available: Just In

It is at thinkbrighthouse.com for the summer for a student who has after effects skills.
contact me asap. Looks cool to me.
Move on this quickly.

I'll forward the info to Liz as well.

NEW and IMPROVED Student Juried Exhibition List:

PRESS RELEASE :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries
Press Contact and images:
Stephanie Jang, Assistant, Welch School Galleries
sjang3@student.gsu.edu (404) 413-5257

“13th Annual Juried Student Exhibition”, student work featured at the
Welch School Galleries, Georgia State University

Exhibit dates: April 4-15, 2011
Reception & Awards Ceremony: Thursday, April 7, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
The 13th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, will be on view from April 4
through 15 at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia
State University. A reception and awards ceremony will be Thursday, April 7,
5:00 – 8:00 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Juror Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at
the High Museum of Art, has selected 60 works in a variety of media submitted
by undergraduate and graduate students of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art
and Design.

Rooks received a MA in modern art history, theory and criticism and a BFA at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has lectured on postwar and
contemporary art at museums and universities across the United States, and
conducted public interviews with various contemporary artists. Rooks served as a
curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Contemporary
Museum Honolulu, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and most recently, Haunch of
Venison in New York.
Welch School Galleries director Cynthia Farnell says, “ With 174 entries this year,
the competition was tremendous. The sheer volume of high quality student work
being made in the program is impressive. Iʼm looking forward to the awards
reception with great anticipation.”


Participating artists :
Pattie Acevedo,GrD Senior
Sarah Adams, GrD Junior
Lucas Alvarez, GrD Junior
Dennis J. Andersen
Tamara Argo
Andrew Boatright
Melanie Bostwick, GrD Senior
David Bowen
Adam Bueb, GrD Junior
Julian Cano, GrD Sophomore
InKyoung Chun
Bethany Joy Collins
Brooke Creef, GrD Graduate
Eric Davis, GrD Sophomore
Katherine Davis,
Stephen DeLorme, GrD Junior
Tiffany Forrester, GrD Junior
Charles Gary, GrD Junior
John Hallman, GrD Junior
Jonathan Hart, GrD Junior
Cherisa Hawkins, GrD Senior
Alexandria Hepburn, GrD Sophomore
Jonathan Herrington, GrD Junior
Yoochung Hillard
Tanjina Islam, GrD Sophomore
Robert Johnston
Grace Kim
Liz Kinnamon
Rachel Lambert
Laura Martin
Brian McLean
Faith McClure
Lynx M. Linh Nguyen
James OʼDonnell
Melissa OʼSteen
Jesseca Patrylo
Christine Rivera
Brittany Settoon
Laura Sharp
Aubyn Stafford
Shane Thomas, GrD Senior
Fenton L. Thompson
Zachary Timms

The exhibition is supported by the generosity of Binders Art Supplies and
Frames, MOCA GA, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,
Art Papers, Rosaʼs Pizza, Spruill Center for the Arts, Sensational Subs, Ciao
Bocca, and the GSU Student Activity Fee.
The Welch School Galleries are located at 10 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. For more information visit the
web site: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwgal/

Fun NIght at MODA