CALENDAR

August

September

ArtLab
ArtLab is an experimental exhibition space located inside AMUM. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except University holidays and between temporary exhibits. Admission is free. For more information call (901) 678-2224 or visit www.amum.org

Virginia Overton
September 12 to November 7, 2009
Opening Reception, September 11, from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
University of Memphis MFA alumna Virginia Overton, who also studied under Greely Myatt, will be the featured artist in AMUM’s ArtLab. Overton recently showed new work in “In Practice Summer ’09,” a group exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York. Her sculptures use material such as beams, pallets squished between walls with shims, and large Sonotubes. Overton prefers to highlight what she calls “unskilled skills,” such as driving a truck and stacking chairs or pallets.
Caseworks
Caseworks is located in the lobby of the Communication and Fine Arts Building. Admission is free. For more information call (901) 678-2224 or visit www.amum.org

NAEA Student Chapter meeting, Jones 249

Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century
Brown Bag Film Screening & Discussion
In conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month
11:30 – 12:45 p.m.
University of Memphis
Jones Hall, Room 214

In conjunction with National Arts & Humanities Month, the Department of Art will screen season five of Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series that focuses exclusively on contemporary art.  The four new episode of the Peabody Award-winning series spans five continents and focuses on 14 of today’s most accomplished artists, such as Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Carrie Mae Weems, and William Kentridge. The audience will observe the artists as they create works that reflect important and timely global issues, tackle complex topics, ask tough questions, and create works that delight, amaze, and sometimes unsettle audiences worldwide.
The Department of Art’s Brown Bag Lunch Series will be followed by discussions led by University of Memphis faculty, graduate students, and guest artists. Screenings are scheduled between September 29 and October 22, 2009; they are free and open to the public.

Fantasy
September 29, 2009
This episode presents four artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works that seem at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursue a vision first held in the mind’s eye. The episode’s featured artists are: Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Cao Fei.
Discussion participants include Beth Edwards, and Lorelei Corcoran.

October

October is National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM), a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture in America. NAHM is held every October and coordinated by Americans for the Arts. It is the largest annual celebration of the arts and humanities in the nation. 

Jonathan Brilliant Have Sticks Will Travel World Tour
Jones Hall Gallery Oct. 8 - 30
Reception Oct. 8,  4:30 - 7:00 PM

Artist Lecture: Oct. 6, 11:30 AM, Jones 214

Todd Richardson Lecture on Pieter Bruegel's peasant paintings
Brooks Museum Friday Oct. 2,   10:30 AM

October 6

NAEA Student Chapter meeting, Jones 249

Systems
October 8, 2009
Artists invent new processes to convey the attitudes of today’s supercharged, information-based society, examining why we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others. Systems features artists who realize complex projects through acts of appropriation or accumulation. In some instances, they create projects vast in scope, which almost elude comprehension. The episode’s featured artists are: Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum.
Discussion participants include Jonathan Brilliant, Jed Jackson, and Cedar Nordbye.

Compassion
October 15, 2009
This episode features artists whose works explore the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others. The episode’s featured artists are: William Kentridge, Carrie Mae Weems, and Doris Salcedo.
Discussion participants include Earnestine Jenkins, Richard Lou, and Wanda Rushing.

October 15 

Jed Jackson will be giving a lecture and leading a group through the Brooks at the new “Museo de Ponce” exhibit. 6:00 pm.

Transformation
October 22, 2009
Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation capture sensibilities of our age while at times inhabiting the characters the have created. The episode’s featured artists are: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy.
Discussion participants include Leslie Luebbers, and Todd Richardson.

Professional Development Assignment - PDA    
Four one-semester research leaves at full pay; Academic year leaves at half pay.  College Council reviews and makes recommendations to the Dean. Deadline: October 30, 2009 with attention to Moira Logan

November

Ceramics Show (Jones Hall Gallery) Nov. 6 - 27 Reception: 6-9 Nov. 6.
Mud Molders United November 6 through 27, 2009 A ceramics exhibition consisting of pieces that are made primarily of clay.

November 10

NAEA Student Chapter meeting, Jones 249

November 12

William Mckeown will be doing a gallery lecture/tour this Thursday (Nov. 12th), at 6:00pm.  It will focus on the Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the current exhibition, “Masterpieces from Museo de Arte de Ponce.”

November 13 

At the River: The Theology & Arts Institute of Memphis Theological Society presents a Gallery Showcase and Reception, Friday, November 13, 6:00 - 9:00 pm MTS Great Hall, 168 East Parkway South. Featuring the work of David Horan. Exhibit includes Sacred Places and Abstracts from Earth. For additional information contact Charlton Johnson at cjohnson@memphisseminary.edu or call 901/334-5847.

Fourth Annual William J. Murnane Memorial Lecture by Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
November 13, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Manning Hall, Auditorium
A reception will precede the lecture at 6 p.m.

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (IEAA) at the University of Memphis will feature Stuart Tyson Smith during its fourth annual William J. Murnane Memorial Lecture. Smith, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present “Revenge of the Kushites! Egyptianization, Cultural Entanglements and the Emergence of the Nubian Pharaohs,” an illustrated lecture focusing on his archaeological research along the Sudanese Nile. Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia in the Sudan. He is particularly interested in the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters between Egypt and its southern neighbors. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call (901) 678-2555.

November 18 &19

Clay Club Fall Sale, Nov. 18 & 19 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM North of Jones Hall, Outside, weather permitting.

November 19

A major figure in Wisconsin art, Fred Stonehouse, nationally recognized for his beautifully executed artwork and witty sense of rebellion, will give an artist lecture at the University of Memphis in Meeman Journalism Auditorium on Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Born in 1960 in Milwaukee, Stonehouse received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1982. His style has a sophistication that reflects his diverse, cross-cultural interests, and outsider and folk art influences. Often encompassing religious or surreal contexts, his paintings are a materialization of his nostalgia for the familiar and not so familiar art of the past, blended with his own delicate balance of humor, beauty and derangement. Stonehouse has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions across the country as well as abroad. His exhibitions have been reviewed by publications such as The New York Times, Art in America and Art News, as well as internationally in Die Welt.
 
Stonehouse’s paintings and prints incorporate haunting portrait heads with antique motifs. His portraits are “transmuted self-portraits.” Often, Stonehouse adds strange characteristics to the faces, an alligator-like snout or a worm-like body. Commenting on Stonehouse’s most recent work, Jessica Baran of the St. Louise Riverfront Times notes: “Borrowing elements of carnival sideshow banner motifs, the iconography of Latino and Northern Renaissance religious iconography, and vestiges of spray-painted street art, this Wisconsin-based artist illustrates a world of self-mythology that is at once wistful and phantasmagoric.” She continues to say that while “whiffs of the flat, crude but essentialist brand of rendering associated with folk artists inform the work, Stonehouse’s paintings and drawings are anything but unstudied or incidentally realized. As a whole they read as a familiar epic long retold with the assurance of maturity, in which the idiosyncratic details merit more patient attention, and the broad strokes of childhood angst are subdued into melancholy lyricism.”

November 21 - January 9

November 21 through January 9, 2010
Opening reception Friday, November 20 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
 
Master of Fine Art candidates display recent work. Sarah Boyce is a painter working in a traditional manner using horror films as her inspiration. Sunny Montgomery enjoys creating installations that begin with and use sketchbooks exploring science, the natural world and geometric forms.

November 20

A screening of a documentary film, Preacher's Sons, created by Celia Reed and Mark Nealey.  Shortly after editing was completed on the film two years ago, Mark lost a battle with cancer.  Now, Celia is traveling the country screening the documentary in various cities.  Below is a description of the film and a website where you can watch the trailer.  The screening will take place at First Congregational Church's Conference Center (1000 South Cooper St.) on Friday, Nov. 20th, at 7pm.  After the showing, there will be a panel discussion including Joel Chapman, Elaine Blanchard, and a couple who adopted two Russian children.  Admission is free.

Preacher's Sons:
This is the cinema veritè story of five irrepressible but troubled boys pulled from the train wreck of foster care and the two articulate men who are now their fathers, and their moving metamorphosis into a solid family unit. It is also a lively road picture, as liberal minister Greg Stewart leads his fledgling tribe from their Los Angeles home to spend 4 years living under siege in the conservative heartland. Preacher's Sons invites you to accompany them on their trying journey and experience the courage and humor that enable them to meet the extraordinary challenges of everyday life.  No matter what you think about same-sex parenting, your assumptions will be challenged as you watch this compelling story unfold over the course of five years. The Stewarts are an unconventional family, with surprisingly conventional values. Their odyssey is intimate and moving; but it exists within a wider context of the national debate over same-sex marriage and adoption. This film presents a rich body of evidence that encourages thoughtful discussion of these hot-button topics.

Trailer: www.preacherssons.com

November 21

John Lawson
November 21 through January 9, 2010
Opening reception Friday, November 20 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

John Lawson’s images bring to life a loose definition of Entropy that he has adopted as a catalyst in his dialog with the world as an “image maker.”  Ideas like “potential for disorder” and ”inevitable degeneration” swim through his mind as he explores the built landscape searching for new images. 
Images: (1) Fence & Flowers, Milwaukee, WI 2009, (2) Untitled, West Jefferson, NC 2009, (3) Bullets (tire store), West Jefferson, NC 2009.


University’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Alumni, faculty and students may nominate faculty members for this award in recognition of the high quality of their teaching. Four winners each receive a $2000 honorarium and a plaque at the annual Spring Faculty Convocation. See www.memphis.edu/facultyhandbook , Chapter 7/Professional Development, Faculty Award Programs for employment, teaching load, evaluation and other criteria. Provost will send out a link to submit nominations. Deadline: November TBA, 2009

BFA Show (Jones Hall Gallery) Nov. 30 - Dec. 11 Recpt: TBA

December

December 2 - 6

Art Miami Art Miami Pavillion Dec. 2 – 6.  Booth B8 Features Greely Myatt, Tad Lauritzen Wright, Maysey Craddock, Leslie Holt, L. Brent Kington.  

December 3

Todd Richardson (Lecture) "Landscaping the Soul: Pieter Bruegel's Conversion of St. Paul" at Emory University Thursday

December 10

NAEA Student Chapter meeting, Jones 249

December 12

Mariam Ayad has been invited to lead the effort to reconstruct the texts of pillars and walls of the second pillared hall in the Tomb of Harwa (TT 37), in the cemetery of Asasif in the Theban necropolis. Regarding the epigraphic field project our students Jenny Butterworth and AJ Walker will be participating.  The texts are primarily derived from the Opening of the Mouth Ritual, an Egyptian funerary composition that's been a focus of my research for several years. Both AJ and Jenny will help me in the task of sorting through and organizing hundreds of inscription-bearing blocks that once belonged to that hall's pillars and walls. The work will last for 3 weeks (Dec 12-30, 2009).
 

Both students have been awarded scholarships from the Study Abroad office in the amount of $2000 ea. to help defray the costs associated with the project (airfare, transportation, and accommodation).  Further funding for the project ($1000) came from the Student Government Association.

January

Jones Hall Gallery, Corner Liquor Store, "buy one artist, get one free" Reception: Jan. 14, runs Jan. 15 - Feb. 25

New Faculty Research Initiative Awards
Tenure-track faculty members in their first year of service may apply for a CCFA New Faculty Research Award for up to $4,500.  Applicants should apply online using the University Faculty Research Grant form and print out a hard copy to submit to the Dean’s office only. New faculty, however, are encouraged to apply for both a New Research Initiative and a regular Faculty Research grant listed below.  If new faculty are selected for both award grants, only one can be accepted. Go to http://researchsupport.memphis.edu/frg10.html for forms.
Deadline:  January 15, 2010 with attention to CCFA Dean’s Office

Faculty Research Grants - FRG
For awards up to $6,500 for tenured, tenure-track or continuing research faculty.  Proposals require department chair and dean signatures before going on to Vice Provost for Research.  Proposals are reviewed by a FRG Area Review Committee. Apply online at http://researchsupport.memphis.edu/frg10.html  Website is active after September. First Deadline:  January 22, 2010 to Dept. & College Dean’s office Second Deadline:  January 29, 2010 to Office of Vice Provost for Research

Alumni Association Awards for Distinguished Achievement in the Creative Arts, Distinguished Research in the Humanities and Distinguished Research in Engaged Scholarship Awards are in the categories of Creative Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Engineering and Math, and Engaged Scholarship.  Nominations may be submitted by the applicant or by a colleague and must be accompanied by a recommendation from the department chair & 3 external letters.  College Council selects nominees to send forward. Plaque awards are presented at Faculty Convocation and each recipient receives a $2,000 honorarium.  Information is available at: http://researchsupport.memphis.edu/facawd.html

Deadline: January 22, 2010 with attention to Moira Logan

Benjamin Rawlins, Jr. Meritorious Faculty award
This named professorship will be awarded to at least one professor next year and carries with it an $8,000 per year stipend for a term of two years.  Each department is required to submit at least one nomination. Nominations may be made by college faculty or department, school or college administration staff. The nominee should demonstrate exceptional achievement in teaching, scholarship, service, and outreach.  A letter of nomination, accompanied by a current vita of the nominee, should be sent to Dean Ranta. Deadline:  January 29, 2010 with attention to Dean Ranta

Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award

The Briggs award recognizes teaching excellence at the undergraduate level and an overall commitment to undergraduate education. Two awards of $7,500 each are presented annually at the Spring Faculty Convocation. The link to access a nomination form is http://www.memphis.edu/briggs.htm  For further questions, please contact Becky McCoy at the Development Office (678-2930; bmccoy@memphis.edu ) Deadline: January TBA (end-of-month usually), 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

February

Graduate School Performance and Art Purchase Awards
Annual performance awards of $500 are given to graduate students from the College of Communication and Fine Arts for creative achievement in the areas of music, film, and theatre and dance. The College accepts nominations from the departments of Communication, Music and Theatre & Dance. These candidate names are reviewed by the College Council and then forwarded to the Graduate School for final selections. These award recipients are notified at the end of March.

An artwork, chosen by the outside juror for the Annual Juried Student Exhibit (January/February), is purchased by The Graduate School.   
Deadline: February 19, 2010 with attention to Moira Logan

For Further Information contact Moira Logan, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research (678-3196; mlogan1@memphis.edu ).

March

Art Ed Alumni Show (Jones Hall Gallery)  Mar. 1 - 25 Recpt: TBA

Dean’s Creative Achievement Award for Students
During spring semester, each Department Chair selects an undergraduate applicant for this award. These chosen applicants present their work at a Dean’s Administrative Council meeting in March. The winner is decided by a vote from these meeting participants. The winner receives a $250 check and a plaque. Other applicants are designated as runner ups and each one receives a $100 check and a plaque. Awards are presented at the University’s Honors Assembly in April of each year.  For further details, please contact Angie Hollis at 678-2418 or avhollis@memphis.edu. Deadline: March 1, 2010 with attention to Angie Hollis

Elizabeth and Harold Robinson Scholarship and Fellowship Fund
This scholarship and fellowship fund was created to honor the parents of Mr. J. Michael Robinson and to assist the University of Memphis in the recruitment and retention of outstanding scholars. The Robinson fund provides for undergraduate scholarships (4-year maximum) and/or graduate fellowships (3-year maximum) for fully-qualified students enrolled full-time in undergraduate or graduate programs in Department of Architecture, Art, Music, or Theatre & Dance.  Scholarships will be awarded based on academic and creative achievement.  Financial need may be considered. All students who meet the academic qualifications are invited to apply.  Please contact Simone Wilson for further details (678-4164; snotter@memphis.edu ) Deadline: March 1, 2010

Dean’s Outstanding Research Award
Award for outstanding achievement in scholarly research.  Applicants may be self-nominated or nominated by a colleague. Nominations must be accompanied by a recommendation from the department chair.  College Council reviews nominations and makes a recommendation to the dean. The winner has a reduced course load for a semester, $500 travel funds, and receives an award plaque. Deadline: March 5, 2010 with attention to Moira Logan

Dean’s Creative Achievement Award
Award for outstanding achievement in the creative arts.  Applicants may be self-nominated or nominated by a colleague. Nominations must be accompanied by a recommendation from the department chair.  College Council reviews nominations and makes a recommendation to the Dean. The winner has a reduced course load for a semester, $500 travel funds, and receives an award plaque. Deadline: March 5, 2010 with attention to Moira Logan

Johnny Culver (Jones Hall Gallery) Mar. 29 - Apr. 23

Dean’s Academic Achievement Award for Students
This award goes to the undergraduate student with the highest grade point average for the year within the college. The winner receives a $250 check and a plaque. This award is presented at the University’s Honors Assembly in April of each year.  For further details, please contact Angie Hollis at 678-2418 or avhollis@memphis.edu. [There is no submission deadline.  The decision is verified by the CCFA Graduation Analyst.]

April

Ann Dunn Award
This annual award is given to one full-time clerical or professional employed in the CCFA and includes a $300 cash prize and plaque. This person must have made significant and sustained contributions to the college through his or her commitment. Letters of nomination may be submitted by anyone familiar with the candidate’s performance. Nominations must be received in a “confidential” envelope marked to the attention of the Dean’s Office at CFA 232.  Dean Ranta will announce the recipient at the annual Fall Faculty meeting in August of 2009. Deadline: April 26, 2010 with attention to Dean Ranta 

May

June

July

August

Annual Academic Advising Award
Student evaluations are considered in selecting the faculty or staff member who has demonstrated outstanding academic advisory abilities. A plaque award and $300 check are presented during the Fall Faculty Meeting in late August. This winner is automatically nominated for the University Academic Advisory Award for the school year. Deadline: August 3, 2009 with attention to Laurie Snyder