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Cornish College of the Arts presents the 2008 BFA Art & Design Exhibition. Graduating seniors from the Art & Design departments will each present a complete body of work reflecting their technical skills and artistic voice. The exhibition takes place in two buildings on campus and features a lively opening reception on May 8 that is not to be missed!
The BFA Exhibition at Cornish celebrates the commitment and rigor of four-year art and design students. At the beginning of the final year of study, students in art and design develop a thesis for their final exhibition. As the work evolves, through discipline and intensive studio practice, aided by peer, faculty, and outside critique and reviews, students refine their ideas and present them to the public in the annual BFA Exhibition.
Individual works by students feature painting, sculpture, installation, print, photograph, and video made from traditional, found, and new materials and technologies. Also included are projects in interior design, visual communications and motion design. Projects range from unusual cultural and commercial applications, to social responsibility, brand identity, sustainability, environmental concerns. Most of the pieces in the BFA Exhibition are available for sale.
2008 BFA Art & Design Exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8, 5 - 9 pm
Exhibition hours are Tuesday - Saturday, noon - 5 pm
Art Department
Terry Avenue Studios
2000 Terry Avenue
Design Department
Cornish Main Campus Center, Floor 1
1000 Lenora Street
Theater Puget Sound is honoring Cornish Theater Department Faculty Robin Lynn Smith as the 2008 recipient of the Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award. This award honors an individual who has devoted time, energy and talent to Seattle's theatre community, and whose career has had an influence on theatre locally and beyond. Director and educator Robin Lynn Smith was nominated for her work creating and sustaining community, which honors the collaborative nature of theatre and impacts the Seattle arts scene.
This year, TPS celebrates the 11th anniversary of the Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award. The award was initiated in 1997 through a generous donation by Jean Falls to honor the memory of Seattle theatre visionary Gregory Falls, a former chair of the UW School of Drama who is credited with creating Seattle's vibrant theatre scene. Falls founded one of Seattle's mainstays, ACT, more than three decades ago.
Choreographer/Director/Writer Donald McKayle, and Theater/Opera/Festival Director, Peter Sellars, have been selected to receive Honorary Degrees from Cornish College of the Arts. The degrees will be presented at the Cornish Commencement Ceremony on May 9, 2008 at 1pm at Benaroya Hall, where both artists will address the graduating class.
Choreographer/Director/Writer Donald McKayle has been named by the Dance Heritage Coalition "one of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures." He has choreographed over 90 works for dance companies in the United States, Canada, Israel, Europe, and South America. In 2005 he was honored at the John F. Kennedy Center with a medal as a Master of African American Choreography. Five Tony Nominations have honored his choreography for Broadway musical theater: Sophisticated Ladies, Doctor Jazz, A Time for Singing, and Raisin, which garnered the Tony Award as Best Musical. His dance awards include the Capezio Award, American Dance Guild Award, Living Legend Award/National Black Arts Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, Dance Masters of America, Dance Magazine Award, and American Dance Legacy Institute's Distinguished & Innovative Leadership Award. Mr. McKayle has served on the faculty of numerous international institutions and some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in America. He is currently a Professor of Dance at the University of California, Irvine.
Renowned Theater, Opera, Festival Director Peter Sellars is one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the performing arts in America and abroad. Known for his groundbreaking interpretations of classic works, Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging contemporary social and political issues. He has staged operas at Chicago Lyric Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, Netherlands Opera, Opéra National de Paris, the Salzburg Festival, and San Francisco Opera, among others. Mr. Sellars has led major arts festivals, including the Los Angeles Festival, the Adelaide Festival in Australia; and the Venice Biennale International Festival of Theater, Italy. Sellars is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Sundance Institute Risk-Takers Award, the Gish Prize, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Sellars is a Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and a resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival.
Ashley Widman, a graduating senior in the Design Department, has been recognized as a finalist in the Hospitality Design Magazine Awards for Creative Achievement. Hospitality Design Magazine is the premier trade magazine serving the field of hospitality design, featuring the work of major interior designers, architects, and design firms that design hospitality spaces such as restaurants, hotels, resorts, spas, nightclubs, conference centers, senior living facilities and all other hospitality-oriented projects. Ashley Widman was selected as a finalist for her concept of a floating dock restaurant in the magazine's first annual design competition, which featured a student category.
Winners and finalists will be honored at an awards presentation and reception on June 5th, sponsored by Design Origins by Shaw/Shaw Hospitality Group, Interiors from Spain, Mark David, and Purchasing Management International, at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. Projects will also be published in the May/June issue of Hospitality Design.
Cornish College of the Arts Design students recently partnered with Encore Media Group's City Arts Magazine to create 20-second trailers that will run before all 400+ screenings during the Seattle International Film Festival from May 22 to June 14, 2008.
According to Paul Heppner, President of Encore Media Group, the mission of City Arts Magazine, with independent monthly issues for Seattle, Tacoma and the Eastside beginning in July 2008 is to "discover and uncover creative talent in our community."
The students, under the direction of Assistant Professor Tiffany Laine De Mott and Adjunct Professor Daniel Thornton were given four weeks to complete the project. Each of the 13 "trailers" that will be on display at the eight S.I.F.F. venues took between 50 and 100 hours to complete - all for just for 20 seconds of creativity. According to Thornton, "this was a great opportunity for our faculty to work next to the students, learning from each other. I am so proud of what they have done in terms of leveraging the current technology to drive the narrative and I can't wait for others to see their work."
Last month, the Office of Alumni Relations partnered with the innovative international design firm NBBJ to host the 2008 Cornish Alumni Reception. Around 100 alumni gathered with Cornish faculty and administration to celebrate the growing Cornish community at the firm's south Lake Union location. The event also highlighted the launch of a new and improved alumni website which boasts a slew of resources including an online events calendar, listserv, and updated webnotes for the public to keep apprised of alumni activities around the world. The partnership with NBBJ was fostered by Alumnus Robinick Fernandez (Design '06), Jamie Drzayich (Design '08), and Development Associate Nichole Maiman Waterman, and honored the longstanding collaboration between the acclaimed firm and Cornish alumni designers.
