Faculty News Fall 2006

Dr. Juilee Decker is an invited speaker for the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) symposium, "An Expanding Vision: Constable and the Transformation of Landscape Art" to be held Sunday, October 22, 2006 in conjunction with the international exhibition, “Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings”. Juilee will present her research project entitled "The Artistic and Cultural Legacies of Constable’s Six-Footers”. In May and June of this year, in preparation for her talk, Juilee conducted archival research at the Ashmolean Museum, Sackler Library, and the Bodleian at Oxford University. Since this summer, Juilee has been involved with art historical pedagogy through her work in setting standards, evaluating syllabi, and reading exams for Educational Testing Service. She is currently evaluating art appreciation textbook proposals for Thames and Hudson Publishers, London. 

Our newest faculty member, J. Daniel Graham, has actively participated in the several regional and national exhibitions. "Sleepwalking through thunderstorms",  an interactive chair, was accepted into the Georgia Griffin Permanent Collection in Athens Georgia. Two of Daniel's works were featured in an exhibition of the faculty and student body of Georgetown College in Ashland, KY at the Ann Davis Gallery July 7th through Aug 9th. "Things of That Nature" was on view from June 18th- September 21st in A Collaborative Exhibition at the Lamar Dodd School of Art University of Georgia in Athens. Daniel's work entitled "For those that believe matter is alive" (self playing harmonica machine number one) was published in Make Magazine. An online viewing is available.
 

Boris Zakic will present his paper Mix and Mismatch: The Modern in Painting Today’ at The 20th Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Oct. 18-20. He will present ‘The Ripple Effects of Abstract Painting ‘Once Removed’ and Re-presenting Representation’ at The Southeastern College Art Conference 2006 in a session entitled "Exhibitions as Catalysts for New Art: The Museum as Muse".  In November, he will present a paper at the Conference on Art and Authenticity  to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The title of his paper is "BORIS ZAKIC: 'Translations 2000-2006: Even Fakes Are Counterfeit" (a presentation exclusively on artist's work).