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Focus on Faculty is a great resource for everyone to quickly discover what is happening with individual Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts faculty members.
Stephen Marc Smith, Professor, Art
03/21/12
Stephen Marc Smith, professor of photography in the ASU School of Art, exhibited Passage on the Underground Railroad at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Smith's photographs and digital montages explore the history of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Smith combined contemporary images with historic documents and artifacts to create an exhibit that "brings the past palpably into the present." His exhibit included 87 thought-provoking unconventional and haunting digital images, The exhibit was on display from Jan. 29-March 22, 2012, at the gallery.
Project Date: March 2012
Claudia Mesch, Associate Professor, Art
01/9/12
Claudia Mesch is associate professor of art history in the ASU School of Art in the Herberger Institute. Mesch, an editor of Tthe Journal of Surrealism and the Americas announced the most recent publication of the journal. This special issue on "Women in the Surrealist Conversation" was edited by Katharine Conley (Dartmouth College).
The editors invite you to visit the JSA website: http://jsa.asu.edu to review feature articles, book and exhibition reviews. You will need to register as a reader on the Web site, which is a very simple process.
Project Date: December, 2011
Mark Klett, Regents' Professor of Photography, Art
12/23/11
ASU School of Art Regents' Professor of Photography Mark Klett's newest book, The Half-Life of History, was just published by Radius Books, a respected U.S. publisher of art books.
The 160-page book includes more than 70 of Klett's photographs of the secret airbase in Wendover, Nev., where bomber crews trained to drop the first atomic bomb ending World War II. The base, now in ruins, reveals its story in the buildings and artifacts that remain. Some of these photographs were first shown in the exhibition "Ideas About Time" at the ASU Art Museum in 2002. The book includes text by writer William L Fox.
Project Date: December 2011