Tee Corinne was the feature of several events in the San Francisco Bay area which celebrated the 25th anniversary of The cunt coloring book: “An erotic vision: 25 years of making art” at U.C. Berkeley on October 30th; “Sexy pictures: a personal approach to erotic imagery” at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, San Francisco also on October 30th; “Labia images in art” at City College of San Francisco on November 1st; reception for The cunt coloring book at Good Vibrations store, San Francisco, also on November 1st.
Harmony Hammond has received grants from the Andrea Frank Foundation and the Arizona Commission for the Arts for her visual work. She has also been awarded a residency at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA to do large-scale monoprints on their “monster” press.
Lyle Ashton Harris is a winner of a 2000-2001 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. He receives a stipend and living and working accommodations.
Betti-Sue Hertz is the new curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art.
Ellsworth Kelly has received a $140,000 Praemium Imperial Award from the Japan Association.
Ann Meredith’s “Until that last breath: women with AIDS” will be installed, as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassy program, at the residence of the ambassador to Togo, West Africa for the next three years. In March 2001, her “Survivors & interiors: Ruma Village, Kenya, East Africa” will be shown at the Galeria, UC Extension in San Francisco. The work is the result of a Lila Acheson Wallace Reader’s Digest International Artist Fellowship in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum (1992/1993). Her “Passing: the re-definition of sex & gender through personal re-presentation of self” will be shown in June 2001 at PHOTO LAB Gallery, Fifth Street, Berkeley. She will be teaching “The camera as a political tool” at UC Berkeley Extension from February-April 2001.
Lari Pittman received a $25,000 grant from the Pasadena-based Flintridge Foundation.
Maura Reilly’s dissertation entitled Le vice à la mode: Gustave Courbet and the vogue for lesbianism in Second Empire France (New York University, 2000) is available from UMI Research Press and is being considered for book publication by Thames and Hudson. Reilly is affiliated with the Department of Art and Art History at Tufts University, Boston.
Lawrence Rinder, founding director of the CCAC Institute at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, has left the Institute to become a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Deborah Rockman, Professor of Art at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the author of a recently released book, The art of teaching art: a guide for teaching and learning the foundations of drawing-based art, published by Oxford University Press. The art of teaching art is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide for teaching college-level art, answering the broadly recognized need for a book directed toward the training and preparation of college-level studio art instructors. It is primarily intended to address the needs of teachers in the formative stages of their academic careers, but it may also serve even the most seasoned instructors seeking affirmation or inspiration. It is especially geared toward teachers who respect the classic model of drawing-based studio art education and seek guidance in their desire to be a significant and effective force in the classroom. The art of teaching art addresses the fact that, while many studio art faculty are employed based on their abilities or achievements as artists, it is a mistake to assume that this ability naturally extends to the special skills required of a teacher of art.
In celebration of the release of The art of teaching art and her accomplishments as a visual artist, Deborah Rockman has been awarded a twenty-year retrospective of her work to be held at the Kendall Gallery in February and March of 2001. The exhibition includes representative examples of her art from 1981 through 2001, a time period which parallels her twenty year teaching career which began at Moorhead State University (Moorhead, Minnesota) in 1981 and continues at Kendall College, where she has taught for eighteen years. Rockman, the youngest person and the first woman ever to be awarded the rank of full professor in the seventy-five year history of the college, is currently involved in the implementation of the college’s new MFA program in drawing (her area of expertise), painting, photography, and printmaking.
James Saslow has been elected Chair of the Art Department at Queens College, City University of New York, for 2000-2003.
Painter Alexandra (Alex) Souldancer received the 2000 Käthe Kollwitz Award from the Seattle Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art at a special event in Seattle, 18 December 2000.
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans won this year’s Turner Prize from the Tate Gallery in London. (cf. notice in “Inside art” by Carol Vogel in New York times, Dec. 1, 2000)
Gay.com ran an item on 4 October 2000 announcing the Julie Traynor project with Miramax to do a biopic of Frida Kahlo “the butch Mexican painter.” Marie Kuda says “must be Hollywood reconstructionist history or new defintion of butch.”
Joe Ziolkowski did the final self-portrait for his CITY 2000 project -- 12 self-portraits in the city of Chicago during 2000. It was entitled “Under the clock” and was done on December 24th on the south side of the Marshall Fields on State Street.
The winners have been chosen from a design competition for the Harvey Milk Memorial in San Francisco. The winning design is by Christian Werthmann of Oakland, with LOMA Architects. cf. Architectural record, Oct. 2000, p. 51
One of the awards from the International Association of Art Critics/USA for an exhibition outside New York City went to “In memory of my feelings: Frank O’Hara and American art” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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