hammered copper vessel

Faculty Biennial 2023

Date

Jan 20 2023 - Mar 31 2023
Expired!

The Faculty Biennial Exhibition is a celebration of the creativity found within the current faculty of the NMU School of Art & Design. Highlighting creative achievements in all media and concentrations, this exhibition gives the NMU and broader community the opportunity to see the talent within the School firsthand.

 

Thursday, February, 9 – 6:30 pm – Shaking Hands with the Dead 

Filmmaker Andrew Gingerich discusses research and processes related to making his short documentary “Ghost To Ghost.” Topics may include psychopomps, funerary iconography, and wandering the necropolis.

Friday, February 24th, 1 pm – Phone Photography Workshop with Professor and Photographer Daric Christian. 

Your phone camera can capture a large amount of data, and with a few steps, you can manipulate the data to your liking, not just the standard settings used by the default software. This workshop will look at several tools that can nondestructively adjust that data, providing flexibility. Christian will discuss suggestions for making prints.

Thursday, March 23, 6:30 pm – On Practice: The Intersection of Art & Research

Emily Lanctot leads a discussion with Art & Design Professors Stephan Larson, Michael Letts and Tracy Wascom about their studio practices and how research translates to the classroom.

Friday, March 31, 2023, at 2:00 pm – Dr. Mitsutoshi Oba leads Viewing and Reviewing “Aishiteru”: Letter as a Vista at the Crossroads of Doll and War and De/sexualization of Visuality in the Violet Evergarden by Kyoto Animation, 2018-20.

This talk will explore the visuality of background scenery in the animation series Violet Evergarden, produced by Kyoto Animation and released in 2018-20, based on the 2015-16 novel of the same title by Kana Akatsuki.

 

Hourly Schedule

Related Events

January, 20, 6-8pm
Reception
Thursday, February 9, 6:30
Shaking Hands with the Dead
Room 165
Speakers:
Andrew Gingerich
Friday, February 24, 1 pm
Speakers:
Daric Christian
6:30 - 8:30
Thursday, March 23, 6:30 pm - On Practice: The Intersection of Art & Research
Emily Lanctot leads a discussion with Art & Design Professors Stephan Larson, Michael Letts and Tracy Wascom about their studio practices and how research translates to the classroom.
Speakers:
Emily Lanctot, Michael Letts, Stephan Larson, Tracy Wascom
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr. Mitsutoshi Oba leads Viewing and Reviewing “Aishiteru": Letter as a Vista at the Crossroads of Doll and War and De/sexualization of Visuality in the Violet Evergarden by Kyoto Animation, 2018-20.
This talk will explore the visuality of background scenery in the animation series Violet Evergarden, produced by Kyoto Animation and released in 2018-20, based on the 2015-16 novel of the same title by Kana Akatsuki.
Speakers:
Mitsutoshi Oba
Andrew Gingerich
Andrew Gingerich
Filmmaker Andrew Gingerich discusses research and processes related to making his short documentary "Ghost To Ghost." Topics may include psychopomps, funerary iconography, and wandering the necropolis.
Daric Christian
Daric Christian
Emily Lanctot
Curator
Emily Lanctot is the Curator of Collections and Outreach at NMU's DeVos Art Museum. She is also a Contingent Assistant Professor at NMU’s School of Art and Design where she has been teaching since 2010. Lanctot received a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from Northern Michigan University and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Lanctot’s work has been shown in museums and galleries across the U.S. She works across media to examine cultural rituals and practices embedded in the everyday. Her work employs language to explore themes of identity, memory, the archive, and ideas surrounding place - including the human relationship to nature, public architecture, and domestic space.
Michael Letts
Stephan Larson
Tracy Wascom
While no discrete moment marks its outset, Tracy Wascom has been engaged in the arts for almost as long as she can remember; whether utilizing photography, computers, video, drawing, or traditional sculpting techniques. Her practice is driven by the desire to explore the myriad edges we use to define and demarcate our world–from our moral and ethical boundaries to the geography of maps. She enjoys investigating the ways we designate and divide beauty from ugliness, right from wrong, truth from fiction, dangerous from safe, even here from there by borders that seem clear but are often more deliciously ambiguous. Wascom earned her BFA in Art from the University of Louisiana Lafayette and her MFA in Photography from Syracuse University. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums across the United States and more recently in Budapest. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Foundations and Art History at Northern Michigan University.
Mitsutoshi Oba
Northern Michigan University
Facebook Flickr Instagram Twitter
Free and Open to the Public
Hours
  • Monday-Wednesday, Friday: 12pm - 5pm
  • Thursday: 12pm - 8pm
  • Saturday: 12pm - 5pm

*closed on holidays

Director
Emily Lanctot
Join Our Email Newsletter