Extremely exciting news for art students, especially those studying or living in Georgia-The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to Open Major Teaching Museum Devoted to Contemporary Art and Design on October 29, 2011! This is described as “a significantly expanded and re-imagined contemporary art and design museum conceived and designed expressly to enrich the educational milieu for SCAD students, professors, and art and design enthusiasts. SCAD Museum of Art re-opens to the public on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. Inaugural exhibitions at the new museum include solo shows by Bill Viola, Liza Lou, Kendall Buster, Kehinde Wiley, and selections from the SCAD Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection, including the Evans Collection of African American Art, presented in the new Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies within the museum.”  From the websites: “SCAD has a tradition of fostering innovative and dynamic art experiences, and the SCAD Museum of Art advances this rich tradition,” says SCAD President Paula Wallace, who initiated and oversaw the development of the expanded museum in Savannah. “Rather than a place to view artworks in isolation, our museum is a kinetic think-tank, a collaborative wellspring of ideas and inspiration for SCAD students and professors.”  In keeping with the university’s mission, a year-round program of exhibitions, installations, performances and museum programs and events will engage with SCAD’s 41 majors and more than 50 minors—from fashion and fibers to painting and sound design. This programming will also provide students and professors across all disciplines a collaborative space to experience celebrated works of art and design, and to interact with the renowned and emerging artists who create them. Check out all of the information here: http://www.scad.edu/museum/
The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery A lecture by SCAD Atlanta Art History professor Dr. Anne Leader. “My talk will present a relatively unknown fresco cycle that adorns the second story of the so-called “Orange Cloister” of the Florentine Badia, an ancient, powerful, and wealthy Benedictine monastery that underwent a thorough institutional reform in the early fifteenth century. Murals depicting the Life of St. Benedict were painted in the cloister between 1435 and 1439 at a time when the Benedictine Order in Italy was experiencing profound change as certain Italian houses undertook a reform of their monastic practice and a refashioning of their corporate identity. The Florentine Badia was one of four Italian monasteries to initiate a Reform Congregation in 1419, and the frescoes that decorate the Badia’s cloister served as a means to define what it meant to be Benedictine.” TONIGHT- September 2, 2010 - at 5pm in room S150 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Covered in today’s issue of the Red & Black: http://www.redandblack.com/2010/09/01/author-talks-fresco-fascination/
By Kalen Curtis, a 4th year photography major at SCAD. This Underwater Series was exhibited at Open Studio Night, SCAD-Atlanta in November 2009. They were selected for the juried exhibition sponsored by Atlanta Celebrates Photography in Atlantic Station. “As much as I want these to serve as beautiful images of the female form, I also feel an ephemeral reaction to the tension in all of them. The large scale of these images serves to mimic that feeling of anxiety, and to remind us that even in the presence of beauty, there is a struggle.” http://www.kalenmariephotography.com/ submitted by Mary Carlson