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SECAC 2018 in BIRMINGHAM SECAC Met for the 74Th Time in Birmingham, Alabama, Hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Vol. L, No. 2 Fall 2018 PO Box 9773 | Wilmington DE 19809-9773 PHONE 302-575-1575 EMAIL [email protected] www.secacart.org secac SECAC 2018 IN BIRMINGHAM SECAC met for the 74th time in Birmingham, Alabama, hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 561 members attended, and of those, 102 were students. 284 institutions were represented throughout more than 120 dynamic sessions and a standout juried exhibition. Wednesday evening’s welcome reception took place at the conference hotel, the Sheraton Birmingham. Sessions and panels began the next morning and continued through Saturday afternoon. Thursday interim chair Jessica Dallow, professor Doug evening saw members at Birmingham Barrett, and staff Monica Diltz, Heather Museum of Art for the keynote address by Holmes, and Laura Merrill, in addition to Andrew Freear of Auburn University’s Rural AEIVA staff John Fields, Christina McClellan, Studio. Friday evening took SECAC across and Samantha Arceneaux. the Magic City to a reception at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SECAC 2018 MENTORING for the 2018 SECAC Annual Juried PROGRAM Exhibition, juried by Peter Baldaia, and 2017 In the eighth year of the SECAC mentoring SECAC Artist’s Fellowship Exhibition: program, participation remained high with Stacey Holloway—Not to be Otherwise. A 40 members meeting as mentors and successful conference always requires the mentees. Thanks to Heather Stark of efforts of many, and in the spirit of Marshall University for organizing the partnership, openness, and inclusivity, the program and to the following members for 2018 conference greatly benefitted through volunteering as mentors: Caroline a diverse group of Birmingham community Covington, Al Denyer, Jason Guynes, Claire co-sponsors, including: Birmingham- Kovacs, Tony Morris, Debra Murphy, Roja Southern College, Samford University, Najafi, Jennifer Printz, Carol Prusa, Sandra Kentuck Festival of the Arts, Four Corners Reed, Danielle Rosen, Jeff Schwartz, Karen Gallery, Space One Eleven, and Forstall Art Shelby, Greg Shelnutt, Jessica Stephenson, Supply. Heartfelt thanks are due conference Kelly Wacker, Eileen Yanoviak, and Valerie director Jared Ragland and UAB’s dedicated Zimany. Stark has been appointed to a faculty, staff, and students—especially the second three-year term as Mentor UAB Department of Art and Art History Program Coordinator. 1 fall 2018 SECAC AWARDS PRESENTED positioning through artistic and cultural The 2018 SECAC Award for Excellence relations with South America.” in Teaching was awarded to Wendy DesChene, Professor of Art at Auburn The 2018 SECAC Award for University. This award is made in Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of was presented to recognition of outstanding teaching by a Historical Materials for In the Eyes of the SECAC member who demonstrates an Keri Watson Hungry: Florida’s Changing Landscape, exceptional command of his or her exhibited at the UCF Art Gallery and the discipline through the ability to teach Terrence Gallery at the Orlando City Hall effectively, impart knowledge, and inspire in 2017. This award recognizes an students. In bestowing the award, First exhibition (within the last two years) of Vice-President Lawrence Jenkens quoted historical materials, which by its design, the colleague who nominated DesChene installation, and/or catalog is considered for this recognition: “Wendy upholds an exemplary. The Awards Committee noted incredibly strong research record while that the exhibition, “Inspired by John committing a great deal of time to Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, brought teaching and providing her students with together historical and contemporary art opportunities to engage with the that contributes to conversations about community through outreach and enabling the impact of demographic, geographical, them to become young emerging and ecological shifts with an emphasis on professionals with her mentoring. She is human relationships with the tireless and remarkable!” environment.” The committee was particularly impressed by the scope of the The 2018 SECAC Award for Excellence exhibition and recognized Watson for her in Scholarly Research and Publication scholarship and for bringing together a was awarded to Olga U. Herrera, Director diverse range of objects and images. They of the Washington Office of the Inter- observed that, “In the context of the University Program for Latino Research politics and economics of food production, (IUPLR) headquartered at the University of this exhibition has real currency.” Houston. This award recognizes outstanding research shown in the recent The publication (within the last two years) of a 2018 SECAC Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of book, article or series of articles. Herrera Contemporary Materials was given to received the award for American Vesna Pavlovi´c, Associate Professor of Art Interventions and Modern Art in South at Vanderbilt University, for Vesna America, published by the University Press Pavlovi ´c ’s Lost Art. This award recognizes of Florida in 2017. The Awards Committee an exhibition (within the last two years) of was particularly impressed by the ambitious contemporary materials, which by its scope of this study and commended design, installation, and/or catalog is Herrera for, “Offering a paradigm shift in considered exemplary. The Awards our understanding of US global strategic Committee noted in particular the value of 2 fall 2018 the catalog, edited by Pavlovi´c and Morna THE 2018 WILLIAM R. LEVIN O’Neill, as it, “Contextualizes Pavlovi´c’s AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN photographs within the broader history of ART HISTORY art and the legacy of the Cold War in Andrew Wasserman, Visiting Assistant Eastern Europe.” They were especially Professor at the University of North impressed that the essays in the catalog, Carolina at Greensboro, won the 2018 “Offer accessible, provocative, and Levin Award for his project Bang! We’re All sophisticated insights into this artist’s Dead! The Places of Nuclear Fear in 1980s work and its impact on the viewer’s/ America which investigates public art, reader’s understanding of history, architecture, and urban design born of photography, display, memory, and nuclear fear in American cities between identity.” 1979 and 1991, the period bracketed by the partial meltdown of the reactor at the SECAC ARTIST’S Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating FELLOWSHIP 2018 Station and the formal dissolution of the From a wide array of excellent submissions, Soviet Union. Wasserman was selected as the Artist’s Fellowship Committee selected the fifth recipient of the Levin Award from My Other Body: Trans-Culture, Transgender a broad field of applicants whose Cuba/Alabama, an exhibition and innovative and varied proposals conversation on transgender and queer demonstrate the ongoing vigor of art rights in Cuba and Alabama, as the 2018 historical research among the SECAC Fellowship Award winner. This membership of SECAC. Thanks to the group endeavor will be undertaken by generosity of William R. Levin, Professor photographer Karen Graffeo, Professor of Emeritus at Centre College, Danville, Art at the University of Montevallo, author Kentucky, SECAC offers an award of an and photojournalist Julio Larramendi, annual total of $5,000 to one or more art photographer and editor at Ediciones historians who are members of the Polymita in Cuba, photographer Sonja organization. Dr. Levin has been a member Rieger, Professor of Photography at the of SECAC since 1987; served on the Board University of Alabama at Birmingham, and of Directors; published in the scholarly Alabama-based photographer and journal Art Inquiries; received the SECAC filmmakerCarolyn Sherer. The Fellowship Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research Committee was particularly impressed by and Publication in 2004; and been the combination of “deeply human recognized with two of the organization’s concerns” expressed in “strong images and highest honors, the Excellence in Teaching set within a meaningful context” of Award and the Exemplary Achievement narratives, interviews, and films. My Other Award. Body: Trans-Culture, Transgender Cuba/ Alabama will be on view at SECAC 2019 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 3 fall 2018 2019 SECAC AWARDS JUROR AWARDS ($300): Members are encouraged to nominate Joshua Brinlee, University of Mississippi, deserving individuals for future awards. for Self-Portrait as Provider, 2017 For the 2019 awards, the deadline for all Lily Kuonen, Jacksonville University, materials to be submitted is February 6, Hewn, 2017 2019, except for the Artist’s Fellowship Jessica Mongeon, Arkansas Tech and Levin Award. See the Awards page at University, for Drunken Trees: Permafrost https://secacart.org/page/awards for more Melts, Leaving Uneven Ground, 2017 information and submission guidelines. Duane Paxson, Independent Artist, for Denying Dendera, 2018 , University of SECAC 2018 ANNUAL John Douglas Powers Tennessee–Knoxville, for Terra Nuova, 2017 JURIED EXHIBITION The SECAC 2018 Annual Juried Exhibition GULNAR BOSCH TRAVEL AWARDS was held at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and the University of The Gulnar Bosch Travel Awards provide Alabama at Birmingham. Juror Peter J. limited travel funds for select graduate Baldaia, Director of Curatorial Affairs at students whose papers or works have the Huntsville Museum of Art, described been accepted for juried presentation so his charge as follows: “I welcomed the that they can attend the SECAC Annual challenge of reviewing such a large and Meeting. It was Gulnar
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