2010 - 2011 Herron Highlights

Noteworthy Faculty and Academic Accomplishments

  • Herron faculty members earned $351,618 in funding for research and creative activity through 29 individual competitive grants including 12 New Frontiers Faculty Research Grants funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc., and administered by the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research and five IUPUI Arts and Humanities Grants.
  • Matthew Groshek, associate professor/public scholar of exhibition and visual communication design, received an award from the Percussive Arts Society for creating exhibitions for their new Rhythm! Discovery Center.
  • The Herron Alumni Association recognized Greg Hull, associate professor of sculpture, with the Harry A. Davis Outstanding Faculty Award.
  • Flounder Lee, assistant professor of photography, received an IUPUI Research Support Fund grant of $35,000 for mapping a glacial retreat in Alaska.
  • William Potter, associate professor and director of foundation studies, received a New Frontiers Grant for $44,535 to fund his work “Hidden Forms-Embedded Meanings.”
  • Cory Robinson, associate professor of furniture design and fine arts department chair, received a New Frontiers Grant to focus on digital fabrication technologies, and also earned an Arts and Humanities Grant in the amount of $13,732 to explore the use of digital tools in the design and fabrication of individual furniture forms.
  • Stacey Holloway, sculpture technician and instructor of 3D design and sculpture, was named a 2011 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellow.
  • Emily Engel, assistant professor of art history, presented “Handmaidens of the Nation: Female Portraits and Political Transition” at the 2010 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Toronto, Canada.
  • Jennifer Lee, associate professor of art history and associate dean for academic and student affairs, presented “Remem-bering Pilgrimage in the Luttrell Psalter” at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee,
    Tennessee.
  • Jeanne Nemeth, assistant professor of art education, authored “Examining Passionate Pursuits: A Case Study of the Collections of an Art Teacher and Her Students.”
  • Jean Robertson, professor of art history and advisory editor for Grove Art Online, a publication of Oxford University Press, edited a set of 15 articles related to the theme of “Visual Culture.”
  • Helen Sanematsu, assistant professor of visual communication design, presented an interactive installation at the Transatlantic Climate Bridge Week, a partnership through IUPUI and the German Embassy to foster relations between the scientific communities in Germany and the United States.
  • Anita Giddings, senior lecturer and coordinator, elective arts program, presented “Introducing Fine Art: The Role of Studio Classes for the Non-Art Major” at the Foundation in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) 2011 National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Anila Agha, assistant professor of drawing, exhibited “Traveling Text” in Lahore, Pakistan, and “What Will Be: The Visual And Performing Arts For A Safe Planet” at Universidad Tecnologica De Cancun, Cancun, Mexico.
  • Lesley Baker, assistant professor of ceramics, exhibited “Fly on the Wall” in the Tampa Museum of Art as part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Biennial Exhibition. The work was one of 45 selected from 1,900 pieces submitted. She was also selected to be an artist-in-residence at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark.
  • Vance Farrow, associate professor of drawing, received a commission for “The Crossroad Destination” to be included in the permanent collection of the Indiana State Museum.
  • Paula Katz, gallery director, and Vance Farrow, associate professor of drawing, led 12 students to London during spring break. Anita Giddings, senior lecturer and coordinator, elective arts program, Jennifer Lee, associate professor of art history and associate dean for academic and student affairs, and Danielle Riede, assistant professor of painting, led 16 students on a four-week study-abroad trip throughout Italy.
  • Robert Horvath, assistant professor of painting, held a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures titled “New Works” at the Jolie Laide Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Marc Jacobson, professor of painting, exhibited his work in “Self-Portraits” at Elaine Erickson Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Stefan Petranek, assistant professor of photography, was selected to participate in the 2011 biennial art exhibit “Beyond/In Western New York: Alternating Currents,” in Buffalo, New York.
  • Danielle Riede, assistant professor of painting, created a site-specific installation for an annual international exhibition at Das SeeWerk sculpture park in Moers, Germany.
  • Work by Andrew Winship, assistant professor of painting and printmaking, was included in an exhibition at Grand Rapids Museum of Art.
  • Herron was approved for three additional master of fine art programs in ceramics, painting and drawing, and photography and intermedia. The new offerings join Herron’s existing, 60-credit-hour M.F.A. programs in furniture design, printmaking, sculpture and visual communication, along with the master of art education and the new master of art in art therapy.
  • Herron was invited for the first time to participate in the competitive Windgate Fellowship awards, where Jason Gray, B.F.A. ’11 furniture design, was one of only ten students nationally to earn the $15,000 prize to pursue his professional career.

Civic Engagement

  • The Basile Center for Art, Design and Public Life accepted 29 community-based professional practice projects for Herron students this year involving 271 students working in a variety of media.
  • “Works of Hope & Healing,” a collaborative project of the Wishard Hospital Pharmacy Department, the Wishard Foundation and Herron School of Art & Design senior painting students, entered its fourth year.
  • The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra partnered with the painting students for the second year. David Schmitt’s work, “Concerto in Paint for Violin and Orchestra,” won first place in this year’s competition.
  • M.F.A. student Michael Kuschnir’s public art proposal was selected, through a competitive process, for the Indianapolis Cultural Trail at the corner of Indiana Avenue and St. Clair Street.
  • Anthony Deak, B.F.A. ‘11, won the Best of Show prize in Borshoff’s third annual art competition. His four-panel, silver gelatin prints, titled “Welcome to Indianapolis,” captured the new Indianapolis International Airport.
  • Austin Reavis, B.F.A. ‘11, installed “CALLSTATION,” fabricated partly with material from the roof of the Hoosier Dome, in the IUPUI University Library. By listening to one of the eight sets of headphones that are part of the work, callers are directed to find one of ten hand-made artist books in the library stacks.
  • Westfield, Lawrence and Avon municipalities have commissioned four public art projects proposed by undergraduate and graduate sculpture students.
  • Herron visual communication students created a resource book for United Way of Central Indiana. “Connected by 25” serves young people who are transitioning from foster care to independence. The project is so successful that the model may be expanded statewide.
  • Marcia Stone, lecturer, visual communication design, lead students in developing an iPad application to help autistic children learn language skills experientially.
  • Helen Sanematsu, assistant professor of visual communication design, served as the creative director and project manager of “Fun With Facebook: the Impact of Focus Groups on the Development of Awareness Campaigns for Adolescent Health,” funded by the Indiana Coalition to Improve Adolescent Health.

Community Outreach

  • Herron’s Youth Art Camp partnered with Herron Galleries to give campers the opportunity to work with visiting artist Hector Duarte, a Mexican muralist who resides in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Herron Galleries featured 27 exhibitions in the Robert B. Berkshire, Eleanore Prest Reese, Dorit & Gerald Paul, Marsh and Frank & Katrina Basile Galleries including Hector Duarte: “Sin Fronteras,” “Notes to Nonself,” “Curious and Curiouser” and the 2011 M.F.A. Exhibition, which attracted more than 450 attendees on opening night.
  • Herron hosted 15 visiting artist and scholar lectures including Polly Apfelbaum, Wayne White, Rebecca Goodale, Brian Ulrich, Casey Riordan Millard and John Hitchcock.
  • Herron Youth Art Camp instructor Amber Remeeus, B.F.A. ‘10 art education, won a 2010 Excellence in Summer Service Education Award from the Marion County Commission on Youth.

Philanthropic Support

  • Herron is currently at 85 percent of its $8.5 million IUPUI’s IMPACT Campaign goal. Funding priorities include creating endowments for faculty chairs, scholarships, fellowships and operating funds. Matching dollars are available during the campaign.
  • Herron announced that its soon-to-be expanded sculpture and ceramics facility will be named the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Fine Arts Center in recognition of their lead gift.
  • Dorit and Gerald Paul, through a multi-year pledge and an estate provision, endowed a gallery programming fund. The Dorit and Gerald Paul Gallery was named in their honor.
  • An estate gift from beloved professor emeritus, alumnus and artist Robert B. Berkshire provided painting scholarships, operating funds for the Herron Galleries and support to Herron’s endowment.
  • The family of Frank C. Springer endowed the Frank C. Springer Family Innovative Faculty Research Award—the first of its kind at Herron.
  • Jane Fortune significantly increased the Jane Fortune Outstanding Women Visiting Artist Lecture endowment—bolstering the means to attract women artists of the highest caliber to lecture at Herron.
  • Donors provided $170,000 in scholarship support at Herron’s Honors and Awards ceremony.
  • With the creation of the Lynn Thomsen Outstanding Artist Memorial Scholarship, Clifford Hull established one of IUPUI’s first RISE scholarships.
  • Undergraduate student support was bolstered through five new RISE scholarships from the Windgate Charitable Foundation and three scholarships from Margot Lacy Eccles, in honor of her son and in memory of her late husband.
  • Herron’s Dean’s Advisory Board members and others endowed the Mark Pescovitz, M.D., Memorial Photography Scholarship to recognize their departed friend and colleague’s interest in photography and lifelong learning.
  • Youth Art Camp earned support from Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Indianapolis Foundation and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation through the Summer Youth Program Fund. Additional support came from the PNC Foundation, the Rotary Foundation of Indianapolis, the PeyBack Foundation, the Joseph Maley Foundation and Prizm: The Artist’s Supply Store.
  • Dorit and Gerald Paul were honored during the annual Spirit of Philanthropy Luncheon.
  • Jane Fortune and Robert Hesse, Mark and Ora Pescovitz and Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep were inducted into Indiana University’s Presidents Circle.
  • Sidney and Lois Eskenazi were recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Philanthropy Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.