Alumni in the News

Lascivious Lunches and Decadent Dinners by Priscilla Sample (M.F.A. ’08), Wednesday, January 28th.

new single-channel HD video animation, “Op Eyes,” opens at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art November 21, 2008. The piece was commissioned by Nerman Museum director Bruce Hartman and is part of the museum’s permanent collection. There is an opening reception on November 21 6-8:30 pm. Barry will also be giving a lecture in the museum’s auditorium on November 20 at 3:30 pm.

“Ophelia” runs November 7 – 23.

was recently named curator of the Visual Resources Centre in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

has recently signed to Engine Company Records in NYC, and his debut album, Unhand Me, You Fiend!, will be released worldwide in January 2009. Mixed by producer, recording artist, and Engine Company Records founder Blake Morgan, and mastered by Grammy Award–winner Phil “Butcher Bros.“ Nicolo, Cloyd’s national debut evokes comparisons with Radiohead, Beck, and Peter Gabriel.

is the first Adkins Presidential Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art.

accepts new position in the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences program.

will be an Art Instructor at The Episcopal School of Dallas teaching all levels of studio art in the Upper School, starting August 2008.

will be exhibiting 45 years of work at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. Ben Woitena: A Retrospective (1963-2008) will be open from September 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009.

has been appointed as the first Composer in Residence for the Orlando (FL) Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Sung is also Composer in Residence for Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL), and is the recipient of the 2007-10 Phi Kappa Phi National Artists Award.