Organized Session, Workshop or Roundtable Title
Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center: Community Synergy By Design
Participation Type
Organized Session
Participant Type
Multi-presenter
Organized Session, Workshop or Roundtable Abstract
Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center is steps from the conference venue. This panel is conceived of as a “walking panel” that begins at the Big Sandy Conference Center and continues to and within the Visual Arts Center. Through a 13.4-million-dollar renovation project, the former Stone & Thomas building in Huntington, WV was transformed into Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center. The School of Art & Design relocated from cramped and out-of-date facilities on campus to its new spacious and inspired state-of-the-art downtown home in 2014. Moving from floor to floor, the panel topic will unfold as one presenter after another discusses how the building design and its urban context stimulate synergy between the university and various partners that results in course projects, program initiatives, and transformative student experiences. When students leave the Visual Arts Center, they step into an urban environment in which they are citizens. As members of both the university community and the community of Huntington, visual art students contribute to the reinvention of Huntington as a creative laboratory and develop skills that will last a lifetime as they complete internships with non-profit organizations and private businesses and participate in creative initiatives throughout the city.
In 1902, the visual arts program started at Marshall. That same year, the historic Anderson-Newcomb Building was built on 3rd Avenue. For years, Anderson-Newcomb Department Store was central to the hustle and bustle of mid-20th century Huntington; now, it is home to Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center. Opened in 2014, the six-story building provides beautiful views of Pullman Square and the Ohio River, state of the art equipment, conference rooms, and numerous rooms for exhibition of art. After some renovations, this building continues to bring people to Huntington by offering a unique experience for students and citizens of the arts. Important conversations about local and national issues are sparked by these exclusive opportunities afforded by the Visual Arts Center. By connecting with communities outside Marshall University, the Visual Arts Center helps broaden these conversations. There is great potential for the VAC to help promote on a national level the wonderful and original work of West Virginians, and conversely, to bring inspiring and influential visitors to Huntington.
Organizer
Peter Massing
At-A-Glance Bio- Organizer
Professor Peter Massing has been teaching at Marshall for more than 25 years in the School of Art and Design. He received an MFA from The Ohio State University in printmaking and a BFA in painting and drawing from State University of New York at Buffalo. His role in the art school is focused in the printmaking area and with teaching foundations classes. Professor Massing has served on Art and Design committees that made in-put and provided research associated with the developments of the current facilities in the Visual Art Center.
Presentation #1 Title
Walk and Talk Panel
Presentation #1 Abstract
Meet on site at the Big Sandy and take it on the road to the Visual Arts Center.
At-A-Glance Bios- Participant #1
Professor Peter Massing has been teaching at Marshall for more than 25 years in the School of Art and Design. He received an MFA from The Ohio State University in printmaking and a BFA in painting and drawing from State University of New York at Buffalo. His role in the art school is focused in the printmaking area and with teaching foundations classes. Professor Massing has served on Art and Design committees that made in-put and provided research associated with the developments of the current facilities in the Visual Art Center.
At-A-Glance Bios- Participant #2
Hanna Kozlowski-Slone is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at Marshall University. As a painter and papercut artist, she has displayed her work nationally in numerous exhibitions and was recently the recipient of a Governor’s Award in the 2015 West Virginia Juried Exhibition. Fascinated by the disparity between the histories of oil painting and domestic craft, she is currently exploring ways of merging paint and hand-cut paper in the attempt to reconcile their contextual differences and transform the notions of gender and culture associated with each.
At-A-Glance Bios- Participant #3
Phoebe Patton Randolph is a Principal with Edward Tucker Architects, Inc., a full service architectural firm in Huntington, WV. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's College of Architecture and Design and is currently serving as President of the American Institute of Architects, West Virginia Chapter. Patton Randolph's work includes the Marshall University Visual Arts Center, the Isabelle and Robert Daine Gallery Addition at the Huntington Museum of Art, Marshall University School of Pharmacy, Salt Rock Public Library, and others.
At-A-Glance Bios- Participant #4
Hayson Harrison brings more than fifteen years experience in marketing and design communications from various major corporations and advertising agencies such as General Electric and Earle Palmer Brown Advertising prior to teaching. Currently, she serves as an associate professor at Marshall University teaching graphic design. As an artist her work has been placed in juried, invitational, and solo exhibitions, and her prints are included in public, private, and academic fine art collections. She received her MBA from University of Richmond, and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
At-A-Glance Bios- Participant #5
Sandra Reed is the Director of the School of Art & Design at Marshall University. She is a graduate of the MFA Painting program at The George Washington University, and is currently 1st Vice President of SECAC. A native of Iowa, Reed worked at SCAD Savannah for 21 years before moving to Huntington in 2014. She paints and draws from direct observation and sees this as a means for the accretion of experience.
Keywords
Aesthetics, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Material Culture, Historic Preservation, Material Culture/Materiality, Teaching, Visual Anthropology
Start Date
4-9-2016 10:30 AM
End Date
4-9-2016 12:00 PM
Walk and Talk Panel
Big Sandy Conference Center - Tech Room 01 & MU Visual Arts Center
Meet on site at the Big Sandy and take it on the road to the Visual Arts Center.