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Congratulations to historic preservation M.A. candidate Matthew Hayes! Matt has been selected to present at the 2011 National Preservation Conference in Buffalo this fall. His presentation is titled “Portland to Pittsburgh: Arenas of Modernism,” and he’ll be discussing the emerging field of historic arena preservation and how some urban renewal may actually erase the past without leaving any frame of reference for future generations.

Congratulations to Matt on this impressive achievement!

The 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards deadline is fast approaching. The first deadline is Friday, January 28, 2011. Both individuals and groups may enter.

Categories include Interactive Media, Web and Mobile Analytics, Video and Motion, and Traditional Media. Winners receive a trip to Taipei and cash. The award is free to enter.

For more details go to www.adobeawards.com/us.

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s undergraduate and graduate interior design programs have been ranked among top in the nation by DesignIntelligence in the 2011 edition of  “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools.”

An M.A. in interior design is offered fully online through SCAD eLearning.

To read the press release about SCAD’s interior design programs’ top ranking, click here.

For information about the Master of Arts interior design program at SCAD eLearning, click here. For information about learning online at SCAD, click here.

Pictured work by Katie Dewaal, B.F.A., 2010.

Graphic Design USA invites participants to submit their package designs for entry into its American Package Design contest.

The American Package Design Awards stands to honor well-designed graphics and the power to connect an emotional link between the consumer and the project.

Entry deadline is December 10, 2010.

For more information, contest rules and guidelines, click here.

The SCADDY Awards honor student achievement in advertising and related creative disciplines. SCAD students from advertising, graphic design, motion media design, film and television, photography, fashion, animation, illustration and liberal arts are encouraged to enter.

Each year, a judging panel of respected industry professionals reviews the student submissions and votes for the award winners. SCADDY Award-winning work is entered into the ADDY® Awards, the advertising industry’s professional award competition, and can advance from local to regional and national-level competitions. Last year’s SCADDY winners went on to earn Silver, Gold and Best of Show ADDY Awards at the local level, and Silver and Gold ADDY Awards at the regional and national levels.

The 2011 SCADDY Awards will give students an opportunity to submit their best work from calendar year 2010 for judging and recognition.

Entry deadline: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 11:59 p.m. EST.

For submission rules and guidelines, click here.

SCAD students, have your work seen by the thousands of people who read the New York Times, Wired and other popular publications! SCAD’s communications and marketing department is looking for the best student work in every department to feature in various advertising and marketing campaigns that will be distributed nationally and internationally. We can’t promise we’ll use all submissions, but you can submit as much work as you’d like as many times as you want before September 17.

Interested?

Submit your name, title of artwork, dimensions and medium, high-resolution photo of your work, or a link where your artwork can be downloaded, to ads@scad.edu by September 17. Final pieces should be high resolution, 10” x 12,” 300 dpi. In order for your work to be considered, it may not include obscenities, nudity or product logos.

Alumni are welcome to submit work too!

Pictured here: Undergraduate visual effects student Aleksander Rodic’s work appeared in a recent issue of Wired magazine as well as in Wired’s iPad edition.

The SCAD 2010 Fashion show is now available at SCAD.tv. At the show, SCAD honors fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg with the 10th annual André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award.

SCAD eLearning student Rebecca Latimer Hemstad won a 2009 Student Bronze ADDY award for her packaging design titled Moji (pictured here).

She also won a 2009 gold SCADDY award for the same entry.

Rebecca is a graduate graphic design student who currently resides in Raleigh, N.C. Congratulations!

For more information about the SCADDY awards, and to view more award recipients, go to http://www2.scad.edu/events/exhibitions/callsforentry/scaddyfinalists2009.cfm.

While Kristen Densmore (M.F.A. photography candidate) worked on her final paper for her online contemporary art history course spring quarter, her professor Anne Swartz sponsored her entry to the American Craft Council’s 2009 Conference’s call for papers. Densmore was awarded a scholarship that covers all conference registration fees and three nights’ hotel stay to attend the October conference in Minneapolis, Minn.

Densmore’s research paper for her contemporary art course, entitled “Symbolic Craft in the work of Faith Ringgold, Kara Walker, and Sonya Clark,” discusses the work of Sonya Clark, who happens to be one of the keynote speakers at the conference. Densmore learned about the conference while researching Clark. Densmore works with alternative photographic processes printed on handmade papers and fabrics and embroiders on top of them. After Densmore realized she was extremely interested in all the speakers and events during the weekend, she decided to apply for a student scholarship to attend the conference

Densmore’s background in crafts include a family connection to different craft mediums, and she is actively working to incorporate craft into M.F.A. thesis. With an affinity to the handmade object, the organic- and earth-based materials used in most crafts, and the long history of craft in our society, Densmore will do well to represent crafts, both new and historic. She finds the craft medium is both practical and connects us emotionally to each other, and her personal craft connection includes heirlooms in her family that have been handed down for generations. In her own words, “In this super-fast, instant gratification and technologically complex world I think it’s important to slow down, use our hands and reconnect with traditional mediums.”

Densmore is excited for the opportunity to attend this conference.  She will meet well-known professionals in the craft field, build her networking contacts and make connections across the craft fields, expanding on SCAD resources about making a living as an artist. Densmore says she’s also looking forward to being inspired by the art and ideas presented at the conference.  “I always get a lot of energy and artistic momentum from other people’s work,” she says.

Attending conferences related to students’ work is common for SCAD students. SCAD hosts several conferences, including the Game Developers eXchange (GDX) in Savannah and Atlanta, and also encourage students to attend conferences across the United States. Students taking classes online frequently participate in conferences relating to their studies, as well as eLearning faculty and staff who attend conferences pertaining to their fields of expertise.

SCAD eLearning Blended Learning Option

Densmore was originally studying as a SCAD-Savannah student when she chose to temporarily relocate to Prescott, Ariz., to fulfill a museum internship for class credit at the Sharlot Hall Museum. At the completion of her internship the museum offered her a full-time position. She accepted. She was able to acquire beneficial educational experience as well as a fantastic addition to her resume, but after six months she wanted to return to school and wasn’t able to return to Savannah until the fall of 2009. Kristen chose to take advantage of SCAD eLearning to bridge the gap between the times she could be in Savannah. In spring of 2009 she took two online courses, Contemporary Art History and Digital Studio II, of which she says she really enjoyed. “I found them to be super challenging,” said Kristen, “but I learned a lot and got great feedback from both my professors and other students.”

SCAD eLearning students are encouraged to attend SCAD conferences and lectures. Additionally, lectures and events are available in the Virtual Lecture Hall and SCAD TV.

All SCAD students have a blended learning option, which allows them to take classes online at any point during their course of study. Students take online classes from any location and with no set class meeting time. Not only do online classes allow students increased flexibility, but as online education grows more popular, online courses in turn contribute to energy conservation and of building space, and also minimize gas usage and parking space that would be necessary to commute to a physical building. Utilizing the blended learning option is a win-win situation for students and the college alike. Current SCAD students interested in taking an online class should speak with their academic adviser.

Click here to access more information about the American Craft Council 2009 conference.

Footnote: Not surprisingly, Kristen spent this summer interim working in Montana near the Glacier National Park so she could use her free time for hiking and photography.

SCAD-eLearning student Rebecca Latimer Hemstad had the honor of her artwork titled “Eyes Wide Open” displayed on the cover of the semiyearly SCAD magazine titled SCAD Works, as well as artwork overlay on a SCAD bus used to transport students, faculty and visitors. Rebecca is a graduate graphic design student who currently resides in Raleigh, N.C.

Rebecca’s professor, Rhonda Arntsen, says “Rebecca Hemstad is a dream student. She bright, talented beyond words, engaged and eager to learn and to grow. If pushed an inch, Rebecca runs a mile. She is by far the most holistically talented graduate student I have encountered in my teaching career. She is an inspiration to her peers and faculty alike.” Congratulations Rebecca! Your reward is well deserved.

To view Rebecca’s work on the cover of SCAD Works, click here.