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ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Funding Opportunities for Students
Important Student Health Insurance Announcement
Student Financial Services Blog
Ordering Stationery
NEWS
Michael Grothusen: Life's Joys—Life's Disappointments
Crafts 2009 Graduates Show at Delaware CCA
Pew Fellowship Awarded to Staff Member Jennifer Levonian
Media Arts Students' Cover Photographs
EVENTS
15th Annual 'Food for Thought' Summer Lecture Series
Life Soup by Sarah B. Pohlman
OPPORTUNITIES
Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit
SEPTA Call for Artists: Deadline: July 1, 2009
Science-Meets-Art Group Organizing in Philly
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IN THE GALLERIES
On-Campus
Off-Campus
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Funding Opportunities for Students
The University's Student Financial Services Office has posted new funding opportunities for students: the Richard C. von Hess Travel Fellowship and Scholarship, the Edna Andrade College of Art and Design Travel Scholarship, and the Sol Calvin Cohen Memorial Award. These and other opportunities are posted to the University’s online Scholarship Bulletin Board. Additional information can also be found on the scholarship bulletin board outside of the Student Financial Services Office on the second floor of Hamilton Hall. Students applying for scholarships and/or grants who would like help compiling materials, organizing applications or editing essays should contact Amanda Black, Associate Director of Student Financial Services, at 215-717-6137.
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Important Student Health Insurance Announcement
The University of the Arts requires that all students carry health insurance either through their own insurance company or a plan offered by Academic HealthPlans and billed through the University. Students who wish to waive the University-sponsored plan must provide proof of private health insurance coverage by completing an online waiver. The deadline to complete the health insurance waiver is July 15, 2009, for the fall semester, and January 1, 2010, for students who are entering the University in the spring. If the waiver is not completed, students are automatically enrolled in the University-sponsored student health insurance plan.
Information detailing the Academic HealthPlans insurance coverage is available online. This plan provides health coverage whether at school or not from August 15, 2009, through August 15, 2010, for $604.
As you consider the Academic HealthPlans insurance option or your own, please keep in mind that you must have at least $50,000 of coverage with a major medical plan. Also, since costs of specialists, X-rays, laboratory work, ambulance service and emergency room visits are not covered by the University’s Health Services or our partners at Jefferson Family Medicine Associates, it is essential that your health insurance policy cover these specific expenses. If you have questions regarding health insurance coverage, please feel free to contact Health Services at 215-717-6230.
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Student Financial Services Blog
Student Financial Services says "It’s time to plan." Check out that advice and more on the SFS blog.
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Ordering Stationery
Business Cards: The Business Card Request Form can be download as an editable PDF under staff resources on the portal. After filling out the form, your supervisor must sign it before you forward to Personnel Services for final approval. Business cards are ordered about once every two months depending on the number of requests.
Letterhead: The University no longer has generic letterhead. Every department will have department-specific stationery. To order letterhead, contact Jim Maurer in Publications at 215-717-6412 and he will send you the three design options. Please reply with your choice along with information for the letterhead such as the phone and fax numbers. You can order blank second sheets at the same time you place your letterhead order.
Envelopes: Most departments will be using generic envelopes, which can be ordered from Distribution Services. For departments that require department-specific envelopes, direct your request to Jim Maurer in Publications at 215-717-6412..
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NEWS
Michael Grothusen: Life's Joys—Life's Disappointments
Foundation faculty member Michael Grothusen is a Philadelphia sculptor whose work is rooted in architecture, memory and experience. As part of the James A. Michener Art Museum Outdoor Sculpture Program, Grothusen will exhibit his large-scale sculpture "Life's Joys—Life's Disappointments." Influence for this work comes from looking at commemorative vessels of all types — sports trophies, urns, fountains and other forms of public monuments or memorials. Through changes in scale, material and patterning, this work goes beyond these initial references and asks questions about the similarity of the vessels and their relationship to our everyday lives.
Thru October 18
The James A. Michener Art Museum (138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, PA)
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Crafts 2009 Graduates Show at Delaware CCA
Alternatives Museum Shop at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts will feature work by 2009 graduates of the University of the Arts Crafts department through July 31, 2009, in the artist show, On the Rise. A select group of students were asked by faculty of the Crafts department to make work specifically for the show.
Thru July 31
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 S. Madison St., Wilmington, DE
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Pew Fellowship Awarded to Staff Member Jennifer Levonian
Academic Support Services staff member Jennifer Levonian has been named a 2009 Pew Fellowship award winner in the media arts category. The $60,000 fellowship awards for 2009 are the largest such grant in the country for which individual artists can apply. This year the awards went to artists working in fiction and creative nonfiction, media arts and works on paper. Jennifer’s work involves cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life, with the goal of bringing into focus unnoticed events and transforming them into bizarre and uncanny ones.
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Media Arts Students' Cover Photographs
Taylor Welch's photograph appeared on the cover of Light Leaks issue #12. Kris Shacochis' photograph appeared on the cover of Out and About, June 2009.
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EVENTS
15th Annual 'Food for Thought' Summer Lecture Series
The 15th annual "Food for Thought" lecture series, sponsored by the University's MFA Program in Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture, welcomes painter Peter Krashes. The series runs through July 29, 2009, and is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Program Director Jennie Shanker at 215-717-6106 or Martha McEwan at 215-717-6489.
June 24, 9 a.m.
Hamilton Hall, CBS Auditorium
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Life Soup by Sarah B. Pohlman
A new exhibition from alumna and staff member Sarah Pohlman ’06 (Printmaking). For more information, visit sbpohlman.com.
Thru July 3
Twenty-Two Gallery
236 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia
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OPPORTUNITIES
Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit
Entrepreneurs, business leaders and creative industry professionals will gather on October 5-6, 2009 to network, share information and exchange ideas about creative economy initiatives and best practices within four key tracks. Changing economic times require new thinking and new imperatives - now is the time to take the creative economy to the next level. Check the site often to learn about the keynote speakers and presenters, latest program schedule and much more! More information.
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SEPTA Call for Artists: Deadline: July 1, 2009
SEPTA's Art in Transit program invites Philadelphia-area artists to submit qualifications for a permanent commission for the 63rd Street Station on the Market Frankford (Blue) Line. Interested artists should download the submission guidelines. The commission has a budget of $140,000.
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Science-Meets-Art Group Organizing in Philly
A group of emerging artists devoted to the intersection of science and art is organizing in Philadelphia. The group includes those trained in science or art or both, experimenting in new media as well as traditional media. The group is looking for other like-minded artists in the area who would be interested in bouncing ideas around, collaborating, and pitching in for rent on a collective gallery space. If you're interested, contact Multimedia senior Angela Latini for more information.
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'wRAP' Video Contest
Submit your video for a chance to win up to $5000. Lea & Perrins® is searching for the ultimate "wRAP" video that compliments its new Thick Classic® Worcestershire Sauce. The winner, selected by America out of the Top 10 videos, will receive $5,000 PLUS a premium prize package of Certified Angus Beef. Additional prizes include $1,000 for each of the four runners-up. More information.
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What Can YOU Do? Video Contest
This is an opportunity for young—and young-at-heart—filmmakers to promote positive change by illustrating that at work, it's what people can do that matters. Any type of video can be submitted—serious, surprising, or even funny. Be creative! The point is to make people think and challenge their opinions about people with disabilities and employment. How you do this is up to you. The contest runs through July 15, 2009, and is sponsored by the Campaign for Disability Employment, a collaborative effort to promote the talent and skills that people with disabilities bring to America’s workforce and economy.
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IN THE GALLERIES
ON-CAMPUS
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE SUITE (HAMILTON HALL)
Animation and Its Byproducts
Work from freshman through senior animators illuminating the process of defining and refining their craft. Models, sets, character designs, storyboards, sculptures and other work will be exhibited, allowing the viewer to understand and appreciate the resulting visuals seen on monitors in the exhibition space.
Thru July 8
GALLERY 1401 (TERRA HALL)
New York City Street Corners
Photographs by Orville Robertson
Thru August 7
SOL MEDNICK GALLERY (TERRA HALL)
Looking Forward: Portraits of South African Women
Photographs by Ian van Coller
Thru August 7
HAMLTON AND ARRONSON GALLERIES (HAMILTON HALL)
MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Alumni Show (Art and Design @ 50)
A juried show of recent post-graduation work.
Thru June 30
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A site-specific multimedia installation by John Phillips (Media Arts) and Carolyn Healy.
Thru June 28
Saturdays & Sundays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Disston Saw Works (6795 State Road, Philadelphia)
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