Where did March go? As we come into the full bloom of spring, it’s a pleasure to reflect on the last few weeks and attempt to understand how time can accelerate with such abandon. I look at the calendar and have a hard time processing how there are less than 15 days remaining in the spring semester. It seems like football season just ended and we were enjoying the holiday break – now the end of the year is upon us.
The Atelier InSite public art program brought “Foundation” to Lee III.
March is one of the most enjoyable months of the academic year (and not just because of spring break)! It is a month filled with opportunities to meet candidates who are visiting campus for positions in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. The incredible power of the Clemson national brand is reaffirmed as I talk to the impressive candidates from across the country, and sometimes from across the world, who want to join our faculty. (A candidate even came from Australia for an interview).
One successful candidate is Dr. Becky Becker, who will be joining us as our new chair of the Department of Performing Arts this summer. Dr. Becker is currently Professor of Theatre and Assistant Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Columbus State University in Georgia. She is very active in the Kennedy Center American Theatre Festival and the Southeastern Theatre Conference, and has expansive experience in global engagement through her service as the study abroad coordinator at her school.
Volkan Alkanoglu, left, and Matthew Au spoke about “Foundation” March 28 at its dedication.
I am also pleased to announce that Karen Land has been promoted to Public Information Director for the College, following Jeannie Davis’ retirement. Karen is well-positioned to provide outstanding leadership for our communication efforts. Prior to her arrival at Clemson, she served as a News and Media Specialist for Arts and Culture at Indiana University. She has a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art and Journalism degree from Indiana University and is a passionate advocate for the arts, design and the humanities. I look forward to her promoting news of the good work of our students, faculty and staff.
Last month we dedicated the new public art piece, “Foundation,” in Lee III. It’s a stunning piece of metalwork that beautifully reflects light that changes hour by hour, according to the angle of the sun across Lee Hall. Congratulations to the students and faculty from our Atelier InSite Creative Inquiry project, who facilitated this project and to the artists Volkan Alkanoglu and Matthew Au for their work.
Transformational travel
Here is the view of Genoa from The Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies.
Speaking of spring break, last month several members of the Clemson Architecture Foundation Board of Directors joined Director of the School of Architecture Kate Schwennsen and me in a site visit to our programs in Barcelona and Genoa. I can confidently report that we continue to give our students transformational educational experiences through our Fluid Campus program. One of the highlights of the trip was an exclusive “backstage tour” of the Gaudi’s incredible Sagrada Familia, where we were able to see how laser imaging and 3-D printing have come together to dramatically accelerate the projected completion date to 2026. A special note of gratitude to Miguel Roldan (Barcelona) and Sylvia Carrol (Genoa) who provide wonderful leadership for our European-based Fluid Campus programs.
Transformational leaders
On March 9 we inducted eight new members to the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Hall of Fame. Congratulations to this year’s class, who have made significant and lasting contributions to the College:
Clifton S.M. “Chip” Egan, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
Thomas Phifer, FAIA, School of Architecture
John Acorn, Department of Art
Roger Liska, Department of Construction Science and Management
Art Young, Department of English
Jerry Reel,Department of History
Mickey Harder, Department of Performing Arts
Betsy Goodale, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Above and beyond
You may have heard about our recent encounter with bats in the Brooks Theatre. With the change of weather, a colony of bats became active in the theatre, and we needed to temporarily move some of our April events off-campus. Our Brooks Center production team and administration have gone above and beyond the call of duty. They took swift action to ensure student safety, and to produce performances at alternate sites. Since I did not get bat remediation training in grad school, I am deeply grateful for their work!
I close with news of another national ranking for one of our programs. Our Department of Landscape Architecture was recently ranked 5th in the country by “The Best Colleges” website. Congratulations to the faculty and staff in Landscape Architecture for this prestigious recognition.
To our faculty, staff, students, donors, and friends – thank you for all you do for the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. To our prospective students – I hope you will join us!
February has disappeared and the promise of warm weather has campus abuzz with classes in high gear, faculty immersed in teaching and scholarship, and the spring semester racing toward spring break. Like clockwork, the pace of the spring semester accelerates as the temperatures rise. As both students and faculty look forward to a brief break, the last six weeks of the academic year are filled with the anticipation of final projects, recitals, exhibitions and exams.
From top left, David Blakesley, Maribel Morey, Linda Tindal and Victor J. Vitanza received the Board of Trustees 2017 Award for Excellence.
One of the joys of academic life is the renewal of the process each year. One class of students goes into the world with the value of a Clemson degree in hand, and simultaneously, we look forward to the next generation of Tigers joining us in August. As the myriad of events that mark the end of another year come and go, we begin to look forward to the next year with student recruitment, fall class scheduling and faculty hiring in process. It’s a cycle that never fails to renew a spirit of rebirth and excitement.
In early February, I was honored to share some of our accomplishments and strategic plans at the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities with the Clemson University Board of Trustees. It was an opportunity for me to reflect on the core values of our College and our opportunities to transform the next generation of students. The report was well-received, and I am appreciative of the support of my colleagues in putting together the report. I was grateful that the board showed their appreciation of the value of the arts, design and humanities within the Clemson mission.
The Board of Trustees recently presented three CAAH faculty with the 2017 Award for Excellence, in acknowledgment of significant national accolades. History professor Maribel Morey was honored as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and Victor J. Vitanza and David Blakesley of English were honored as Rhetoric Society of America Fellows. Among the board’s 2017 Staff Awards, Linda Tindal was named Student Choice winner. Tindal is coordinator for the women’s leadership and Pan African studies programs, in addition to her work on behalf of two president’s commissions.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas, left, won a Whiting fellowship. Jeannie Davis retired in February.
I am extraordinarily proud of all of these members of the CAAH family and their awards.
Jeannie Davis, who has been the College’s public information officer for the past 12 years, retired at the end of February. Jeannie has been instrumental in the college’s brand, messaging and spirit and will be missed by all of us. She has been the voice and heart of the college and a trusted member of my leadership team. I wish her joy and happiness in retirement.
In closing, I want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement of our students, faculty and staff. It’s a great time to be a Tiger.
The 2017-2018 academic year is winding down and there is much to report and celebrate. The year has flown by, beginning with opening of the Charleston Design Center in August and wrapping up with the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities commencement ceremony on Friday, when we will welcome the college’s class of 2017. Congratulations to our new graduates!
This month, we take special note of several faculty and staff retirements, including Dana Anderson (School of Architecture), Terry Farris (Real Estate Development), Leora Hall (Philosophy and Religion), Lillian Harder (Performing Arts), Roger Liska, (Construction Science and Management), Tom Oberdan (Dean’s Office), the late Roger Simpson (Languages), Steve Sperry (City Planning and Real Estate Development), and Jim Barker, Professor of Architecture and President Emeritus.
In honor of Jim’s retirement, we have mounted an exhibition of his drawings and watercolors in the dean’s office. This is the first on-campus collection of his work. It’s a remarkable exhibition, and I hope you will have time over the next several months to drop by 108 Strode to view it.
CSArt students with Professor Valerie Zimany (center) and President Clements at the Board of Trustees meeting in April.
There were tremendous accomplishments throughout the college over the past year (and too numerous to list here). I do want to share just a few recent highlights:
Jessica Martin (AAH Student Services) and Peter Laurence (School of Architecture) graduated after successfully participating in the 2017-2018 President’s Leadership Institute.
Diane Perpich (Women’s Leadership) was named outstanding faculty member by the President’s Commission on Women.
Successful accreditation visits were concluded by the Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Construction Science and Management programs.
The CSArt students were introduced to the Clemson University Board of Trustees at their April meeting and presented members of the board with specially made ceramic mugs.
Alumnus Bill Pelham of Greenville pledged $1.2M to various programs in the University, including a significant gift to the School of Architecture.
The new Spirit of the Tiger sculpture was dedicated at the Butler-Cook Tiger Band Plaza.
The hard-working and dedicated staff of the college were celebrated at a special luncheon on Administrative Professionals Day.
At the Tiger Sculpture dedication 2017.
Finally, I want to express my gratitude and sincere appreciation for five outgoing department chairs who have dedicated years of service to the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, our students, faculty and staff:
Roger Liska, Construction Science and Management
Lee Morrissey, Department of English
Mary Padua, Department of Landscape Architecture
Greg Shelnutt, Department of Art
Charlie Starkey, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Campus is buzzing with all the activities the end of the school year brings. Final projects, senior recitals, term papers, thesis completion and art exhibits all converge in April, bringing a sense of excitement, celebration, nervousness and relief – depending on whether you’re a student, faculty member or parent!
April is also a time when faculty see the fruits of their work over the course of a student’s time on campus. As Dean, I am extraordinarily proud of the accomplishments of our students under our faculty’s tutelage. I have a unique perspective on a daily basis to see the distinctive complexity and diversity of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. With disciplines ranging from Landscape Architecture to Philosophy, we prepare students for a world that is changing at an exponential rate. There is no doubt our faculty take great care in the multiple responsibilities of teaching every undergraduate student a majority of Clemson’s general education competencies, in addition to specific areas of study in the arts, design and building, and the humanities. I believe our faculty have a commitment to engaging our students in teaching how our past informs the future, clear modes of communication, and the development of creativity and critical thinking skills.
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Last week the College inducted the founding members of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Hall of Fame. We inducted 17 members of the founding class at an amazing ceremony and dinner with our department leaders introducing each inductee who had been nominated by the 10 academic departments. Congratulations to each inductee for their honor! (Please see story above.)
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Mickey Harder, right, and members of her family (from left): son Bill Harder, son-in-law Elliott Botzis and daughter Elizabeth Botzis.
Also in March, we honored Mickey Harder on her upcoming retirement as a full-time faculty member and director of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. After 44 years at Clemson, including 16 years as Brooks Center director, Mickey has provided transformational leadership for the performing arts in the state, region and nation and incredible educational opportunities for Clemson students. Her work as a passionate arts presenter and visionary leader has clearly placed the Brooks Center as a world-class performing arts center. Please help me congratulate Mickey on a remarkable career!
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The Clemson Players’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” spring 2017.
This month I feature the Production Studies in Performing Arts degree program, which is housed in the Brooks Center. The program uses the center as a living-learning laboratory that merges student engagement opportunities in a professional roadhouse with an academic degree program – a nationally distinctive degree program. Now in its 16th year, the program has grown to close to 100 majors from an initial class of 12. Students choose from specific concentrations in audio technology, music or theatre with core classes in subjects that include website development; mock interviews; discussions with industry professionals; arts administration; grant writing workshops; arts leadership; writing, critiquing and presentation skills; and attendance at professional arts events. The degree program has graduates sprinkled throughout the performing arts industry, from Nashville to New York to touring Broadway shows. As my home discipline, I couldn’t be prouder of the alumni, students, faculty and staff involved in our Production Studies program.
In closing, I extend spring greetings for April and warm wishes from campus. Go Tigers!
March is a special time at Clemson – the campus is showing signs of the end of winter, students and faculty are fully engaged in teaching and research, and mid-term exams are here. Although we’ve had an extraordinarily mild winter, spring break and warmer weather are welcome!
In February, I had the pleasure of attending President Emeritus and Professor of Architecture Jim Barker’s “last lecture,” where his good friend and colleague Michael Fazio reflected on creating the architecture program at Mississippi State University. The Lee Hall auditorium was full, and the audience was captivated by the recounting of the formation of architecture studies at MSU. Jim’s wisdom that “If you’re a designer, you can design anything” still runs true today, as well as his advice to current students that there is “great value in making things.” As Jim transitions to the next phase of his illustrious career, we are grateful for his continuing focus on making a difference to students and faculty.
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The Clemson University Tiger Band Association (CUTBA) is dedicated to supporting band students at Clemson, and I am grateful to the hundreds of donors for their loyal and dedicated support of the band program at Clemson. Through the generous support of CUTBA, band scholarship endowments have surpassed $1,000,000 in direct student support. Pictured here is a recent presentation from CUTBA to the Clemson University Foundation for $38,000 to support Tiger Band students. The event was held at the Butler-Cook Band Plaza.
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This month I am pleased to highlight our Historic Preservation program. Located in Charleston at the historic Cigar Factory, the program is a Master of Science degree administered jointly through a partnership between the College of Charleston and Clemson University. Now in its 12th year, the program gives students the opportunity to study the practice of historic preservation using Charleston and the Lowcountry as a living-learning laboratory.
During that time, Historic Preservation students have won 10 consecutive Peterson Prize awards, which recognize outstanding student drawings as adjudicated by the National Park Service, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and the American Institute of Architects. This achievement is one of which we are very proud.
With Professor Amalia Leifeste (left) and Historic Preservation students at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Pendleton.
The HP program sometimes journeys outside the Lowcountry, as evidenced by a group of students (pictured here with Assistant Professor Amalia Leifeste) who recently visited the Upstate. Amalia and her students were invited by parishioners of Clemson’s Holy Trinity Episcopal Church to conduct a survey of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Pendleton, the historic church (est. 1819) where the remains of Thomas Green Clemson and Anna are located and the “mother church” of Holy Trinity. Our students and Amalia will make several more trips to Pendleton this spring to continue their work.
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The College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities mourns the recent loss of three of its members — student Hannah Warren, professor emeritusRobert Mixonand retired senior lecturer of SpanishRoger Simpson. Their loss is deeply felt. Our condolences to the families, colleagues and friends of Hannah, Bob and Roger.
In closing, let me wish all of you a great month of March and Go Tigers!
In Tampa with Tiger Band supporters Ed Evans, Cindy and Larry Sloan.
National Champions! Wow – that has such a nice ring to it! I was fortunate to attend the National Championship game in Tampa last month and couldn’t have been prouder of our team, our Tiger Band and the Clemson Nation. It was a amazing game with a storybook ending.
I have no doubt that success on the football field – the national visibility it brings to Clemson and the way Coach Swinney runs the football program – translates to positive outcomes for our academic programs. Applications for freshmen admission are up – in our case, way up – and interest in all things Clemson extends beyond football to include Clemson academics and Clemson research. If you missed this story on the Clemson website, check it out!
In Tampa, I was inspired (and amazed) to learn the story of Charlotte Colt, Tiger Band lead snare drummer, who marched in the game with an extremely painful torn ACL. Charlotte is a great example of what one person can accomplish when she sets her mind to it and sees it through. She is an inspiration. Best of luck to Charlotte as she pursues the next phase of her education. (Read more about Charlotte’s story and her incredible determination and perseverance here.)
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Brooklyn Garrett crowned Miss Clemson University 2017. (Photo by Jacqui Stephens.)
Congratulations also to Brooklyn Garrett, who was crowned Miss Clemson University 2017 on Saturday. Brooklyn is a CAAH Student Ambassador and a double major in women’s leadership and philosophy. We are proud of you, Brooklyn!
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A shout out to two of our undergraduate humanities degrees – the B.S. in Language and International Health (L&IT) and the B.A. in Language and International Trade (L&IH). These two programs epitomize what I mean by “applied humanities,” combining a liberal arts degree with professional training in health or business.
The L&IH program is jointly administered with our colleagues in public health sciences and is available in Spanish and Chinese. Students learn public health theory and practice, as well as communicative competence in their target language and its culture, literatures, health environments and multicultural issues. Graduates have gone on to positions with such employers as the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children, the International Mission Board and Compass Professional Health Services. Others are pursuing advanced degrees at such institutions as the University of Virginia (nursing), UNC (health administration) and the University of Alabama (dentistry).
The L&IT degree is available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. The program combines intensive foreign language study with a professional business concentration in one of the following areas: applied international economics, international trade or tourism. Students who choose this major immerse themselves in another language and culture and learn how to live, work and succeed in business environments in diverse cultural settings. Recent grads have secured spots with Michelin, GE and Procter and Gamble. Others have gone on to grad school at the University of South Carolina School of Law (JD), the IÉSEG School of Management in Paris (management) and the London School of Economics (MBA).
Of special note, most students in both programs complete an internship abroad. I am proud of that achievement. Learning to live and work in another culture is critcally important to thriving in a global economy. Kudos to both programs for their success in placing graduates in great jobs and great grad schools!
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In closing and with a sad heart, I write to let you know that Roger Simpson, senior lecturer of Spanish, died Saturday morning at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Roger’s family is planning a visitation this evening (Monday) at Brown Oglesby Funeral Home in Seneca (101 East North Second St.) from 6-8 p.m. A graveside service is planned for Tuesday at Oconee Memorial Park (1923 Blue Ridge Blvd., Seneca) at 11 a.m. Roger joined Clemson’s faculty in 1999, after having taught at the high school level for 14 years. He was a graduate of Clemson, with a B.A. in Modern Languages and an M.Ed. Roger was actively engaged in the life of the Department of Languages and was loved by colleagues and students alike. My sincere condolences to Roger’s family and to all of his friends here at Clemson. The College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities will long feel his loss.
The Clemson Players’ production of Almost, Maine. Photo by Wylder Cooper.
Dear Friends,
Creativity is one of the core values of our college — woven into every program, bearing fruit in countless ways. In November, the creativity of our students and faculty was on full display in notable ways.
First, theClemson Players’production of John Cariani’s romantic comedy Almost, Maine was brilliant. The acting, lighting, sound and sets were all excellent — all the work of our undergraduate students. Kudos to the entire cast and crew and a special thanks to Professor Shannon Robert, who directed the play. You can track the Clemson Players’ and their spring productionshere.
Earlier in the month, I met with the college’s Creativity Professors for a discussion about their ongoing research. Each year, through a competitive application process, the college awards Creativity Professorship grants to members of the faculty who are actively engaged in research and integrating that research into their teaching. The breadth of scholarship among this year’s group is fascinating and inspiring — ranging from multi-disciplinary 3-D printing on clay to designs for a new university equine center to the redevelopment of the Greenville News site in downtown Greenville. I look forward to the spring, when once again we’ll see a group presentation of their research and its impacts on their teaching.
As I sit here in my office writing this, I am surrounded by a variety of fine art created by BFA and MFA students in our visual arts programs. Prints, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, drawings and mixed media — all of high quality, and provoking various interpretations of the world. The exhibition in the dean’s office (108 Strode Tower) is on display through the end of the semester; so if you haven’t seen it, and are on campus, please stop by. You can keep up with our visual arts students and all exhibitions in the Lee Gallery and other venueshere.
Finally, in this season of thanksgiving (and giving), I want to thank you for your ongoing support of the vision and strategic goals of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities and encourage you to continue that support by making a gift to the college before the year’s end. Your investment will help grant opportunities and transform lives. For more information, please contact Donna Ruter, senior director of development, or visit here for an quick, one-step, targeted donation form.
With best wishes to all for a happy holiday season,
Paul Anderson and Michael Meng (history) are teaching an honors class this fall that was mentioned in a recent article in the New York Times.
Rod Andrew (history) delivered a lecture at the Pentagon for the Department of Defense History Speakers Series recently on “Operation Starlite” (Vietnam, 1965). Andrew has been researching and writing on Starlite as part of his Marine Corps Reserve duties as a field historian with Marine Corps History Division. Operation Starlite was the first large battle by U.S. ground forces against a regimental-sized Communist force, the 1st Viet Cong Regiment in August 1965. In addition to his teaching and research at Clemson, Andrew is currently the Officer-in-Charge of the Field History Branch, Marine Corps History Division.
Stephanie Barczewski (history) contributed a chapter titled “An Elite Imperial Vision: Eighteenth-century British Country Houses and Four Continents Imagery,” in the edited volume Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of display and the British Empire from Manchester University Press.
Vernon Burton (history) has been busy in recent months, interviewed dozens of times for his views on events unfolding in South Carolina and the U.S. One story of special interest involves his testimony in a landmark Texas Voter ID case.
Garry Bertholf (English) recently presented a paper entitled “John Coltrane and the Signifyin(g) Monk: A Theory of the Rhizomatic Scale” at the “Deleuze and Guattari” Conference at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. During his stay in South Africa, Bertholf also conducted further ethnographic research for another, comparative project tentatively titled “The Biopolitics of Race and the Post-Genomic Turn to Caste”—the title of a seminar he gave last year at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. With the help of a CAAH Faculty Research Grant, he plans to return to India this December to finish his international research.
Parlor Press, the scholarly publishing company founded and edited by David Blakesley, (English, Campbell Chair in Technical Communication), received its third national book award in the past year in July. Also, Blakesley published “Terministic Screens” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, edited by Mike Allen (2015)
An essay by Nic Brown (English) was included in Best Food Writing 2015, published this month by Da Capo. The essay, called “Kitchen Diplomacy,” was originally published in Garden & Gun.
David Detrich (art) exhibited his sculptural work KYOTO this fall at Georgia State University’s Ernest G. Welch Gallery for the juried show Indoor Pro: Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Sculpture Exhibition. Detrich also recently exhibited his work Constellation: Booth, Hyde, Peterson & Vallens at the Charles Adams Studio Project / 5&J Gallery in Lubbock, TX. Alberto Careaga & Chad Plunket curated the exhibition entitled Grayscale. This exhibition was created with the intent of showcasing contemporary works from a diverse group of artists that are all produced in different intensities of black and white.
Linda Dzuris (University carillonneur) was on tour this past summer, performing at:
American Guild of Organists Southeast Regional Convention 2015 in Charlotte, N.C.
13th Festival International de Carillon de Perpignan. Invited guest artist performing on the on the oldest set of bells in France – one of the few to have survived melting for ammunition metal during WWII. The Cathedrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, which houses the carillon, is a medieval structure in the town center of Perpignan, southern France. The festival theme was “Memories of 1945” celebrating the end of the war.
Basilique de la Visitation in Annecy, France. Performed by invitation a solo concert on the 37-bell carillon.
Eglise Saint-Maurice, Thones, France. Guest organist for mass at this Baroque historic monument in the Rhone-Alpes region of the country.
International guest artist on the 64 bells at the Hôtel de Ville de Lyon, the city hall of the City of Lyon.
XXVII Festival de Carillon et d’Art Campanaire, Taninges, France. Featured musician for “Concert en nocturne par une carillonniste etrangere.
2015 Lausanne Festival, Switzerland. Solo concert on Le Carillon de Chantemerle at the Eglise de la Rosiaz a Pully.
Recent accomplishments from Carter Hudgins (director, historic preservation) include:
Publication (Invited):
“More Data, Please: Comments on Eric Schweickart’s ‘Ideologies of Consumption: Colonialism and the Commodification of Goods in 18th-century Virginian and Lowland Scottish Rural Households,’” Post-Medieval Archaeology, 49/1 (2015), 175-181.
Conference Papers (1) “Molana Abbey in the Elizabethan Age,” with co-author Eric Klingelhofer at The Place of Spenser, Conference of the International Spenser Society, 20 June 2015, Dublin
(2) “Architectural Horizon and Population Fluctuation: Confirming Trend Correlations on Nevis, W.I.,” with co-author Eric Klingelhofer at International Association of Caribbean Archaeologists, St Maarten, 17 July 2015
Peer Review Assessment of “An Archaeological Brief for Site X: A Summary of Investigations of Site 31BR246,” for First Colony Foundation, 5 May 15
Fieldwork Molana Abbey, County Waterford, Ireland, 21-30 June 2015. Returned for a third field season to 11th century abbey ruin to conduct excavations in cooperation with the First Colony Foundation. Working under a permit granted to our Irish colleague Eamonn Cotter, investigations focused on (1) determining depth and type of foundations employed at the abbey to complete documentation of this nationally-listed building, and (2) clarify understanding of the location and extent of Elizabethan modifications to the abbey when it was converted from religious to domestic use.
Roger Grant (history) was tapped as one of “75 people you must know” in the special 75th anniversary year issue of Trains magazine. Trains has a circulation of more than 100,000. Recently, Grant gave two public lectures, “Living in the Depot” and “The Electric Way” at the Broomfield Cultural Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) recently published:
Review of Carys Moseley, Nationhood, Providence and Witness (James Clarke, 2001), Heythrop Journal: Bimonthly Review of Philosophy and Theology 56/3 (May 2015): 534-536.
Alex Kudera (English) released an e-single “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press) in July and a second one, “Turquoise Truck” (Mendicant Bookworks), in September.
In May 2015, as a guest professor at Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing, China, Linda Li-Bleuel (performing arts) performed two recitals and conducted master classes. During the month of July, she, along with John Bleuel (professor of saxophone, University of West Georgia) and Leslie Warlick (instructor of violin, Clemson University) performed the premiere of Interrogations by renowned French composer, Lucie Robert; and along with Stephen Fischer (instructor of saxophone, Clemson University) and Rachael Fischer (instructor of violin, Piedmont and Erskine Colleges) premiered Sobriquet by Natalie Williams at the World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France.
Joseph P. Mazer (communication studies) and colleagues from Western Kentucky University published “Communication in the Face of a School Crisis: Examining the Volume and Content of Social Media Mentions During Active Shooter Incidents” in a recent volume of Computers in Human Behavior. Mazer and Hongxin Hu (computing), Feng Luo (computing), and Robin Kowalski (psychology) received a $239,680 grant from the National Science Foundation for their project, Defending Against Visual Cyberbullying Attacks in Emerging Mobile Social Networks. Mazer and Brandon Boatwright (communication studies) received a $32,000 grant from Greenville Health System to undertake social media monitoring for GHS.
To follow up on fieldwork funded by the Tinker Foundation, Tiffany Creegan Miller (languages) received a grant from the Humanities Advancement Board to research Kaqchikel Maya children’s songs and poetry in Guatemala this past July. Kaqchikel Maya is one of 22 Mayan languages spoken today in the Highlands of Guatemala by approximately 500,000 people. Dr. Miller’s project is entitled “Ri ak’wala’ nikib’ixaj pa qach’ab’äl: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality and Ethnography in Performances of Kaqchikel Children’s Songs and Poetry.” Positioning her research at the intersection of cultural ethnography and cultural/linguistic revitalization activism, Dr. Miller began working with a local schoolteacher in Santa María de Jesús to record numerous songs and poetry to be used as educational materials in this teacher’s Kaqchikel Maya language classes in Guatemala.
Ed Moise (history) has signed a contract with University Press of Kansas to publish The Myths of Tet, which should be available next year.
Kathleen Nalley (English) has been invited to give readings of her work recently in Greenville and Columbia. Additionally, she was a featured author at the 2015 S.C. Book Festival, serving on a panel with S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth and S.C. poet Ray McManus.
Salvador A. Oropesa (chair of languages), recently published:
“La épica de la derrota de la posguerra española en la novela catalana: Pa negre (2003) de Emili Teixidor y Les veus del Pamano (2004) de Jaume Cabré.” Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies 10 (2015): 133-52.
Andrew Pyle (communication studies) recently spoke at the Southeast District Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) annual conference. Pyle talked about Clemson’s Social Media Listening Center and how faculty and students are using it for research, as well as how public relations practitioners can use these types of tools to learn and to enhance organizational storytelling.
In recent months, Shannon Robert (performing arts):
was guest artist, scene designer and lecturer for TTU’s Wildwind Performance Lab,
was faculty in residence at Hollins University and guest director for new plays workshop and festival at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Va.,
and participated in World Stage Design in Prague.
In June, Mashal Saif (philosophy and religion) participated in the Summer Institute for Scholars organized by the International Institute for Islamic Thought. She presented a paper at the institute titled “Shia Ulama and the Pakistani Constitution: Navigating Between Pluralism and an Islamic State.”
Robert Silance (architecture) recently exhibited his photographs “US Flag” at the Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, and “Territory” at the Leibig Arts Center in Naples, Fla.
Michael Silvestri (history) published an article entitled “Irish Mutiny in the Pubjab” in the June issue of An Cosantóir, the magazine of the Irish Defense Forces.
James P. Smith (construction science and management) presented his work on the relatively controversial methodology, Design Science Research, to the international Lean Construction community at the 23rd Global Lean Construction Conference in Perth, Australia.
Mark Spede (performing arts, director of Tiger Band) presented recently at the CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium in Fort Collins, Colorado. 2015 marks the largest membership in Tiger Band, Clemson’s marching band, at 337 members.
The Clemson Faculty Sextet, which includes Mark Spede on drums, Monty Craig on guitar, Hazen Bannister on piano, Ian Bracchitta on bass , Evan Jacobi on saxophone and Tim Hurlburt on trumpet, will perform with Tiger Band during the October 12 (Georgia Tech) half time show in Death Valley.
Richard St. Peter (performing arts) recently presented a paper entitled “Who’s There? Richard Burton, the Wooster Group and Transnational ‘Otherness’” at the 11th European Shakespeare Research Association conference at the University of Worcester in England on June 30.
Charles Starkey (philosophy and religion, fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics), presented “Affective Colored Glasses: Emotion, Perception and Moral Cognition” at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology at Duke University in June. He also presented “Emotional Reinforcement and Character Traits” at the annual meeting of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) at the University of Edinburgh in July. Starkey was an invited contributor to the In Character web discussion series, which features two scholars talking with each other about their recent research. The series is organized by The Character Project at Wake Forest University and supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Starkey spoke with Daniel McKaughan, associate professor of philosophy, Boston College about their respective projects and the implications of recent work in psychology and neuroscience for character.
William Terry (history) was invited for a week in May to be a guest lecturer at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden, where he taught undergraduate and Ph.D. seminars and delivered a faculty colloquium talk titled, “Law and the Shaping of the Cruise Industry: Legal geographies of labor in a global industry”.
The poetry of Jillian Weise (English) was included in recent issues of Granta and The New Republic. Her essay, “Why I Own a Gun,” appears in Tin House. Her 3D-printed poem, “Future Biometrics,” was on exhibit in a group show called, “Hybrid Paradises” at the Evanston Art Center. The poem was also exhibited at the Northern Illinois University Gallery in Chicago. The artist is Tom Burtonwood. The Braille translator is Sean Tikkun.
Benjamin White (philosophy and religion) spoke at the 17th International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, England on August 12th. His presentation was part of a longer piece entitled “Justin Between Paul and the Heretics: The Surprising Salvation of Gentile Christian Judaizers in Dialogue with Trypho 47.”
The dissertation of Lee Wilson (history) has been chosen as a finalist for the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize. Wilson also has a new article in the August issue of The Law and History Review, titled “A ‘Manifest Violation’ of the Rights of Englishmen: Rights Talk and the Law of Property in Early Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.”
The month Valerie Zimany (art) will present “Antecedents and Appropriations – Contemporary Japanese Kutani and Chinese Ceramic Culture” at the biannual meeting of The International Society for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange (ISCAEE) Symposium, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China. She will be accompanied by three current Department of Art MFA students in ceramics, who will present about the Clemson Community Supported Art (CSArt) program. Zimany’s artwork is featured in four international exhibitions this fall:
The 3rd International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM – 2015, May 15 – September 30, 2015, The National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
TOOL: An International Exhibition of the Tools of Our Trade, September 3 – November 30, 2015, Yuill Family Gallery, Medalta Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
The 2nd Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, October 9 – November 3, 2015, Cluj Art Museum, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
International Society for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange Exhibition, October 15 – 24, 2015, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
CCRE faculty with Salamishah Tillet (bottom right)
The Clemson Colloquium on Race & Ethnicity (CCRE), together with this year’s Race and the University Initiative, hosted a two-day spring conference at Clemson that featured presentations and roundtable discussions across a wide range of intellectual work and teaching on race and ethnicity at Clemson and at universities in the region. The conference featured a keynote address by Salamishah Tillet (U Penn), pedagogy roundtable speaker Lupe Davidson (U of Oklahoma), and faculty from nearby universities.
Cameron Bushnell, Angela Naimou, Kimberly Manganelli, and Erin Goss comprised the organizing committee. CAAH Clemson faculty presenters included: Lee Wilson (history), Susanna Ashton (English), George Palacios (languages), Amit Bein (history), Tiffany Dawn CreeganMiller (languages), Garry Bertholf (English), Adrian Paterson (English, visiting professor from the National University of Ireland, Galway), Cameron Bushnell (English), Lindsay Thomas (English), Daphne Tatiana Canlas (Ph.D. Candidate, RCID), and Chenjerai Kumanyika (communication studies).
This Spring’s CCRE conference was co-sponsored by CAAH’s Race and the University initiative, The Rutland Institute for Ethics, the Women’s Leadership program, Pan African Studies, Pearce Center for Professional Communication, Calhoun Honors College, the Department of English, the Graduate Student Senate and the Department of Communication Studies.
CCRE is a working group of Clemson faculty that seeks to reshape intellectual perspectives on race and ethnicity and works to acknowledge and counter discrimination on Clemson’s campus and beyond. It is open to all Clemson faculty interested in the study of race and ethnicity.
Susanna Ashton
Susanna Ashton, professor of English, has just been awarded a semester-long research fellowship at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. She will take up residency there for Fall 2015 to work on her book, A Plausible Man: The Life of John Andrew Jackson.
Vernon Burton
Vernon Burton will be inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in April 2016. Burton joins Dorothy Allison, Betsy Byars and Guy Davenport as the academy’s newest inductees. The South Carolina Academy of Authors was founded at Anderson University in 1986. Its principal purpose is to identify and recognize the state’s distinguished writers. The Academy board selects new inductees annually whose works have been judged culturally important. Each inductee, whether living or deceased, has added to South Carolina’s literary legacy by earning notable scholarly attention or achieving historical prominence. Burton is professor of history and director of the Clemson Cyberinstitute and is the author or editor of more than 20 books and more than 200 articles.
Cameron Bushnell
Cameron Bushnell presented a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association in Seattle in March. Her essay was entitled: “Modeling Canon Formation: Postcolonial Writing about Art” and was part of a panel on Creating Contemporary Canons. Bushnell is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of English.
Wayne Chapman
Wayne Chapman shares the following panel, lecture and upcoming paper. Chapman is professor of English and director of the Clemson University Press.
Chaired panel: “Irish Authors presented by The South Carolina Review”; and sponsored poets C. L. Dallat and Anne-Marie Fyfe, Clemson Literary Festival 8, Clemson University, March 27, 2015.
Invited lecture: “Yeats, Landor, and “The Phases of the Moon” (illustrated), Atlanta Modernisms Seminar, The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, March 23. 2015.
“Dorothy Wellesley and Virginia Woolf: ‘praise from Yeats is the only solid thing of its kind now existing,’” at the 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, June 4-7, 2015.
Peter Cohen
Peter Cohen, senior lecturer of religion, was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. International College of Ministers and Laity in the Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College during their Crown Forum Ceremony in April. The following day he presented a paper at the 2015 Peace Builders Conference, ‘Fostering Dialogues in Education, Ethics and Nonviolent Peace Building: Global, Social and Religious Movements Today’. The paper is titled ‘Gandhi’s Satyagraha: A Paradigm for Religious Dialogue Leading to Peace’ and will be published in a volume along with the other papers delivered at the conference.
Bryan Denham
Bryan Denham, Campbell Professor of Sports Communication, recently contributed a chapter on performance-enhancing drug use in professional baseball to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport.
David Detrich sculpture
The unique sculpture of David Detrich is on display alongside works from Yoko Ono, Lynda Benglis and Leonardo Drew in “Material World” at the Greenville County Museum of Art. Detrich was also invited recently to exhibit his work at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Earlier this spring, his work was included in a group show in Los Angeles entitled “Scripted Spaces.” Detrich is professor of art and coordinator of the graduate and sculpture programs in the Department of Art.
Ufuk Ersoy
Ufuk Ersoy’s essay, Glass, as Light as Air, as Deep as Water,” has been published as a chapter of The Material Imagination, Reveries on Architecture and Matter, ed. by M. Mindrup. Ersoy is assistant professor in the School of Architecture. Ersoy joined Clemson’s faculty in 2012. He teaches history, theory and design.
David Franco
David Franco presented a paper at the multidisciplonary conference “The Mediated City” in Los Angeles last fall. Franco is assistant professor in the School of Architecture. He teaches design studio and courses on history, theory and criticism.
Cindy Goodloe
Cindy Gooodloe, lecturer of music (piano), presented a lecture and recital with audiovisuals for The Music Club of Greenville, S.C.. Through performance examples, plus pictures and audio, the recital explored bird depiction through history in keyboard music, how it is reflected from the Baroque thru the Contemporary periods. The recital was held at the home of Beth Lee in Greenville, with a reception afterwards.
Roger Grant
H. Roger Grant has a new book chapter: “Trains of the 1970’s: Crisis, Response, Rebirth,” in Robert S. McGonigal, ed., Trains of the 1970’s: Crisis and Rebirth for America’s Railroads (Kalmbach Publishing Co., 2015). Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University.
This past November, Keith Evan Green (architecture) was an invited speaker at the Critical and Clinical Cartographies Conference hosted by the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. Other speakers included N. Katherine Hayles (Duke), Antoine Picon (Harvard), Christian Girard (Paris) and Kas Oosterhuis (TU Delft/Rotterdam). From wide-ranging perspectives, the conference explored the relationship between the human body as an organism and the machines employed in health care. Inspired by the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari, the organizers invited participants to engage “in the practice of cartography in order to map the ever-shifting thresholds between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and the acquired.” Green’s paper, “The ART of Vortical Thinking,” considers his design research project, the interactive and intelligent Assistive Robotic Table, as free-flowing and measureless. An edited book will be released with the collected conference papers. At the time of the conference, Green was visiting professor at TU Delft on research sabbatical. Green had turned down the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canada (Montreal) for his temporary Dutch home. In between local travels and engagement with theTU Delft community, Green completed the manuscript for his monograph, Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press, February 2016).
Steven Grosby
Steven Grosby’s article “Myth and symbol: the persistence of ethnicity and religion” appeared in the journal Nations and Nationalism 21/1 (2015): 182-186; and the chapter “Methodological individualism and invisible hands,” appeared in the edited book Commerce and Community: Ecologies of social cooperation (Routledge, 2015), pp. 122-145. Grosby was also appointed to the international editorial board of the journal Annuaire Roumain d’Anthropologie, a publication of the Romanian Academy. Grosby is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Sallie Hambright-Belue, assistant professor of architecture, along with her Clemson Creative Inquiry students, presented “Curriculum as Media: Shaping Beginning Design Students,” at the 31st National Conference on the Beginning Design Conference. During this three day forum in February at the University of Houston, faculty from across the nation presented their work in different categories. The Clemson group, under Hambright-Belue’s guidance, shared an indepth analysis of the Clemson University architecture curriculum. Their presentation sparked interest and discussion among the audience from universities across the country, about how to further improve architectural education.
Making bricks by hand
In February, Lance Howard and a group of Clemson Creative Inquiry students presented “Bringing Other Clemsons to Light,” at the 9th annual Landscape, Space and Place Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington. While there, Howard and his group demonstrated the method for making bricks by hand, using the same techniques used by convict laborers to construct the early buildings of Clemson University. The bricks made in Bloomington (from Clemson clay) will be used in the construction of a labyrinth dedicated to a loving relationship between humans and the land somewhere on the Clemson campus. Howard is senior lecturer of geography.
Steven Katz
Steven B. Katz, Pearce Professor for Professional Communication, shares the following news:
In November his talk at the National Communication Association in Chicago on the USDA’s AC21 document and process on biotechnology and ‘agricultural harmony’ was delivered on his behalf.
In March, he organized, chaired, and introduced by playing an electric guitar, a panel on rhetoric and music that featured three RCID doctoral students studying rhetoric and music (Mike Utley, punk rock; Mathew Osborn, electronic dub step; and A.D. Carson, hip-hop) at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Tampa, Florida; this session was streamed live, and took Twitter questions and comments.
In May, he will speak to the University of Buffalo campus on Writing in the Disciplines.
At Clemson University, he organized and presented with Professor Lesly Temesvari (biological sciences) four workshops for the Writing in the Disciplines Initiative he created. The workshops involved about 200 faculty members from across campus.
In the 2014-2015 academic year, Katz also had three articles and eight poems published, with more to come.
He has been appointed as the poetry editor of Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine.
Thomas Kuehn’s chapter “Gender and Law in Milan,” was published in A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan: The Distinctive Features of an Italian State, ed. Andrea Gamberini, Brill’s Companions to European History vol. 7 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), 406-31. Kuehn is professor and chair of the Department of History.
Eric Lapin
Eric Lapin presented a paper, “Performing Arts: Rethinking Higher Education Music Programs,” and chaired the session on “Pedagogical Innovations in Teaching Training and Music Programs” at the Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) conference in San Francisco, CA. Lapin is lecturer of music in the Department of Performing Arts.
Michael LeMahieu
Michael LeMahieu recently published a review essay, co-authored with Vernon Burton, in American Studies, and another in Twentieth-Century Literature. This spring he has given talks at the Modern Language Association convention, Penn State University, and Yale University, where he is currently a visiting faculty fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.
Dominic Mastroianni
Dominic Mastroianni, assistant professor in the Department of English, was named the Clemson Libraries Researcher of the Month for April. In the announcement, Clemson Libraries stated, “Mastroianni joined the Clemson faculty in 2008 and has kept busy teaching and publishing since then. He has published several articles, reviews, interviews and a book. The Melville Society awarded his 2011 article “Revolutionary Time and the Future of Democracy in Melville’s Pierre” the 2012 Hennig Cohen Prize for ‘excellence in scholarship and writing in an article or book chapter on Melville.'” Read more here.
Joe Mazer
Joseph P. Mazer, assistant professor and associate chair of communication studies and director of the CAAH Social Media Listening Center, shares the following news:
Joseph P. Mazer and Elizabeth E. Graham (The University of Akron) published “Measurement in Instructional Communication Research: A Decade in Review in the latest volume of Communication Education.
Mazer, Blair Thompson (Western Kentucky University), and Elizabeth Flood Grady (University of Nebraska) published “The Changing Nature of Parent-Teacher Communication: Mode Selection in the Smartphone Era in the same volume. That paper received the 2015 Top Paper Award from the Central States Communication Association’s Communication Education Interest Group.
Mazer and Andrew M. Ledbetter (Texas Christian University) published “A Place for Connecting and Disclosing: Facebook and Friendships at the Dawn of College Life” in the second edition of Casing Interpersonal Communication: Case Studies in Personal and Social Relationships.
In November, Mazer assumed the role of chair of the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Instructional Development Division.
In January 2015, he was named consulting editor for forums for Communication Education, a journal published by NCA.
The Social Media Listening Center received a Grand Award (Writing for the Media category) from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for Clemson’s “We CU Chatter” feature.
Kathleen Nalley
In January, Kathleen Nalley’s second poetry collection, American Sycamore, was published by Finishing Line Press. In February, Emrys in Greenville hosted Nalley (poetry) and Jonathan O’Dell (fiction) for a reading at Gringos in downtown Greenville as part of the Emrys Reading Room series. May 15-17, Nalley has been invited to be one of the featured authors at the S.C. Book Festival in Columbia. She will be with S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth and S.C. poet Ray McManus in a session called “A Punch of Poetry.” Nalley is a lecturer in the Department of English.
Hala Nassar
In March, at the annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Hala Nassar was elected second vice president of the organization. On Earth Day, April 22, Nassar delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Water Symposium at Penn State, “Water, Place and People: Historical and Cultural Challenges in Urban Landscape Design Along the Nile.” Nassar is associate professor and graduate coordinator of landscape architecture.
Travers Scott
Travers Scott has a new publication: “Productive Passions: Masculinity, Reproduction and Territorializations in Techno-horror,” for a special issue on “Geophilosophies of Masculinity” in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20:1, 87-104, DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2015.1017384. Scott is assistant professor of communication studies and director of the graduate program in communication, technology and society.
Kerrie Seymour
Kerrie Seymour performed in Richard III as Queen Elizabeth at Greenville’s Warehouse Theatre during April and May. With this production, Seymour earned her membership in Actors Equity Association, the union representing professional actors and stage managers. In June, she will perform as Ellen in Two Rooms by Lee Blessing as part of Centre Stage’s Fringe Series. Seymour is an assistant professor of theatre.
Greg Shelnutt
Greg Shelnutt was appointed in January to serve on the professional practices committee of the College Art Association board. He will serve a three-year term. Shelnutt is professor of art and chair of the Department of Art.
Aga Skrodzka
Aga Skrodzka has a new book chapter: “Cinematic Fairy Tales of Female Mobility in Post-Wall Europe: Hanna v. Mona” in East, West and Centre: Reframing Post-1989 European Cinema, eds. Michael Gott and Todd Herzog. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. In March, Skrodzka attended the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Montreal where she delivered a paper titled “Mediating the Warsaw Uprising: Polish National Memory in Recent Popular Media.” She also attended a workshop focused on the “World Cinema” turn in film studies, where she was pleased to announce Clemson University’s launch of its new B.A. program in World Cinema, the first such program in the nation. Skrodzka is associate professor of film and media studies in Department of English and director of Clemson University’s new B.A. in world cinema.
Graciela Tissera
Graciela Tissera, associate professor of Spanish and director of Clemson’s language and international health program, recently presented two papers:
“We Greeks are the Chosen: The Golden Era of Courage and Glory in Alexander the Great by Robert Rossen (1956).” The 2014 Film & History Conference. Golden Ages: Styles & Personalities, Genres & Histories. Madison, Wisconsin, October 29-November 2, 2014.
“Filmic Portrayals of the Subconscious Mind and the Game of Death.” Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures. Georgia Southern University. Savannah, Georgia, March 26-27, 2015.
Melinda Weathers
Melinda Weathers has a new paper out: Weathers, M. R., & Hopson, M. (2015). “I define what hurts me”: A co-cultural theoretical analysis of communication factors related to digital dating abuse. Howard Journal of Communications, 26, 95-113. Weathers is assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Communication Studies.
Valerie Zimany
Valerie Zimany, assistant professor of art, shares the following news:
Her ceramic sculpture, “The Tinker,” was exhibited at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa in Utatsu no Katachi: 25 Years of the Utatsuyama Craft Workshop.
She was also featured in All About Porcelain, a juried national exhibition at the Clay Studio of Missoula, MT.
Upcoming exhibitions this spring include the National Museum of Slovenia’s International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM – 2015, a juried international competition, as well as DRAWN IN, invitational group exhibition at Calvin-Morris Gallery, Chelsea, NY, organized by Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.
Valerie recently traveled to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference, where she was a presenter on the NCECA Connections Panel “On the Tenure Track.”
Valerie’s collaborative installation “Evergreen: Vespiary” at UNC-Charlotte in fall was documented in video by UNCC Media and can be viewed here.
Valerie was named as one of the 2016-2018 Creativity Professors by Dean Goodstein at the CAAH Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 10, 2015.
