Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts Stories

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New York-based School of Theater grad shares career advice to costume design students

The School of Theater welcomed alumnus Ricky Lurie, MFA ‘14 in Production and Costume Design, as a College of Fine Arts Visiting Artist for a 3-day virtual residency with current BFA and MFA.

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OHIO alumnus and Aladdin actor shares industry expertise with musical theater students

Jonathan Freeman, BFA ’72, the voice of Jafar from Disney’s animated movie Aladdin and the actor who plays the role in the Broadway stage production.

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Visiting Scholar imparts vast knowledge on Medieval Apocalypse manuscripts for themed Interdisciplinary Arts seminar

Scholar Richard Emmerson shared his apocalypse-related subject expertise with this year’s seminar for Interdisciplinary Arts students and for other students and faculty across campus.

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Grammy Award nominee teaches masterclass for classical voice students

The Grammy Award nominee and critically acclaimed American mezzo-soprano who enjoys the moniker “queer girl with a nose ring,” Jamie Barton brought her 21st Century style to classical voice students.

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School of Theater grad offers best practices with audition tech to student actors

The College of Fine Arts School of Theater welcomed alumna, Lisa Bol, MFA’15, as a College of Fine Arts Visiting Artist to workshop tech used for video auditions with current BFA and MFA student actor

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Graduate MFA Thesis Artists

Featuring the work and profiles of graduating MFA Studio Art and Graphic Design students completing studio thesis projects in the School of Art + Design.

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Undergraduate Studio Thesis Artists

Featuring the work and profiles of graduating BFA students completing studio thesis projects in the School of Art + Design, spring 2020.

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Medium meets machine

For this issue’s theme, Ohio Today searched OHIO’s Athens Campus for where and how tech is used. We found it in a most unexpected place.

As field commander, Sophia Medvid, who plays mellophone, holds the highest student leadership position in the band.

In command

The college experience is transformational. For Sophia Medvid, the contrasts between her first day on campus and the start of senior year are especially significant.

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To serve & protect

Tracy Plouck has devoted her career as a public servant to helping women in recovery, and now she’s helping offset Appalachia’s opioid crisis in a new role at OHIO.

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Art of the maternal

A self-described “mother-artist,” OHIO Gallery Coordinator Courtney Kessel, MFA ’12, infuses her work with personal observations and poignant statements from her experience as a mother to her daughter, who has been featured, quite literally at times, in Kessel’s pieces over the past 10 years.

Dr. John Kopchick works on research with students.

OHIO earns increase in external funding for research and sponsored programs in FY19

OHIO saw a significant increase in external investment in its research and sponsored programs in fiscal year 2019, including funding from state and federal agencies, industry, and private sources.

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I’m listening. Let’s talk.

Ombudsperson Mac Stricklen serves as a deep listener, a sounding board, and a creative problem solver.

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Lacuna

College of Fine Arts faculty C. David Russell and Mateo Galvano premiered Lacuna, a multimedia art installation, in June at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The work reveals myriad forms of contrasting relationships: stillness with movement; traditional with digital; silk with plaster.

John Sabraw painting on a canvas by a pond

Stewards of the Landscape

OHIO’s faculty and students are lending a nurturing hand to planet Earth by taking toxins from water to make artist-grade paint pigments and leveraging life-sized replicas of oil and gas pipeline with software models to prevent spills.

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