Faculty and Staff Notes

Jared Bendis ’04 (Game Design) took part in two panel discussions—“Immersive and Effective: Storytelling for Learning” and “Designed for Education”—at the LEAP Tech Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also delivered a talk, “The Interactive Media Lab at the Cleveland Institute of Art: Designing a VR, AR and XR Educational & Production Studio for the 21st Century and Beyond,” at the event.

Conor Bracken (Liberal Arts) had his translation of Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin without this Bloody Embrace shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Excerpts were published in Circumference, On the Seawall and sx salon

Davon Brantley ’18 (Admissions) will have a solo exhibition, Awaken in The Garden My Love, from April 15 to May 28 at the Massillon Museum in Massillon, Ohio. He was also named runner-up for the Otentu Despite Competition, which awarded him a $300 Blick Art Materials gift card and placement in Otentu’s catalog. It also means 50 editions of his winning entry will be reproduced and sold as limited-edition creations on Otentu. Brantley was also granted a solo exhibition with Cleveland’s KINK Contemporary for its 2024 calendar year.

Colby Chamberlain (Liberal Arts) received a Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant for his book Fluxus Administration, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Dan Cuffaro ’91 (Industrial Design) built and introduced the Industrial Design Mobile Prototype Lab, which includes laser cutting, 3D printing and various supplies. The Lab allows faculty to take Rapid Prototyping anywhere within the CIA facility for demos and iteration sessions. He also introduced Version 1 of a new project called m.power, which focuses on helping students understand what it takes to bring a product to market before graduation.

Maggie Denk-Leigh (Printmaking) has work in Women Who Print through May 31 in the Future Ink Graphics Community Gallery in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

Scott Goss ’06 (Foundation) was recently one of five artists selected to create interactive, illuminated artworks for the city of Peekskill, N.Y. His project, titled Pinwheels, is to be included in the Enlighten Peekskill project, which will illuminate a more than 1-mile walking route from the city’s train station to the town center. It will include eight 15-foot tall and 6-foot diameter pinwheels that will be self-powered through both wind and solar energy.

Steven Gutierrez (Foundation) had work in Rendering: A Digital Discourse at Valley Art Center in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Connected to that show, he also participated in an artist panel about AI and its implications in the art world. Separately, he had a temporary public art display as part of Light Up Lakewood in December in Lakewood, Ohio.

Allison Hall (Foundation) is currently making work for an upcoming solo show in 2024 at BAYarts in Bay Village, Ohio. Her studio at the Screw Factory in Lakewood, Ohio will be open to the public for the Spring Art Show & Open Studios event from 6 to 10pm Friday, May 5 and 10am to 3pm Saturday, May 6. She had a piece, “Archie on the Island,” in Foot Squared in Yards Projects at Worthington Yards in downtown Cleveland.

David C. Hart, PhD (Liberal Arts) delivered the paper “Politics, Art and the Career of Francisco Toledo in 1970s New York” at the Ohio Latin Americanist Conference in Athens, Ohio.

Elizabeth Hoag (Liberal Arts) will attend the 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, where she will present a paper co-authored with Riley Rist ’21 entitled “Handson in the Classroom: Teaching Anthropology and Archaeology to Undergraduate Art Students” as part of a larger symposium on pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom.

Matthew Hollern (Craft + Design) will have work in Break in Emergency, an ongoing series of exhibitions that support disadvantaged people, at 4BYSIX in London, England.

Tony Ingrisano (Painting) has work in View From Above, a three-person show on view through April 23 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island in Patchogue, N.Y.

Benjamin Johnson (Craft + Design) exhibited in CraftForms 2022, 27th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pa. and the 61st Mid-States Art Exhibition at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, Ind.

Virginia Konchan (Liberal Arts) will host a launch event for a poetics/craft anthology, Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), on April 1 at Mac’s Backs–Books on Coventry in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Jimmy Kuehnle (Sculpture + Expanded Media) was a panelist for “Can We Create Ethical Artificial Intelligence?” at The Happy Dog in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood.

Scott Lax (Liberal Arts) teamed with CIA’s Illustration Department to work on poster and Playbill designs for his play, 1970, which will have its world premiere in September at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Andrea LeBlond ’95 (Craft + Design) exhibited in The Nexus of Art and Health at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in Columbus, Ohio.

Jackie Mayse (Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library) was awarded a 2022 Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Conference Scholarship and attended its day-long conference in November.

Seth Nagelberg (Craft + Design) has work in the 18th Annual Ceramics Invitational through April 1 at River Gallery in Rocky River, Ohio.

Thomas Nowacki (Life Sciences Illustration) visited California State University in Monterey Bay as an external reviewer for its Scientific Illustration certificate program.

Chen Peng ’16 (Foundation) will have paintings featured in ArtMaze Mag Issue 31

Alyssa Perry (Liberal Arts) had poems in the Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Read & Write series and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Poetic Inventory at Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center in Kent, Ohio. She was a finalist for the $10,000 Changes Book Prize.

Jessica Pinsky (Sculpture + Expanded Media) received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

Zach Savich (Liberal Arts) edited a series of essays on the theme of “wellness” for the Cleveland Review of Books as part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival. He published new poems in the literary arts journals Always Crashing and Diode

Pam Spremulli (Foundation/Graphic Design) recently completed her mural, “Kaleidoscope History,” at Cleveland Public Auditorium. She was one of three Northeast Ohio artists selected by the City of Cleveland to honor the venue’s 100th year by creating murals that speak to its rich history. She had a solo exhibition, Studio Bloom, at the Cleveland Botanical Garden’s Guren Gallery, which included a children’s art workshop, “Drawing from a Bug’s Eye View.”

Anthony Scalmato ’07 (Animation) animated and designed for the Jacquie Lawson Sussex Advent Calendar, which reached No. 1 in the app store in the Lifestyle category during the month of December. He is currently working on the Jacquie Lawson Colouring App.

Brent Kee Young (Emeritus) received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. In addition, he will exhibit at the 51st Annual International Glass Invitational Award Exhibition, which opens June 5 at Habatat Detroit Fine Art in Royal Oak, Mich. The exhibition will be held in conjunction with the 2023 Glass Art Society Conference.