March 2010 Archives

The Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award is given each year to faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding service to their students. The winners of the University of Minnesota Duluth Outstanding Faculty Advisor Awards for 2009-2010 are:

·         Marian Colman, instructor Art & Design, SFA

·         Jennifer Jones, associate professor, Sociology/Anthropology, CLA

·         Carol Kivi, instructor, Psychology, CEHSP

·         Bruce Peckham, professor, Mathematics & Statistics, SCSE

·         Rajiv Vaidyanathan, professor, Marketing, LSBE

Please join us at the all-campus faculty award reception to congratulate these outstanding faculty advisors. The reception will be held Monday, May 3^rd, 2:30 p.m. in Grigg's Center.

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Office of the Vice Chancellor 
  for Academic Administration
University of Minnesota Duluth
420 Darland Administration Bldg.
Duluth, MN  55812
218-726-7103

Alison Aune, associate professor of Art & Design, is this year's recipient of the Albert Tezla Teacher/Scholar Award. This award is given annually to a faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Fine Arts who has an exceptional and effective teaching style that emphasizes the worth of research in a learned discipline and the maturing impact scholarly activity has on the development of human attitudes and values.

Alison Aune received her B.F.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1984, her M.A. from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1987, and Ph.D. from Ohio University Athens in 2000. She served as education coordinator at the Tweed Museum of Art before joining the UMD Department of Art and Design. Aune's scholarly interests include museum-based teacher training, women artists in history, and international art education. She and her students have developed curriculum and intergenerational learning experiences using Scandinavian, Portuguese, Turkish, Finnish and American Indian art. Aune has received numerous grants and awards including a Fulbright Scholar and Teaching award to Sweden, a grant to conduct a Cross-Cultural Study of the Socio-Aesthetic Goals of Art Education in Scandinavia, the UMD Outstanding Adviser Award, the Art Educator's of Minnesota Museum Educator of the Year award, and a Jerome Foundation International Artist Travel Grant. Aune has published chapters, articles, and on-line instructional resources on art education and museum-based learning for children and youth. The publication of her book, The Art of Cora Sandel: A Norwegian Painter and Writer, is forthcoming. She has exhibited her artwork in over 70 solo and group exhibitions in the U.S and Sweden and she regularly presents guest lectures and workshops internationally, nationally, and regionally.

Professor Aune will receive her award during a ceremony and reception to be held Monday, May 3rd at 2:30 p.m. in Grigg's Center.  Please join us to honor Dr. Aune.

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Office of the Vice Chancellor 
  for Academic Administration

Eun-Kyung Suh's "Purple on Thursday" is invited to Fiber 2010, International Exhibition, which will be held in Yeiser Art Center, KY from April through May 2010. 

eun-kyung suh
associate professor
art + design
university of minnesota duluth
218 726 7450

Professor and Department Head of Art and Design James Klueg has  
ceramic work in three exhibitions: 
"Clay Country" at the North End Arts Gallery, Superior, WI, Feb 8 - April 3;  
"Central Time Ceramics" at Bradley University, Peoria, IL, March 4 - April 2 and the "18th San Angelo National Ceramics Competition", San Angelo, TX, April 16 - June 20.