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JANUARY 2008
The K-State Department of Art will begin review of candidates for four
tenure-track faculty positions on January 10, 2008 and continue until
positions are filled. The Assistant Professor positions are in
Ceramics, 2-D Foundations, Digital Graphics, and Photography. As an
international research university, the department's teaching load is 5
classes a year with a strong emphasis on creative research and artistic
production.
Please go to www.ksu.edu/art/news/facultylistings.html for complete
applicant information.
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SEPTEMBER 2007
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In July 2007, the K-State Department of Art welcomed Gerry Craig as
the new Department Head after a national search in the spring of
2007. Formerly Assistant Director for Academic Programs for six years
at the top-ranked Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI,
Craig received her MFA from Cranbrook in May 1989, and worked in a
number of art administrative positions in the metro Detroit area
(Executive Director, Detroit Artists Market; Curator of Fine and
Performing Arts, Detroit Zoo) while also teaching for the Vermont
College low-residency M.F.A. program and College for Creative Studies,
Detroit. She has exhibited her work around the United States, Europe,
Japan, and Mexico. Prior to her return to Cranbrook, Gerry pursued
creative research at the Smithsonian Institution as the 1994-95 James |
Renwick Senior Fellow in American Craft, looking at the role of somatic
memory in aesthetic perception. At this time she began to write and
publish more extensively on contemporary art in fields outside of
fiber. She has published more than eighty articles and reviews in
periodicals such as Art in America, Sculpture, Surface Design Journal,
American Craft, New Art examiner, Fiberarts, among others. Her writing
also has been translated into Korean and Mandarin for publications in
Asia.
During her tenure at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Craig created
The Critical Studies and Humanities lecture and reading program each
year to align with current graduate studio practice. She also
managed the Academy support staff and their shops (Library, Media
Lab, Woodshop, Web) and helped coordinate improvements in the
departments, in particular technology strategic planning for
infrastructure and equipment updates. She was administrative liaison to
the Studio Council student governance organization, and helped bring
many of their projects to a higher level of success - the art auction,
graduate degree book, off-site exhibitions. She also assisted the
students launch the new creative writing publication Listen Up in
conjunction with the Humanities program.
Craig is delighted to return to her Kansas home after 25 years in
Detroit, Seattle and Providence. The Mulvane native says, “There is a
great art program in this Manhattan, with wonderful students and
faculty. The fall ’07 new faculty members – art historian Douglas Dow,
graphic designers Mervi Pakaste and Jeff Smith – and four new faculty
hires on the immediate horizon will add to the contributions of our
other distinguished faculty members. Thanks to the support of Dean
White and the university administration, it is a very exciting time for
all of us in the department.”
She welcomes your comments and ideas on the department and all matters
of art and design, and can be reached at gkcraig@ksu.edu. |
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