“35 Smart Logos To Make You look Twice” by Dainis Graveris features logos that incorporate some of the best visual communication qualities – visual metaphor, figure/ground and more. MONICA MILLER :: CONTRIBUTOR.

http://twi.la/2yqmp

If you’re a design major, or in my type class, you should check this out:

http://www.typeisart.com/

Professor Raouf Halaby has been invited to present his paper, “The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum: Its Role in Promoting the Arts” at the Third International Conference on the Inclusive Museum conference, to be held at Yildiz University, in Istanbul, Turkey in June, 2010. Congratulations Dr. Halaby!

The Department of Visual Arts will be welcoming the sculptor and installation artist Jonathan Brilliant to campus this coming March 1st through 10th. Jonathan will be on-campus for over a week while he constructs a large-scale installation piece made entirely of Starbucks coffee stirring sticks in the Hammons Gallery. More information to come in the next few weeks…

Professor David Bieloh has been invited to present his paper, “Moving Nowhere Fast: The Embrace of Appropriation” at the 1^st Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece, June 2010.

Professor David Bieloh has been invited to present his paper, “Moving Nowhere Fast: The Embrace of Appropriation” at the upcoming 4th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices to be held in Chicago, IL in February, 2010.

We are pleased to announce our top three winners in the “Tape on the Wall” project. The winning designs were selected by our judge Carey Roberson, a professor of Digital Photography at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Carey had a great time viewing all of the work, and commented on the difficulty in selecting his favorite three. Ultimately, he based his decisions on how well each student utilized the assigned space, overall creativity and ingenuity, and willingness to push the medium in unique and unexpected ways.

The top three winners are:

First Place: Sarah Henley
Second Place: Hannah Pfeiffer
Third Place: TIE between Jillian Sharp and Kit Curlin

First Place Sarah Henley

Second Place Hannah Pfeiffer

Third Place Kit Curlin

Third Place Jillian Sharp

Congratulations to everyone for a great installation! 

David and Summer

Students from both Visual Fundamentals classes recently participated in a temporary collaborative installation in the second floor hallway of the Moses-Provine building. Each student was assigned 6.5 feet of wall space, and given a roll or two of black masking tape. The results were incredible.

students working on the "Tape on the Wall" installation

By Molly Magee for the Ouachita Baptist University News Bureau on September 17, 2009

Ouachita Baptist University will host Fabrizio Conti, an Italian scholar speaking on “Early Christian Art & Iconography in Rome.” Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Hickingbotham Hall’s Young Auditorium on Ouachita’s campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. 

In addition to the lecture, Conti will present a faculty colloquium Oct. 5 at 12 noon on “Learned traditions against superstitious rituals in early Renaissance Italy.” This lecture will be repeated for the public Oct. 7 at 5 p.m. in the Garrison Center’s Ross Room on Henderson’s campus. He will also lecture to students during Western Letters and Chaucer classes at OBU.

“He brings a firsthand perspective on the Roman catacombs and early Christian art that we Americans don’t usually have access to,” said Mary Beth Long, assistant professor of English at Ouachita.

Conti is a doctoral candidate in medieval studies at Central European University in Budapest, has studied at the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies and has spent time working in the Vatican Archives. He earned a Master of Humanities degree in medieval history at the Università degli Studi di Roma.

Conti has presented at conferences in Italy, England and Greece, and has made many publications, both in English and Italian.

“He’s a medievalist historian,” Long noted, commenting on Conti’s benefits to the Ouachita community, “so his take on early Christian art and culture will be interestingly different from what we might get on the same topic in a class at OBU.”

For more information, please contact Mary Beth Long at 870-245-5336 or longm@obu.edu.