Graphic Design

Public Lecture: March 1, 2004 6 p.m.
Reception immediately following lecture
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Connor' s talk will center around her works of recent years, most notably her prints of China and Southeast Asia. Lois's body of work reveals a preoccupation with both organic and man-made architectural forms within the natural and urban landscape. She has made numerous expeditions to the Far East since 1984, when she received her first Guggenheim fellowship to explore the complexities of the contemporary Chinese culture. This event is free and open to the public. Lecture will be held in the Auditorium Rm. 165, Myers School of Art, The University of Akron Campus The Myers School of Art is located in Folk Hall at 150 E. Exchange St., Akron.

Art History

Lecture: September 24, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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The very Theory of Transgression:
Bataille, Lingchi and Surrealism

Graphic Design

Myers Residence: September 26, 2003
Lecture: September 26 @ 6 p.m.
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The Mary Schiller Myers School of Art at The University of Akron will host Steff Geissbuhler, principal designer for Chermayeff & Geismar, on Friday, September 26, 2003 as part of the Myers Residency Program. During his visit, Geissbuhler will be working with University of Akron graphic design students and faculty conduct-ing critiques. He will present a lecture entitled “Typographic Explorations” on September 26 at 6 p.m. in the Folk Hall Auditorium (room 165).

In the current business climate, where brand recognition is arguably the most important value of corporate identity, Steff Geissbuhler is an industry leader. He is a partner and principal at the venerable New York graphic design firm of Chermayeff & Geismar. Geissbuhler has gained renown for the corporate logos he has created for Merck, Time Warner, NBC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Crane Business Papers and the famous NBC peacock. His work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Art Director’s Clubs of New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. In addition, Geissbuhler is currently the President of the United States chapter of the Alliance Graphique Inter-nationale organization.

Graphic Design

Myers Residence: 10.27.03-10.29.03
Lecture: October 27 @ 6 p.m.
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Kenneth Hiebert is an award-winning graphic designer, photographer, and
author. He was founding chairman of the Graphic design Department of the
philadelphia College of Art, now know as the University of the Arts (UArts). Prof Hiebert has held teaching positions at the Basel School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, and Yale University. He is the recip-ient of numerous awards including the Master Teacher Award for the Graphic Design Education Association, awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and many others. Professor Hiebert is a founding member of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and was named AIGA Fellow in 2001. He is currently working on projects involving integration of visual imagery and music, including a visual counterpart to George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, premiered in 2001 by Orchestra 2001, an organization with which he has been affiliated since 1994.

Graphic Design

Myers Residence: 10.11.04 - 09.15.04
Lecture: October 13, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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Photographer

Monday, April 19 at 4 p.m.
Lecture: February 02, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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Christian Marclay is a New York based visual artist and composer whose innovative work explores the juxtaposition between sound recording, photography, video and film. Born in California and raised in Geneva (Switzerland), he studied sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at Cooper Union in New York. As performer and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting, composing and performing with phonograph records and turntables since 1979 to create his unique "theater of found sound." Marclay will be giving a public lecture April 22 at 6 p.m. in the Folk Hall Auditorium (#165). April 23 he will perform with djTRIO in the Sandefur Theatre in Gazzetta Hall at 7 p.m.

Painter & Printmaker

Myers Residence: 11.12.03-11.25.03
Lecture: November 13 @ 7 p.m.
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Born in 1947, Melissa Meyer studied at New York University, receiving a B.S. in 1968 and a M.A. in 1975. She has received numerous grants including two NEA awards in painting (1983, 1993), a New York Foundation for the Arts award in 1992, and a Rome Prize Fellowship in 1980. Meyer has been a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1993. She has been showing paintings for over two decades both around the country and abroad. Her watercolors were the foundation of her 1996 book published by the Mezzanine Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled: Sketchbooks 1993-1995, the focus of a touring museum show.

Photographer

Myers Residence: 10.13.04 & 09.27.04
Lecture: October 12, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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Graphic Design

Myers Residence: 02.02.04-02.06.04
Lecture: February 02, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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Bruno Monguzzi is an extraordinary designer, typographer and teacher. After study in Geneva and London he began his career at Studio Boggeri in Milan in 1961. In 1965 he designed nine pavilions for Expo '67 in Montreal and in 198 he won the competition for the signage system and corporate identity for the new Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Monguzzi has taught at a number of schools in Switzerland and in the USA. His many awards include the Bodoni Prize in 1971, a Gold Medal from the New York Art Directors' Club in 1990, the Prix Janus in Paris and Bronze and Silver Medals at the Toyama Poster Triennial in 1991.

“Drawing from Life: 
Steve Mumford in Iraq, 2003-2004”

Exhibition: 11.01.04 - 12.03.04
Lecture: November 3, 2004 @ 6 p.m.
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A timely exhibition, “Drawing from Life:  Steve Mumford in Iraq”, runs Nov. 1 through Dec. 3 at the Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall, 150 E. Echange St., at The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art.  Featuring the work of New York painter and diary journalist Steve Mumford, the exhibition offers thought-provoking insights into daily civilian and military life in this embattled country.  Adding dimension to the exhibition, Mumford will talk about his experiences as a working artist in Iraq during a free public lecture at 6 p.m. on Nov. 3 in the auditorium of Folk Hall.  A reception will follow the lecture.

Art Educator

Myers Residence: 02.21.05 - 02.27.05
Lecture: February 25, 2005 @ 6 p.m.
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Philip Yenawine was Director of Education at the Museum of Modern Art from 1983 to 1993. In 1993, he began as consulting curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and during the academic year 1993-94, he was Visiting Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Yenawine is the author of an introduction to modern art called How to Look at Modern Art, and has published six children's books about art: Stories, Colors, Lines, Shapes, People and Places. In addition, he has published Key Art Terms for Beginners. He is currently working on a book based on the work of Abigail Housen, a series of biographies for young people, materials for teachers to use in their classrooms as well as consulting on a variety of projects in the United States and abroad.