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College of Visual & Performing Arts
Faculty Assembly AGENDA
Friday, January 18, 2008 – 3:30 p.m.
119 Rutledge
I.
Remarks from Dean Libby Patenaude
A. Thank
you
1. for all your hard work and
dedication
2. For Department Chairs and faculty who
held retreats before classes started
3. CVPA Curriculum Committee - 4 hour long
meeting
II.
Approval of Minutes from December
4, 2007 - Approved
III.
Department/Unit Reports
A.
Department of Music – Don Rogers
1.
Jazz Ensemble will be attending the North Texas Jazz Festival
2. Ten students were chosen to be members of the
SC Honors Band at Furman University
3.
TIAA-CREF Jazz
Festival (3 students selected)
B. Department of Theatre and Dance – Andrew Vorder Bruegge
1.
Theatre & Dance had a
retreat last week
a.
Discussed a cluster of important issues
2. Theatre & Dance
students, faculty, and staff are attending festivals and conferences:
a.
American College Dance Festival
b.
Regional American College Theatre Festival
c.
Theatre Tech National Conference
d.
Southeastern Theatre Conference summer theatre jobs
e.
Scholarship Auditions next weekend for Dean's Meritorious Scholarships
f.
Create Carolina Arts Festival - Maymester
1. This Spring there is a pre-Maymester course to prepare for Create
Carolina
2. This May, Create Carolina will have 2 productions and a class.
g. Two new
faculty members:
1. Zin Bronola, full-time accompanist
2. Brenda Floyd, part-time faculty member and supervisor of the Costume Studio
C. Department of Fine Arts – Laura Dufresne (for
Tom Stanley)
1. NASAD Heads
Report
due January 31
2.
Painting Position
search begins in earnest
3. Ingrid Bath, teaching ceramics this semester while Jim Connell is on
sabbatical
4. 3 new part-time faculty
a. Lisa Weis, Drawing
b. Todd Stewart, 3-D
c. Alan Huston,
Graduate
5. Fine Arts held a retreat Jan. 9
a.
committees
appointed to address:
i.
New ARTTX 112 class for Fine Arts students to replace ARTT 110
ii. Foundation Portfolio review to enter Fine Arts Program
iii. Evaluation of Foundations
iv. Website Maintenance
v. Communicating with Fine Arts alumni
vi. Student lounge
6. Faculty Exhibitions
a. Marge Moody Exhibition opening on Thurs. Jan. 24
b. Tom Stanley
and Marge Moody
in
Carolina Contemporary Collection at MUSC in Charleston
7. CVPA Emerging Scholars & Teachers in the
Arts Symposium - Fri. March 7, 2008 - 2 - 3:30 p.m. - Rutledge
Auditorium
D. Department of Design – Chad Dresbach
1.
Administrative Assistant - Darlene Ledwell
2. Renovation of Design areas on 3rd floor
3. Search closes later this month for a new
Visual Communication Design faculty member
4. Student INDS group very active - IIDA
5. First week of February - INDS professional
student mentoring week
6. INDS students involved in Habitat for
humanity
E. Winthrop Galleries - Karen Derksen
1.
Faculty
Exhibition / Shaun Cassidy
–
closes Jan 31
2.
Two more
lectures for the Creative Habit Series
a. Jan. 24 - Marge Moody - downtown - 6:30 p.m.
b. Jan. 29 - Jen Belk - 8 p.m.
3. Currently in the Lewandowski Gallery, advanced painting exhibition
4. Windows with a View (Rutledge) - Kim
Dick
- Friday afternoons will be in the Windows
5. Fri. Feb. 15 - Gallery Opening Reception - 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
a. Performing Gender
–
watch for
information on lecture series by artists and there will be a
film series with
talks by Karen Stock in gallery prior.
6. Clinton Junior College and the Dalton Downtown Arts Initiative
a. Winthrop students assisting with installation today of 2 new shows
in the Dalton Gallery at Clinton's library
i. Postcards from Home
–
Susan Harbage
Page
ii. Unintended Relations - Juan Logan
F. Office of Special Projects – Amanda Woolwine
1.
CVPA Spring Event calendars will be here next week
2. Medal of Honor - in the process of restructuring and
creating a nomination committee
3. Create Carolina
a. We have a tentative schedule
for this Maymester
b. Fewer Master classes but
longer (2-3 days)
1. The
Efficient Artist: _Getting Seen, Being Seen, and Staying Seen
2.
Self-Made Artist: Making Creative Habits
3.
Behind the Lens - Cinematographer Cameron Pearce
c. Productions for 2008
1.
"1872" by Jonathan Davidson
i. Based on the 1872 presidential election in which Victoria Woodhull ran for
President with Frederick
Douglas as
her running mate
2. "God's Man in
Texas" by David Rambo
G. Master of Arts in Arts Administration
– Laura Gardner
1. Currently have 16
students
2. Beginning to receive applications for
Fall 2008
3. Several students working on their theses
I. CVPA Dean’s Office – Alice Burmeister
1.
Mentor Protégé session today
2. This spring one of the Mentor Protégé Sessions
will be about Student Conflicts
3. Feb. 15 - deadline for Faculty Annual Reports
IV.
Old Business
V.
New Business
A.
Review of Undergraduate
Curriculum Actions
1.
Approved
B. University-wide
Elections
1.
Admissions Advisory – Karen Stock,
Fine Arts
2. Academic
Council – Chad Dresbach, Design
3. Teacher
Education Committee –
Stephen Gundersheim, Theatre &
Dance
VI.
Announcements
A.
Courtney Starrett, Fine Arts
1. Fri. Feb. 1 - Jewelry Guild of America
sale in the basement of Rutledge
B. Mark Hamilton, Fine Arts
1. Mark Hamilton and his wife Jennifer were
two of four photographers selected to represent South Carolina for the
exhibition
Photography: Southeast at USC's McMaster Gallery.
C. Seymour Simmons, Fine Arts
1. Fri. Oct. 31, 21008 - CVPA Arts Ball -
McBryde Hall
a. Theme has
not been decided
VII.
Adjournment: Reception in the
Rutledge Gallery
Note: There will be a
brief meeting of the CVPA Graduate Faculty immediately following the
CVPA Faculty Assembly.
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All faculty members of the
College of Visual and Performing Arts who hold membership in the Faculty
Conference shall be members of the Faculty Assembly. Membership in the Faculty
Conference is extended to every person who holds rank as instructor, assistant
professor, associate professor, or professor at Winthrop University, with the
following exceptions: lecturers, adjunct faculty, and visiting faculty are not
members of Faculty Conference. The eligibility of an individual who does not
hold membership in the Faculty Conference shall be determined by the Faculty
Assembly.
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