Le juin – 2005 - June
Published by the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans
Publié
par l’association canadienne des doyens des arts
Le juin – 2005 - June
Published by the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans
Publié
par l’association canadienne des doyens des arts
Chair’s Message
I am looking forward to the CAFAD meeting in
Montreal, scheduled for October 14 to 16, and hoping that we will have a
marvelous attendance rate similar to the one we achieved in St. John’s last fall. Our host institutions, Concordia and McGill,
have secured the participation of Ken
Robinson, Senior Advisor, Education Policy at the Getty in Los Angeles, an
internationally recognized thinker, writer and policy maker on creative
activity and education. An eventful program
is being developed to help us enjoy Montreal, exchange ideas, and discuss
common strategies for improving the condition of the arts in higher education
in Canada.
And speaking of improving conditions, I am going
to be taking a much-needed sabbatical in January 2006 (just ask my co-workers
to know how much needed!). The
job of CAFAD Chair that I have held for two years will be available, and I am
confident that another member will come forward to take home the virtual gavel
after our Montreal meeting.
With
the excellent help of Mary Hughes, and a comfortable attitude among our colleague
deans, you can be sure that the work is very straightforward, with duties and
responsibilities of an order that you will find very light in comparison to the
ones you shoulder each day in your deanly quest for institutional
harmony. Please give this post your
consideration, and contact me.
Ann E. Calvert
Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Calgary
Chair, CAFAD
U
WAterloo Fine Arts
Professor Cora Cluett is a welcome new
addition to the Department of Fine Arts.
She is working on reintegrating photography into the program and has
received a University of Waterloo Learning Initiatives Grant to aid in the
process. Prof. Cluett has been awarded a Mid-Career Canada Council Grant. This spring and summer she will have new
paintings in group exhibitions at the Albright -Knox, Buffalo, and
the Kitchener -Waterloo Art Gallery. She will also have a solo show of new
paintings at Wynick Tuck, Toronto in the fall.
Professor Bruce Taylor has developed an
innovative course with Rob Gorbet from UW Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Called Technology Art Studio, the course
pairs Fine Arts students and Engineering students, working collaboratively on
sculpture projects. Professor
Taylor was the ceramic artist chosen to represent Canada in the new International
Olympic Sculpture Park in Greece and the work he created for the park was
installed just before the Olympic Games in 2004. Professor Taylor has
been invited to participate in the Baltimore Clayworks exhibition in 2005 of “Evocative Implements".
Professor Joan Coutu's book Monuments and the Eighteenth-century
British Empire: Persuasion and Propaganda will be published by
McGill-Queen's University Press. Her
essay about the monument to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey is in an
anthology entitled "Conflicting Visions"
to be published by Ashgate Press.
Drama
Professor Joel Greenberg recently directed and remounted a
production of Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, working with UW
Drama alumni in a collective named STUDIO 180, after the tiny yet beloved
student presentation and rehearsal space in Hagey Hall. Supported and sponsored by a number of groups
and foundations including UW Alumni Affairs, the Metcalf Foundation and the
Mirvish Group, the productions were a tremendous popular and critical success
in both the original presentation at the Artword Theatre in Toronto, which
toured to the Theatre of the Arts at UW, and the remount at Buddies in Bad
Times Theatre, Toronto.
Professor Andy Houston has been awarded a Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) grant to develop the Sound Sensorium. Linked to the Canadian Centre for Arts and Technology
(CCAT) laboratory at UW, the Sensorium is a mobile recording unit, able to
create sound maps of existing spaces and to develop innovative soundscapes for
theatre and other kinds of art. Prof.
Houston recently directed Mimetic Flesh, a site-specific collective
creation with students in the UWDrama program.
Presented in March 2004 at the Lang Tannery Building in downtown
Kitchener, the multi-media production incorporated the history of the building
and the leather tanning industry, and explored issues around the human body
and consuming.
Professor Gerhard Hauck is currently researching the interactive
possibilities of video-conferencing technology as a creative tool with another
CFI grant. Working with native theatre
companies in remote locations in Canada and world-wide, the research will
determine ways and means of creating real-time performances collaboratively.
Ryerson Gets Major Photo Collection
Ryerson University and the School of Image Arts
will soon be home to one of the world’s great collections of photography, Ryerson’s
Black Star Black & White Photography Collection. The Collection of 291,019 black and white
photos is an outstanding representation of 20th century world events
and personalities, and was acquired by the University through an anonymous
donor. The Collection covers historical
subjects including the Great Wars, European history, the American Civil Rights
Movement, as well as major international political and cultural figures,
popular culture and early space exploration.
Many of the photographs appeared originally in the early years of Life
magazine.
The gift is accompanied by a $7 million financial
contribution to support the preservation, research, study and exhibit of the
Collection. When housed in the Faculty
of Communication & Design’s new gallery and study centre, Ryerson’s Black
Star Historical Black & White Collection will combine with the M.A. program
in Photographic Preservation & Collections
Management, an MFA program under development in Documentary Media and our undergraduate programming to offer an
unparalleled environment for photographic studies.
The Collection is an enormously important
acquisition for Ryerson. It will help foster
a culture of investigation and dissemination through exhibition, publication
and critical writing involving both graduate and undergraduate students,
faculty and other scholars. The gift is
a strong endorsement of the University’s reputation as an important
international centre of documentary media.
President
and Vice-Chancellor Frederick Lowy is pleased to announce the appointment of
Prof.
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She
has also served widely at the departmental, faculty and senior administrative
levels at several Canadian universities, as well as Arizona State University. Most recently, she was Dean of the Faculty of
Foundation Studies of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) for eight
years (1996-2004). He also served a
five-year term on the Council of Ontario Universities.
"As
with the search for a Dean of Arts & Science, we had an impressive list of
more than 35 highly qualified candidates who applied for the position, from
both inside and outside Canada," commented Provost and Vice-President, Academic
Affairs, Martin Singer.
On Wednesday, May 11, at the Hôtel Gault, Christopher Jackson, Dean of the
Faculty of Fine Arts, hosted a reception to highlight the achievements of three
exceptional artists, all long associated with the Studio Arts Department in the
Faculty of Fine Arts.
The distinguished artists were Raymonde April, who won the Prix du Québec, Prix Paul-Émile Borduas
(2003), Françoise Sullivan, this
year’s recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and Irene Whittome who was named an Officer
of the Order of Canada (2005).
Drama at U of Alberta
Guido
Tondino was awarded a 2005 University of Alberta Arts
Research Award for his extraordinary creative accomplishments while Assistant
Professor and MFA and BFA Theatre Design Program Coordinator in the Department
of Drama.
While teaching, Guido has maintained a
vibrant freelance career, designing sets for Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and an
Irish Tour, June – July 2004; The Count
of Monte Cristo, at the Stratford Festival; The Mill on the Floss, for Studio Theatre, University of Alberta; Copenhagen at the Centaur Theatre; Impromptu
on Nun’s Island, for Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre; Danser à Lughnasa, au Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; A
Chorus of Disapproval, for Soulpepper
Theatre, and The Glass Menagerie, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre as well
as sets and costumes for The Winter’s Tale, Soulpepper Theatre.
David
Ley, Associate Professor in the Department of Drama was awarded a 2005
University of Alberta Faculty of Arts Teaching Award for his outstanding work
to create a community where respectful exchange can happen. “I try to draw every student into commenting
so that they can grow critical eyes.
That way, they can teach each other without appearing to be
judgemental.” The drama classroom is, from
his perspective, a laboratory where experimentation should thrive.
Professor Emeritus James DeFelice
will be honoured with an induction into Edmonton’s
Cultural Hall of Fame on June 8th.
Established in 1986, the Cultural Hall of Fame recognizes groups or
individuals whose body of work in the arts has gained national and
international recognition and to individuals or organizations who have
significantly contributed to the artistic community.
A Show Fit for the Queen
Professor Emeritus Thomas Peacocke and a strong contingent of University of Alberta
Drama alumni such as Gordon Gordey, Conni Massing, Paul Gross, Lorne Cardinal
and Brian Deedrick (among many
others!) worked behind the scenes as organizers and performers to put on the
Alberta Centennial kick-off party for the Queen at Commonwealth Stadium in
Edmonton on May 23rd. In true
Alberta fashion, over 25, 000 people braved the cold rain to take in the show.
Honorary
Degree for Sharon Pollock
One of Canada's leading English-language playwrights, Sharon Pollock
will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Alberta
during the installation of president-designate Dr. Indira Samarasekera on
September 25, 2005 in the newly renovated Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.
OCAD Honours
Ron Shuebrook
and Rebecca Belmore
Ontario College of Art & Design
(OCAD) will award Ron Shuebrook and Rebecca Belmore with Honorary
Doctorates during convocation ceremonies in May. The College recognizes these outstanding
individuals who, over the course of their careers, have made and are making
significant contributions to the arts and to education.
In
addition to his nearly forty-year career as a nationally and internationally
exhibiting artist, Ron Shuebrook has led an important career as an arts educator. He has held faculty and administrative appointments,
including the position of OCAD’s President since 2000. In these roles, Shuebrook has been instrumental
in shaping numerous university programs across Canada and in bringing degree
programs to OCAD. He has long advocated that studio education as
well as art and design history belong within the university curriculum as an
important area of critical inquiry and liberal education, and has sought
to ensure that arts education be an essential component of the education of all
students in the elementary and secondary schools.
OCAD Alumna Rebecca Belmore is
an Anishinabekwe artist working in sculpture, installation, video and
performance art. Her powerful work explores issues of place and identity, and confronts
challenges for First Nations People. One of Canada’s most celebrated artists, Belmore has been
selected to represent Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Visual Art, the
oldest and most prestigious event for the exhibition of international
contemporary art. At the forefront of a renaissance in native North American art for
close to twenty years, Belmore has exhibited her work across Canada, in
the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Australia.
This year OCAD celebrates the largest graduating
class in the history of the College, with over 350 degree graduates, and close
to 75 diploma graduates.
Arts and Drama at Windsor
In April Professor Emeritus Iain
Baxter was named winner of the Molson
Prize in the Arts. Baxter also
participated in the BIG TALK symposium at the Ontario
College of Art & Design and exhibited his early vacuumforms from 1965, his
light boxes from 1960s and more contemporary work at the Corkin Shopland Gallery in Toronto.
Professor Brenda Francis Pelkey was
well received at the Leo Kamen Gallery
in Toronto in April with her latest photographic series Spaces of Transformations which
has been on tour for several months.
The University of Windsor has purchased a 80 year old home for the Green Corridor team to renovate,
retrofit and transform into a model of environmental efficiency. The Green Corridor is actually a interdisciplinary
class which is run by the School of Visual Arts – team leaders, Professor Rod Strickland and Distinguished
Visitor Noel Harding.
Professor Michael J. Farrell
appeared on the History Channel’s February 8th broadcast of VIMY. Farrell spoke of Canadian sculptor Walter
Allward’s inspirations while creating his famous stone monument known as the
Vimy Memorial.
Professor Sophia Isajiw exhibited
her most recent installation entitled “Take this longing from my tongue…”
at the Montgomery College Pavilion of Fine Arts Gallery at the Takoma Park
campus near Washington D.C.
Students from the School of Visual Arts volunteered to be mentors to area high
school students to organize and initiate a mural design project. The School’s student run gallery will also
host an exhibition of area high school artwork this spring.
Dramatic Art
The School of Dramatic Art is full of creative energy this summer with
two major projects under way. The first is a production of Dennis Foon's New Canadian Kid
on the main stage, Essex Hall Theatre. The production is directed by
Professor Gail Campbell, and
features students in the Drama in Education and Community (DRED) programme.
This is a new feature at the School and is part of our commitment to
community-based theatre.
The second project is the creation of an original work, Commedia
Fantasia, by Professor Gina Lori
Riley as part of a fund-raising event entitled "A Celebration of the
Environment" on 18 June. The work is based on Gina's award-winning
film of the same name.
The School of Dramatic Art hosted the Annual General Meeting of the
Council of Ontario University/College Theatre Programmes, the highlight of
which was the White/Hammond Event, which this year comprised a talk and
readings by playwrights David French and Hrant Alianak.
Next year the School will welcome guest artists Rod Ceballos (freelance director), who
will direct a workshop of Spring's Awakening with our third year acting
majors; David Savoy (Artistic
Director, Showboat Theatre), who will direct a main stage production of Stepping
Out; and Mike Shara (Company
member, Shaw Festival and 1994 Windsor grad), who will direct a main stage
production of The Mousetrap.
From MacEwan College
Music for Her Majesty
MacEwan’s musicians played a prominent role at the
Centennial Kick-Off Party in Edmonton in May.
It’s not every day a practising musician gets a chance to perform for royalty. The Party at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium
had a showcase of musical talent connected to the province – but also to
MacEwan music.
Allan Gilliland,
head of composition at MacEwan, was first approached in November of 2004 to
write a piece for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra that will serve as the grand
finale to the Queen’s official participation in the concert. Fittingly called A Centennial Celebration, the six- and-a-half minute composition is
representative of the ethnic diversity of Alberta.
Raymond Baril,
head of winds at MacEwan, will conduct the orchestra. While MacEwan’s head of brass, John Taylor
and Brian Thurgood, head of drums, are both members of the ESO. Marcel Hamel, MacEwan’s coordinator of
music technology, provided an electronic version of the song. Gilliland’s composition is only one of
several pieces the orchestra will perform for the Queen. They will also back-up headliners Corb Lund,
a MacEwan music alumnus, and Tommy Banks, former MacEwan music chair.
“It really speaks to the depths of MacEwan’s music
program to have so many people involved in this high profile event. We truly have a department of practising
musicians that the students can learn from,” says Gilliland.
About 50,000 people were
expected to attend the royal event.
Music
at Carleton:
Hires and Retires
Dr. James Deaville, Ph.D. (Northwestern): Dr.
Deaville is a specialist in 19th and 20th century
music. Other areas of Dr. Deaville’s
research expertise include: African-American entertainers of the
turn-of-the-century central Europe, television news music, women and music in
the 19th century and music criticism.
Dr. Anna Hoefnagels, Ph.D. (York): Dr. Hoefnagels is an
active researcher in Native American music traditions and regularly engages in
scholarly activities that address various issues and topics in ethnomusicology,
such as identity, nationhood, and gender.
Dr.
James K. Wright, Ph.D. (McGill): Dr. Wright’s domain is largely
outside the confines of traditional musicology.
His primary research areas encompass 19th/20th
century music history, music philosophy, music perception, the history of music
theory, and post-tonal music theory and analysis.
Alan Gillmor: Professor Alan Gillmor, well known to most
musicologists in Canada through his active participation in CUMS/SMUC and as
editor of the society's journal for some years, has retired from
Carleton. He is also known for his book on Eric Satie and numerous
articles on Canadian music. Gillmor taught at Carleton for over thirty
years and, because of his consummate skill in the classroom, was awarded the
prestigious 3M teaching award a few years ago.
Elaine Keillor: Dr. Elaine Keillor, upon her retirement, will
be named Emeritus Research Professor at Carleton University. The honour,
jealously guarded, is richly deserved because of Keillor’s unselfish service
to the field of Canadian Music. She has led teams which have been funded
by several strategic research grants from SSHRC, including one received this
past year for establishment of a website entitled 'Native Drums'. The
Native Drums website, a comprehensive array of information on Aboriginal music
in Canada including essays, 250 images of musical instruments, video and audio
examples will be officially launched on 21 June 2005: www.nativedrums.ca
In Memoriam: Patrick Cardy (1953-2005)
D.Mus. (McGill), M.M.A. (McGill), B.Mus. (Western Ontario)
Patrick Cardy died suddenly on March 24th. He taught in Music at Carleton from 1977 and
was prolific as a composer. His music, the majority of which was composed on
commission, was performed, recorded and broadcast across Canada and around the
world. His music is characterized by colourful, evocative sonorities, a strong
sense of dramatic gesture, an elegant lyricism and an accessible directness of
expression, traits that have captivated both listeners and performers.
He will be missed by
family, friends and colleagues and will be remembered as a kind, thoughtful and
supportive man. His legacy as a composer will continue to be played all across
the country.
OCAD
Receives $2.5 Million
for Research
OCAD alumna Nancy
Young has promised
to provide $2.5 million in funding to the College—the largest financial contribution
ever made to support programming at OCAD in its 129-year history. Part of the donation has been awarded through
a $500,000 grant from the Beal Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation.
This gift will provide
seed funding to operate the new Beal Centre for Strategic Creativity (BCSC) which
will conduct basic and applied research in the fields of design and business
practice. The Centre’s mission is to enhance
education with new methodologies in imaginative thinking, explore ways of
improving the human condition, and contribute to the development of knowledge
and economic well-being. The Beal Centre
will emphasize a multi-disciplinary approach and bring together partners in
industry, government and other academic institutions for project collaborations.
The $2.5 million will enable the Centre
to attract partners that can match resource commitments.
A graduate of
Environmental Design in 1987, Nancy Young, has long been an advocate of
education in art and design and, in particular, the importance of
multi-disciplinary studies.
The Centre will be led by Alexander
Manu who
is Professor and Chair of Industrial Design at OCAD. Manu was Founder and Principal of Axis Group
International, a design, development and applied research consultancy established
in 1980 in Toronto.
News
from Lethbridge
Art professor Nicholas Wade was
one of two artists selected by the Winnipeg Arts Council to create work for the
Winnipeg's new downtown Millennium Library. Wade addressed "the idea of libraries in
our culture”, and was selected from almost 70 entries submitted from across
Canada. Entitled The Illumination,
Wade’s sculpture is composed of the letters T, H, and E in an architectural
'embrace.' Each letter is a different
colour and the full sculpture will stand more than three metres. The installation should be completed for the
library's fall opening.
Drama professor Nicholas Hanson and
drama major Jeremy Mason won the
2005 Robert C. Hayes Playwriting Contest for their modern retelling of Rumplestiltskin. Storybook Theatre
of Calgary is producing the play in early 2006.
To celebrate Alberta's Centennial, TYA students worked with students at
Mike Mountain Horse Elementary School to create a theatre event of stunning
proportions. Using '100 years of Alberta' as a starting point, students created dramatic
pieces and then directed entire classes of students By the end of the run, 400
students had graced the stage and entertained more than 1000 people.
The
U of L recognized William Fruet’s noteworthy career in Canadian film, theatre
and television as a writer, producer, director and actor by presenting him with
an honorary degree at spring Convocation. His career spans more than 30 years and
includes television directing credits for well-known television programs,
including DaVinci’s Inquest, Wild Card and The Outer Limits. Considered
a pioneer of Canada’s English-language feature film industry, Fruet
participated in feature films Goin’ Down
the Road, Rip-Off, and Wedding in
White, created in the early 1970s and considered benchmark movies in the
Canadian film industry.
Canadian Plays in Development
(CPID) is a unique program
that brings together Canadian playwrights and a cast of keen student actors for
long hours of hard work to workshop a new Canadian play. This May and June, award-winning Toronto
playwright David S. Craig has
students working on his play The First
Christmas, originally commissioned by CBC Radio to mark the 2000th
anniversary of the famous birth in Bethlehem. Vancouver playwright Sally Stubbs and the students are working on Who’s There?! Stubbs participated in CPID
last year with her play Wreckage.
One of the most advanced rehearsal and performance
facilities in the city of St. John’s opened on March 17th. Memorial University’s new Petro-Canada Hall
is considered a technological gem, a blend of art and technology that will be
the latest resource for the university and the wider provincial music
community.
Petro-Canada Hall
was constructed with $1.2 million in support provided by Petro-Canada,
operator of the Terra Nova offshore oil development and participant in the
White Rose and Hibernia projects. The
Hall is a $1.8 million state-of-the-art facility that will be used for
teaching, research and performances, in addition to being available for rental
to community groups.
“We were attracted to this project partly
because it stepped outside the engineering and science realm that normally
draws our support,” said Ron Brenneman,
president and chief executive officer of Petro-Canada. “And we liked the community concept for
Petro-Canada Hall. It is a true
‘community hall’ that broadens the reach of the university beyond its
traditional student and faculty constituency.
"By every
measure –– acoustic, aesthetic and functional –– this new facility is a
resounding success," said the director of Memorial's School of Music, Dr. Tom Gordon. "Petro-Canada's investment in the
future of the province's music has yielded its first major dividend through the
hall's spectacular merger of the optimal properties of a performing space with
leading edge technology."
The new 195 square
metre (2,100 square foot) rehearsal and performance facility adjoins the M.O.
Morgan Music Building near the D. F. Cook Recital Hall. With a performance area of approximately 56
square metres (600 square feet), an audience capacity of 124 people and a large
rehearsal space, the new Petro-Canada Hall positions the School of Music to
expand its performance and conference capabilities.
Equipped
for both recording and Web-casting, the facility links the School of Music to
global communities for real-time distance instruction and multi-site rehearsal.
Students and professors will be able to
connect with colleagues and mentors from anywhere and hear and interact almost
as if they were in the same room.
The art, and
science, of acoustics guided practically every design decision in Petro-Canada
Hall, from the exterior shell of the building, and including landscaping considerations
such as sound-buffering trees, to the distinctive three-dimensional geometry
of the interior surfaces.
WLU is Festival Host
The Laurier Centre for Music Therapy Research
(LCMTR) hosted “The Royal Road to the
Unconscious: Researching Unconscious Dimensions in Music Therapy”, that
brought practitioners in music therapy and other allied health professions to
campus for four days to participate in Canada’s first ever symposium on music
psychotherapy.
Keynote speaker Dr. Michele Forinash examined transformational moments in music
therapy practice exploring how they fit in regard to research. Liz
Moffit, the keynote speaker on the second day, examined music’s power to
evoke imagery that heals, particularly with respect to clients who have experienced
long-term abuse.
Thirteen others, from countries such as Finland,
Israel, and Austria, presented papers and participated in panel discussions
that explored how music is used in clinical psychotherapy. Dr.
Heidi Ahonen-Eerikäinen, Director of LCMTR, says there was much to feel
happy about at this year’s symposium but the most pleasing aspect was how the
gathering wasn’t limited to music therapists.
Laurier’s annual intensive chamber music workshop
and festival runs this year from May 24 to June 13. The Penderecki String Quartet, the
University’s resident string quartet, hosts QuartetFest, which draws students
from across North America. The Penderecki
String Quartet will participate in two concerts: one with pianist Anya Alexeyev, faculty member at
Laurier, and one with Atar Arad, a
member of the Cleveland Quartet for seven years and now, teacher at Indiana
University and at the Stearns Institute (Ravinia Festival) in Chicago.
Also in June, the Faculty of Music offers
WindFest, an annual festival that celebrates music that is seldom heard but
always loved. Running from June 4 to 18,
Windfest, celebrates ‘harmoniemusik’. Hugely
popular around 1800 in the courts of Vienna, wind instruments were played in
pairs and octets for the first time. Windfest’s
2005 student musicians, coming from Montreal, Rochester, New York City, and Waterloo
form one octet—two oboes, two clarinets, two French horns, and two bassoons.
The participants engage in three weeks of
intensive private lessons, group coaching, seminars, and concerts. This year’s program focuses on the great wind
music of the 18th century by Mozart, Beethoven, and Krommer, as well
as selected wind repertoire of the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Windfest 2005 also features two world-renowned
bassoonists as coaches and teachers: Kerry
Camden has coached musicians in youth orchestras in the United Kingdom and
Europe. Christopher Weait is active in many facets of professional musical
life as bassoonist, recording artist, published composer and author. A professor at Ohio State University, he was
voted “distinguished teacher of the year” in 1999.
NSCAD University
NSCAD University students continue to earn recognition for
their accomplishments in art, craft and design studies. Here are some recent highlights:
Graduating
design student Nina Turczyn won the
14th Applied Arts
Design
student Morgan Mallett won this
year’s EnRoute Magazine CBC Literary
Illustration Competition, and her illustrations appear in the May issue.
NSCAD
textile students took top awards in the Crossley
Carpet Student Design Competition in September. Miyoshi
Kondo and Yvan Castonguay won
first and second places.
The NSCAD
All
Dolled Up, a short film produced in NSCAD University’s film
program this winter, was accepted for the Student Film Showcase 2005. Written and directed by
Graduating design student