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Telling stories through design

We checked in with recent alum Lucas Southworth (Digital Media and Design, Theatre) about his position at Xavier University. He is the "Electronic Media Specialist" in Enrollment Management. He calls himself a “jack-of-all-trades” for different media requests, from postcards to flyers to email graphics to web updates to photo and video work.

The work I do at Xavier is really diverse, but the Digital Media and Design program really prepared me for that. Students in DMD are able, and really are expected, to take a wide variety of design classes, from photography and video making to typography and web design. This gave me a solid and wide base of knowledge that I am applying to this position. So when my boss comes to me and says "Hey Lucas, do you have any experience editing video?" or "Do you know anything about coding?" I am able to answer YES with confidence.

One assignment that I think of often came from Mia Cinelli's Typography class. She had us find a print piece in the wild somewhere that we thought had poor typography, and then recreate the piece to fix these issues. This process of dissecting a design's weak points and building it back up from there is something I try to apply every time I create a new draft of my work.

My Theatre degree is also helping out daily! Not only in directly applicable skills (a sizable chunk of my practical video editing experience comes from my time and classwork in Projection Design) but in more subtle ways as well. A lot of the work I do boils down to telling a story effectively, and storytelling was what my time in the Theatre department was all about. 

Lucas has a word of advice for current students:

Pursue what you are interested in. It was a scary for me when I realized I wanted to add a second major in my junior year, but I was surrounded by a very supporting group of professors and advisors in both the Theatre and Digital Media and Design programs who made the process work as smoothly as possible, and adding that major is directly what got me my current job.

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Emoji-inspired design receives top honors

University of Kentucky Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Design Mia Cinelli's work has been honored as one of the STA 100, the finest examples of communication design and typography created around the world recognized by The Society of Typographic Arts (STA).

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50-year retrospective of late art alum’s work

“Opening 20 years after her last retrospective exhibition at the Headley-Whitney Museum of Art in her hometown of Lexington and on the two-year anniversary of her passing, the exhibition “Luminous: Carolyn Young Hisel, A 50 Year Retrospective” will be on display from April 6 through June 16.”

Click here for the story: Luminous: Retrospective puts late Kentucky artist back in the spotlight

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Overtones Episode #32: Faculty Meeting Episode featuring UK College of Fine Arts Dean Mark Shanda, Professor Bobby Scroggins, Dr. Dennis Bender, Dr. Kevin Holm-Hudson with guest artist Derek Spencer. Hosted By School of Music alumna Renee Collins, Whitney Acke and Paulie Felice featuring music by Brother Smith Mama Said String Band, Bek and The Starlight Review and Joanna James. Original Broadcast Air Date October 22, 2018 on WLXU 93.9 FM Lexington Community Radio

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One of many current and upcoming exhibitions across the globe featuring work from MFA alum Natalie Baxter! If you’re in Brooklyn check it out before it closes May 13.

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Amy Hoagland (BFA ‘16)

We caught up with Amy about her recent travels and research:

I will be participating in a month-long residency from March 15 - April 15 in Marpha, Nepal with the Marpha Foundation. The Marpha Foundation is an effort to expand the presence of arts in Marpha, Nepal. The foundation's mission is to host a range of exhibitions and performances, in addition to building a collection of art objects that students can visit. As a resident artist, I will be contributing towards this goal.

I will be creating work there inspired by the surrounding environment, which includes the beautiful Himalayas. Mountains have a profound effect on lifestyle. I am interested in how this landscape shapes life and perspective and how roads connect and change the land. Mountains create a human sense of awe, setting us in our place, making us feel small against their scale. It seems that people in the mountains more readily recognize the importance of the symbiotic relationship between man and nature. I am participating in this residency to experience this perspective change and to share this appreciation with others. During this residency, I will create 3D scans of natural objects such as rocks and trees, as a form of three-dimensional photography, capturing natural forms in their state at the current moment in their existence. I will do this by using my digital camera to take multiple photos around the natural object, and then I will use a 3D modeling software to stitch the images together into 3D scans. I will create a visual diary of these three-dimensional photographs, encompassing a variety of natural objects. The finished works will be shown in the gallery space as projections of the scan rendering videos. The videos will be projected onto a mixed media sculpture that I create from found natural objects. Learn more at Amy’s website

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New American Paintings - CHAD SINES

School of Art and Visual Studies alum Chad Sines (BFA ’15) was selected from nearly 1,000 applicants to appear in New American Paintings, No. 133, Pacific Coast Issue. He is joined by 39 other noteworthy artists in this issue, on newsstands and online now.

He’ll also be featured in New American Paintings’ MFA Annual Issue, No. 135, on newsstands in April.

Sines is working on his MFA at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design. He graduates in May 2018.

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MFA grad Natalie Baxter talks anxiety, art medicine, and creating platforms for discussion through art. She spoke to the Creative Lexington crowd at 21c Lexington in January 2018.

More on her talk and her work.