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Baker-Nord Center Spring 2012 Lecture Series - Case Western Reserve University

2012-01-21T02:07:00.000-05:00

Case Western Reserve University
Baker-Nord Center Events

Spring 2012

Celebrity, Fame, and the Concept of Genius

A Bedouin at the Window: Readings from "The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia"

Mary Helen Stefaniak

Date:	02-01-2012
Time:	6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:	Wolstein Building Auditorium - 2103 Cornell Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

Author Mary Helen Stefaniak will read from and talk about her Anisfield-Wolf-award-winning novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (W. W. Norton & Company). Most of the novel takes place in 1938-39, when a well-traveled new schoolteacher turns the little town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Spivey not only abandons the prescribed curriculum, providing a few dozen white children with a more worldly and inclusive education; she also reinvents the town's annual festival as a Baghdad Bazaar, complete with camels. But neither Miss Spivey nor the narrator, young Gladys Cailiff, her student and ardent fan, is the hero of the novel. That role belongs to the Cailiffs' 17-year-old African-American neighbor, Theo Boykin. Theo, who is known to all as the smartest person in Piedmont County, soon becomes Chief Engineer and creative genius behind the Baghdad Bazaar. He makes dangerous enemies in the process. Stefaniak will alternate readings from the novel with stories of the surprising research that led her to "discover" a real-life ancestor for her fictional hero in the person of Bilali Mahomet, a literate African Muslim enslaved first in the Bahamas and then on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Bilali Mahomet was famous in his lifetime for his intelligence, his Muslim faith, and his abilities as plantation overseer and leader of men.

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Elsa Leichter's Second Chance: Interruptions and Continuities in a Refugee Social Worker's Transatlantic Career

Barbara Reiterer

Date:	02-08-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Room 320 a,b,c - 11235 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public.

Barbara Reiterer, who holds a doctoral fellowship at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, explores the life and work of Elsa Leichter (1905-1997), a Jewish refugee social worker from Vienna who came to the United States on the eve of World War II. This presentation is intended to inform our understanding of refugee resettlement and gender. Leichter received a degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University and went on to work for the Jewish Family Service in New York City, where she earned distinction in the field of family therapy. Starting in the 1970s, she traveled to Europe to give lectures and workshops, thus contributing to the transatlantic circulation of knowledge in the applied social sciences. This talk traces the complex, often difficult, but eventually very successful professional trajectory of an Austrian refugee social worker in the United States. Leichter's story informs the larger history of Austrian and American social work in the mid-twentieth century, and it deepens our understanding of the experiences of Jewish women exiles in the United States.

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A New Future for the Past: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

John Grabowski

Date:	02-09-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

With the publication of its first hardcopy edition in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History opened a new era in the presentation of urban history. When it moved to the World Wide Web in 1998, it pioneered the concept of an on-line, vetted, urban history resource. Today the on-line ECH stands as one of the university’s most visible digital humanities projects. However, in the midst of the growing number of on-line wikis, blogs, and social networks, it is changing again to remain competitive as a popular, attractive, scholarly historical source. Editor John J. Grabowski will discuss the past, present, and future of the ECH at this Baker-Nord digital humanities program.

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Film Screening and Discussion: Bill Cunningham New York

Date:	02-20-2012
Time:	6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location:	Wolstein Building Auditorium - 2103 Cornell Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

The focus of this award-winning documentary is on New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding photographer has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. The film is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

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Organizing Justice: Forming the Preußischer Richterverein and Advocating for Judges

Kenneth F. Ledford

Date:	02-23-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

For years at the end of the 19th century, Prussian judges chafed at the higher pay and status granted to their colleagues in the general administrative bureaucracies, who had been their classmates while studying at the University. Ledford examines what were the social and cultural circumstances that in 1909 led those Prussian judges to defy the pressure from the Prussian Ministry of Justice, and to form a professional association that increasingly toward 1914 pressured the government to equalize pay and status for judicial and administrative officials. This episode of professional organization weaves together important aspects of the histories of the German state, the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the cultural values of the German educated middle class in the final years of the German Empire.

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The Digital Muse: Technology & The Classics

Paul Iversen, Andrea De Giorgi

Date:	03-01-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

De Giorgi will discuss how Classical archaeology, as with most sciences that have an interest in the spreading of human phenomena over space, has developed a way to harness GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Theoretically and methodologically confined to the observation of single sites and their settlement history, archaeology through GIS lenses has begun to articulate more refined questions about regions and districts in antiquity and how these were experienced and shaped by human agencies. A landscape in southwestern Anatolia is the case-study that this presentation brings into focus.

Iversen will talk about recent technologies he has used in to study the inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze geared device from the 2nd or 1st century BCE that is the world’s oldest known analogue computer and one of the most important artifacts ever discovered for understanding ancient astronomy and engineering. The inscriptions are studied via images created using a method called Polynomial Textured Mapping (PTMs), as well as CT-scans taken by means of a technology called Micro-Focus X-rays, the latter of which produces 2-D images that are then reconstructed into 3-D images with astounding clarity by a vector graphics program.

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The Double Life of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus

Date:	03-05-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 309 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

The power of celebrity is the power of contradiction and paradox. Celebrities are extraordinary and typical, trendy and transcendent, vulnerable and omnipotent; they can seem simultaneously masculine and feminine, straight and gay, and the greatest stars appeal across ethnic, religious, linguistic and national boundaries. In this lecture, Sharon Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, explores the dual nature of celebrity by focusing on nineteenth-century actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), known for much of her lifetime as the most famous woman in the world.

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The Hollywood Sign: How a Temporary Commercial Sign Became a Permanent International Icon

Leo Braudy

Date:	03-08-2012
Time:	6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 309 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

Originally erected as a real estate advertisement in 1923, the Hollywood Sign only gradually became the most familiar representation of the movie industry. Ignored, mocked, destined for demolition, then celebrated and treasured, Braudy, University professor and Bing Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Southern California, will discuss how its checkered history mirrors the development of Hollywood itself.

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Gaming the World: How Sports in Europe and America Reflect the Global and the Local in Similar and Different Ways

Andrei Markovits

Date:	03-28-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 309 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss how the culture of what he has come to call "hegemonic sports" — meaning those few ball-centered team sports that billions follow around the globe — arose in the 19th century, how it spread during that period best associated with what Markovits calls "the first globalization" and how this construct is in the process of persisting but also transforming in our current time that Markovits associates with the "second globalization". Following his argument delineated in his book Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (Princeton University Press, 2010) — co-authored with Lars Rensmann — Markovits will present this sports culture's immensely enlightening, inclusive, meritocratic and cosmopolitan aspects while at the same time producing some of the ugliest manifestations of counter-cosmopolitanism, racism sexism and other prejudices of the advanced industrial world.

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Poetry in the Museum

Jorie Graham

Date:	04-01-2012
Time:	1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location:	Cleveland Museum of Art - 11150 East Boulevard
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

Pulitzer-prize winning poet Jorie Graham will share her work in the dramatic setting of the Reid Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art, co-sponsor of this event. Graham is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University and former Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets. Following her reading and reflections, Graham will announce the winners of the Poetry in the Museum contest, which calls for a descriptive response to a work of art in the CMA collection. Contest winners will read their poems in proximity to described work of art. A book signing with Graham will conclude the event. Support provided by the Helen Buchman Sharnoff Endowed Fund for Poetry at Case Western Reserve University.

This event was rescheduled from the Fall semester.

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Climate Catastrophes in the Solar System: Lessons for Earth

David Grinspoon

Date:	04-04-2012
Time:	7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location:	Wolstein Building Auditorium - 2103 Cornell Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public.

Grinspoon, author, Curator of Astrobiology in the Department of Space Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado will present an interplanetary perspective on climate change. What happened to the lost oceans of Venus and Mars? Grinspoon will discuss how studying the evolution of other planets contributes to understanding and predicting climate change on Earth. Along the way he'll lead us on a journey through the solar system—and deep time—discovering runaway greenhouses, snowball planets, and the long-term fate of Earth.

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Breaking Flesh: Performance, Anatomy, Memory

Elina Gertsman

Date:	04-05-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

In his Christmas sermon Puer natus est nobis, Jean Gerson, the outspoken chancellor of the University of Paris, raged against a vile statue he saw in a local Carmelite church: a sculpture of the Virgin whose body split open to unveil the Trinity placed within. Gertsman will explore one such statue — the so-called Shrine Madonna — within the context of late medieval mnemotechnic discourses, anatomical and childbirth treatises, and performance practices that foreground obsession with uncanny anthropomorphic puppets. Through her study of Shrine Madonnas, Gertsman will explore the processes of empathetic beholding of a performing object, which both controls and is controlled by the viewer.

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Rembrandt van Rijn: A Conversation

Mariët Westermann, Svetlana Alpers

Date:	04-15-2012
Time:	3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Location:	Cleveland Museum of Art - 11150 East Boulevard
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

This event features a conversation with Dr. Mariët Westermann, Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Dr. Svetlana Alpers, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, moderated by Dr. Catherine Scallen, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History and Dr. Jon Seydl, Vignos Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, 1500-1800. These prominent scholars of Dutch art will discuss why Rembrandt van Rijn's technique and subject matter continue to fascinate art viewers hundreds of years after his own time. This conversation immediately follows Fresh Perspectives on an Old Master: Rembrandt Van Rijn, a symposium which features art historians who are contributing to the scholarship on Rembrandt, and is co-sponsored by the CWRU Department of Art and Art History and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Creating a Sense of Place: University Circle — Where the Arts have Created a Life–Enhancing Environment

Nina Gibans

Date:	04-19-2012
Time:	4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public.

Project Director Nina Gibans discusses this multi-layered project on the history, public art, and architecture in University Circle. University Circle is the core of Cleveland’s powerful history and embodies the civic dream of the Cleveland industrialists who donated the land, lived there, and envisioned and endowed its institutions. This program will include video clips and commentary on the project.

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Getting Published

Eleanor H. Goodman

Date:	04-20-2012
Time:	12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location:	Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration:	Free and open to the public, registration recommended

This workshop will offer participants an insider's perspective on the changing climate of scholarly publishing in the humanities and provide an overview of the key issues associated with publishing with an academic press. Questions to be considered include how to identify an appropriate press; effective ways to approach a publisher; how to "pitch" your book; the kind of information to include in a prospectus; and the difference between a doctoral dissertation and a book. Goodman will also take a look at what can be expected if a publisher is interested in your book, from the review and approval process, all the way to book's publication (whether published on paper, electronically, or both).

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Community Meeting - Cleveland's Downtown Lakefront 2012.01.25

2012-01-20T13:49:00.000-05:00

Cleveland's Downtown Lakefront
Community Meeting to review plans
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Old Stone Church, 91 Public Square
Cleveland, Ohio
(enter through 1380 Ontario)
6-8pm

Sponsored by the City of Cleveland's City Planning Commission and Department of Port Control

pdf flier

University Park Alliance [University of Akron]: 2012 Urban Innovators Speaker Series

2012-01-20T11:48:00.001-05:00

University Park Alliance

2012 Urban Innovators Speaker Series

Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Date(s): 01-31-2012 to 03-28-2012

Price: Free

Reserve now! Seating will be limited to 100 per presentation and reservations are required. Call 330-777-2070 or email info@upakron.com.

January 31st:

The Urban Alternative: Future Economic Impact of UPA’s Core City Vision Plan - David Primm, Tripp Umbach, Pittsburgh, PA, and Eric Anthony Johnson, Ph.D., University Park Alliance
February 29^th:

Building a Vibrant Community: Artists’ Live/Work Space as a Redevelopment Catalyst - Wendy Holmes, Artspace, Minneapolis, MN
March 28^th:

Healthy Food Hubs: Eliminating Food Deserts and Supporting Local Economies - Steve Davies, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY

UPA’s Urban Innovators Speaker Series features world-class urban thinkers and practitioners who present creative approaches to planning, economy, and culture that can catalyze economic transformation in Northeast Ohio. The program provides a platform for the exploration of ideas to strengthen the innovation capacity of Akron as an urban center, creating new investment and jobs.

The Series is presented with support from the Greater Akron Chamber and The University of Akron, and in conjunction with promotional partners Western Reserve Public Media, through its show “Neotropolis,” and hyper-local citizen journalist news site the Akronist.

Roadtrip! - University of Miami School of Architecture Spring 2012 Events

2012-01-17T12:48:00.004-05:00

University of Miami - School of Architecture
2012 Spring Event listing

January 18 United States Green Building Council Miami Chapter (USGBC) lecture and meeting. Light supper served. $10 per person for non-members and students free. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 to 9 p.m.

January 23 – February 29 New Palladians, an exhibition on one of the world’s most influential architects Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and his influence on the architecture of today, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Irvin Korach Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibit, a lecture “New Traditional Architecture & Urbanism and the 21st Century” will be presented on Wednesday, February 8 by Professor Lucien Steil of the University of Notre Dame; followed by a tour of the New Palladians exhibition and a reception. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall and Irvin Korach Gallery, 6 to 8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

January 25 Visiting Critic and Spanish Architect Manuel Clavel Rojo of Clavel Arquitectos, Murcia, Spain will present a lecture with title to be determined. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

January 27 Cinema of Cities: First in a Series. Saboteur (1942) by Alfred Hitchcock, filmed in stunning locations throughout the United States. First film in the School’s Spring Symposia. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

January 30 “Periphery: Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean,” a lecture by Dr. Roberto Segre, Architectural Historian, Rio de Janeiro. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

February 3 Cinema of Cities: Second in a Series. Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujiro Ozu, focuses on the relationships between a post-World War II family in Tokyo, Japan. Second film in the School’s Spring Symposia. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

February 15 – 24 School of Architecture Spring Symposia. See symposia dates and descriptions on February 15, 16, 22, 23 and 24. Also see series of four “Cinema of Cities” films on January 27 and February 3, 24, and March 2.

February 15 “Beyond Post-Modernism: The Work of Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi,” symposium on reassessing texts and architecture by Aldo Rossi & Robert Venturi.

“Post-Modernism: A Brief History,” School of Architecture Professor Dr. Richard John
“Aldo Rossi and the Architecture of the City,” Prof. Luca Ortelli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale School of Architecture, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Robert Venturi and Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture,” Prof. Dr.Stanislaus von Moos, Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Art at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, currently teaching at Yale University
Roundtable Discussion with Questions and Answers: Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, School of Architecture; Professor Roberto Behar, School of Architecture; Dr. Richard John; Stanislaus von Moos; Luca Ortelli

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall (Times TBD). Free and open to the public.

February 16 “The Reconstruction and Invention of Cities,” urban transformation strategies including two case studies — Warsaw and Lisbon.

“Lisbon: The Pombal Plan after the 1755 Earthquake,” Prof. Luca Ortelli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale School of Architecture, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Warsaw: The Urban Plan after WWII,” Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos, Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Art at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, currently teaching at Yale
Roundtable Discussion with Questions and Answers

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall (Times TBD) Free and open to the public.

February 17 “The High Line – New York’s Park in the Sky: Lessons for Miami Marine Stadium,” a lecture by Robert Hammond, co-founder of the High Line, and Philip Aarons, founding chair. The event is co-sponsored by Friends of the Marine Stadium, the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and Cliff and Petsy Mezey. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m.; followed by a reception in the Irvin Korach Gallery. Free and open to the public.

February 20 “Equity in Housing,” a lecture by Professor Craig Williams, University of Michigan” and presented by the University of Miami’s Office of Civic & Community Engagement. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 5 to 9 p.m. Free and open to the public. Please visithttp://www.miami.edu/civic for more information.

February 22 “Latin American Architecture Now & Then,” XX Century and Contemporary Architecture in Latin America

“Traits of Modern Architecture in Latin America: Six Themes, Four Moments, Twenty-four Examples,” Arq. Jorge Francisco Liernur, Dean, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“The Latin American Modern House,” Dr. Arq. Carlos Eduardo Comas, Director, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Emerging Young Architecture in Latin America,” Dr. Arq. Fernando Diez, DirectorSUMMA+Revista de Arquitectura & Urbanismo, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roundtable Discussion with Questions and Answers

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall (Times TBD). Free and open to the public.

February 23 “Three Architectural Journals from South America”

ARQTEXTO: An Architecture & Urban Design Journal, Dr. Arq. Carlos Eduardo Comas, Coordinator, Porto Alegre, Brazil
SUMMA+Revista de Arquitectura & Urbanismo, Dr. Arq. Fernando Diez, Director, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil
BLOCK: A Journal on Architecture, City & Territorial Culture, Arq. Jorge Francisco Liernur, Director, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall (Times TBD). Free and open to the public.

February 24 “Latin American Architecture Now and Then, Part Two”

“Austral Group: A CIAM Brigade in the Far South (1937-1948),“ Arq. Jorge Francisco Liernur, Decano, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Mario Roberto Alvarez and Clorido Testa: Two Architects from Buenos Aires,” Dr. Arq. Fernando Diez, Director, SUMMA+Revista de Arquitectura & Ubanismo,” Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil
“The Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi,” Dr. Arq Carlos Eduardo Comas, Director, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Roundtable with Questions and Answers: Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, School of Architecture; Jorge Francisco Liernur, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Fernando Diez

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall (Times TBD). These events are free and open to the public.

February 24 Cinema of Cities: Third in a Series. Black Orpheus (1959) by Marcel Camus, a superb retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek legend set against Rio de Janeiro’s madness during Carnival. Third film in the School’s Spring Symposia. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

February 29 “African Architects Design Multiple Modernities and Continuities,” lecture by Carolyn Armenta Davis, architecture lecturer, curator, critic, writer and jurist. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

March 2 Cinema of Cities: Fourth in a Series. La Dolce Vita (1960) by Federico Fellini, a lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer in Rome who seeks the fleeting excesses of decadence of life. This is the final film in the School’s Spring Symposia. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

March 7 “Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism,” lecture by Alexander Gorlin, New York City architect and principal of the firm Alexander Gorlin Architects. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Please visit http://www.arc.miami.edu for more information.

March 19 – April 13 Architecture in Perspective 25: An International Juried Exhibition of Architectural Illustration, the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, including the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize and Awards of Excellence. The official opening and reception will be on Friday, March 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Irvin Korach Gallery. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

March 21 United States Green Building Council Miami Chapter (USGBC) lecture and meeting. Light supper served. Free to students and $10 per person for non-members. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 to 9 p.m.

March 28 “Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology,” lecture by Visiting Critic Brian Phillips, founder of Interface Studio Architects LLC in Philadelphia. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

April 2 Career Fair from 5:00 to 7:00 pm in Hurricane 100 room of Bank United Center.

April 3 “Southern Vernacular Architecture,” lecture by Andrew Cogar, partner in the Atlanta firm Historical Concepts. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.

April 16 – 20 School of Architecture Student Art Show, organized and presented by the School of Architecture student body and juried by architecture and art faculty. Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information or to submit entries, students should contact michaelcgalea@gmail.com

April 18 United States Green Building Council Miami Chapter (USGBC) lecture and meeting. Light supper served. Free to students and $10 per person for non-members. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 to 9 p.m.

May 7 – May 11 Graduation Exhibition, Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Irvin Korach Gallery, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free and open to the public.

May 10 Honors Day Ceremony for graduating students and award recipients. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall.

May 10 – 11 Commencement ceremonies for graduate and undergraduate students.

May 16 United States Green Building Council Miami Chapter (USGBC) lecture and meeting. Light supper served. Free to students and $10 per person for non-members. Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall, 6 to 9 p.m.

Roadtrip! - University of Mich: Taubman College of Architeture Spring 2012 Lecture Series

2012-01-16T18:42:00.001-05:00

Taubman College of Architecture - University of Michigan

Recordings of a number of past lectures are available via iTunes U. Videos are posted to iTunes U usually within two weeks from the date of the lecture. Starting Fall 2010, lectures will be published to Vimeo, with the archive of past recorded lectures being relocated there as well.

Winter 2012 Lectures and Events

Monday, January 9 – Richard Norton
Tuesday, January 10 – Peter Galison
Friday, January 20 – Research Through Making Presentations
Saturday, January 21 – Whither Installation Symposium
Monday, January 23 – Dan Wood
Wednesday, January 25 – Alexandros Washburn
Friday, January 27, 2012 – MLK Symposium
Monday, January 30 – Paul Lewis
Friday, February 3 – Antoine Picon
Monday, February 6 – Will Bruder
Friday, Feburary 10 – Stan Allen, keynote to The Geologic Turn Symposium
Saturday, February 11 – The Geologic Turn Symposium
Friday, February 17 – Jonathan Barnett
Thursday, February 23 – Kenny Cupers
Monday, March 5 – Neil Denari
Monday, March 12 – Guy Nordenson
Friday, March 14 – Liza Fior
Saturday, March 15 – Laura Wolf-Powers
Monday, March 19 – Barbara Bestor
Friday, March 23 – Brian Leary
Friday, March 23 – Alejandro Zaero Polo (Stamps)
Monday, March 26 – Benedetta Tagliabue
Friday, March 30 – RISK Conference (Rackham Auditorium)
Monday, April 2 – Jose Oubrerie

For more on these events, visit taubmancollege.umich.edu/events
*All lectures will start at 6 p.m. in the college auditorium unless otherwise noted.

Event Supporters

Benard L. Maas Foundation, Guido A. Binda Lecture and Exhibition Fund, John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture Fund, Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Fund, Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professionals Fund, J. Robert Swanson Fund, Taubman College Enrichment Fund, Taubman College Lecture Fund

Roadtrip! - University of Buffalo School of Arch + Planning Spring 2012 Lecture Series

2012-01-15T15:56:00.004-05:00

University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
Spring 2012

Lecture Series: "Relocation"
All Lectures begin at 5:30 pm in Crosby 301.
01.25.12 Heather Roberge of Murmur

02.08.12 Curt Gambetta

02.14.12 Matthew Dalbey

02.22.12 M. Paz Guttierez

03.07.12 David Gissen

03.21.12 Keller Easterling, GPSA Lecture

03.28.12 Gary Hack, Ibrahim Jammal Memorial Lecture

04.04.12 TBD: Clarkson Chair in Architecture

04.18.12 Shohei Shigematsu of OMA NY

view selected lectures online (from the past)

Roadtrip! - OSU Knowlton School of Arch 2012 Lecture Series

2012-01-14T01:15:00.000-05:00

KSA Lecture Series

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Unless noted, all lectures will be held at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250) at 5:30 PM.

Winter + Spring 2012: Practice

Architecture Research Travel Awards

January 4th, 2012

Guy Nordenson / Guy Nordenson and Associates

January 18th, 2012

Bernadette Hanlon

January 25th, 2012

Ignacio Bunster-Ossa / WRT

February 1st, 2012

John Ronan / John Ronan Architects

February 8th, 2012

Georgeen Theodore / Interboro Partners

February 15th, 2012

Eric Owen Moss / Eric Owen Moss Architects

February 22nd, 2012

Luis Callejas / Paisajes Emergentes

February 29th, 2012

Thomas Christoffersen / BIG

March 27th, 2012

Karen Lewis

April 4th, 2012

Jonathan Barnes / Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design

April 11th, 2012

Grace La / La Dallman

April 18th, 2012

Charles Waldheim / Harvard University Graduate School of Design

April 25th, 2012

Stijn Koole / Bosch Slabbers

May 2nd, 2012

Benjamin Ball / Ball-Nogues Studio

May 9th, 2012

Brandon Clifford

May 16th, 2012

John Rennie Short

May 23rd, 2012

About the KSA Lecture Series

As part of the Knowlton School's commitment to bringing the highest level of design thinking to its students and the community at large, the KSA lecture series invites prominent researchers and practitioners of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning to present their work in a variety of areas. These lectures offer technical, cultural and theoretical understanding of the contemporary built environment and represent the contemporary and future state of the art in design thinking.

Roadtrip! - Carnegie Mellon Spring 2012 Lecture Series

2012-01-13T12:07:00.001-05:00

Carnegie Mellon Spring 2012 Lecture Series

cosponsored by the Heinz Archiectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art

All events take place at the Carnegie Museum complex at 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh; please see individual listing for theater venue

JESSE SEPPI

MONDAY 23 JANUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Tronic Studio, New York
'New Spaces for New Bodies'

CHARLES ROSENBLUM

MONDAY 30 JANUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Carnegie Mellon University
'Henry Hornbostel's College of Fine Arts: Entries from a Built Encyclopedia'

MAYA LIN

FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL
Maya Lin Studio, New York
'Artist Talk and Opening Reception'

The Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry is co-presented by the CMU School of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art

PATRIK SCHUMACHER

Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
Zaha Hadid Architects, London
'Parametric Order - 21st Century Architectural Order'

MARK GOULTHORPE

William Finglass Lecture
MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
dECOi Architects/ MIT
'On Paramorphs and the Alloplastic'

BEN VAN BERKEL

WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
UNStudio, Amsterdam
'The New Understanding'

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services

PETER STUTCHBURY

Hans Vetter Memorial Lecture
MONDAY 02 APRIL
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Sydney Australia
'By the Light - of the Silvery Moon'

TATIANA BILBAO

Henry Hornbostel Lecture with reception sponsored by Epic Metals
MONDAY 23 APRIL
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
Tatiana Bilbao SC, Mexico City
'How We Do Architecture'

School of Architecture
201 College of Fine Arts Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412.268.2354

IngenuityFest 2012 Call for Entries

2012-01-06T15:45:00.000-05:00

Call for Entries

2012 Call for Entries

This is Ingenuity – Be A Part of It

IngenuityFest is a festival of art, music, and technology. It’s also about finding and celebrating truly passionate and engaged people using every tool at their disposal to explore and create. We don’t simply bring two disciplines together; we highlight the creativity and innovation taking place at the edge of these worlds. This is where passions collide, where expertise mix, and the unexpected is born. Come be a part of Ingenuity.

What exactly is IngenuityFest?

IngenuityFest is a 3-day festival celebrating art, music, and technology. The festival this year will be held September 14, 15, and 16th in Cleveland, Ohio. Over 45,000 people attended the 2011 festival and 2012 will be our 8th Festival.

What We’re Looking For?

IngenuityFest presents a wide range of installations, performances, and demonstrations. We are looking for literally anything that meets our Selection Criteria including:

Large Installations
Gallery Pieces
Technology Demonstrations
Theater Performances
Dance Performances
Immersive Installations
Sound Installations
Sculpture
Video / Film
Multimedia
The Unexpected

What Spaces Will Be Available at IngenuityFest 2012?

Ingenuity changes its configuration year after year. No two Festivals are alike and we want to create a space for the wide range of performances, demonstrations, and installations. Ingenuity 2012 will include

An Ingenuity Art Gallery
A Digital / Internet Art Gallery
A Tech Innovation Demonstration Space
A Coffee Shop / Open Mic Style Stage
A Dance Space
A Black Box Theater
4 – 6 Installation Spaces
1 Jazz Stage
2 Large Performance Spaces
Room for several large to medium art pieces

Budgets

Ingenuity has no standard rates for projects. We ask that each creator submit a budget based on costs and fees. The bulk of our festival is made up of fees ranging from $100 up to $7,000. There are projects that we have funded at a higher level as well depending on the scope of work and reputation of an artist or performer.

Selection Criteria

Content for IngenuityFest is chosen through a process that uses objective scoring combined with subjective judgements by representatives from arts and technology fields. This group (typically a dozen people) scores each submission according to the curatorial criteria. A conversation typically follows to discuss scores and to balance selections with other entries.

2012 Selection Criteria

We’ve added to and changed the selection criteria – please read carefully. While all pieces at Ingenuity do not touch on all of these criteria, we look for pieces that touch on most of them.

Artistic Merit
Technology Integration
Interactivity
Educational Value
Innovation / Creativity
Incorporation of Theme (Feeds)
Demonstration of Ability to Execute Proposal
Need within Category
Knowledge of Work

2012 Theme: Feeds

People. Computers. Machines. Whether it’s food, water, electricity, or information, everything works, operates, and thrives on a feed.

What feeds us today? How do we view the food, information, culture and everything that nourishes the body, mind, and soul. Ingenuity is asking creative people of all kinds to examine feeds in every form imaginable. Read more about the 2012 Theme here.

First Annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Want to create something needlessly complicated, utterly useless, and totally cool? The first annual Ingenuity RGM Contest is for you! Just submit a video to us and you could win $1000 for your creation and the chance to show it off to over 45,000 people! For details go to www.ingenuitycleveland.com/RGMContest

In A Band?

We encourage music acts that meet our selection criteria to apply. However, Ingenuity presents over 100 bands at its festival representing a wide range of music tastes: from hip-hop to jazz to electronic to classical. Bands should apply here:www.ingenuitycleveland.com/bands

The Selection Team

Ingenuity brings together about a dozen members of the community to serve as part of the curatorial team. These include professionals in theatre, dance, visual art, interactive technology, and music. We will announce this team shortly.

Ready to apply? Get started here.

Bike Lakewood Community Meeting tonight 12.14.2011

2011-12-14T13:30:00.000-05:00

Bike Lakewood Community Meeting

Lakewood Public Library

15425 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, Ohio 44107

7-8.30pm

Come share your thoughts on how we can make Lakewood the Bicycle Capital of Northeast Ohio.

Click here to view the Bicycle Master Plan.

Lakewood is on the cusp of incorporating the Bicycle Master Plan with the devious goal (its not devious or nefarious, I just want to make it sound so much more involved then it is) of making Lakewood the Cycling Capitol of Ohio. Not a huge goal, but an important one, especially when examined through the lens of how Lakewood is building upon its strengths. Come and share your input, look at the proposal and lets discuss how to strengthen our pedestrian and cycling connections to make our city more friendly to the scale of people.

Sculpture Center Call for Artists [W2S2013]

2011-12-06T10:18:00.001-05:00

The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its 2013 WINDOW TO SCULPTURE EMERGING ARTIST SERIES with an open Call for Ohio Artists. Through the W2S Series, begun in 1991, The Sculpture Center fosters and promotes the careers of exceptional Ohio sculptors during the first ten years of their profession. Sculptors and installation artists are chosen annually for one-person exhibitions in either the Main or Euclid Avenue Gallery with a full color brochure. The 5 week long exhibitions are held January-May.

The staff of The Sculpture Center works closely with the artist throughout the development of the exhibition and the writing of the brochure. The brochure includes an artist's statement, checklist, and three images of the artwork.

FULL INFORMATION: CALL FOR OHIO ARTIST AND APPLICATION FORM

ELIGIBILITY IN BRIEF

The sculptor or installation artist must have an Ohio connection by birth, residency, or schooling, but does not need to be currently residing in Ohio. At the start of the W2S Series (January 2013), the sculptor must have completed an artist degree (undergraduate or graduate), apprenticeship, or period of equivalent self-taught experience at least seven months to a year prior and be no more than ten years into his/her career.

THE REQUIREMENTS

Up to 15 high resolution jpeg images (set at no larger than 300 ppi and 8 x 10 inches)
PDF of image checklist keyed to the images with full information, including title, date, dimensions, and materials
PDF of artist's statement of 1 paragraph
Optional: Exhibition proposal of no more than 2 paragraphs Indication of interest in a collaboration with FiveOne Experimental Orchestra
PDF of resume with contact information on the resume
This Application Form in hard copy with application fee of $30

THE PROCEDURE

Click here to upload images and PDFs. All images must be jpegs (set at no larger than 300 ppi and 8 x 10 inches).

Send a hard copy of this application form and $30 (check, cash, or money order) to The Sculpture Center. Applications are not considered without this form and fee.

THE DEADLINES

Online Upload: Midnight of Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Hardcopy Application Form + Fee: Wednesday, January 11, 2012

BikeLakewood Master Plan Planning Commission Work Session - 2011.12.01

2011-11-29T13:00:00.000-05:00

City of Lakewood Planning Commission discussion + work session

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

City Hall Auditorium

12650 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio 44107

7pm

The City of Lakewood, Ohio has recently released their Draft Bicycle Master Plan(.pdf) for public review and comment and will be having a discussion and work session and encourage interested parties to attend and comment.

This discussion is further exploration of the master plan which began in late 2010 which is centered around developing a plan to better serve Lakewood's cycling community.

The Draft Master Plan can be viewed until December 2nd. Comments may be emailed to the Lakewood Planning Department planning@lakewoodoh.net and include in the subject line: "Bicycle Master Plan Comments".

West Shoreway Public Meeting - 2011.12.01

2011-11-29T09:47:00.001-05:00

West Shoreway Community Meeting
Thursday, Dec. 1st, 2011
Franklin Circle Christian Church
1688 Fulton Road, Cleveland
6-8pm

Currently ODOT and the City of Cleveland are looking to reduce costs to the West Shoreway Project and the lakefront multi-purpose trail is on the table as one of the components looking to be cut. Bike Cleveland is looking to rally support for the trail and urges any and all interested parties to attend the public meeting and be heard.

Bike Cleveland website notice

Save the Seneca County Courthouse Petition

2011-11-17T10:37:00.001-05:00

This found it's way to inbox and I thought I would pass it along for interested parties. I think it is always a shame to tear down old beautiful buildings (even though sometimes it admittedly makes some modicum of sense). However a battle was successfully fought in 2008 to save the courthouse so it obviously has some value.

photo by John Hartsock

Link it on Facebook. Tweet it. Tell your friends.

Online Petition Link:

Please see letters attached as well. Building could be demolished as early as Thursday! Our letter below –

Dear Commissioners,

It is with great respect that this letter is submitted by concerned Constituents of Seneca County, Residents of the State of Ohio and supporting individuals beyond Ohio urging the Board of Commissioners to save from demolition the Seneca County Courthouse. The building is a prominent Tiffin, Ohio landmark, a historic Ohio courthouse and a fine piece of civic architecture. The people challenge the Board to consider that difficult decisions in this time of economic hardship must be balanced with our civic responsibility to maintain and restore society’s important edifices that contribute to the history and character of our cities and our nation.

The Seneca County Courthouse has fallen into cosmetic disrepair, but there is much reason to believe that the 1884 courthouse can be given new life and serve the people of Tiffin once again. There have been many studies performed that indicate the building is structurally sound and an excellent candidate for rehabilitation and reuse. It is our recommendation that plans for demolition are abandoned and consideration is given for either immediate renovation of the building or allowing private citizens to fund the costs and responsibilities for mothballing the building in order to maintain it in safe and reasonable stasis until a time at which the once proud courthouse can be restored.

Buildings of this time were designed and built to represent our society’s values, and they evoke the sense of place and permanence that cannot be replicated or replaced. The year the Seneca County Courthouse was opened saw the beginning of construction of the Statue of Liberty and the completion of the Washington Monument, a testament to the grand age from which this building heralds and the historical importance it signifies. If destroyed, the Seneca County Courthouse would become the first Ohio courthouse on the National Register of Historic Places to be torn down.

With these notions in mind, please reconsider the irreversible decision of demolishing the Seneca County Courthouse so that it can be saved until a later time that it can be restored to prominence and be appreciated by future generations. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration.

Sincerely,

Citizens

Architecture+ faculty presentations - KSU CAED [2011.11.18]

2011-11-16T14:27:00.001-05:00

Architecture + faculty presentations - KSU CAED

Friday, November 18th

Bowman Hall Room 137 [link to campus searchable map]

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

Presenters on tap:

Michael Abrahamson - architecture

Ji Young Cho - interior design

Jillian Coorey - visual communication design

Rebecca Cross - art

Jonathan Fleming - architecture

Charles Graves - architecture

Noel Paloma Lavinski - fashion

Elizabeth Murphy - architecture

Steve Rugare - urban design

Jason Turnidge - architecture

*I believe that this is part of the 2011 Lecture Series "Useful Pasts, Fantastic Futures".

Call for Artists - CLE issues Call for Artists for Temporary Art Exhibit

2011-11-10T08:18:00.000-05:00

Submission Deadline:

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 @ 4pm

mailed or hand delivered

CLE issues Call for Artists for Temporary Art Exhibit

The Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) Temporary Art Exhibition Program announces a “call for artists” for its upcoming juried exhibition entitled, “Women in Uniform,” running from February 1, 2012 through April 30, 2012. The deadline for artist submissions is Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

A uniform is a distinctive form of attire worn to communicate the particularity of a group, as well as the specific role of an individual within a network. In honor of Women's History Month, this exhibition considers the past, present and future of uniforms worn by women.

CLE is currently accepting proposals for artwork from artists working in any two-dimensional medium (paintings, oils, acrylics, watercolors, photography and drawings) depicting images of women wearing uniforms. Military, nursing, police, airlines, etc. are eligible.

Selected exhibitors’ art pieces will be on display in Concourse A, ticketing level, and various other areas throughout the terminal where nearly 30,000 passengers will view them daily. The temporary exhibits change quarterly.

According to Smith, “The Temporary Art Exhibition Program is a free initiative available to all artists in the Cleveland Plus region. The airport wants to showcase the diverse arts and culture of the region.”

The CLE Temporary Art Exhibition Program requirements must include the following:

Completed and signed CLE Temporary Art Exhibit Program application
One CD with digital photos of full exhibit (please include name and exhibit title)
Identify the theme of your submission
A brief written statement explaining how the submission correlates to the theme
A self-addressed stamped envelope if artist would like submission returned
Any images containing models must be accompanied by a photographic consent/model release form

Artists submitting proposals for the CLE Temporary Art Exhibition Program will be judged on:

Capturing the vision of the theme
Cultural, educational, and/or artistic merit
Originality, imagination, and presentation of content
Feasibility of proposal.

Proposals, whether mailed or hand delivered, must be received no later than Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. No postmarks will be accepted.

Mailed:

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

ATTN: Temporary Art Exhibit/Shari Cloud

P.O. Box 81009

Cleveland, OH 44181

Hand delivered:

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Planning and Engineering

ATTN: Temporary Art Exhibit/Shari Cloud

19502 Five Points Road

Cleveland, OH 44135

To download the CLE Temporary Art Exhibition Program click here.

For further information please call (216) 898-5209.

Call for Artists - Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program

2011-11-09T08:15:00.000-05:00

Submission Deadline:
November 21, 2011 @ 5pm

Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program

Call For Entries
CPA is issuing this RFQ to find artists to develop concepts and designs for up to four two-dimensional, graphically printed murals to be installed at one of three neighborhood underpasses located in Cleveland’s Historic Gateway and Tremont neighborhoods. The designs should demonstrate understanding of individual locations and context. The final product will be a series of digitally reproducible files. Therefore, artists across disciplines are encouraged to apply. Photographic, painted, graphic and other renderings are all eligible, so long as they can be digitally transposed to the scale of the panels. Qualified third party contractors will be hired to produce and install the final artwork.

Competition brief can be found at the above link on Cleveland Public Art's website.

Call for Applications - Smack Mellon's Artist Studio Program

2011-11-08T08:06:00.000-05:00

Submission Deadline:
November 17th, 2011 - 11.59pm
apply online only

SMACK MELLON ARTIST STUDIO PROGRAM

Call for Applications

Application Deadline: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 11:59pm EST

Applications will be accepted through an online process. Please scroll down for application instructions, and then click on "Begin application" at the bottom.

The 2012 Studio Program will be housed on the lower level of Smack Mellon’s building at 92 Plymouth Street. The residency will begin May 1, 2012 and end March 31, 2013.

Smack Mellon offers free studio space to eligible artists for an eleven-month period. The program provides artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space and a $5000 fellowship (dependent upon funding). The program does not provide living space. Artists also have access to shared facilities that include a fabrication shop, 2 Macintosh G5 workstations for video editing, DVD burner and CD read/write capabilities, 2 additional Mac work stations, flatbed and slide scanners, DVD players, video projectors and monitors, wireless Internet access and technical support.

Studios range in size from 250 to 300 square feet. Not all studios have windows. Artists will not be permitted to choose their studio.

Artists who are accepted into the program must be prepared to actively use their studio a minimum of 50 hours a month or they will lose it.

**Please also note that due to the possibility of flooding in our basement studios, we strongly recommend that artists keep anything valuable off the floor at all times; therefore artists accustomed to working on the floor should think carefully about whether our studios will meet their needs.

Eligibility

All applicants must be United States citizens or legal Permanent Residents of the United States, 18 years or older, may not be enrolled in any degree program, and must be able to demonstrate need for a studio. Applicants may not be a resident artist in another studio program at the same time as the 2012 Smack Mellon residency.

Selection Process

A panel of arts professionals and artists will review applications and select artists for the 2012 season. Artists will be selected based on the quality of their work and their potential for making the most of their time in the program. The selection process will be completed by the end of February 2012. All applicants will be notified by email. Please do not call the office for selection results.

Deadline for applications: November 17, 2011 11:59pm

Call for artists - Tower on Waterloo

2011-11-07T17:03:00.001-05:00

Submission Due:
10pm
Friday, November 14th, 2011
via email or dropoff
see below:

Tower on Waterloo Road

Request for Proposals

Northeast Shores Development Corporation, in partnership with Arts Collinwood, Cleveland Public Art and the City of Cleveland, is requesting proposals from qualified artists for a temporary artwork installation for the Waterloo Tower Revolving Art Program.

History of the Waterloo Tower and the Revolving Art Program

The Waterloo Tower is a three-story stainless steel structure, which sits on a grassy triangle on the corner of E. 156th St and Waterloo Rd in the North Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. Northeast Shores Development Corporation built the Tower in 2010 in partnership with The City of Cleveland, with support from Councilman Michael D. Polensek and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The design of the Tower was a collaboration of artist, Christopher Diehl, and the fabricator, Mike Moritz of Moritz Wood & Metal.

Prior to it being built, 50 local residents met at Arts Collinwood Gallery to discuss a plan for the Tower and suggested it should be used as a framework for changing public art and should have a stage for performing art such as concerts, poetry readings and plays. Hence, the Waterloo Tower Revolving Public Art Program was started, which oversees the changing art installations that are housed in or in some way incorporate the Tower.

Christopher Diehl, artist from dielio inc, provides some history regarding the philosophy behind the creation of the Tower concept. "The large area of asphalt intersection at E. 156th and Waterloo streets was created in order to turn street trolleys around. The trolleys served this vibrant working class neighborhood and they, in turn, served the Collinwood rail yards. Visitors also poured onto Waterloo in order to spend the day at the Euclid Beach Park Amusement park just north off of Lake Shore Blvd. After the trolley service ended, the amusement park closed and I-90 cut the Waterloo neighborhood off from the rail yards. This intersection became a large and ungainly place for cars and trucks to pass through and a hazard for the unwary pedestrian."

"The Waterloo placemaking Tower stakes a flag, of sorts, to reclaim that area as a new civic heart for this reawakening district now reprogrammed for the visual and entertainment arts. The tower will act as the centerpiece of the new pedestrian-friendly plaza next to Arts Collinwood Gallery and the Café at Arts Collinwood. As such, the raw stainless steel structure will become a site for temporary public art installations and live music performances. Like the neighborhood around it, it becomes the container to house and display the incredible talent and gifts of the Waterloo community."

Budget

The complete, all-inclusive budget for the program is $3,000, which must include installation fees, artist fees and material cost. If you have an idea and would like help seeking out material donations, please let us know and we will try to provide assistance depending on the nature of the need.

Artwork Requirements

The artwork should be designed to remain in place for up to 7 months. Artwork must be designed to require minimal or no maintenance. All maintenance requirements that cannot be met by the artist must be worked out in advance.

Artwork must be affixed to the tower in a safe manner and designed to withstand stormy weather, including high winds and heavy snow. Artworks consisting of other than soft material may require the approval of a structural engineer.

Please see the attached specification drawings of the Tower. The eyebolts pictured can be used as possible mounting hardware and will be provided if needed.

Submission Requirements

Submissions should contain as much information as necessary to clearly convey the concept and may include drawings, renderings, or other visual or written devices. Artist identification information should be on the back of the submission and thus out of the view of those who will be evaluating the proposals.

Submissions must arrive at Arts Collinwood no later than 10 p.m. on Friday, November 14^th.Proposals may be emailed to a .callahan @artscollinwood .org or delivered/mailed to: Arts Collinwood, 15605 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110.

The competition is open to all artists 18 years or older. Collinwood artists are especially encouraged to apply.

Due to the limited budget, time constraints, and the challenging installation space, it is suggested that the installations proposed, be simple in nature.

Selection Process

Entries will be judged by an independent panel of neighborhood stakeholders and art and design professionals. Interested artists are encouraged to visit the park in advance of developing their proposals.

Questions can be directed to Amy Callahan at Arts Collinwood: 216-692-9500 ora.callahan@artscollinwood.org.

Arts Collinwood
15605 Waterloo Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44110

More on bike safety...Bike Theft Prevention Seminar in Detroit Shoreway Tonight

2011-11-07T11:38:00.000-05:00

But when I say bike safety I actually mean safety for your bike. Getting around town is important. For those of us who like to keep the car in the garage (or not even have one) and would rather move through our city at a speed and level that allows us to enjoy the wonderful storefronts and sights, see friends, catch local sales, discover that the new sunroom at our favorite wine/beer shop is now open for visitors, etc. walking or cycling is the best way to do it. However, despite the bicycle being classified as a vehicle by the state of Ohio and having to abide by all the traffic laws there is one distinction that give cycling it most noticeable disadvantage. When someone ganks your bike, it is probably gone forever.

The sad truth is that bicycle theft isn't one of the easiest or productive ways for our police to spend their time. Bikes can easily be stripped down, repainted, shipped all over the place, etc. and very few of the parts have any sort of tracking information (such as VIN numbers on cars). Most communities highly suggest (eg. require) that you register your bike so possibly help with any sort of reclamation if it goes on "walk about" without your knowledge which can help at least show proof of ownership if the police manage to discover it (like the giant warehouse in Toronto full of stolen bikes the police discovered a few years back).

As cycling discovers its resurgence many communities are stepping up their involvement such as Detroit Shoreway in Cleveland with it's...

Bike Theft Prevention Seminar tonight at the Detroit Shoreway Development Organization Atrium
6516 Detroit Avenue # 1 Cleveland, OH 44102

7pm

presented by the Ohio City Bike Co-op and Joy Machines Bike Shop.

A representative from "Assessments and Licenses will also be available to help register your bike for a $5 fee.

Personally I have some tips that I think are very important.

park where you can see your bike (or at least it is highly visible)
have and use a decent lock (like a u-lock)
if you see someone stealing a bike, take a photo with your cellphone, call the police, etc. Don't just be silent and watch it happen. Be part of your community and help others, its harder to be a miscreant when the community cares about what happens.
(I got this idea from a TV show) kid gps locator hidden in the frame, they cost $50 and up. Also it gives you another reason to put a fun gps app on your phone. Also the police will know exactly where to go. You may end up busting a giant bike theft ring and becoming a superstar hero.

Francis Halsband Lecture Canceled - Reed + Stauffer conversation to take place

2011-10-26T22:31:00.003-04:00

Word has come down the pike that this Thursday's lecture at Kent State University to be given by Francis Halsband has been canceled.

A substitute lecture has been announced, Ron Reed of Westlake Reed Leskosky, a national firm based in Cleveland, will be chatting with Thom Stauffer of Thom Stauffer Architect [and professor at Kent State University CAED].

Ron Reed + Thom Stauffer
Thursday, Oct. 27th
Michael Schwartz Center Auditorium
7.15pm

Sorry for the late notice, I personally do not have my shizzle together.

Gary Hustwit introduces "Urbanized" in Columbus, Wed., 2011.10.12

2011-10-10T22:31:00.000-04:00

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011

Wexner Center Film/Video Theater

1871 N. High Street

Columbus, Ohio 43210

7pm

I completely adored the film Helvetica as well as Objectified and have been waiting with baited breathe for the third part of the trilogy by Gary Hustwit known as Urbanized, a look at policies and strategies behind urban planning in order to "provide(sic) a compelling framework for a global discussion about the future of our cities". There has been all sorts of fun discussion regarding suburbia's toll on our society, a frightening look at what is poised as humanity self destruction, but are denser urban areas really the saviors, from a sociological or environmental perspective that many claim. Urbanized will have to do what the tongue in cheek mockumentary "Radiant City" could not, create a discussion about suburbia that isn't instantly polarizing, something all but impossible to achieve in today's America. And while it may be possible to open the eyes of the viewer regarding the detail and passion contained in a seemingly mundane object such as a pencil or toothbrush it may prove nearly impossible to change anyone' interpretation of the concoction of less dense living, lovingly called sprawl, which has manifested itself as the subsidized development known as suburbia.

This Wednesday, the 12th of October, Mr. Hustwit will introduce Urbanized at a screening at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, dangerously near to OSU (as in the crowd should be full of OSU architecture students). I will not be able to attend and it makes me sad. Mostly because Cleveland so desperately needs more conversation of this sort, as our inner ring suburbs are torn apart for byways and highways to connect the ever expanding homogenized greenscape of the expanding suburbs. Having spent the weekend in DC and Arlington it is easy to see just how destructive shoddy and malicious planning can be.

lifted from Arts in Ohio website:

Presented by Wexner Center for the Arts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 (7:00 pm - 10:30 pm)

Following his hits Helvetica (about the ubiquitous font) and Objectified (a survey of product design), Urbanized is the final doc in Gary Hustwit's "design trilogy."

Featuring some of the world's foremost architects, planners, and policymakers-including Rem Koolhaas, Oscar Niemeyer, and Amanda Burden-Urbanized examines the issues and strategies behind urban design. Hustwit follows a diverse range of design projects around the world, providing a compelling framework for a global discussion about the future of our cities. (Gary Hustwit, 2011, 80 mins., video)

Cosponsored by Ohio State's Department of Design.

PRICE
$8.00 - $10.00
DISCOUNTS
Student: $8.00
Senior: $8.00
Member: $8.00

ORDER & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
Box Office: (614) 292-3535
http://www.wexarts.org/info/tickets/

VENUE
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
1871 N. High Street
Columbus, OH 43210
http://www.wexarts.org

Jorge Otero-Pailos Lecture Tonight 9.27 - KSU CAED

2011-09-27T11:01:00.002-04:00

Jorge Otero-Pailos Lecture
Kent State University
Student Center Kiva
09.27.2011
7pm

Roadtrip (12)! Kent State Fall 2011 Lecture Series

2011-09-27T10:56:00.000-04:00

Alright, finally found a poster with dates for Kent's CAED fall 2011 lecture series and parsed the poster to put up text information below for your viewing pleasure.

I am not a fan of how lectures at this institution are promoted or information is handed out, I prefer copy paste techniques, especially because doing this sort of promo is a favor for institutions, you think they would spend some time figuring how to distribute information better. Yes, I am grumpy.

9/6

Peter Q. Bohlin (FAIA, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects)

7:15 PM at Cartwright Hall Auditorium. Toguchi Memorial Lecture

9/12

Mosé Ricci (Riccispaini Architetti Associati, Rome)

6:30 PM at Cartwright Hall Auditorium

9/27

Jorge Otero-Pailos (Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University)

7:00 PM at Student Center Kiva

9/28

Jorge Otero-Pailos (Seminar + Workshop)

8:30 AM at CUDC (space is limited — rsvp to srugare@kent.edu)

10/3

Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular)

7:00 PM at Student Center Kiva

10/4

Jimenez Lai (Seminar + Workshop)

See call for participants for more information

10/27

Frances Halsband (FAIA, Kliment & Halsband Architects)

7:15 PM at Michael Schwartz Center Auditorium

11/x

KSU Architecture + (Faculty Presentations)

11/15

Filippo Caprioglio (Carpioglio Associati, Venice)

6:30 PM at Cartwright Hall Auditorium

Yes Is More: Bjarke Ingels Group

2011-09-27T10:18:00.003-04:00

Yes Is More
BIG [Bjarke Ingels Group]
American release by Taschen Books

I am rarely willing to leaf through any modern monographs, most are photos or illustrations of projects lacking any sort of process or context, a form of self congratulatory masturbation. My stomach is much more willing to accept pseudo intellectual meanderings found in most modern criticism then vapid explanations of window location or careless asides towards materiality (wood is natural, so we used it!). Lately, my views have taken a more professorial role as I search for tomes that can be dissected and easily assimilated by the 2nd year architecture design studio I have taken to teaching lately. The fundamental class rests mostly on convincing the students that developing an organization and language for their design, based upon some sort of studied intent will allow them to explain their design in a logical and concise manner instead of relying on replicating historical styles or architectural moves. Sure we rely on a standard palette for solid and void, point/line/plane, etc. but we deviate from classical orders and proportions so that the students can practice space making on their own.

When was first handed a copy of Yes Is More by a GA two years ago I was immediately taken aback by the how the projects were very simple diagrammatic structures coupled with a healthy dose of post rationalization (the balcony view) and iteration, all topics that I find fundamental to good design creation (and explanation). Stumbling across the video for 8-House I was convinced, here was a source I could share with the students. There in lies the power of Yes Is More and BIG.

Based upon a showing of work at the Danish Architecture Center, the Yes Is More compendium is a supplement to an exhibit, edited to stand alone as a cartoon walkthrough of projects. Instead of merely showing finished projects, there is explanation of context, relationships and iterations which illustrate how important constant development and flexibility can be. The intent of the project is always evolving, consuming new information in a manner that allows the project response to be specific, not just to site but also to society in an easily digestible manner.

That is BIG's largest strength and most powerful tool in the propaganda box (don't get me wrong, this is propaganda at it's very base and very well executed). People, society loves to feel clever, we loathe things that make us feel weak and stupid. If an architect can explain their project (no matter the complexity) in a manner that allows the public to not only understand but possibly anticipate, the public feels as if they can understand this obtuse thing, architecture. This can be done without the dangerous democratization of design as BIG illustrates in the Yes Is More work. Simple diagramming, obvious slight of hand with imagery, brief synapses of explanation in lieu of drawn out treatises make the work not only accessible but quite easy to like. All this is accomplished without sacrificing the design intent, which makes it all the more impressive. While many of the projects are unbuilt quick renderings lacking structural significance, there is enough expressed to understand the creation of the spaces, which is what the architecture is really about anyway.

Yes Is More coupled with the BIG Vimeo channel is showing the marketing savvy of Ingels, making architecture (that pushes the boundaries to some extent) accessible to the general public which in turn is good for all of us struggling with how to explain what we want to do with our big words and oversized glossy images.

Roadtrip (11)! - the Ohio State University KSA Lecture Series: Autumn 2011 "Precision"

2011-09-24T19:57:00.002-04:00

KSA Lecture Series: Autumn 2011Precision

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Unless noted, all lectures will be held at the Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250) at 5:30 PM.

Craig Scott / ISAR: Wednesday, October 5
Stephen Kieran / Kieran Timberlake: Wednesday, October 12
Henry Smith-Miller / Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects: Wednesday, October 19
Matthew Coolidge / Center for Land Use Interpretation: Friday, October 21
Laura Hartman / Fernau & Hartman Architects: Wednesday, October 26
Michael Blier / Landworks Studio: Wednesday, November 2
Dan Kildee / Center for Community Progress: Wednesday, November 9
Liz Diller / Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Monday, November 21
Mershon Auditorium

TOIstudio

Baker-Nord Center Spring 2012 Lecture Series - Case Western Reserve University

Spring 2012

A Bedouin at the Window: Readings from "The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia"

Mary Helen Stefaniak

Elsa Leichter's Second Chance: Interruptions and Continuities in a Refugee Social Worker's Transatlantic Career

Barbara Reiterer

A New Future for the Past: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

John Grabowski

Film Screening and Discussion: Bill Cunningham New York

Organizing Justice: Forming the Preußischer Richterverein and Advocating for Judges

Kenneth F. Ledford

Paul Iversen, Andrea De Giorgi

The Double Life of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus

The Hollywood Sign: How a Temporary Commercial Sign Became a Permanent International Icon

Leo Braudy

Gaming the World: How Sports in Europe and America Reflect the Global and the Local in Similar and Different Ways

Andrei Markovits

Poetry in the Museum

Jorie Graham

Climate Catastrophes in the Solar System: Lessons for Earth

David Grinspoon

Breaking Flesh: Performance, Anatomy, Memory

Elina Gertsman

Rembrandt van Rijn: A Conversation

Mariët Westermann, Svetlana Alpers

Creating a Sense of Place: University Circle — Where the Arts have Created a Life–Enhancing Environment

Nina Gibans

Getting Published

Eleanor H. Goodman

Community Meeting - Cleveland's Downtown Lakefront 2012.01.25

University Park Alliance [University of Akron]: 2012 Urban Innovators Speaker Series

January 31st:

The Urban Alternative: Future Economic Impact of UPA’s Core City Vision Plan - David Primm, Tripp Umbach, Pittsburgh, PA, and Eric Anthony Johnson, Ph.D., University Park Alliance February 29th:

Building a Vibrant Community: Artists’ Live/Work Space as a Redevelopment Catalyst - Wendy Holmes, Artspace, Minneapolis, MNMarch 28th:

Healthy Food Hubs: Eliminating Food Deserts and Supporting Local Economies - Steve Davies, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY

Roadtrip! - University of Miami School of Architecture Spring 2012 Events

Roadtrip! - University of Mich: Taubman College of Architeture Spring 2012 Lecture Series

Event Supporters

Roadtrip! - University of Buffalo School of Arch + Planning Spring 2012 Lecture Series

University of Buffalo School of Architecture and PlanningSpring 2012 Lecture Series: "Relocation"All Lectures begin at 5:30 pm in Crosby 301.01.25.12 Heather Roberge of Murmur

Roadtrip! - OSU Knowlton School of Arch 2012 Lecture Series

Winter + Spring 2012: Practice

About the KSA Lecture Series

Roadtrip! - Carnegie Mellon Spring 2012 Lecture Series

cosponsored by the Heinz Archiectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art

All events take place at the Carnegie Museum complex at 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh; please see individual listing for theater venue

MONDAY 23 JANUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATERTronic Studio, New York'New Spaces for New Bodies'

MONDAY 30 JANUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATERCarnegie Mellon University'Henry Hornbostel's College of Fine Arts: Entries from a Built Encyclopedia'

FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSIC HALLMaya Lin Studio, New York'Artist Talk and Opening Reception'

The Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry is co-presented by the CMU School of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Art

Alan H Rider Distinguished LectureTUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALLZaha Hadid Architects, London'Parametric Order - 21st Century Architectural Order'

William Finglass LectureMONDAY 20 FEBRUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATERdECOi Architects/ MIT'On Paramorphs and the Alloplastic'

WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALLUNStudio, Amsterdam'The New Understanding'

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services

Hans Vetter Memorial LectureMONDAY 02 APRIL6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATERPeter Stutchbury Architecture, Sydney Australia'By the Light - of the Silvery Moon'

Henry Hornbostel Lecture with reception sponsored by Epic MetalsMONDAY 23 APRIL6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALLTatiana Bilbao SC, Mexico City'How We Do Architecture'

IngenuityFest 2012 Call for Entries

2012 Call for Entries

Bike Lakewood Community Meeting tonight 12.14.2011

Sculpture Center Call for Artists [W2S2013]

BikeLakewood Master Plan Planning Commission Work Session - 2011.12.01

West Shoreway Public Meeting - 2011.12.01

Save the Seneca County Courthouse Petition

Architecture+ faculty presentations - KSU CAED [2011.11.18]

Call for Artists - CLE issues Call for Artists for Temporary Art Exhibit

Call for Artists - Cleveland Innerbelt Project Mural Art Program

Call for Applications - Smack Mellon's Artist Studio Program

SMACK MELLON ARTIST STUDIO PROGRAM

Call for artists - Tower on Waterloo

More on bike safety...Bike Theft Prevention Seminar in Detroit Shoreway Tonight

Francis Halsband Lecture Canceled - Reed + Stauffer conversation to take place

Gary Hustwit introduces "Urbanized" in Columbus, Wed., 2011.10.12

Jorge Otero-Pailos Lecture Tonight 9.27 - KSU CAED

Roadtrip (12)! Kent State Fall 2011 Lecture Series

Yes Is More: Bjarke Ingels Group

Roadtrip (11)! - the Ohio State University KSA Lecture Series: Autumn 2011 "Precision"

About the KSA Lecture Series

The Urban Alternative: Future Economic Impact of UPA’s Core City Vision Plan - David Primm, Tripp Umbach, Pittsburgh, PA, and Eric Anthony Johnson, Ph.D., University Park Alliance
February 29^th:

Building a Vibrant Community: Artists’ Live/Work Space as a Redevelopment Catalyst - Wendy Holmes, Artspace, Minneapolis, MN
March 28^th:

University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
Spring 2012

Lecture Series: "Relocation"
All Lectures begin at 5:30 pm in Crosby 301.
01.25.12 Heather Roberge of Murmur

MONDAY 23 JANUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Tronic Studio, New York
'New Spaces for New Bodies'

MONDAY 30 JANUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Carnegie Mellon University
'Henry Hornbostel's College of Fine Arts: Entries from a Built Encyclopedia'

FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL
Maya Lin Studio, New York
'Artist Talk and Opening Reception'

Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
Zaha Hadid Architects, London
'Parametric Order - 21st Century Architectural Order'

William Finglass Lecture
MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
dECOi Architects/ MIT
'On Paramorphs and the Alloplastic'

WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
UNStudio, Amsterdam
'The New Understanding'

Hans Vetter Memorial Lecture
MONDAY 02 APRIL
6:00PM, CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART THEATER
Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Sydney Australia
'By the Light - of the Silvery Moon'

Henry Hornbostel Lecture with reception sponsored by Epic Metals
MONDAY 23 APRIL
6:00PM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL
Tatiana Bilbao SC, Mexico City
'How We Do Architecture'