Honor Roll: AOL Award to Angela Riechers
On the heels of a national ad campaign featuring Chuck Close’s portraits of artists and entertainers, Internet company AOL recently established a new grant program to support the creative community. The AOL Artists 25 for 25 program drew more than 9,000 applications, and among the winners is alumnus Angela Riechers (MFA 2010 Design Criticism). Riechers [...]
Honor Roll: Jack Turits Receives 2010 Harlem International Film Festival Award
Encouraging the production of innovative and thought-provoking new films, the annual Harlem International Film Festival features an award ceremony that includes accolades for Best World Film, Best Narrative Shorts and Best Animation. This year, one of the festival’s two Best Youth Awards went to BFA Film, Video and Animation Department student Jack Turits for his [...]
Honor Roll: YouTube Play
YouTube Play, a collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, YouTube, HP and Intel, is a new initiative that aims to bring attention to innovative online videos. The final jury selection for this “Biennial of Creative Video” includes work by two members of the SVA community: Perry Bard, from the BFA Fine Arts Department faculty, [...]
