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Faculty News
Theresa Chen, an instructor of applied music and performance (jazz piano) in the Setnor School of Music, has released a new album, "Whispering to God." Through her unique rendition of sacred jazz works, she hopes to share her care to the world, invite everyone to join the prayer for peace on Earth, and bring comfort and encouragement to those who are suffering. Listen and download the album.
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Faculty News
James Haywood Rolling Jr., professor of arts education in the School of Art and School of Education, was interviewed for the NPR story "For kids grappling with the pandemic's traumas, art classes can be an oasis."
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Faculty News
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, co-authored the book "Digital Performance in Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2022) with Ariel Gratch. The book combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Through a diverse range of topics and examples—including discussions of self-identity, surveillance, mourning, internet memes, storytelling, ritual, political action, and activism—it addresses how the physical and virtual have become inseparable in everyday life, and how the digital is rooted in embodied action.
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Whitney Phillips, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, was quoted in the Columbia Journalism Review story “What can we do about society’s ‘information disorder’?” She was also interviewed for The New York Times article “The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme.”
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Todd Herreman, associate teaching professor of music industry and technologies and co-director of the audio arts program in the Setnor School of Music, was interviewed by WSYR-TV on working in the studio with Prince for the recording of "Sign O’ the Times."
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Jennifer DeLucia, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, was elected to the American Art Therapy Association's Board of Directors. Rochele Royster, assistant professor of art therapy, also serves on the board.
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Wendy K. Moy, assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, wrote the chapter "Come Together: An Ethnography of the Seattle Men’s Chorus family" for "Together in Music: Coordination, expression, participation" (Oxford University Press, 2021). "Together in Music" examines ensemble performance in music, looking at the organizational, psychological, and social processes at play during group practice and performance. Moy's chapter is an ethnographic study of the Seattle Men’s Chorus, the largest community chorus in North America and the largest gay men’s chorus in the world.
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Faculty News
Two members of the School of Design's industrial and interaction design (IID) program were recently elected to the 2022-23 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Education Council: Louise Manfredi, an assistant professor of IID who will represent the Northeast District, and IID alumnus James Rudolph '06, who will represent the Midwest District. Rudolph is an assistant professor of industrial design at the University of Notre Dame. Manfredi was also named a fellow of the RSA, the royal society for arts, manufactures, and commerce. The fellowship is an inclusive values-based community committed to finding better ways of thinking about...
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Faculty News
Sharif Bey, associate professor in the School of Art, is having the solo show "Excavations" at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh through March 6, 2022. The exhibition presents new works inspired by the artist’s "excavations" of the museum collections that first piqued his interest as a youth visiting Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. On view are mask-like forms, necklaces made from pinch pot-style vessels as beads, and site-specific temporary installations that incorporate Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s broad collections of artifacts and specimens.
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Faculty News
Rochele Royster, assistant professor of art therapy in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, was named a 2021 Educator of Distinction by the Illinois Art Education Association. The award recognizes notable, high-caliber art and design professionals who serve as exemplars for the field. She is exhibiting her work “Dolls4Peace” in the four-person show Learned Objects through February 13, 2022, at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. Read More...
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Faculty News
The Setnor School of Music's Setnor Auditorium was featured in an article on Commercial Integrator for modernizing and upgrading its infrastructure with the help of Dante, Audinate’s AVoIP solution. The renovation included a move from analog cabling to audio networking while preserving the historical significance of the building. Kevin Muldoon '10 G'13, faculty member and Setnor's sound recording engineer, was interviewed.
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Faculty News
Through her nonprofit Chorosynthesis, Wendy K. Moy, assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music and School of Education, launched the second version of the Empowering Silenced Voices Choral Database, a free searchable database of choral literature on themes of social consciousness. She was selected to co-present the workshop "Singing for Social Consciousness -- Amendment: Righting Our Wrongs" at the National College Music Society Conference, held in October in Rochester, New York.
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Faculty News
Holly Greenberg, associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, exhibited work in the group show "In Person" at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York.
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Ralph Lorenz, senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and professor of music in the Setnor School of Music, virtually presented the paper “A Forbidden Tune from the Nazi Past and Its Transformation to Remember a Fallen Child: The Case of Lukas Foss’s Elegy for Anne Frank” at the 45th German Studies Association Annual Conference.
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Student News
"The Secret," a film by Mmakgosi Anita Tau, a graduate film student in the Department of Transmedia, was runner-up for the Best Directing Award at the Gofobo Fast Forward Film Festival. "Soulmates," a film by Manya Gadhok, also a graduate film student, received a runner-up award for Best Actor.
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Faculty News
Jody Nyboer, assistant professor of environmental and interior design and the M.F.A. in design, is the author of "Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Attributes of the School Environment That Teachers Relate to Creative Instruction," which is published in "Educational Technology Beyond Content. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations" (Springer, Cham, 2020) and is co-author of "Effective Design Critique Strategies Across Disciplines" (University of Minnesota Libraries, 2020), which is the first of its kind--a collection of immersive critiquing strategies and related scholarship developed by a diverse and international group of authors.
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Faculty News
Doug DuBois, associate professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia, was awarded a Faculty Fellows grant for the 2022-23 academic year from Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). He will participate in a four-week summer residency in 2022 at SCRC and will revise and expand a special topics course utilizing several of SCRC’s photographic collections to build a critical framework for the study and practice of portraiture.
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Faculty News
Susan D'Amato, associate professor of studio arts in the School of Art, is exhibiting work in the virtual show "Liminal" at Portland's Verum Ultimum Art Gallery.
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Faculty News
Rochele Royster, assistant professor of art therapy in the Department of Creative Arts Therapy, is exhibiting work in the four-person show Learned Objects Sept. 9-Feb. 13, 2022, at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. As educators and activists, the exhibiting artists create conditions for participants in their civically-engaged projects to build community, share knowledge, collaborate, and raise consciousness about pressing social issues.
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Student News
Ahn Dao ’23, an industrial and interaction design major in the School of Design, was part of a team that received an honorable mention at Invent@SU 2021. The team Glisten designed a device aimed at helping people monitor their dental health at home and provide pre-diagnostic information to a dentist. Invent@SU helps transform undergraduate students into inventors as they design, prototype, and pitch original devices.
