November_Decemebr2022_CollegeNews

ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art 2 | November & December | College News FACULTY ACCOLADES Courtney Cone received a $100,000 grant from the Art for Justice Fund (in partnership with the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) to support the creation of a new body of work, which aims to initiate coalition building among women, LGBTQ, and non-binary people, and connect the experience of incarceration to the current, ongoing threats to our body autonomy. Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s work was featured in the article “Craftivism: protest craft” in Textura ,  an on- line magazine for material culture published by the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center in Hebrew. It was established to create a platform for an on-going, interesting, meaningful, and contemporary dialogue about ceramic art and design, considering local and global history of material culture.  [1] Jennifer recently joined the board of Threewalls in Chicago, Illinois. Threewalls is an evolving Blk-space and fosters contemporary art practices that respond to lived experiences, encouraging connections beyond art.  Her porcelain cowgirl boots “Giddy Up” are included in the exhibition as distinguished alumni in Now and Then: Seven decades of Kent State Ceramics at Kent State University.  Jennifer gave a visiting artist lecture to the University of Arkansas School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design’s Jewelry/Metals Department.  Her video piece Tame is included in Clay Invitational at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at the University of Alabama.  Jennifer’s work and curatorial project at Best Quality Daughter restaurant in San Antonio was mentioned in “Her First Rodeo” in the November issue of Bon Appetit magazine.  Jennifer Ling Datchuk’s Work - “Live To Die” Jeff Davis was commissioned by H-E-B Corporation Jonathan Faber’s Idyll Currents at the Cohen Center for the Arts 1 3 2