Winners of the Commercial Competition and Education Video Competition with film and television department chair Amy Lerner Maddox’s class were announced at Hamilton Hall on World No Tobacco Day May 29. The competitions were sponsored by the health and wellness department through a grant from the Chatham Effingham Tobacco Use Prevention Program.

In the Commercial Competition, Group 3 (Anthony Johnson, Dan Latham and Zoran Gvojic) won first place, Group 2 (Kandice Michelin, Adam Baldowski, Lisa Hepburn and Jelani Hardy) won second place and Group 1 (Steve Schafer) won third place. Schafer, Baldowski, Hardy, Michelin, Hepburn and Alex Glen won first place in the Educational Video Competition. Group 3 (Johnson, Latham and Gvojic) also won the Fashion and Films Video Competition funded by a grant from the Coalition for World No Tobacco Day.


Bryan G. Allsop, of Concord, N.H., has been awarded the Frances Larkin McCommon Scholarship. Allsop has been accepted by SCAD and plans to major in film and television.

This $7,500 per year scholarship is awarded by the college to a limited number of accepted students demonstrating superior artistic ability through portfolio presentation as judged by the Scholarship Review Committee.


Architecture student Virginia Bernard was named a finalist in the fifth annual Berkeley Prize Essay Contest, an international essay contest on environmental design sponsored by the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to the first, second and third prizes awarded, the committee named four people as finalists, including Bernard. The 2003 contest attracted 130 entries from students representing 31 countries and 81 individual undergraduate architecture programs on six continents. The students responded to the question: When architects strive to create lasting monuments, some become part of the significant cultural heritage of our age. These successes seem to embody the most socially important values of a city, region, country or even the world. Other attempts are only the reflection of the vanity of the designer or client and pass into oblivion. Worse, they become a permanent blight on the environment. As an architect, specifically, how can your work simultaneously embody the social values of one place, a particular culture and universal human concerns?

All aspects of the 2003 competition and the archive of the Berkeley Prize Endowment may be viewed online at http://www.berkeleyprize.org.

Computer art professor David Bokser had his piece, “Traffik,” accepted into the Animation Festival at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference in July.


Graphic design professor Scott Boylston’s logo for an American Red Cross fund-raising event is featured in the now published, “Identity Solutions: How to Create Effective Brands with Letterheads, Logos and Business Cards.” This book was published by How Design Books and can be ordered online at Amazon.com.


Film and television professor Paul “Bear” Brown has received a Teacher Recognition Certificate from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts given in appreciation for encouraging William Hamilton, a Rising Star student, in his artistic development.


The “U-Boat attack,” a group project within the computer art department, is being incorporated into a Fox News channel production titled “War Stories.”


Illustration alumnus Joseph Cowan (B.F.A. 2002) is working full time as an illustrator and graphic designer for MBC-Direct, a loyalty rebate card company.


New computer art graduate Colin Cromwell was hired by Rhythm and Hues, a major animation studio in Los Angeles, Calif.


Painting student Dana Crossan has been commissioned by KT&D insurance to create three works of art as a result of a press kit she sent out in Self Promotion class.


Graphic design students Nicholas Davidson, Julia Kuswardi, Alaina LaGarde, Ashley Lane, Leila Singleton and Nina Svebeck placed in the top 10 out of 140 participating students in the AIGA-Jax 13th Annual Portfolio Review. Davidson placed first.


Fibers students Victoria Davis, Veronique Lanza and Claire Sanchez and graduate students Sally Kroehnke, Janet Allen and Yukiko Shiihara have been selected to participate in the Surface Design Association’s “The Next Wave,” a juried student competition. The work will be exhibited during the 12th International Surface Design Conference at The Opie Gallery, 2012 Baltimore St., Kansas City, Mo., in June.

Photography alumna Sabrina De La Hoz (B.F.A. 1997) is co-owner of Estudio Siete, a graphic design and photography studio.


Perry Dilbeck (M.F.A., photography 1998) has a photography exhibition “The Last Harvest” at The Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson St., Pittsburgh Pa., May 5-31.


Metals and jewelry student Mary Dingledine was invited to show at “Daisy Days” an annual sales event May 2-3, hosted by St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Va., where 15 percent of all proceeds are donated to the school.


Liberal arts professor Mary Doll presented a paper titled “Boundary Lessness,” which discussed postmodern writers pushing the boundary between self and cosmos, at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum, held in Chicago, Ill., April 17-20.


Fashion alumna Heather Dutton (B.F.A. 1995) started her own freelance design business, “Hang Tight Studio.” The business has been running for three years and designs textiles, graphics and fashions for companies such as Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, JCPenny and Target.


Computer art professor Cheryl Fell, under the direction of Digital Domain, is creating the titles for the animations featured at this year’s SIGGRAPH Electronic and Animation Theaters.


Mellissa F. Frangias, of Madison, Ala., and Joe D. Crawford, of Capitol Heights, Md., have been awarded the Combined Merit Scholarship. Frangias and Crawford both have been accepted to SCAD and Frangias plans to major in film and television.

This $7,500 per year scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students who have shown outstanding ability in both academic and artistic endeavors. Criteria include documentation of honors and achievements such as a high grade point average, test scores above the national average, or completion of an International Baccalaureate diploma, and presentation of an excellent portfolio.


Images of student work, along with mention of the SCAD furniture design program, appeared in the Furniture Society newsletter, “Furniture Matters,” February 2003.


Architectural history professor Thomas Gensheimer attended African Urban Spaces Conference at the University of Texas at Austin where he presented a paper on the Impact of Globalizing Forces on the Medieval Swahili City, March 28-30.


Photography alumnus Michael Goesele (B.F.A. 2002) held his own photography exhibition titled, “Dunkle Aussichten II,” May 2 in New York City.


Graphic design student Perrin Hall has been hired as a paid summer intern at Chicago-based agency Capps Digital, which handles companies such as Walt Disney, McDonald’s, Marlboro and Heinz.


Heather Howard, of Owensboro, Ky., was recently awarded the BB&T Scholarship. Howard is pursuing an M.F.A. in film and television at SCAD.

This $800 scholarship is awarded annually to one full-time student who has earned a minimum of 45 credit hours at the Savannah College of Art and Design, with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0. The scholarship is renewable as long as the recipient continues to meet the scholarship criteria: the applicant’s permanent address must be within the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia or West Virginia.


Sequential art student Elbonie Jackson will go to to New York City this summer to intern with Scholastic Children’s Defense Fund.


Furniture design masters candidate Seth Keaveny exhibited and attended the International Furniture Fair in Milan where “Abitare,” an Italian design magazine, featured a photograph of him and his work in their daily publication associated with the fair.


Graphic design alumna Brianna Kelley (B.F.A. 2002) is a designer with Orion Printing in New Jersey.


Fashion professor Jacqueline Keuler was commissioned to write an article for Threads magazine titled “Anatomy of Bustier.” Keuler worked with an associate editor for the magazine to create an expanded color layout, which will include images of two bustiers created for the article.


Illustration professor Dick Krepel had one of his illustrations selected for inclusion in this year’s Society of Illustrators traveling exhibition. Another was selected for inclusion in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 44, July 2003. One of his illustrations also is included in a major American illustration exhibition at the Hallmark Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Mo., May 21 through July.


Computer art professor Roy LaGrone is participating in the upcoming exhibition “New Visions” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington D.C., Oct. 3 - Dec. 28.

One of Lagrone’s large-scale digital pieces, an Iris print titled, “Orientation Module #1,” was selected for inclusion in the upcoming exhibition, “CG03: Computer Graphics 2003” on view at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 art gallery in San Diego, Calif., in July.


Graphic design student Ashley Lane won second place and Caio Oyafusa received an honorable mention in the exhibition, “ALMOST FAMOUS: A National Survey of Graphic Design in America.” The exhibition was hosted by The Giles Gallery at Eastern Kentucky University in conjunction with their department of art and design, Feb. 13 - March 7.


Carol Miller Lemke in the residence life department and her husband Michael proudly announce the birth of their son, William Roland Miller Lemke. Will arrived three weeks early June 9 at 6:35 p.m. at Memorial Medical Center in Savannah, weighed 7 lbs. 15 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. Mother and baby are doing well.


Illustration professor Julie Lieberman’s students’ jellybean art is currently on exhibition in Atlanta at the Phipps Plaza.


Chercy Lott and David Foote’s advertising classes designed two ads for The Birkenstock Company. Their work will be displayed in the windows of the company’s storefront at 229 W. Broughton St.


Sequential art alumni Lee Louridge (B.F.A. 1993), Nick Dragotta (B.F.A. 1997) and professor John Lowe created “Toonami: Endgame,” a Cartoon Network online comic that went live March 31.


Photography alumna Andrea Murrill (M.F.A. 2003) has accepted a position with Ball Sate University in Muncie, Ind.