From your first day here in the Art Department, you will be encouraged to push beyond what is
common, to produce art that is innovative and distinct. You'll begin to appreciate a culture of
creativity that fosters the connection between critical thinking and art making. From drawing,
painting, ceramics, photography, cinematography, digital film editing and production, web
design, graphic design, typography, software and hardware art with robotics, 2D and 3D
animation and visual effects, and more, you will be challenged and inspired to realize elements
of your boundless imagination in various forms. The Art Department is located in the Washburn
Arts Center, a building named for Cadwallader Washburn, a Gallaudet graduate (class of 1890),
who became world renowned for his etchings. Renovated in 2002, the building has expanded
studio spaces, dark room, and a gallery for exhibitions. Computer based classrooms and labs
offer students a state-of-the-art environment where they can learn and master software and
design programs standard to the evolving field of visual art. In addition to the Washburn Arts
Center, the Gatehouse is also being used by the Art, Theater, and Physics Departments as a
cross-disciplinary space for teaching, discussion, and creative experimentation. Nicknamed
the FunColab, http://www.funcolab.com, students will work together to expand the scope of
human action through science, technology and the arts.
OUR PROGRAM GOALS
A rigorous course of study lays the groundwork for classes that build upon concepts and
skills that ultimately end in mastery. Infused into our curriculum are five areas of emphasis:
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
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OUR MISSION
Gallaudet University's Art Department offers a bilingual, diverse, and multicultural program
designed to ensure the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of
hearing individuals through American Sign Language and English. Within this context, we
cultivate a multifaceted, interdisciplinary understanding of art as fundamental to human
expression and dialog. We embrace the creative potentials of our discipline whether
expressed traditionally or through cutting-edge technology. Our curriculum provides
majors and non-majors a balance of studio art, graphic design, digital media and art history.
Outside our doorstep world-renowned museums, galleries and professional studios beckon
us to visit and conduct research. In these off-site classroom spaces and in our classrooms
and studios on campus, we encourage students to engage in their community, become
creative problem solvers, and explore the potential of art as a force for positive social change.
Gallery Exhibition Schedules
PLEASE COME IN
FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(1st Tuesday of Every Month at 6pm)
http://art.gallaudet.edu
http://www.funcolab.com/
"What's the skinny?" The FUNcolab holds "Skinny Tuesdays" the first Tuesday of every month at the old Gallaudet Gatehouse. Skinny Tuesdays are an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thoughts, and new cross disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds are invited to speak, present their projects, and to discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries. A full spread of veggies, fruit and cheese are served.
Contact max.kazemzadeh@gallaudet.edu with any questions regarding the event.
ART DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
MICHELLE MCAULIFFE:
Michelle McAuliffe, Professor of Art & Media Technology, has been interviewed recently for her work on a nationally recognized site exposing emerging artists called thestudiovisit.com. View the video:
http://thestudiovisit.com/michelle-mcauliffe >
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Michelle McAuliffe, Professor of Art & Media Technology, also gave a presentation at TEDxIslay in Austin in May, 2010. View the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMIGymDVTI >
MAX KAZEMZADEH:
Since May Max Kazemzadeh, Professor of Art & Media Technology, has taken two trips to China and a long trip to Spain where he worked on a series of 6 different Projects: Interactive Installation, Hardware, Software, Cell Phone Application Projects, connected to DIY Open Source Urban Farming. In his first trip to China in June, Kazemzadeh taught an interactive computer vision installation workshop at the Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing which was followed by an exhibition of his interactive work entitled Wishing Well and Plantenkere in the New Media Beijing Exhibition at the Song Zhuang Museum of Art (still on view). During his second trip to China in August, Kazemzadeh presented a paper in the Transcultural Tendencies, Transmedial Transactions Conference at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University, where he also installed a work for an exhibition. In addition, in August Kazemzadeh completed a custom designed motion graphics film for the United Nations.
PAUL JOHNSON:
Art Professor Paul Johnson recently returned from a sabbatical in Italy on a Fullbright Scholarship Award.
ANDRE PELLERIN:
Andre Pellerin, Art Gallery, Lab & Equipment Specialist, is presently exhibiting his ceramic works in a solo exhibition entitled "Bottles and Vases" from March 25-April 23, 2011 at the Mattawoman Creek Art Center (MCAC) in Marbury, Maryland. Visit the site
http://www.mattawomanart.org >
GALLAUDET ART DEPARTMENT ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS:
ROBYN GIRARD:
Robyn Girard, Gallaudet Art Department alumn, was recently included in an article entitled "Stories from SXSW: Films That Speak to Deaf and Hearing Audiences Alike" Read the article and view the videos here:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/03/uniting-the-hearing-and-deaf-through-visual-storytelling-at-sxsw.html >
MICHAEL NESMITH:
Michael Nesmith, Gallaudet Art Department alumn, was recently interviewed on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago website. View the video interview here:
http://www.saic.edu/gallery/saic_featured10.php?album=1945&vFile=Michael_Nesmith
MARK GOBBLE:
Mark Gobble, Gallaudet alumn, recently started his own skateboard company called Mark Skateboards (http://www.markskateboards.com) focused on life, art, and balancing careers with the healthy creative sport skateboarding. Gobble and has enlisted a group of skateboarders to represent the Mark Skateboards skate team. Art Department Professor Max Kazemzadeh, an emergent media artist, grew up skateboarding and has now teamed up with Mark Skateboards, to set up collaborations, possible remote internships, and product/graphic design competitions with Gallaudet Art students.
[ FUNcolab ] Collaborative Initiative
at the Gate House
As an interdisciplinary initiative between ART, PHYSICS, & THEATER Departments at Gallaudet
University in Washington DC, FUNcolab is a space where Gallaudet students are able and
encouraged to investigate the overlapping philosophies, technologies, and processes between
the artistic, scientific, theatrical, and technological in the open creative setting of the Gallaudet
University Gate House. While the FUNcolab has been established to serve students within these
three areas, it is the hope of the founding faculty members, Max Kazemzadeh (ART), Ethan
Sinnott (THEATER), and Henry David Snyder (PHYSICS) and their departments that the
FUNcolab becomes a center for collaboration, interdisciplinary research and creative thinking
across Gallaudet, and will become a gateway for students to connect to progressive and creative
groups and industries outside of Gallaudet University. Visit the FUNcolab website where projects
will be posted and blogs displaying documentation from events:
WWW.FUNCOLAB.COM
WPA
(Washington Project for the Arts)
Collaboration w/the
The Art Department and FunColab is presently working with the WPA, Washington Project for
the Arts on developing a residency program for 2012 inviting professional artists, members of
the WPA, to come work and share their processes and techniques first-hand with Gallaudet
students.
DASERs events at the CPNAS
(Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences)
The director of the CPNAS: Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, JD Talasek
has set up interpreters for ALL of this year's DASERs (DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous)
events so that the Gallaudet community can attend and participate in the dialogue on the
integration of art and science. JD Talasek is also involved in the discussion and use of the
FunColab space as an integrative multidisciplinary creativity lab bridging the art/science and
on/off campus gaps.
