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Faculty:
Professor's Work Wins Top Prize In Exhibition (image-Schulenberg)
 Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Melissa Schulenberg won the Purchase Award for work in the North Country Regional Juried Art Show, presented during the summer of 2004 at the Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam.
The North Country Regional Juried Art Show has been presented every summer for over 20 years at the Gibson Gallery and is open to artists who are residents of the North Country within a 200-mile radius of Potsdam , including Canada and Vermont .
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The exhibition jurors (this year SUNY Oswego Professor of Art Richard Zakin and Helen Zakin, professor of art history and director of the gallery at SUNY Oswego) also select award-winners. The Purchase Award is the top award in the exhibition. Schulenberg's award-winning woodcut, Drift, will be submitted to the Gibson Gallery Collections Committee for acceptance into its Permanent Collection. The Purchase Award also includes the opportunity, along with the three top award-winners for the past three years, to participate the Gibson Gallery's Triennial Exhibition of North Country Juried Show Award Winners, taking place from January 28 to February 25, 2005 .
Schulenberg earned her undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College , a master's degree at Purdue University , and the MFA at the University of Colorado/Boulder. Prior to joining the St. Lawrence faculty in 2002, she taught at Boulder and at Grinnell College in Iowa . Her work is frequently presented in juried exhibitions.
Students:
Students, Faculty, Staff Exhibit 'Democratic Art'
Students, faculty and staff from St. Lawrence contributed works to an exhibition that has been termed "democratic art activity." "Learning To Love You More In The North Country" was exhibited at the Creative Spirit Arts Center in Potsdam.
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Amy Hauber worked with students in Sculpture I and II courses, and others, to put together the experimental/collaborative show, which includes sculptural installation, photography, video, electronic music and other forms of work.
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Inspiration for the exhibition came from an international collaborative project, "Learning to Love You More," an "ever-changing Web site and series of non-Web exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world. Presentations are comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher and various guests."
The artists further define "democratic art activity": "Democratic art as freedom from the burden, impossibility and supremacy of 'original' thought, market definitions of genius, value and salability. It is democracy as collaboration and shared expression. The political authority in this work is found in the collective, the average-ness and the everyday (though by no means mundane). This experiment and the works that have resulted de-centralize the individual ego and attempt to diminish the collective anxiety and guilt that many Americans seem to feel during this difficult period in our global history."
Those whose work was exhibited at the Creative Spirit Arts Center from St. Lawrence are Nick Alena '07, Lyons, NY; Jenny Angell '05, Metamora, MI; Thomas Black '06, Fort Covington, NY; Ryan Conroy '06, Bantam, CT; Ryan Daniel '06, Bradford, NH; Seth Davis '06, Monkton, VT; Matthew Furney '05, Shelburne, VT; Hauber; Laura Jenks '05, Woodstock, VT; Brendan Levine '06, Brunswick, ME; Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow in Music Tim Mangin; Assistant Director of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery Carole Mathey; Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies Angus Mitchell; Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Melissa Schulenberg; John Sharkey '05, Camillus, NY; Blythe Stoecklein '05, Pittsburgh, PA; Adam Szymkowicz '05, Shoreham, VT; Eliza Tobin '06, Tobin, VT; Kerry Walter '06, Bangor, NY; and Lee Welch '06, Still River, MA.
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