 English major Amber Johns takes top student award at 2006 Honors Day Convocation
Amber Johns was presented the top student award at the 2006 Honors Day Convocation held at the Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, April 5.
A senior English major from Waynesboro, Ga., Johns received the Georgia Southern University Alumni Association Award. The Alumni Association Award is presented annually to the graduating senior or seniors who have applied for graduation, completed all course work in residence and attained the highest grade point average (GPA).
Johns also received the Academic Success Center Tutorial Scholarship Award, an Excellent Scholarship Graduating Senior with a GPA of 3.9 of higher, the Lee and Rebecca Davis Pre-Law Scholarship and is listed among the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. |
 Three outstanding history majors were honored with a departmental reception following the University's Honors Day Program on April 5.
Pictured from left are Heidi King, recipient of the Sally T. Gershman Memorial Scholarship in History, Megan Taylor, recipient of the Michael E. Shaw Scholarship in History, and Paul Bridges, recipient of the Dr. George A. Rogers, Jr. Scholarship in History. |
 LONG HAULIN'
Georgia Southern University BFA candidate, David Caselli, will open his BFA Senior Exhibition, Long Haulin,' on Monday, April 10 with a reception from 7-9 pm in the small gallery of Gallery 303 in the Foy Fine Arts Building.
The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art sponsors the exhibition, which will continue through Friday, April 14, 2006.
David Caselli graduated from Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia in 2000 and has been attending Georgia Southern University since then. Caselli plans to graduate in May 2006 with a BFA degree with an emphasis in Photography. His plans after graduating are to return to Atlanta to begin his career as a professional photographer.
Caselli explains his exhibition: “I have been concentrating on the lives of the men and women truckers who provide everything for the people of this country. I have been photographing these people for the past two years to make the public more aware that the job of a truck driver is one of the most significant jobs in the country.
My show is comprised of 12 light boxes that illuminate the photos of these fine persons behind the wheel of the ‘big rigs' of the roads.”
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery 303 is open Monday through Friday from 9 am -5 pm and by appointment. Gallery 303 events are supported by Student Activity Fees.
For more information, contact the artist at david_caselli@hotmail.com. |
 University BFA candidate Heather Brancato will open her senior exhibition with a reception on Monday, April 3, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the small gallery of Gallery 303. The exhibition will continue through Friday, April 7.
Brancato's work illustrates her frustration with what smoking has done to her body. In her Artist's Statement she writes, “The exhibition is titled ‘Cause and Effect' because it illustrates how people do things in excess and do not realize the long term consequences that go along with their activities. To illustrate how nasty a habit smoking is, I used an array of sickly colors, my own lung x-rays and texture to emphasize my frustration with my scarred lungs.”
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery 303 is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art sponsors the exhibition.
For more information on this exhibition, contact the artist at hbrancat@georgiasouthern.edu . |
 Jason Freeman wins award
Jason Freeman, M.A. candidate in History, recently won second place for his research presentation: “Georgia Loyalists and Revolutionary America” at the History Honor Society of Phi Alpha Theta, Regional Conference, LaGrange College. Jason originally wrote this paper for a history course taught by Dr. Annette Laing. |
 Ellis Berry, BFA candidate, to open BFA Senior Exhibition
Friday, February 24, 2006
Gallery 303, Small Gallery
Foy Fine Arts Building
Opening Reception 6- 8 pm.
The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art sponsors the exhibition, which will continue through Friday, March 3. All senior studio art majors pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree are required to produce an exhibition of their work. Ellis Berry plans to graduate in May with a BFA degree with an emphasis in drawing.
Ellis Berry is a native of Newnan, Georgia, where she graduated from
Newnan High School. She currently works in acrylic, watercolor and digital photography. Her recent work consists of paintings that voice the contemporary issues of her generation. During January of 2006, Berry exhibited her work at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan, Georgia.Berry writes, “The paintings in this show visually express thoughts about today’s society. Through a combination of text and image, using paint and collage, these paintings voice contemporary issues of my generation.”
Included in the exhibition are paintings from Ellis’ McDonaldization of Society series, which illustrate the corruption of society, including art, when it follows the values of fast food restaurants.The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery 303 is open Monday through Friday from 9 am -5 pm and by appointment. Gallery 303 events are supported by Student Activity Fees. For more information, contact the artist at marion_e_berry@georgiasouthern.edu.
(Posted 2/1/06)
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Linear Park gets sculptural benches
Those who walk Statesboro's Linear Park will be pleased to know that starting next week, they'll have a place to sit and rest. Thirteen sculptural park benches created by students in Matt Toole's art class at Georgia Southern University will be installed along the one-mile walking and bicycle path that leads from the University to downtown Statesboro.“The idea for benches came fom conversations with Maz Elhaj, Statesboro's city engineer,” said Toole. “After talking about exhibition spaces for sculpture along the trail, we decided to start with benches. The park needed seating, and the sculptural benches are functional and have an interactive quality that most people enjoy. It also promotes public arts in Statesboro and to the people who visit here.” The benches will remain on display for 12 to 24 months as part of an evolving exhibition. Pieces will rotate in and out of the exhibition depending on sales, condition, and aesthetics.Cost of the benches was shared by the city of Statesboro, which provided wood from fallen trees, labor to move the wood, concrete pads for the benches, and help with installation, and Georgia Southern, which provided scrap metal, paint, and other supplies.“This project was a good way to educate art students about how to support themselves through public commissions, and to help them understand the issues artists face when working within the context of a community project,” said Toole. “It's also a good way to get the community engaged in the arts and to promote Statesboro's growing and vital downtown area.”
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