AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS
Teaching, Creating and Researching an Indeterminate Medium
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, July 12-15, 2018. Learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend HERE.
For over thirty years, Steven McCarthy worked at the confluence of graphic design, art, writing and self-publishing. His long-standing interest in theories of design authorship–as both scholar and practitioner–has led to lectures, exhibits, publications and grant-funded research on six continents. He has an MFA from Stanford University and is a professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. At Kolaj Fest New Orleans, McCarthy will lead a discussion for artists and designers who are also university faculty interested in contextualizing their work so it helps them achieve tenure and promotion. He will show examples from his own career and discuss strategies for dissemination.
McCarthy will be joined by other folks who both make collage and work in academic institutions in a lively conversation. In her art practice, Jill Stoll explores issues of location and dislocation as interpreted through lens-based and mixed-media pieces. At the Tulane University’s School of Architecture, Stoll has taught first year drawing, design studio, and electives in mixed media collage. Based in Portland, Oregon, Clive Knights is the Professor of Architecture and the Director of the School of Architecture at Portland State University as well as a collage artist and printmaker. Collage artist Jason Galligan Baldwin is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture & Art at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. Matthew Zorn is a current instructor on record and second year MFA candidate in ceramics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He holds a BA in Art from Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. Paul Dean is a member of the Baton Rouge Gallery, where he has been exhibiting regularly for nearly 25 years. He is an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University’s College of Art & Design, where he teaches typography, color in art and design, and art and design in general.
“Collage at College” is one of many Focus In sessions at Kolaj Fest New Orleans where topics can be discussed with a tight group of people.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, July 12-15, 2018. Learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend HERE.
About Steven McCarthy
Steven McCarthy is a professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. His long-standing interest in theories of design authorship, as both scholar and practitioner, has led to lectures, exhibits, publications and grant-funded research on six continents. McCarthy has been in over 125 juried and invitational exhibitions and his artist’s books are in these prestigious collections: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UCLA, University of California–Berkeley, University of Washington, the Banff Centre and the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Ric Kasini Kadour reviewed McCarthy’s artist book, Book Art The Information Electric Age, in Kolaj #17. Visit his website to learn more.