Student Profiles
I chose to major in digital arts because I’m interested in filmmaking but wanted to study and practice in an environment informed and surrounded by other disciplines,” says aspiring filmmaker and digital arts major Zach Rose. During his time at the UO Zach made a 30-second PSA that was screened at Eugene’s art house movie theatre, the Bijou. Most recently, Zach was on a team which made 45-second films for Apple Computer and its iPOD advertising campaign.
Joelynn Sinclear, a fibers major and cultural anthropology minor, has been an artist all her life, using mediums as varied as photography, ceramics, paint, and fibers. “I am always trying to think of a way to merge my arts. That’s what is going to give me an edge in the scheme of things. Joelynn is now creating her own version of her family’s tartan and was accepted to the UO’s summer study abroad program with the Jacquard Weaving Fibers Studio in Lisio, Italy.
Selected Faculty Profiles
Associate Professor Margaret Prentice teaches classes in intaglio, relief printmaking, and western and Japanese papermaking. Margaret received a Japan Foundation Fellowship and traveled to Japan for four months to do research in traditional papermaking techniques. “I try to speak to the unique personality and interests of each student so their work will express their own individual ideas,” she says.
Colin Ives is the newly appointed director of the Digital Arts program. His art practice fuses scholarly research, technical development (such as programming), and hands-on work with materials. Under the conceptual framework of interactivity, his work ranges from sculpture and installation to CD-ROMs and Internet projects. Much of his current work focuses on ecological issues and uses technology to create interactive installations that incorporate viewers into the dynamic interplay between ourselves and our environment.
Associate Professor Laura Vandenburgh joined the UO Art Department in 1998. Vandenburgh’s drawing-based practice explores the geographies, natural and artificial, real and imagined, near and far, within which we are situated. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions across the country including James Harris Gallery in Seatte, Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Everson Museum, the Portland Art Museum and Lawrence University, and she has been awarded residencies by the Ucross Foundation and the Ragdale Foundation.