Otis College LibGuides: Faculty Development Resources: FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTEE REPORTS

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2022-23 Faculy Development Grant Recipients

Sung Ju Ahn (Liberal Studies) Supported attendance at the 2023 AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference & Book Fair in Seattle

Reports not yet available:

Cole James (Foundation)
Ian James (Fine Arts)
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studies, ACT)
Soo Kim (Fine Arts)
Patricia Kovic (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Jessca Ngo (Liberal Studies)
Claudia Hernandez-Romero (Liberal Studies)
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Product Design)

2021-22 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Reports not yet available:

Cole James (Foundation)
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studes, ACT)

2020-21 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, grants were paused.

2019-20 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Ian James (Fine Arts) Support the development of a solo exhibition at the gallery Five Car Garage in Santa Monica, California.

Reports not yet available:

Susan Beningfield (Product Design)
Kathrin Burmester (Graduate Fine Arts)
Julie Cho (Communication Arts)
Patricia Kovic (Product Design)
Sumi Lee (Fashion)
Joyce Mesch (Toy Design)
Renata Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts)
Joseph Potts (Communication Arts)

2018-19 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Judy Bamber (Graduate Fine Arts) Help with production costs for an exhibition catalog
Guy Bennett (Graduate Writing) Support travel expenses to France to attend events in support of his books
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Funded travel to Yale Center for British art
Neil Doshi (Graduate Graphic Design) Support travel to Northern Italy for a research trip
Roni Feldman (Foundation) Help fund travel to an exhibition in Rome
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Support of custom framing for artwork I have been developing that centers around the DMZ between North and South Korea.
Patty Kovic (Product Design) Support travel to the Paris Design Summit
Joyce Mesch (Toy Design) Support to visit and research three museums of play
Silas Munro (Communication Arts) Support for presenting a paper on the "Decolonizing Design Education" panel at CAA 2019
Jessica Ngo (Liberal Studies) Travel to New York City to attend the Food Writing Forum at the New School in April 2019
Alisa Otten (Fashion) Attend an indigo workshop in Japan

2017-18 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Adam Berg (Liberal Studies) Support travel to Rome for his show, Lunch with Heidegger - Dinner with Leopardi
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Fund new book project, Giant: a deity with leaves and its companion volume Giants in the cul-de-sac.
Julie Cho (Communication Arts) Contributed to the design, development and production of the first title by Thick Press
Chava Danielson (Architecture/Landscape/Interiors) Support housing and local transportation expenses at the École Nationale Supérieure d'architecture de Marseille
Jacci Den Hartog (Fine Arts) Develop and build stainless steel bases for new sculptures
Marlena Donohue (Liberal Studies) Support travel to Berlin to interview Ai Wei Wei
Dana Duff (Grad Fine Arts) Cover travel to Paris for a faculty exchange program with ENSAPC
Nancy Haselbacher (Communication Arts) Supported travel to Finland
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia (Communication Arts) Supported participation in a two-person exhibition at the Harris Art Gallery at the University of La Verne opening in September 2018.
Jessica Ngo, Yael Samuel, and Kerri Steinberg (Liberal Studies) Joint report - representing Otis at the 11th national CLEA (Consortium for the Liberal Education of Artists) conference at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore April 5-7, 2018
Renée Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts) Residency at Cíte des Arts in Paris
Yael Samuel (Liberal Studies) Attended the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference (SBWC) in June 2018
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Product Design) Purchase lighting materials for use in an exhibition
Jeanne Willette (Liberal Studies) Support a talk on the interactive classroom at the regional FATE conference on April 7, 2018, in Columbus, GA

2016-17 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Sung Ju Ahn (Liberal Studies) Pay for tuition to the two UCLA Extension classes on advanced novel writing
Kathrin Burmester (Graduate Fine Arts) Support the exhibition Since I’m Being Honest With You, installed at MiM Gallery in Culver City
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Attendance at the Mills College Summer Institute of Book and Print Technologies
Dana Duff (Fine Arts) Fund travel to two film festivals
Parme Giuntini (Liberal Studies) Supported attendance and presentation at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), in Roanoke, Virginia, October 2016
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studies, ACT) Attend the College Art Association (CAA) Conference in New York City
Ian James (Fine Arts) Fund travel and lodging expenses for the Samband Íslenskra Myndlistarmanna (SÍM) Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland
Heather Joseph-Witham (Liberal Studies) Support of travel to Europe to complete field research
Siri Kaur (Fine Arts) Support of printing and scanning a suite of large-scale color photographs shot on 4x5" color film
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Support of custom framing for some work to be included in an exhibition at the Getty Center in 2018
Sumi Lee (Fashion) Attend a textile art workshop titled "Places, Spaces and Traces" in Les Carroz, France
Maggie Light (Liberal Studies) Learn improv for three months at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB)
Joe Potts (Communication Arts) Support travel to the Alternative Art School Fair at Pioneerworks in Brooklyn, NY
Miguel Angel Reyes (Fashion) Interview and photograph Fashion Illustration Artists in New York City

2015-16 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Judie Bamber (Graduate Fine Arts) Faculty exchange with ENSAPC (Ecole Nationale Superieure d Art Paris-Cergy) in Paris
Kathrin Burmester (Graduate Fine Arts) Travel to Berlin in March 2016 to document the current state of construction of the Humboldt Forum for a video project
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Organize a book arts session and present my work at the 2015 Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding national seminar in Cleveland
Chava Danielson (Architecture/Landscape/Interiors) Purchase a LulzBot TAZ5 3D desktop printer.
Robert Dobbie (Communication Arts, Digital Media) Cover enrollment and materials for 8 weeks in the Classical Painting Techniques course at the Kline Academy of Fine Art
Marlena Donohue (Liberal Studies) Covered expenses while co-curating a large traveling exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing in September 2015.
Nancy Haselbacher (Communication Arts) Cover travel costs and registration for the Southern Graphics International Printmaking conference
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) First faculty exchange residency with ENSAPC (Cergy Art School) in Paris, France
Patricia Kovic (Product Design, Creative Action) Support for publication of an Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) 2015 Education Symposium Education Paper
Tucker Neel (Communication Arts, Liberal Studies) Helped fund a collaborative project, Postcards For A Grand Tour
Renée Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts, Graduate Public Practice) Travel to Naples, Italy
Yael Samuel (Liberal Studies) Attended the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference May in Seaside, Florida
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Product Design, Creative Action) Participated on a panel, “50 Years of Women Trailblazers,” at the 2016 National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
Holly Tempo (Fine Arts)
Jeanne Willette (Liberal Studies) Attend the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)

2014-15 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Sung Ju Ahn (Liberal Studies) Attendance at the 2014 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Jason Burton (Product Design) Support efforts to advance blended learning techniques at Otis
Dana Duff (Fine Arts) Acquire equipment necessary for shooting fixed pages in the properly lit studio setting with cool CFL lights
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia (Communication Arts) Contribute towards the publication costs for the book, Mis Papeles
Ian James (Fine Arts) Support the exhibition, In the Caverns of Your Mind, at Self Actualization gallery in Houston, Texas
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studies, Creative Action/IL, Artists Community Teaching) Purchase bookmaking supplies in order to produce two small editions of clamshell boxes to archive a socially engaged project and ephemera from an artist residency
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Support framing of work exhibited at the Singapore Art Fair and at Second Sight: New Representations in Photography at the Torrance Museum of Art
Sumi Lee (Fashion) Fund attendance at a workshop for ‘Traditional Japanese Textile and Indigo’ in Fujino, Japan
Cathy Lightfoot (Foundation) Fund the printing of two copies of my artist's book, Sensation of Color: A Painter's Inquiry
Rush White (Foundation) Research trip in the Pacific Northwest on the environment of contemporary tree houses

Reports not yet available:

Ana Llorente (Communication Arts)
Joseph Potts (Communication Arts)
Tanya Rubbak (Communication Arts, Graduate Graphic Design)

2013-14 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Guy Bennett (Graduate Writing) Support travel related to my participation in Flamme éternelle [“Eternal Flame”], an artwork by Thomas Hirschhorn, that was presented at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Graduate Writing) Support of production costs for the publication of a book project featuring my writing and the art of Soo Kim and published by Otis Books | Seismicity Editions
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Funds for materials to produce an artist’s book , Where Stucco Meets Chaparral
Robert Dobbie (Communication Arts) Attendance at ICON 8 (Illustration Conference 8) in Portland Oregon
Ysamur Flores-Peña (Liberal Studies) Travel to continue the research on the Mexican Silk Road
Nancy Haselbacher (Communication Arts) Travel to Finland to further a studio project
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studies, Creative Action/IL, Artists Community Teaching) Covered the cost of mounting 26 prints on panels for "26 Passports"
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) Support travel to Vilnius, Lithuania, to participate in a video exhibition and a conference
Patricia Kovic (Product Design, Creative Action/IL, Artists Community Teaching) Design a book about the fall 2013 Neighbor-Gap-Bridge semester
Barbara Maloutas (Communication Arts) Attend the College Book Arts Association (CBAA) Conference at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City
Tucker Neel (Communication Arts) Support of travel to London, Athens, Spetses, and Istanbul for project on the display of Greek attic vases in major museum collections
Renee Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts) Support of a print project produced with Francesco Siquieros and El Nopal Press
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Product Design) Attend National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference

2012-13 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Carole Caroompas (Fine Arts) Request a new computer and printer, books, photos, and scripts to collect and develop imagery for my new painting project titled Hallucinatory Logic in the Sahara Desert
Peter Gadol (Graduate Writing) Purchase a new computer
Parme Giuntini (Liberal Studies) Attendance at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Durham
Heather Joseph-Witham (Liberal Studies) Support work on the documentary, Gnome and Garden
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) Self-publish one hundred books of photos of my hand-made lamps from 1992 to 2008
Siri Kaur (Fine Arts) Support of framing costs for four large-scale photographsfor upcoming exhibits
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Make a limited-editioned, oversized book with hand-cut photograph and hand-bound with a silk-screened cover
Ana Llorente (Communication Arts) Travel to Amsterdam
Barbara Maloutas (Communication Arts) Support expenses while attending the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair
Alex Slade (Fine Arts) Support travel to Kansas and Oklahoma for to photograph the Great Plains
Jeanne Willette (Liberal Studies) Attendance at the annual College Art Association (CAA) conference in New York City

2011-12 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Maura Bendett (Foundation) Purchase a MIG welder to fabricate my sculptures
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Funds for materials to produce an artist's book, The Young Manhood of Dave Chamlee
Jacci Den Hartog (Foundation, Fine Arts) Help fund the fabrication of metal sculpture stands to exhibit work
Keith Downey (Digital Media) Purchase camera equipment for a collaborative project
Dana Duff (Fine Arts) Purchase upgraded camera equipment
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia (Communication Arts) Contribute toward the publication of an artist's book, By Deborah Calderwood
Sumi Lee (Fashion) Fund a trip to Belgium to visit the MOMU (Mode Museum)
Mitra Rajabi (Fashion) Attendance at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Annual Fashion Show, in Antwerp, Belgium
Holly Tempo (Fine Arts) Photograph artwork to post online and use in applications
Davey Whitcraft (Communication Arts) Travel and attendance at the New York Art Book Fair

2010-11 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Andrew H. Davis (Liberal Studies) Attend the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference in Seattle
Michele Jaquis (Interdisciplinary Studies, Creative Action/IL, Artists Community Teaching) Funds to upgrade video equipment
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) Fund the publication of a catalog for her one-person exhibition, The Measure of Value
Christian Mounger (Foundation) Purchase new digital camera to document work
Patrick Nickell (Foundation) Funds to visit France
Yael Samuel (Liberal Studies) Attendance at the 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (HICSS) in Honolulu
Michael Wright (Digital Media) Purchase a homestead sim in Second Life

2009-10 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Guy Bennett (Liberal Studies) Support of the creation of an audio-textual work for submission to 2011 Biennale internationale des poètes en Val de Marne (BIPVAL)
Adam Berg (Liberal Studies) Plans for an upcoming exhibition in Europe
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Attendance at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado
Heather Joseph-Witham (Liberal Studies) Support several research trips in order to view and join those involved in different forms of afterlife contact
Karolyn Kiisel (Fashion) Create new website
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Support of an exhibition of photographic work and a video, made in collaboration with junior high and high school students from Marlborough School in Los Angeles
Randall Lavender (Foundation) Assist with data processing and statistical analysis related to a research project
Mohammed Sharif (Architecture/Landscape/Interiors) Support an exhibition at the BEB Gallery, RISD
Kerri Steinberg (Liberal Studies) Continue research for a book which investigates the impact of advertising on the design of American Jewish identities
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Liberal Studies) Bring students and faculty to Laguna Clay to visit the plaster studio and meet a master mold maker
Holly Tempo (Fine Arts) Attendance at the Can Serrat Artist Residency Program in El Bruc, Spain

2008-09 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Jason Burton (Product Design) Participate in a five day workshop in Murrieta, CA, on the fundamentals, design and installation of solar electric systems
Jacci Den Hartog (Foundation) Purchase equipment integral to the surface color development of new and ongoing sculptures
Dana Duff (Fine Arts) Financial assistance to complete her Laton film/video project.
Linda Hudson (Foundation) Attendance at the Worlds in the Making: Creativity, A National Symposium in Atlanta Georgia
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) Travek to Russia in conjunction with the exhibition, IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008
Sumi Lee and Mitra Rajabi (Fashion) Joint report - attend a weekend workshop at Alabama Chanin's design studio in Florence, Alabama
Barbara Maloutas (Communication Arts) Attend the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, IL
Christian Mounger (Foundation) Become more familiar with current design software
Renee Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts) Work on a brochure to document the project, 317 Paces and 2 Stops (and 4)

2007-08 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

David Bremer (Liberal Studies) Participate in the Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists conference at the School of Visual Arts.
Marlena Donohue (Liberal Studies) Travel to San Francisco to interview the artist, Michael Bowen
Ysamur Flores-Peña (Liberal Studies) Begin research on the African roots of Mexican culture
Heather Joseph-Witham (Liberal Studies) Travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to perform ethnography and interview vampires and vampire fans
Randall Lavender (Foundation) Assist with data handling related to IRB-approved survey research using student subjects
Michael Wright (Digital Media) Purchase a 16-acre Island in Second Life

2006-07 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Guy Bennett (Liberal Studies) Work on the exhibit Beyond the Iconic: Contemporary Photographs of Paris, co-curated with Béatrice Mousli
Rebecca Chamlee (Communication Arts) Attend the Action/Interaction: Book/Arts conference at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Tracy Colby (Digital Media) Print digital paintings in large scale
Keith Downey (Digital Media) Offset the cost for Short Term Production Insurance to shoot a digital film on campus
Gary Geraths (Foundation) Participate in a two-week oarboat trip on the Colorado River
Kathryn Hagen (Fashion) Travel to Thailand and Vietnam
Soo Kim (Fine Arts) Support the development of a body of work that alters and slows the reading of the photographic image
Joyce Lightbody (Liberal Studies) Travel to Kathmandu and Nepal to record music
Kathleen Milnes (Digital Media) Attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA
Renee Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts) Funds for the execution and completion of the sculpture, "BERLIN"
Pat Stiles (Fashion) Attend the Words & Music conference in New Orleans

2005-06 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

MariBeth Baloga (Fashion) Attend the symposium, Terra Matter: Inspire, Innovate, and Sustain
Susan Barnet (Fine Arts) Support an exhibition, Mario's Furniture, a collaboration by S.E. Barnet and Hillary Mushkin with programmer Clay Chaplin and electronics specialist Lorin Parker
Aiko Beall (Fashion) Travel to the Exhibition Balenciaga Paris at Les Arts décoratifs Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Meg Cranston (Fine Arts) Support a solo exhibition at Galerie Michael Janssen in Cologne, Germany
Linda Hudson (Foundation) Support the creation of a web site
Karolyn Kiisel (Fashion) Travel to the Exhibition Balenciaga Paris at Les Arts décoratifs Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Amanda Linder (Fashion) Travel to the Exhibition Balenciaga Paris at Les Arts décoratifs Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Kerri Steinberg (Liberal Studies) Travel to Philadelphia topresent at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference
Joan Takayama-Ogawa (Liberal Studies) Fund a trip to SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) New York

Report not yet available:

Gail Knierem (Fashion)

2004-05 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

Marcie Begleiter (Digital Media) Travel to review documents from the Eva Hesse Archives at Oberlin College's Allen Art Museum
Dana Duff (Fine Arts) Support travel for a 5-week residency at the American Academy in Rome
Ysamur Flores-Peña (Liberal Studies) Discovering the Dominican Republic
Heather Joseph-Witham (Liberal Studies) Travel to Derbyshire, England, to film interviews with many UFO sightees
Annetta Kapon (Graduate Fine Arts) Travel to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to attend and present at a one-week seminar in Feminist Analysis
Renee Petropoulos (Graduate Fine Arts) Fund the creation of the artwork exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of El Salvador (MARTE)
Holly Tempo (Fine Arts) Travel to Portobelo, Panama, to create a site-specific project in the jungle

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2005-06 Faculty Development Grant Recipients

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