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J. MORGAN PUETT AWARDED PRESTIGOUS USA FELLOWSHIP GRANT

J. Morgan Puett (center) who, with Mark Dion (left), instigated Mildred’s Lane Renovating Walden at Tufts University Art Gallery, fall 2011, has been awarded a USA Fellowship Grant, a $50,000 award to support her work (on the right is Grey Rabbit Puett).

http://www.usafellows.org/

MARLOES TEN BHOMER AWARDED STANLEY PICKER FELLOWSHIP AT KINGSTON UNIVERSITY AND GALLERY, UK

The London-based designer whose work introduced and featured in both WOWdesign and Mechanical Couture, has received this prestigious grant to enable a year of research to develop and produce a new concept of the shoe, in materials, construction technique and aesthetics.

www.stanleypickergallery.org/fellowship/

NOT A TOY. Fashioning Radical Characters

ATOPOS presents ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion at the Benaki Museum, Athens,

Greece with our essay included in the catalogue NOT A TOY. Fashioning Radical

Characters, edited by Vassilis Zidianakis, ATOPOS CVC, published by Pictoplasma

Publishing, Berlin, 2011.

http://www.atopos.gr/

August Ventimiglia: Sculpting the Line

Sculpture Magazine, June 2011, published Judy’s article on the work of August Ventimiglia.

http://www.downextra.com/e-book/549953-sculpture-magazine-june-2011.html

Yael Taragan Wins International Award

Israeli designer Yael Taragan is a winner of the first Interaction Design Contest: Bringing the Internet of Things with her entry that commissioned for the exhibition Mechanical Couture: Fashioning a New Order. She was awarded a scholarship for a master’s at the Instituto de Diseño, Arte y Tecnología, Barcelona, where she will study digital art and interactive design. http://www.interactiondesigncontest.com/?lang=en

Published by Kalejdoskop

David Svennson’s artist book, Mot mitten och försvinnandet/Towards the Middle and Into Absense includes a text by Judy.

Finnish Fund for Art Exchange

Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME) awards Ulrich Museum of Art 10,000 Euros to support the exhibition ART ON SPEED.

NOT A TOY: Contemporary Characters in Fashion

ATOPOS Cultural Organization in Athens, Greece is publishing our essay in NOT A TOY: Contemporary Characters in Fashion. The book is a collaboration between ATOPOS www.ATOPOS.gr and Pictoplasma, www.pictoplasma.com, the worldwide leading organization on contemporary characters. Valerie Steele, Claire Wilcox, Jose Teunissen, Ted Polhemus and Lydia Kamitsis are other contributors. The book features designers includingWalter van Beirendonck, Issey Miyake, Bas Kosters, Gareth Pugh and NOKI and will be released in April 2011.

National Endowment of the Arts

National Endowment of the Arts awards Tufts University Art Gallery $25,000 to support the exhibition

Mildred’s Lane/Renovating Walden: J.Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, to open in Fall 2010.

Étant donnés awards c2 curatorial research grant

c2 has been awarded by Étant donnés: the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art one of three curatorial research grants for 2009 to support organizational work on the exhibition in development LUCY+JORGE ORTA: Collaboration.

Exhibition catalogues earn awards

The catalogues that accompany our recent exhibitions are winning lots of awards. Blown Away, designed by

Studio Blue, was recognized by ID Magazine.

The Power of Fashion re-published

The Power of Fashion: About Design and Meaning, originally published by ArtEZ Press in the Netherlands, is now being re-published in both Russian and Chinese. The publication includes Ginger’s essay, which originally accompanied the exhibition Fashion: The Greatest Show on Earth, an exploration of fashion shows as performance art.

The Andy Warhol Foundation supports Under Control

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has supported Under Control, to open at Krannert Art Museum in fall 2009, with a grant of $75,000.

Connectivity Lost

Cecile and Ezra Zilkha Gallery

Wesleyan University

Middletown CT

10 September – 5 December 2010

“Examining Loss of Signals Between Humans” Courant.com 09.09.2010

Where We Live: Losing Connectivity yourpublicmedia.org 09.10.2010

Haunting Images from “Connectivity Lost” By Philip Dinolfo wesleyanargus.com 09.17.2010

Here’s to New Connections By Leah Lopez Schmalz Theday.com 10.28.2010

See the video On Exhibit: ‘Connectivity Lost’ Theday.com 10.28.2010

New Haven Advocate, September 23-29, 2010 – cover image

Over + Over

Museum of Art, Austin (06) – www.artdaily.org read the article

Katonah Museum of Art, NY – www.northcountynews.com read the article

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Jan. 05) read the article

Museum of Art, Austin (06) – www.inthegalleriesaustin.com

“Passion for process” by Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette, January 23,2005

Under Control

Krannert Art Museum- “Motivations of Power,” artdaily.org, 2009 read the article

Krannert Art Museum – the217.com, 2009 read the article

Krannert Art Museum – news-gazette.com.com, 2009 read the article

Krannert Art Museum – artknowledgenews.com, 2009 read the article

Facades

Krannert Art Museum – Multimedia exhibition explores concept of appearances – October 2007 read the article

Blown Away

This art show’s a blast, by Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette, January 24, 2008 read the article

Branded and On Display

Krannert Art Museum- Branding and display tactics – January 26, 2007 read the article

Krannert Art Museum- Consumerism and Media – January 26, 2007 read the article

Krannert Art Museum- Exhibit showcases consumerism – January 26, 2007 read the article

Krannert Art Museum- www.news.Illinois.edu – January 26, 2007 read the article

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA – Branding, on the brain, January 17, 2007 read the article

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA – Bought and sold, January 17, 2007 read the article

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ – Logoville U.S.A. – June 2008 read the article

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ – Branded and on Display read the article

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ – www.hearsight.com read the article

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ – www.showup.com – June 2008 read the article

“Modern art takes on mass culture in 2 new exhibits” by Albert Ching, East Valley Tribune read the article

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA – Acquiring minds, January 17, 2007 read the article

Ulrich Museum, Kansas State University, Wichita read the article

From the Writer’s Desk: Mechanical Couture at Israel’s Holon Museum

myfashionconnect.blogspot.com 2010

theclotheswhisperer.co.uk/

www.designweek.co.uk Mechanical Couture

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/art.htm

http://www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/mechanical-couture/

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http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/555/Mechanical_Couture

http://new.jpost.com/LandedPages/SearchResults.aspx?q=Curatorsquared

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Article.aspx?id=196766

http://www.i-donline.com/i-spy/mechanical-couture-fashioning-new-order

Abitare.it/events/mechanical-couture-fashioning-a-new-order/

Kalba in Glam Town Magazine

Israelhayom.co.il

Aestheticamagazine.com/art.htm

Jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Arts/Article.aspx?id=193012

Designweek.co.uk/home/blog/mechanical-couture/