Department News,Undergraduate Work
Today was our BFA Candidacy Review. Congrats to our applicants for all their hard work.
Congratulations to faculty member Jamie Runnells. She was awarded a Silver ADDY from the 471 professional entries submitted. Her ADDY was awarded for her “We Are JSU Soccer” Social Media Campaign. From the official American Advertising Awards website: “The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, is the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, attracting […]
Department News,Undergraduate Work
Congratulations to all of the art department ADDY Award winners at the 2015 Birmingham American Advertising Awards! JSU students took 5 of the total 17 student ADDY awards given at the competition: Hunter Amberson, Silver ADDY (Advice to Freshman Poster) Joshua Benefield, Silver ADDY (Arbor Day Poster, Campaign) Blake Dodgen, Silver ADDY (Arbor Day Poster, […]
The Department of Art at Jacksonville State University is hosting the 36th Annual Mini-Works on Paper open to all artists 18 years of age and older. Juror: Rebecca Hope Woods Rebecca Woods serves as Creative Director of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She is an arts management professional with experience in organizing and […]
“The Good Neighbors” (Victory Yard) Project Graduate Student: Patrice Anderson Concept The project name comes from a 1975 BBC sitcom, “Good Neighbors” where a couple decide to become completely self-sufficient turning their yard, and their house, into a sustainable farm in the middle of suburbia. This anti-manicured lawns movement is to help promote the culture […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore For this project I wanted to create an app that would help those who had been recently diagnosed with cancer. The app would take the users through the basic knowledge of cancer and then discuss type of cancer, treatments, and also locations for different cancer centers nationally and locally. Because of […]
Graduate Student: Joshua Benefield During the course of this semester, for our Design Studio course, we were tasked with creating our own projects, to address some need in society. This in and of itself was a welcome relief to the mundane task of just completing a given assignment. My chosen learning object was to have […]
Graduate Student: Patrice Anderson Concept: The concept of this project is to address the culture of violence towards women in rural, economically depressed areas. Audience: The target audience is the women caught up in a mentally/physically abusive relationship. The secondary audience is the people who know of women in this situation. Visual Solution: The solution […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore Project: Organic Unity App For this project we were to create a learning object. A description of a learning object would be a progression of steps that lead to an end result The concept for this project was to design an app that explained the basic fundamentals of design to new […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore Project: Live Cancer Free : Posters and Video This project was not only my favorite but also the hardest. The concept was to create a series of posters that informed the public of the misconceptions of cancer. After reading some articles and creating a word association list the concept began to […]
