Vote for SCAD students!

Right now a few of our students have shirt designs on threadless.com for the big 10k design competition (grand prize = 10 thousand bucks!). Check out their entries here:

- Patrick Kennedy's Duck Crossing


- Renee Rivas' Clumsy Space Octopus


- Renee Rivas' Made of butterflies



- Amber Gardner's Packin Heat



And Grad student, Julia Berman, is one of the finalists for the Strathmore student art contest. Be sure to vote for her entry here:

Remembering Asia (the show)

This week's exhibition at StudioPlex by Solongo Mellecker and Sojung Yu is an astounding show. These two Illustration MFA candidates filled up the entire gallery with beautiful work that celebrates their Asian heritage (Solongo is from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and Sojung is from South Korea), as well as their places in the modern world and the influence that their time in America has had on them. It is a wonderful mix of old and new, of traditional and digital, and of East meets West. If you haven't been by to see it, try to before the show closes on Saturday, the 30th of January.
Here are a few shots from the opening...


Shannon, Duncan, Nazanine and Julie all approve.




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So proud.


Sojung's wonderful dimensional book for the Teatrio competition.


The student schooling the master.


Solongo met some new friends from Mongolia.


Some folks dress up a bit for gallery openings, others, not so much.


Peace, out.

Kudos for Archer Artists!

The numbers are in, and "Archer", FX's new animated series, is a hit!
"Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other."

According to TV By The Numbers, Archer's premier this Thursday was...

FX’s Highest-Rated Comedy Premiere Among Adults 18-34

Congrats to Rod Ben, (ILLU MFA candidate), Katie Stockton (BFA '09) and Dan Murdoch (current ANIM student who is minoring in ILLU), who all had a hand in creating this very successful, and absolutely hilarious new series. If you haven't yet seen it, it's a hoot!

Remembering Asia

Two of our shining stars, Solongo Mellecker and Sojung Yu are having a show at StudioPlex this January. The official opening reception is Monday, January 25 from 6 to 9pm. The show will be up for the Art Walk on Friday the 22nd if you want to stop by then.

Congratulations SI-LA Winners!

A big, fat, WELL-DONE goes out to several of SCAD-Atlanta's finest for being accepted into the VERY competitive Society of Illustrators Los Angeles 2009 Annual Competition. All are Illustration MFA candidates.

They are Solongo Mellecker, Sojung Yu , Fernando Vazquez and Heather Elder. Way to go, guys!

Solongo Mellecker

Solongo Mellecker

Solongo Mellecker

Sojung Yu


Fernando Vazquez

Heather Elder

Wonderland Show at Kai Lin Gallery

Kai Lin Art, the contemporary art gallery in the heart of Midtown Atlanta on Peachtree Street near the Fox Theatre, will host its sixth art gallery opening, “Wonderland” on Friday, December 4 from 7:00-10:00pm.
“Wonderland” is a group show presented by over fifteen established and mid-career artists, all professors, deans or chairs from the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta (SCAD-ATL):
Kent Knowles, Larry Jens Anderson, Carl Linstrum, Michael V Brown, Dale
Clifford, Amanda Dumas, Richard Lovell, Mike Lowery, Jay Montgomery, Brett Osborn, Alex Kvares, Robert Brown, Tom Francis, Matt Maloney, Ann-Marie Mankur, Lisa Hart, Matthew Burge, Kelley McClung, Jim Gladman, and Alessandro Imperato.
The exhibit will be open through January 22.

Congrats Renee Rivas!!

Atlanta INtown Magazine unveiled Renee's winning cover last week at Atlantic Station.


Read all about it on Renee's Blog!
Way to go Renee!!