Introducing Charlotte Noruzi: AIC Exhibition Designer

I’m pleased to introduce Charlotte Noruzi as the Exhibition Designer for the AIC’s upcoming exhibition Perspicuous. Charlotte will be joining Exhibition Curator Kimberly Lamm and Matt Howard, the Research Assistant in Academic Initiatives in organizing the exhibition. She will be bringing her impressive experience to bear on the design of the exhibition space and the exhibition’s catalogue.

Charlotte is a professor of graphic design and illustration in the Communications Department at Pratt Institute. She has participated in portfolio reviews at Pratt Institute and at Parsons School of Design and has also judged the Society of Illustrator’s student illustration show and the RX Club medical advertising competition.

Charlotte is a member of a creative partnership called Studio1482, and design director of “Go Do It”, the Studio’s semi-annual magazine. Additionally, she has art directed at some of New York’s premiere agencies, including Bates Worldwide, Publicis Groupe, and Grey. At Chermayeff and Geismar, Charlotte was able to work in all aspects of graphic design, from corporate identity and packaging to exhibition design and signage. Independently, she created the exhibit graphics for the Police Museum’s 9/11 anniversary tribute called, “Stronger than Ever”. Charlotte’s illustrations can be seen on book jackets and in advertising and her self-promotion campaigns are featured in The Art of Promotion, published by Rockport.

Charlotte’s interests are wide and varied and include art, culture, history, and mythology, language and literature. The combination of these led her to create several children’s books and currently, she is going back to her fashion roots, experimenting with sewing and weaving.

-M. Eng

Introducing Kimberly Lamm: AIC Exhibition Curator

I am pleased to introduce Kimberly Lamm as the Exhibition Curator for the AIC’s upcoming Institute-wide exhibition Perspicuous. Kimberly is completing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington and is an assistant professor of English at Pratt Institute, where she also teaches in the Program in Critical and Visual Studies. Her dissertation examines literary and visual portraiture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture. A former Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Kimberly has published essays on the poetry of Juliana Spahr, the art of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée. –M. Eng

Perspicuous: The Exhibition

Call for Participation and Submissions:

Perspicuous:
An Institute-wide exhibition of student and faculty/staff-student collaborative work

Dear Pratt Faculty and Staff:

The Academic Initiatives Committee is planning an Institute-wide exhibition of student work, as well as faculty/staff-student collaborations, dedicated to this year’s AIC theme, Perspicuous Representations. The exhibition, entitled Perspicuous, will take place at the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester and feature panel discussions with the participating artists, a catalogue, and a prize to be judged by an outside critic.

A description of the exhibition follows below and can be downloaded here. We would like to hear from you if you would like to participate in the exhibition’s organization, including serving as a member of the exhibition jury, or as an exhibiting artist.

Have you seen or produced work that could be part of this exhibition? Do you know students who create work that represents, in compelling ways, their engagement with concepts such as “space,” “visuality,” “narrative,” and “perception”? Do you know students who can — and wish to — reflect on the ideas at work in their projects in clear and interesting ways? Please send them our way.

We plan to begin considering work 01 February 2007.

Michael Eng, Chair
Academic Initiatives Committee

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Social Science
& Cultural Studies
meng@pratt.edu

Kimberly Lamm
AIC Exhibition Curator

Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
& Humanities
klamm@pratt.edu