College of Fine and Applied Arts

Appalachian State University is pleased to present “Art Expo 2010,” an annual juried student exhibition. The exhibition will be open for viewing from March 23 through April 14 at the Catherine J. Smith Gallery.

A reception will be on Friday, April 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The award ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. with the Art Department Chair, Mike Grady, and Art Expo Committee Chair, John Stephenson, announcing award winners and scholarship recipients. The event is free and open to the public. Musicians from the Hayes School of Music will perform throughout the afternoon.

The 71 works included in Art Expo 2010 were selected from over 700 entries of artwork that were on display during an open house in Wey Hall on Feb. 19. Guest jurors, Banister Pope, Bill Brown and David Tisdale, selected the artworks from the categories: clay; digital imaging; drawing; fibers; graphic design; interactive design, metalsmithing; motion graphics; painting; photography; printmaking; and sculpture.

Faculty and students voted for their favorite work in each category to determine the winners of merchant prizes.

“I am pleased with the works selected by the jurors for Art Expo 2010,” said Stephenson. “The creativity in student works in all media reflects the energy witnessed in our studios and classrooms this year, and we look forward to the exhibition in the Catherine J. Smith Gallery.”

Student volunteers along with the Art Expo Committee and Catherine J. Smith Gallery staff made this event possible. In addition, Appalachian State University alumni Emily Combs and Ben Wesemann contributed design, organizational and installation expertise to this project.

The exhibition displayed in the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, features a wide range of artworks by the following Appalachian students: Corinne Adams, Nicola Mousa Bajalia II, Rachel Ballard, Jaclyn Bowie, Andrew Brown, Casey Buchanan, Cara Bunch, Kristen Clark, Allison Cody, Brandon Crockett, Callie Cullum, Jaime Curlin, Jacob Daniels, Anthony P. Deal, Erin Dobbins, Lindsey Elsey, Kurt Eltz, Lauren Fabri, Hannah Ferrara, Ashley Foster, Lauren Goding, Ryan Grady, Amanda Hart, Rachel Haycraft, Danielle Hennis, Joshua High, Bo Howe, Leah Johnson, Kimmy Kaplan, Blake Kennedy, Turner Kilgore, Rosy Kirby, Austin Kowitz, Meg Lancaster, Lily Lane, Ian Lawrence, David Lezette, Allison McDonald, Jaime McKay, Kelsey Melville, Rebecca Peterson, Gwyn Pevonka, Joni Ray, Emily Robie, Abby Samelak, Lane Schreiber, Matt Sellars, Jennifer Skultety, R. Martin Stamat, Jaron Strom, Lindy Thompson, Heather Trexler, Allie Trimbur, Jackie Walker, Adrienne Wilder and Kristina Winfree.

The Catherine J. Smith Gallery is located in Farthing Auditorium on the Appalachian State University Campus. Admission is free. Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 828-262-7338.

George G. Beasley ’58 has been named the Country Radio Broadcaster (CRB) Tom Rivers Humanitarian Award winner.

The award, given at the discretion of the CRB Board of Directors, recognizes an individual in the Country Radio industry who has displayed a magnanimous spirit of caring and generosity in service to their community. This is not an annual award, but given when the board feels an individual, through outstanding service, warrants the recognition.

It is presented in honor of CRB Board member Tom Rivers, who died March 19, 2004, at age 38 of bronchial asthma. Rivers, known for his work at WQYK, Tampa/St. Petersburg and WUSN, Chicago, was highly regarded for his exemplary public service.

Beasley was inducted into the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998 after receiving the prestigious Distinguished Broadcaster of North Carolina Award. In 2003, he received the Broadcast Pioneer Award from the Broadcasters Foundation and was recently honored with the addition of the George G. Beasley Broadcasting Complex to the Appalachian State University campus.

Courtesy of ASU News

Ryan M. Klinger of Troutman, a senior industrial design major at Appalachian State University, has received the 2010 Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

The $2,500 scholarship award is presented annually by the Center for Entrepreneurship in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business to recognize exceptional entrepreneurial achievement by a student. It was presented during the 2010 Young Entrepreneurs Symposium, which was sponsored by Backyard Burgers.

Klinger was selected by a panel of judges for his outstanding entrepreneurial achievement in technology, design and business endeavors. “His accomplishments border on the impossible,” said one of his nominators. Klinger’s entrepreneurial endeavors began at age 9 when he collected and sold baseball cards. At 16, he became a licensed wholesale car audio system distributor and created system packages that he installed at competitive prices.

Klinger continued his professional entrepreneurial journey when he and two friends entered the “Juicy Ideas” creativity competition sponsored by Google and AdvantageWest. The competition was a nation-wide initiative to encourage entrepreneurship and communicate a message of environmental responsibility. Klinger’s team’s entry, a bicycle built out of recycled water bottles, won first place in both the regional and national competitions. The team was recognized in Asheville, Chicago and at Google’s headquarters in California.

In addition to providing publicity for the team’s winning entry, the contest enabled the students to showcase their work at the 2009 Innoventure Conference in Greenville, S.C. At that conference, they made many connections, including forming a partnership with Milliken & Company, which is now using a new plastic product that will ultimately be used to build the commuter bikes Klinger and his team are currently prototyping.

Klinger also found the time to become a luthier, won second place in the annual chair design competition sponsored by Appalachian’s Department of Technology, and most recently came in second place in an international design competition called Greener Gadgets. He received this award in New York City the day after receiving the Student Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Pam Lewis, senior vice president of entrepreneurial development at AdvantageWest, who was the founder and creator of the “Juicy Ideas” competition, said “Since first meeting Ryan, upon presenting him with the regional first-place award for ‘Juicy Ideas,’ I have watched the transformation of a bright young industrial design student into an entrepreneur and more importantly a leader. I am a big fan of Ryan’s and look forward to seeing where his innovative ideas take him; his future is bright. He is the ideal recipient of the 2010 Appalachian State University Student Entrepreneur of the Year.”

The other student nominees for the award are:

Ryan Barringer, a senior theatre and arts major (design and technology track) Eric Lippert, a junior marketing/entrepreneurship double major Nicholas Seligman, a junior philosophy major Kelly Penick, a junior hospitality and tourism management major Kelly McRell, a senior interdisciplinary studies major Thomas Brigman, a junior political science major Michael Roper, a senior music industry studies major

Two Appalachian State University interior design student teams placed first and second in the 2010 Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) South Region Student Competition.

The student projects will be forwarded to the national competition, and the winners of the national/international competition will be displayed at the IDEC Annual Conference March 24-27 in Atlanta.

The student team of Shannon Peterson, Lauren Huff and Allison Edwards took first place with their project, “Art of Learning.” The team of Katherine Watts, Joelle Barnhill and Whitney Johnson took second with their project, “Information Commons.”

Projects are judged at the local level, and a total of three projects may be submitted to the regional competition from the local competition. The regional entries were submitted in January and are sent to an IDEC member who coordinates blind judging at the regional level. The judges then send on entries to the national/international competition where they are again blind judged.

Jury members for the regional competition were Dr. Janis Brickey, Middle Tennessee State University; Nanette P. Rhodes, ASID “N” Design, and Tim Woodruff, Woodruff Interiors.

“Having judged the IDEC student competition at the international level, I know how competitive the competition can be,” said Jeanne Mercer-Ballard, assistant professor and coordinator of Appalachian’s interior design program. “We are excited that two of our three entries received first and second place at the regional level. We are honored by this external validation of the quality of our student work.”

The student entries were mandatory projects for students in the Interior Design Studio VI. The interior design program students and faculty have done the annual competition project in the studio before, but this is the first time they submitted the entries to the regional competition.

IDEC’s mission is the advancement of interior design education and scholarship. The South regional is comprised of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

IDEC’s Student Design Competition is an opportunity to create an awareness of human, economic, environmental and ethical concerns for future interior designers. The experience also encourages students and faculty alike to reflect about socially responsible design and the importance of design in society.

For more information about IDEC, visit http://www.idec.org/. For more information about the Department of Technology’s interior design program, visit www.tec.appstate.edu.

Appalachian electronic media/broadcasting students took seven Student Audio Competition awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). They will receive recognition during the BEA’s Festival of Media Arts and the National Association of Broadcasters Conference April 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Senior Dan Starbuck of Raleigh won the Audio Best of Festival award and first place in the Educational Audio Documentary for his project “The Namesake of Boone, North Carolina.” This is the first Audio Best of Festival award received by an Appalachian student. Starbuck receives $1,000 for the award.

Jon Wood, a senior from Swannanoa took second place in the Educational Audio Documentary for his project “Zebulan Baird Vance: North Carolina’s War Governor.”

In the Audio PSA/Commercial Category, Ryan Laster, a senior from Winston-Salem, won first place for “A Goo Gone Day,” and Danny Kaufmann, a senior from Raleigh, took second place for “Goldilocks and the Three Coffeehouses.” Junior Connor Magill from Asheville received an honorable mention in this category for “Pirates of the A&W.”

Starbuck also won second place in the Sports Audio Program Category for “Appalachian State University National Mountainbike Champions.”

This year’s winning entries are the most that Appalachian has won at one time in the BEA Festival. Six of the projects were done as assignments in Electronic Media/Broadcasting lecturer Steve Smith’s Audio Production II class. Starbuck’s Mountainbike production was a final project in Smith’s Audio I class.

“I try to teach our students the creative and technical skills needed so that their audio projects will be commercial quality and have legs that will stand up in the real broadcast world,” said Smith. “We work on not just being competent but to excel. Then, I require them to put in the long hours needed in our production labs in order to accomplish that goal. These BEA awards that they have won are proof of their hard work, creativity, and talent.”

Starbuck’s Audio Best of Festival piece is a 10-minute documentary about Daniel Boone and how the town of Boone came to be named for him. In it Starbuck asked four questions about Daniel Boone and the town of Boone: why was he so special, what was he actually like, how did the town get its name from this pioneer, and how does the town of Boone connect to Daniel Boone.

“I knew once Steve and I looked over my ‘Namesake of Boone, NC,’ piece and edited a little bit more of it that I had a good chance of winning in the documentary category but did not expect to take Audio Best of Festival,” said Starbuck. “I think this shows that our department is continuing to improve and become more competitive in an extremely competitive business.”

As for the what the award itself means to Starbuck, he said, “It has come full circle for me. I remember sitting in Audio Production 1 at the beginning of the fall semester last year and Steve Smith showing us examples of well done projects that students had done in previous semesters. I sat there listening to some excellent pieces and thinking to myself, ‘I want to produce pieces like that so Steve will show my work to classes once I finish with audio production.’”

To listen to all the winning entries, visit http://beafestival2010.wordpress.com/student-audio-competition/.