EXHIBITION: FAAR OUT: Six Months in Rome

Details: 9 April - 2 May, 2003 Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm Admission free	Location: The ADC Gallery 106 West 29th Street at 6th Avenue Tel: 212.643.1440
Opening Reception: 9 April 2003 at the ADC Gallery from 6:30 to 8:30pm RSVP to res@adcny.org

Over 80 works by American Academy in Rome Fellows in Design will be on view in an exhibition presented by the American Academy in Rome and The Art Directors Club.

About the Artists
The American Academy in Rome awards fellowships and residencies to American artists, scholars and creative professionals to pursue independent art projects. The exhibition's title "FAAR OUT," was inspired by the acronym "FAAR," given to Fellows of the American Academy in Rome. Rome Prize Fellowships have profoundly inspired some of this country's most acclaimed designers. Among the works on exhibition will be Tupperware designs by the late Morison S. Cousins, FAAR'85; Stow/Davis chairs by Robert DeFuccio, FAAR'76; V8 splash logo by Paul Shaw, FAAR'02 and lamps designed for Baldinger by Kevin Walz, FAAR'94.

"The Rome Prize in Design attracts the most diverse candidates," said Adele Chatfield-Taylor Academy President and Design Fellow (FAAR '84). "Since 1965, the Academy has been granting fellowships to two designers a year. This exhibit recognizes the variety of our Fellows, who come to us from professions ranging from choreography to conservation law."

Lighting designer Heather Carson's site-specific new piece and attorney Paul Bray's legislative bill urging environmental lighting to preserve the night sky are just two examples of the exhibit's widely disparate approach to design. Furniture, lighting, museum display, stage sets, interiors, signage, posters, commercial goods, labels, architectural drawings and models, graphic designs and consumer products are all on display.

"With the FAAR OUT exhibition, we hope to encourage more professionals like our members-designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers-to apply for the Rome Prize which is open to anyone in the visual communications field," said Executive Director of the Arts Directors Club, Myrna Davis. "The Academy and the ADC share the same mission: to promote creative excellence."

About the Curators
FAAR OUT: Six Months in Rome is curated by Linda Blumberg, Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (1999-2002) with Paul Davis, FAAR'98 and Myrna Davis, Executive Director of the Art Directors Club. The exhibition design is by Paul Lewis, FAAR'99, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis.

Exhibition Participants

Stanley Abercrombie, FAAR'83 William Adair, FAAR'92 Ross S. Anderson, FAAR'90 Joseph H. Aronson, FAAR'74 Karen Bausman, FAAR'95 Ellen Beasley, FAAR'89 Anna Campbell Bliss, FAAR'84 Paul M. Bray, FAAR'97 Steven Brooke, FAAR'91 Michael B. Cadwell, FAAR'99 Heather Carson, FAAR'99 Coleman Coker, FAAR'96 Morison S. Cousins, FAAR'85 Russell Rowe Culp, FAAR'80 Paul Davis, FAAR'98

Robert De Fuccio, FAAR'76 William H. Fain , Jr., FAAR'02 J. Michael Kirkland, FAAR'70 George Krause, FAAR'77, RAAR'80 Debra McCall, FAAR'89 Thomas M. Phifer, FAAR'96 Samina Quraeshi, RAAR'98 Mark Robbins, FAAR'97 Michael Rock, FAAR'00 Mark Schimmenti, FAAR'98 Paul Shaw, FAAR'02 Paul L. Steinberg, FAAR'82 Kevin Walz, FAAR'94 Tod Williams, FAAR'83

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