News and Events at the School of Art and Design

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Inspired by the beauty of the crow, Mi-Sook Hur has been selected as one of the five finalists of the NICHE Award 2013 in the Professional Sculpture to Wear Category for her brooch series entitled Lost Crow. Her work is also featured in the NICHE Magazine, Winter 2013. The winner will be announced on February 17 at the 2013 Buyers’ Market, the American Made Show in Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia. 
 
The NICHE Awards program began in 1989 to recognize excellence in American and Canadian fine art and crafts, from sculpture to fashion accessories. Artists are honored in both Professional and Student Categories. The awards are sponsored by the NICHE magazine, which covers the art and craft industry for independent retailers.

Below is a link to the NICHE website, where you can read more about the Award and view the other participants’ work.

http://www.nichemagazine.com/2012/12/honoring-the-best-and-the-brightest/

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Material Topics 2013

   Thank you to everyone who came to the 2013 Material Topics Symposium “Making Marks”. This weekend was an perfect storm of talent, passion, and community and we are so thankful to everyone who attended .  We wish everyone Happy Trails on their way home and hope to see  you next year! A good amount of you also commented that you thought the website was a tad confusing and we are working on simplifying that. Stay tuned for what is in store in 2014!!!!

School of Art and design student Michael Mangelli member of ECU Gaming Team to win National Invitational NVIDIA Call of Duty Black-Ops 2 Rivalries Competition in Santa Clara, California.

The ECU Gaming Team won the National Invitational NVIDIA Call of Duty Black-Ops 2 Rivalries Competition at the NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Team members Michael Mangelli (from the School of Art and Design ), Mathew Mangelli, Cliff Stubbs, Nate Kellum, and Stephan Loehr played with masterful teamwork using expert strategy and in-game communication to dominate the competition. The team was accompanied to the event by ECU Gaming Club Secretary, Rachel Pickens.

While not initially invited to the event, the Pirate Nation came together to send the ECU team to California by winning one of the two Wild Card slots via Facebook voting. The team won an all expenses paid trip to the Golden State to have a chance in the competition by playing against Oregon State University for the quarter-finals wild card slot. ECU beat OSU 4-1 in the best of seven match. Each game was played following Call of Duty Team Deathmatch rules, with each team competing to earn the 75 point cap within the ten minute time limit.

In other quarter-final rounds, the University of California team beat Stanford 4-0, USC beat UCLA 4-1, and NC State beat UNC 4-3. In the semi-finals, USC beat NC State. The action was intense in the first ECU-CAL match as ECU and CAL were tied at 74 points each for a nail biting ending, but ECU put them away to end the streak of the yet undefeated CAL team. ECU went on to shut out CAL 4-0 for a slot in the finals.

USC took early leads in three of the four final games, but ECU rallied in each game to shut out USC 4-0 to win the finals and become the first ever NVIDIA Call of Duty Black-Ops 2 Rivalries Grand Champion!

In addition to the Championship trophy and bragging rights, each team member wins a desktop PC designed by MainGear, powered by a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, with HD monitor and accessories. The winning school receives a donation from NVIDIA of two GTX-powered desktop PCs with HD monitors and accessories for each round they won, plus two more for participating in the competition.

Congratulations to our Pirate Champions!