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BOWLING GREEN, O.—Bowling Green State University faculty members Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen are partners in many
ways—husband and wife, colleagues and collaborative artists. Now their work has been honored with two prestigious awards.
They have received a $5,000 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council in the media arts category. In addition, the Fulbright Commission in Berlin has announced that Hillerbrand, who teaches visual communication technology, has received a Fulbright Junior Research Award for Germany. In keeping with their artistic working method, both will be going abroad for several months to continue their work in Berlin and Karlsruhe, Germany.
The couple met while graduate students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Magsamen’s background is in sculpture, video and video installation, while Hillerbrand’s is in photography and photo-based installations, and new-media technology.
The Ohio Arts Council award is a highly competitive honor given in recognition of the “exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community,” according to the council. The awards are designed to support artists’ growth and development and are not tied to specific projects.
The Fulbright, coming up in April 2006, “will allow us to collaborate in a whole different place,” said Hillerbrand, who was also a Fulbright Fellow for the German Technology and Education 2004 seminar.
He will be involved in research at the Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg and at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. “I want to explore how technology is affecting education and the arts in Germany and compare and contrast that with the United States,” he said
.
Since joining the BGSU faculty two years ago, Magsamen and Hillerbrand have continued to participate in individual and group shows and to give artist’s talks, both nationally and internationally. They recently completed a second residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, N.Y., and in 2003 were awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s residency at the Woolworth Building in New York City.
Before beginning their artistic collaboration, each had numerous exhibitions.
Magsamen’s past exhibitions include solo shows at Momenta Art in Brooklyn and HEREArt in New York, in addition to group shows at the Anna Kustera Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Project Gallery in Toronto and White Columns. She was the co-founder and organizer of 57hope alternative space in Williamsburg, N.Y. In addition, she has been awarded residencies from the Longwood Cyber Residency Program and the Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund.
Hillerbrand is a National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters grant recipient and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He has studied in Austria, China and Germany, and has been a lecturer at the High Museum of Art, the Alliance for Community Media and New York University. His exhibition sites have included Nexus Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Artspace in New Haven, Conn., and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
They have received a $5,000 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council in the media arts category. In addition, the Fulbright Commission in Berlin has announced that Hillerbrand, who teaches visual communication technology, has received a Fulbright Junior Research Award for Germany. In keeping with their artistic working method, both will be going abroad for several months to continue their work in Berlin and Karlsruhe, Germany.
The couple met while graduate students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Magsamen’s background is in sculpture, video and video installation, while Hillerbrand’s is in photography and photo-based installations, and new-media technology.
The Ohio Arts Council award is a highly competitive honor given in recognition of the “exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community,” according to the council. The awards are designed to support artists’ growth and development and are not tied to specific projects.
The Fulbright, coming up in April 2006, “will allow us to collaborate in a whole different place,” said Hillerbrand, who was also a Fulbright Fellow for the German Technology and Education 2004 seminar.
He will be involved in research at the Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg and at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. “I want to explore how technology is affecting education and the arts in Germany and compare and contrast that with the United States,” he said
.
Since joining the BGSU faculty two years ago, Magsamen and Hillerbrand have continued to participate in individual and group shows and to give artist’s talks, both nationally and internationally. They recently completed a second residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, N.Y., and in 2003 were awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s residency at the Woolworth Building in New York City.
Before beginning their artistic collaboration, each had numerous exhibitions.
Magsamen’s past exhibitions include solo shows at Momenta Art in Brooklyn and HEREArt in New York, in addition to group shows at the Anna Kustera Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Project Gallery in Toronto and White Columns. She was the co-founder and organizer of 57hope alternative space in Williamsburg, N.Y. In addition, she has been awarded residencies from the Longwood Cyber Residency Program and the Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund.
Hillerbrand is a National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters grant recipient and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He has studied in Austria, China and Germany, and has been a lecturer at the High Museum of Art, the Alliance for Community Media and New York University. His exhibition sites have included Nexus Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Artspace in New Haven, Conn., and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
(Posted June 15, 2005)