CCA Dean's Convocation Features MacArthur "Genius" Fellow
David Macaulay, author and award-winning illustrator, will speak at the Caine College of the Arts’ fifth annual Dean’s Convocation Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 11:30 a.m. in the Performance Hall on Utah State University’s Logan campus.
“The Dean's Convocation has become one of the great traditions for the Caine College of the Arts,” said Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts (CCA). “Each year we have been able to bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers from around the nation to Utah State University. David Macaulay continues in our tradition of excellence. It is a great honor to have him on our campus.”
Macaulay’s talk entitled “Perhaps I Should Explain Myself” will be directed to students throughout the university campus.
“I’m thrilled to be involved with this event,” said Laura Gelfand, professor of art history and head of the Department of Art in the CCA. “Bringing a speaker with David Macaulay’s credentials to the Caine College of the Arts for the Dean’s Convocation is a real coup. Macaulay is known internationally for his innovative books and illustrations as well as the many television series he has been involved with.”
Macaulay’s books have sold more than three million copies in the United States and have been translated into a dozen languages. “TIME” magazine says whatever Macaulay draws, he draws better than any other pen and ink illustrator in the world.
Macaulay received a bachelor of architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in 1969. In January 1973 he was off to France to work on the first of his 25 books, “Cathedral.” Since then, Macaulay has written and illustrated numerous other books for children, demystifying the human race’s great architectural and engineering accomplishments. Five of these titles have even been made into popular PBS television programs.
Macaulay has been the recipient of multiple awards for his work, including the Caldecott Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award and the Washington Post-Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. He has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and has received the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science.
“The awards Macaulay has received, including the MacArthur Genius Fellow, attest to how well his work has been received,” said Gelfand. “His public presentation style, like his books, is accessible and entertaining, yet full of fascinating information and wonderful imagery.”
The New York Times said Macaulay sees the world with a writer’s grace, but with an engineer’s clarity, and The Washington Post says there is a sense of wonder in Macaulay’s work.
The convocation is the Caine College of the Arts’ formal welcome to all students and provides an opportunity to meet faculty, staff and administration from the CCA.
The Convocation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the CCA Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus, call 435-797-8022 or see the college’s Production Services website.
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Contact: Denise Albiston, 435-797-1500, denise.albiston@usu.edu
Writer: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
David Macaulay, author and award-winning illustrator, provides the Dean's Convocation for the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 11:30 a.m. in the Performance Hall on USU’s Logan campus.
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