Student Recycled Art Competition @ The Avenues

The next phase of AUK students' participation in the REUSE competition will take place at the Avenues from January 9-11, 10am-10pm. The public will be able to vote for their favorite artwork made from recycled materials. Twelve winners of AUK's own REUSE Exhibition will have their artwork compete against artwork from other local university students. Attached is the poster for the REUSE Recycled Art Competition @ The Avenues, in English and Arabic.  

Further information: http://bit.ly/1hqeaoI

Please come and support the our participating students!

REUSE Exhibition Opens 28 November 12 noon!

On behalf of the AUK Department of Art and Graphic Design and AUK Library, you are cordially invited to attend the REUSE Exhibition that opens tomorrow, November 28th, at 12pm noon.  

Student artwork made from scrap / recycled materials will be displayed in this exhibition that promotes environmental sustainability while creating a platform on which aspiring young artists can share their work. Winning artwork from this event will later be exhibited with student artworks from other educational institutions and will compete with each other for the best works made entirely out of scrap / recycled materials. This student exhibition is part of 'The en.v Initiative", an organisation promoting social responsibility in the Arab world. 

The show runs through December 8th, 2013 and will be held in the AUK Library.

AUK Library Hours

Regular working hours 

Sunday - Thursday	8:00am-9:00pm
Friday	Closed
Saturday	12:00pm-6:00pm

In the AUK News!

A group photo for AUK faculty and staff (from Left): Raymond Farrin, Associate Professor of Arabic; Asmaa Al Kanan, Library Director; Antonia Stamos, Assistant Professor of Art History; Pellegrino Luciano, Assistant Professor of Anthropology; William Andersen, Assistant Professor of Studio Arts / Graphic Design; and Stephanie Cheng, Assistant Professor of Music

Click on the link to AUK: News

As part of Kuwait's celebration of Global Peace Day, an exhibition entitled 'In the Name of Peace' is showcasing interpretations of 'peace' by local and international artists. The exhibition is being held at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) and is featuring pieces by AUK Graphic Design Professors Maryam Hosseinnia and William Andersen, as well as pieces by AUK alumnus Faisal Mohammad. 

'In the Name of Peace' was launched on September 15th and will run through to mid-October. Part of the proceeds collected from sold items will be donated to Khair Al-Kuwait, a non-profit foundation devoted to the concept of volunteerism, and Loyac, a non-profit organization working towards the overall development of the youth. The celebration of Global Peace Day also includes live music and activities for children, which will be held at the CAP Kuwait Warehouse on September 21st, starting at 5:30pm, as well as a 'Global Peace Ride' by the Kuwait Riders and Phoenician Riders from Costa Bedai on September 20th at 4:00pm. 

The AUK Art and Graphic Department invites you to participate and contribute....in the name of peace. 

TONIGHT Global Peace Day MUSIC & KIDS!

As part of Kuwait’s celebration of Global Peace Day, an exhibition entitled ‘In the Name of Peace’ is showcasing interpretations of ‘peace’ by local and international artists. The exhibition is being held at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) and is featuring pieces by AUK Graphic Design Professors Maryam Hosseinnia and William Andersen, as well as pieces by AUK alumnus Faisal Mohammad.

‘In the Name of Peace’ was launched on September 15th continues through mid-October. Part of the proceeds collected from sold items will be donated to Khair Al-Kuwait, a non-profit foundation devoted to the concept of volunteerism, and Loyac, a non-profit organization working towards the overall development of the youth. The celebration of Global Peace Day also includes live music and activities for children, which will be held at the CAP Kuwait Warehouse on September 21st, starting at 5:30pm, as well as a ‘Global Peace Ride’ by the Kuwait Riders and Phoenician Riders from Costa Bedai on September 20th at 4:00pm.

The AUK Art and Graphic Design Department invites you to participate and contribute…in the name of peace.

أساتذة و خريجو الجامعة الأمريكية يلتقون "باسم السلام"

يشارك اساتذة الفن التشكيلي و التصميم الجرافيكي بالجامعة الامريكية في الكويت بالمعرض الفني الذي تقيمه قاعة كاب للفنون تحت عنوان "باسم السلام"، و الذي يأتي ضمن احتفالات اليوم العالمي للسلام. و قد قدم كل من الاستاذة مريم حسينية و الاستاذوليام اندرسن أعمالهم الفنية التي تعبر عن مفاهيم السلام، كما يشارك في المعرض خريج الجامعة الامريكية، فيصل محمد، ضمن كوكبة من الفنانين التشكيليين المحليينو العالميين.

تم افتتاح المعرض يوم 15 سبتمبر و يستمر على مدار شهر، حيث يتخلله عدةفعاليات ترفيهية و ثقافية تقام على هامش المعرض.  و يذكر أن جزء من عائد المعرضسوف يتم تخصيصه لدعم منظمات انسانية وخيرية كما هو الحال سنوياً بجميعفعاليات  "يوم السلام "  في مختلف انحاء العالم. 

Higher Education's Train to Nowhere

Paul Stoller

Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University; Author, 'The Power of the Between'

There is an alarming disconnect in contemporary higher education. As I have been saying in this space for more than two years, the university-as-corporation threatens to undermine the foundation of a world-class system of education and diminish the quality of our future social life.

One of the ramifications of university corporatization has been an increasing disregard for the intellectual dimensions of the professorial life. In the name of technological efficiency an increasingly bloated cadre of university technocrats flood our in-boxes with mindless minutia. These institutional requirements -- assessment outcomes, mission statements, five year plans, and so on -- have become so burdensome that there is precious little time for intellectual pursuit. During the academic year it is difficult to find the "leisure" to read current research reports, prepare grant proposals, design new courses, refine lectures, or write an article or a book? In the current environment of institutional reviews and performance assessments, who has time to think?

Read the rest of the article by clicking HERE

If You Are Considering a Teaching Position in Wisconsin...

If You Are Considering a Teaching Position in Walker's Wisconsin, Please Be Aware:

•You Will Be a Probationary Teacher Forever. Walker's Wisconsin is the only state in America where all teachers have lost tenure or career status.

•At the Same Time that Governor Walker Has Made Billions of Dollars in Cuts to Public Education ( the Deepest Cuts in Wisconsin's History), Governor Walker Has Proposed Increasing Aid To Unaccountable Voucher Schools By 32 %. No state in America has made more severe cuts to public education than Wisconsin.

•Governor Walker Specifically Targeted Teachers With a Rule Change Forever Limiting Teacher Raises Well Below the Inflation Rate.

•In Walker's Wisconsin, Many School Districts Are Reducing Salaries, Eliminating Benefits, and Increasing Teacher Workload: Use the information on the District pages to find out which school districts are aggressively repealing the gains teachers made over 40 years of collective bargaining by enacting regressive employment rules requiring extended teacher workdays, 60+ hour workweeks, required weekend work, adding weeks of teaching or inservice training to the contracted year, eliminating preparation time, taking away sick days, eliminating retirement benefits, and making severe reductions in salaries and benefits.
•Governor Walker & his Republican Allies have repealed Equal Pay for Equal Work laws in Wisconsin. This opens the door to paying male teachers significantly more than female teachers as was common in Wisconsin prior to the 1970's.
•Before You Sign a Contract, Find Out the Amount of the Contract Breakage Fee. Many school districts have imposed massive contract breakage fees (often $3,000+) to limit teachers' ability to leave for a better employment opportunity. A good rule of thumb for job candidates: The most demanding, even abusive districts to work for often have the highest contract breakage fees. Once you sign that first contract, they HAVE you and are going to do everything possible to keep you from leaving for a better career opportunity.


http://networkedblogs.com/LxoU6

AUK Annual Student Art Exhibit: 9am-7pm, April 14-18

AUK Annual Student Art Exhibit NOW open from 9am-7pm, April 14-18, in the AUK auditorium!

AUK's Annual Student Art Exhibit opens tonight at 5pm

AUK's 8th Annual Student Art Exhibit opening tonight starting at 5pm.  Special this year, we asked Lucia Topalian, director of the Dar Al Funoon Gallery, as an outside evaluator to judge the work  (awards will be giving sometime after 5pm with performances starting at 6pm).

Hope to see you this evening!

Fall Capstone Exhibition at AUK opens Sunday, January 13, 7-9pm

The AUK ART/GDES Department cordially invites you to the Fall Capstone Exhibition. 

Please join us for the reception Sunday, January 13, 7-9 pm at the Multipurpose Room. The exhibition will be open to AUK on Sunday and open to the public Monday through Wednesday.

Please see the attached poster for further information.

AUK presents "THE ODD COUPLE"

Went to the opening performance last night and the students did a wonderful job!  Still three more performances... SEE IT!  

85th self-immolation protest in Tibet - WORLD WAKE UP!

Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ 

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ

BREAKING: Kelsang Kyab set himself on fire today, November 27, 2012 at 7 PM in Kyangtsa township, Amdo Dzoge, Ngaba district.
་ཕྱི་ཚེས་༢༧་ད་ལྟ་རང་མདོ་སྨད་མཛོད་དགེ་ནས་བོད་་་་་་་མི་ཞིག་གིས་རང:་་་་་་་་་བསྲེཊ་བྱས་འདུག་ཟེར་བའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཁག་ནས་ངེས་བར་དུ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་རོགས།

Four Tibetans self-immolate as protest breaks out at school ...

www.telegraph.co.uk › ... › World News › Asia › Tibet

by Malcolm Moore - in 1,008 Google+ circles 8 hours ago – Tuesday 27 November 2012 ... China Congress: teenageTibetan monks self-immolate ... Seven Tibetan self-immolations hit China in a week ...

1. Four Tibetan students self-immolate in clash with Chinese police

   
   

   By Associated Press on November 27, 2012 ... Four more ethnicTibetans have self-immolated to protest Chinese rule and at least 20 were hospitalised after ...

Gangnam Style hits Kuwait!

Today at the American University of Kuwait (AUK): our students dance Gangnam Style ( I promise that I had nothing to do with this! ) 

AUK Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition opens Monday, 14 May 6-8pm

Dear colleagues and friends,

It is with great hope that you can join us for the 2012 graphic design senior portfolio / capstone exhibition held at the Auditorium and the Multipurpose room of the American University of Kuwait. The opening reception is on Monday, 14 May from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The exhibit is open to
the public from 15 – 17 May from 10 – 7 pm.

This graphic design exhibition showcases students' capstone projects, an outcome of a semester-long self initiated topic implemented through diverse applications. The course is largely self-directed and students are expected to select and investigate a topic using design as a means to present their findings. Social activism campaigns to re-brand identity is the core essence of this year’s exhibition.

We'd be honored if you came.

Prof. Maryam Hosseinnia + capstone students

More of our students' artwork in the news!

Some of the award winning artworks of AUK's 7th Annual Art Exhibition

Click on the links below for more info and images:

AUK Hosts 7th Annual Art Exhibition

AUK Announces Winners of Fourth Bi-Annual "President's Exhibition" Competition

my students' work at REUSE 5.0!

my students' work at REUSE 5.0!

Pepsragon by Alzahra Jamal

my students' work at REUSE 5.0!

cola cans, floppies and a broken bicycle: mr. andersen’s class | The Kulture Mag

www.thekulturemag.com

A look at 3 unconventional and uber-functional re-purposed art pieces at REUSE 5.0, designed and created by AUK students of Professor William Andersen’s class…

Rainbow Bicycle Table 
by Basmah Al-Qatami (this work sold!)

Re-Floppy by Noor Al-Sabah

A workshop by Iranian artist Reza Doust

Sense and sensibility in creating timeless  art work.

 A workshop by Reza Doust,

Boushahri art  gallery
Starting May 2 at 10 am -1 pm
Sunday-Wednesday

For more information or to register  please contact - Phone: 25621119 at the Boushahri Art Gallery
,Salmiya
Baghdad St. , Building 36

 

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Best regard
REZA

REUSE 5.0 Celebrates Earth Day with 85 Students from 7 Schools in Kuwait

Really good speakers and a great day!  I am the guy in the back with the dark sunglasses and making the V-sign...

en.v Celebrates Earth Day at REUSE 5.0 with 85 Students from 7 Schools in Kuwait - en.v

www.envearth.com

On April 22nd, The en.v Initiative (en.v), an organization dedicated to social responsibility in the Arab world hosted a three hour interactive “Earth Day Celebration” event at REUSE 5.0 at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK).The event was attended by 85 students from seven public and private sch...