Chicago - Cary
McMillan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC),
today announces new leadership at SAIC, including
the appointment of prominent figures from the world
of higher education. Walter E. Massey, Ph.D. will
serve as SAIC's President, effective September 13,
2010 and Elissa Tenny, Ed.D. has been appointed to
the newly created position of SAIC Provost and
Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, effective
August 16, 2010. Anthony Jones, CBE will continue
to serve as Chancellor for SAIC while Lisa
Wainwright, Ph.D. will continue as Dean of Faculty.
"We have brought together these exceptional
individuals whose varied strengths complement one
another perfectly," says McMillan. "Dr. Massey's
extensive background as a leader in higher
education, the business world, and the foundation
community will be a strong asset for SAIC. For her
part, Dr. Tenny has a proven track record of
outstanding accomplishments in the areas of
curriculum development and academic strategic
initiatives. With Chancellor Jones and Dean
Wainwright, both of whom have well established
reputations in the world of art and design
education, SAIC's new leadership possesses the
vision and experience to build on our distinguished
history and to attain even higher levels of
accomplishment as the world's foremost institution
for art and design scholarship and education."
About Walter E.
Massey, Ph.D.
President Walter E. Massey, Ph.D. is President
Emeritus of Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA), having
served as President from 1995 to 2007. Immediately
prior to that post, Dr. Massey was Provost and
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the
University of California system, where he was
responsible for academic and research planning and
policy, budget planning and allocations,
and programmatic oversight of three national
laboratories that the University manages for the
Department of Energy. Massey has also been
Professor of Physics and Dean of the College at
Brown University.
A distinguished physicist, Massey served as director
of the Argonne National Laboratory and Professor of
Physics and Vice President for Research at the
University of Chicago during the period of 1979 to
1991. Massey was also named the director of the
National Science Foundation by former President
George H.W. Bush and served in that capacity from
1991 to 1993.
As a corporate leader, Dr. Massey has served as a
director of Bank of America and Chairman of the
Board. He has been a board member of numerous major
corporations, and is currently on the board of
McDonald's. Serving as a trustee of The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, Dr. Massey is also a Fellow of
the American Physical Society and the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, as well as a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
Philosophical Society, and the Council of Foreign
Relations.
The recipient of more than 30 honorary degrees from
institutions such as Yale University, Northwestern
University, Amherst and Ohio State University, Dr.
Massey's research has involved the study of quantum
liquids and solids, and his written work has
addressed university-industry partnerships and the
issue of technology transfer, addressing the
allocation of skills, knowledge, and technology
among institutions to ensure wider accessibility to
technological developments.
Dr. Massey is a graduate of Morehouse College
(Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics,
1958) and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D.
in Physics, 1966). He was born in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi and currently resides
in Chicago with his wife Shirley Anne.
About Elissa
Tenny, Ed.D.
Elissa Tenny, Ed.D. comes to SAIC from the
distinguished liberal arts institution Bennington
College in Bennington, Vermont, where she has served
as Provost and Dean since 2002. Her significant
accomplishments at Bennington include the promotion
of interdisciplinary and integrative scholarship,
crafting strategic plans for the college, enhancing
curriculum planning, and faculty development.
Prior to joining Bennington, she served in a variety
of roles at The New School
in New York City from 1975 to 2002, eventually
holding the positions of Acting Dean (1998-2001) and
Vice Dean (2001-2002). While at The New School,
which houses the internationally recognized Parsons
School of Design, Tenny's focus included promoting
quality and creativity in academic programs and
student services, as well as growing overall
enrollment by 30%. She holds a Doctor of Education
degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master
of Arts in Media Studies from the New School for
Social Research and a Bachelor
of Arts in Business Administration from The Richard
Stockton College of
New Jersey.
SAIC Faculty Accomplishments
SAIC faculty member Michael Golec (Art
History, Theory, and Criticism) has been named
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at
Princeton University for the Spring 2011
semester. In addition to the fellowship, Golec will
be Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of
Art and Archaeology. While at Princeton he will
begin work on his second book, The World Turns
Statistical: Reform Graphics in the United States,
1900-1940s.
SAIC's Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Painting
Jim Lutes has been awarded a 2010
Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Lutes is one of 180
artists, scientists, and scholars in the USA and
Canada chosen from a group of some 3,000 applicants.
Work by faculty member Stephanie Brooks
(Sculpture) is featured alongside work by Robert
Irwin, Rosy Keyser, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, John
McCracken and Robert Ryman in the exhibition
Reflection on view at Peter Blum Gallery in
New York City through July 30.
50 American Artists You Should Know, a
comprehensive survey by faculty member Debra
Mancoff (Art History, Theory, and Criticism) of
fifty influential American artists including Homer,
Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Hopper, O'Keefe, Calder,
Pollock, Rothko, Bourgeois, Johns, Warhol and Serra,
has been published in English and in German by
Prestel International.
Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive
Women, a new book from faculty member Maud
Lavin (Art History, Theory, and Criticism), will
be released by MIT Press in September. Completed
with the help of her own Guggenheim Fellowship, the
title follows Clean New World: Culture, Politics
and Graphic Design (MIT, 2001) and Cut with
the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of
Hannah Hoech (Yale, 1993). As editor and
coauthor, Lavin has also published The Oldest
We've Ever Been (Arizona, 2008) and The
Business of Holidays (Monacelli/Random House,
2004).
Across the pond, alumna Monique Meloche presents
alumnus Justin Cooper (MFA 2005) at VOLTA6 in
Basel June 16-20, 2010. And the first European solo
exhibition of work by faculty member Scott Reeder
(Painting and Drawing) opened June 5 at the Luce
Gallery in Torino, Italy. The exhibition of new
paintings remains on view through July 24. Images
and more information is available on the gallery's
website.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A leader in educating artists, designers, and
scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited
undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate
programs to nearly 3,200 students from across the
globe. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC's
educational philosophy is built upon an
interdisciplinary approach to art and design, giving
students unparalleled opportunities to develop their
creative and critical abilities, while working with
renowned faculty who include many of the leading
practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources
include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new
Modern Wing; numerous special collections and
programming venues provide students with exceptional
exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances.
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