Archive for March, 2011

Georg Olden – I’ve Got a Secret

This coming Saturday March 26th, I’m participating in the Black Studies Design Education Symposium at Parsons School of Design, my presentation is titled “Missing in the Narrative,” made me think long and hard about Georg Olden the first on-air art director for CBS TV. Above Olden Vice President Creative of McCann Erikson advertising is featured on 1960s TV show I’ve Got a Secret if you listen closely he’s referred to as MadMen, a term used in advertising. For more on Georg Olden check out AIGA Gold Medalist: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist%2Dgeorgolden.
Also former editor Julie Lasky of Print Magazine wrote an extraordinary article, The Search for Georg Olden in March 1994 issue documenting his tumultuous career as an art director in TV and advertising. I’m happy to say I worked with Lasky providing some of the research especially since I had developed a lecture series on “Black Designers of the 20th Century” which included Olden.

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Kresge Art X event

Dr. Craig L. Wilkins from Art X Detroit on Vimeo.

Art X Detroit is pleased to present a short video by Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Stephen McGee, featuring Kresge Literary Arts Fellow, Dr. Craig L. Wilkins. This is the eleventh video in a series featuring the 2008-2010 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship Awardees and Eminent Artists. Join us on our Facebook and Vimeo pages as we feature a new video each day, leading up to the opening night of Art X Detroit on April 6, 2011.

Dr. Craig L. Wilkins from Art X Detroit on Vimeo.

Art X Detroit is pleased to present a short video by Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Stephen McGee, featuring Kresge Literary Arts Fellow, Dr. Craig L. Wilkins. This is the eleventh video in a series featuring the 2008-2010 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship Awardees and Eminent Artists. Join us on our Facebook and Vimeo pages as we feature a new video each day, leading up to the opening night of Art X Detroit on April 6, 2011.

The Kresge Art X event is happening in Detroit as part of the ARTX project on 09 April, at 5:30PM, held at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art. Craig Wilkins, architect, educator and director of the Detroit Community Design Center is a 2010 Kresge Literary Fellow.

Wilkins is hosting panel discussion:

A Stronger Soul in a Finer Frame: The 100-year effort to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Dr. Craig L. Wilkins will read excerpts from his current work concerning the 100-year effort to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), set to open in 2015 on the National Mall. The outline for the event is as follows: 30 minute reading by Wilkins, a 30 minute panel discussion regarding the reading, the proposed NMAAHC and its significance in African America, American and architectural history and culture and finally, a 30 minute Q&A with the audience. The panel will discuss how the ethereal becomes manifest; the dream, a thing; in this case, architecture. It will explore not only what it means to create an architecture that might legibly and positively represent that complex experience in a country still deeply conflicted about its racial past yet optimistic enough about its future to elect it first African-American president.

The panelists are John Gallagher, architecture critic for the Detroit Free Press; Lee Bey, executive director of the Chicago Central Area Committee and former critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and; Robert Fishman, professor of architecture and planning, University of Michigan. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/clwilks/home


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