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- Kenneth Fitzgerald
- Professor
- Department of Art
- 112 Visual Arts Bldg
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-5459
- kfitzger@odu.edu
- Web Page
- Author of Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture, self-published The News of the Whirled, a novel in
the form of a magazine, artist books in the Franklin Furnace/Museum of Modern Art/Artists Books collection.
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Education
- Massachusetts College Of Art,
1996
- Major: Design
- Degree: M.F.A.
- Massachusetts College of Art,
1983
- Major: Ceramics
- Degree: B.F.A
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Research Interests
- Critical writing
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Books
- (2010). Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
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Book Chapters
- (2009). Emigre No. 70 the Look Back Issue: Selections from Emigre Magazine 1-69. Celebrating 25 Years of Graphic Design. (pp. 512). San Francisco, CA: Gingko Press.
- Fitzgerald, K. (2005). An instructor of concern.. Allworth Press.
- Fitzgerald, K. (2000). Seen and not seen.. Allworth Press.
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Articles
- Fitzgerald, K. (2011). I Believe in Design. Premsela, Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, 1 (3),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2009). Design's Just Dessert. Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
- Fitzgerald, K. (2007). The resistance. Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
- Fitzgerald, K. (2006). I come to bury graphic design, not to praise it. IDEA (314),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2006). Seeing and reading. IDEA (314),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2005). Four minutes to midnight (2),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2005). untitled article. Emigre (69),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2005). Martin Venezky’s beautiful melancholy. Design Observer
- Fitzgerald, K. (2005). An instructor of concern. Voice: AIGA Journal of Design
- Fitzgerald, K. (2004). Buzz kill. Emigre (67),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2004). File under nowhere. Emigre catalog, “Various types”
- Fitzgerald, K. (2004). I come to bury graphic design not to praise it. Emigre (66),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2003). Quietude. Emigre (64),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2002). letter to the editor. Eye (42),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2002). What culture wants. Emigre (62),
- Fitzgerald, K. (2000). The last wave. Emigre (54),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1998). Fanfare for the common hack. Eye (27),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1998). letter to the editor. Critique (9),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1998). Skilling saws and absorbent catalogs. Emigre (48),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1997). On Creem magazine: 1970–1976. Emigre (41),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1996). letter to the editor. Eye (23),
- Fitzgerald, K. (1996). letter to the editor. Emigre (38),
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Presentations
- Implosure
- Conference Name: College Art Association
- Sponsoring Organization: College Art Association
- Location: New York, New York
- Date: February 23, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K. Presenter & Author
- “Social economies: enterprise and a new cultural geography”
- Conference Name: AIGA-Raleigh, North Carolina State University
- Sponsoring Organization: AIGA-Raleigh, North Carolina State University
- Location: Raleigh, NC
- Date: October 9, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K. Presenter Only
- “First, Class”
- Conference Name: University and College Designers Association
- Sponsoring Organization: University and College Designers Association
- Location: University of Kansas
- Date: June 3, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K. Presenter & Author
- “New kids, sell outs, and celebrity suicides”
- Conference Name: North Carolina State University College of Design
- Sponsoring Organization: North Carolina State University College of Design
- Location: Raleigh, NC
- Date: January 22, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K. Presenter Only
- Gettin’ R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the academy: what constitutes graphic design research
- Conference Name: Northern Illinois University
- Sponsoring Organization: Northern Illinois University
- Date: 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
- The Graphic Equalizer
- Conference Name:
- Location: Nashville, TN
- Date: 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
- Indiscipline
- Conference Name: College Art Association
- Sponsoring Organization: College Art Association
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Date: 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
- not-design, not-art: Crafting and naming an interdisciplinary curriculum
- Conference Name: College Art Association
- Sponsoring Organization: College Art Association
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Date: 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
- Professional suicide
- Conference Name: University of Minnesota
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Minnesota
- Location: Minneapolis MN
- Date: 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
- Dissolve/reveal
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Fitzgerald, K.
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Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
- Fresh Produced: Exploring the Craft of Hand-Painted Signage
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Invitational
- Sponsor: Chicago Design Museum
- Location: Chicago, IL, USA
- Repurposes
- Type: Other
- Sponsor: Baron & Ellin Gordon Galleries at ODU
- Location: Norfolk, Virginia
- The Kenneth FitzGerald album »extended play«
- Type: Art - Exhibition, One-Person
- Sponsor: Barron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- NOT FOR PROFIT: Designers responding to social issues
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Outside in
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art
- Location: Beverly, MA
- Outside in
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Red Door Gallery
- Location: Detroit, MI
- Form\inform
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: The Goldstein Museum of Design
- Location: Minneapolis, MN
- Outside in
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: HallSpace Gallery
- Location: Boston, MA
- Selections from 22nd annual “100 Show,” American Center for Design
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Location: Chicago, Il (touring)
- All system go
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: University of Minnesota Duluth art & design faculty exhibition: Tweed Museum of Art
- Location: Duluth MN
- Take cover/take over
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Dietrich von Bueler Gallery
- Location: Boston, MA
- Aerosol
- Type: Art - Exhibition, One-Person
- Sponsor: Tweed Museum of Art
- Y2K?
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Robert Clements Gallery
- Location: Portland, ME
- The 1998 UMD art faculty biennial exhibition
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Tweed Museum of Art
- Tools and toys
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University
- Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI
- One-eleven
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
- Midway
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
- Transformers
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Alumni•æ Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
- SELF-aMUSEd: the contemporary artist as observer & observed
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Fitchburg Art Museum
- Location: Fitchburg MA
- 9 artists/9 visions
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park
- Location: Lincoln MA
- Inventory
- Type: Art - Exhibition, One-Person
- Sponsor: Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College
- Location: Bradford MA
- Mark Cooper & Kenneth FitzGerald
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: New England Biolabs
- Location: Beverly MA
- The twelfth annual Boston drawing show
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Boston Center for the Arts
- A multicultural valentine
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
- Kenneth FitzGerald & Judy Ryan
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: ADD
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Read the sky for signs of snow
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Alchemie Gallery
- Location: Boston, MA
- Artificeeditionissue
- Type: Art - Exhibition, One-Person
- Sponsor: Atlanta College of Art Library
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- The tenth annual Boston drawing show
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Boston Center for the Arts
- A homebody’s home
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: The Young Artist’s Gallery
- Location: Haverhill, MA
- Vernon Street at Brickbottom
- Type: Art - Exhibition, Group
- Sponsor: Brickbottom Gallery
- Location: Somerville, MA
- 2005: Greater Richmond Awards for Design Excellence, Best 1 or 2-color work, AIGA/Richmond
- 2002: Greater Richmond Awards for Design Excellence, Outstanding Merit Award, AIGA/Richmond
- 2000: News of the whirled #2 selected for 22nd annual “100 Show” , American Center for Design
- 1999: News of the whirled #2 selected for Design Show of Excellence , AIGA/Richmond
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research