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Cybercrime Initiatives Expand Cyber experts are setting up shop in the College of Arts and Sciences and other UA divisions to develop innovative solutions for fighting cybercrime. Although efforts to address computer-based crimes are nothing new at UA—faculty members in the Department of Criminal Justice have long partnered with law enforcement agencies and conducted research on the subject—those initiatives are extending their reach through a new research organization, student internships, a cybercrime minor, and a more formal partnership with local law enforcement. UA’s Cyber Institute was established as an umbrella organization under the Vice President for Research to foster new research and academic programs and to stimulate collaboration across the College of Arts and Sciences, Culverhouse College of Commerce, College of Engineering, and other campus elements. UA alumnus REG HYDE, a former senior Department of Defense official, is leading the institute as its executive director. Continued on page 18
Alumnus Bill Hall made his career as a printer working for Pace Editions Inc., one of the largest publishers of contemporary fine arts prints in the world.
In the Heart of the Art World Art alumnus, Alabama native Bill Hall nearing 27 years at Pace Prints
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Volume 24 • No.1 / Fall 2015
Issue Highlights
Dean’s Message 2 K-12 Fellows 3 Hear Here 4 Snapshots 5 Faculty News/Features 8 Student News/Features 14 Supporters 19 Cuba Center 34 Alumni Notes 35
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It’s a cold, rainy day in Chelsea—unusual for June in New York City—but the Pace Editions Inc. print studio is buzzing all the same. Eight floors above the bustling art mecca of New York City, two printers hunch over wood blocks carved into tiny, amorphous squares, tap-tap-tapping their rollers of bright green ink along the surface. Twenty-five blocks and 85 colors later, they will have rolled enough ink to make a handful of portraits that have developed, in stages, under the direction of acclaimed artist Chuck Close. In the background, 1950s jazz hums on the radio but is overtaken every few minutes by the rumble-clack of the printing press. BILL HALL has been involved in this collaborative process of making limited-edition prints since 1990, when he joined the print studio of Pace Editions, an internationally known publisher of limited edition, contemporary fine art prints. Since then, Hall, a printmaker and alumnus of the Department of Art and Art History, has worked with many internationally acclaimed contemporary artists including James Turrell, Robert Mangold, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, and others. Unlike his colleagues, who are rolling away at their woodcuts, Hall is at a standstill today waiting on the bon à tirer, or the okay-to-print, from two artists who are working with him on etchings. And waiting is unusual, because on typical days at Pace, there is none. Rather, in a single day the printers may do everything from conducting initial visits to preparing printing surfaces to having the artists sign their editions. Nothing is routine until the process of printmaking begins, then the printers set up, prepare plates, start the press, print each plate backto-back-to-back on a single sheet of paper, pull it off, and repeat. As Hall says, the process can be redundant once you’re in a project, but there’s much more to printmaking than redundancy. Every project, artist, and process is different, and that’s what keeps it interesting.
DRAWING INSPIRATION Hall grew up in the tiny town of Red Level, Alabama, and like many creatives, he majored in art because he could draw well. He studied painting at The University of Alabama, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1973. Continued on page 6
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