SMFA faculty Fritz Buehner, Barbara Gallucci and Mary Ellen Strom have the honor of participating in two important triennales this summer in Japan—Setouchi Triennale 2013, July 20–September 1, 2013 and Aichi Triennale 2013, August 10–October 27, 2013.

They are exhibiting alongside other international art school faculty from institutions such as Aichi University (Japan); Chiang Mai University (Thailand); Edinburgh College of Art (Scotland); School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (United States); Silpakorn University (Thailand); Tainan University of the Arts (Thailand) and University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (United Kingdom).

Buehner sculpts miniaturized colonial and tract style houses out of sections of tree trunk, retaining the recognizable exterior curve of the original log, referencing the broader suburban developments of the 1950s as well as addressing the intrinsic class inequities and environmental violence of the suburban landscape.

Gallucci's photography series Of An Artificial Nature depicts buildings, sculptural structures and other engineering feats—including animals—which have tested the limits of just how far nature can be manipulated. The structures may project grandeur, but they are also about loss; loss of nature, loss of the real.

Strom's video explores her passion for the Rocky Mountains of the United States. The magnificent, though wounded, land that has been created by the resource extraction of others, by time and need and greed, fuels her urge to care for it, as it is now, instead of wishing for its past glory.

Congratulations all!