Reporter Volume 25, No.19 March 3, 1994

ARCHITECTURE
CHAIRMAN OF NEW ORGANIZATION:
Edward Steinfeld, professor of architecture, has been elected chairman
of the new Association for Safe and Accessible Products. ASAP was
recently established as a trade association representing the interests
of product manufacturers and design professionals, to focus on the
availability of products and services for people with disabilities, or
for the aging.

ART
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS:
The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in
Bloomington has named David Schirm, associate professor of art at UB,
its 1994 Distinguished Alumnus. Schirm holds a master of fine arts
degree in painting from Indiana University.
In connection with this distinction, Indiana University is presenting
a solo exhibition of his paintings in its Fine Arts Gallery. The
exhibition, which opened Feb. 18, will run through March 11. A lecture
there by Schirm on Feb. 25 will be followed by a reception in his
honor.
In an exhibition essay, Susan C. Larsen, professor of art history at
UCLA and former curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, writes
of the "ferocious and paradoxical qualities of his art" that has
earned Schirm an international reputation in his field.
His work, she writes, "has a graceful beauty, but Schirm often flirts
with rank ugliness. The dialogue between these tendencies gives his
paintings a particular "bite"--threatening and at the same time very
stimulating. His is not an intellectually contrived or theoretical
art, but one felt at the most basic and sincere level by one who is
very smart and also very honest."
Schirm has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout
the United States.

architecture

elected: 
Gary Day, associate professor of architecture, has been elected one of
18 founding directors of the Western New York Land Conservancy.
	The WNYLC is one of 400 such conservancies in the United
States whose purpose is the protection of significant environmental,
historical, archeological and architectural features.
	The Conservancy does this through donation of land from
property owners, or through easements. The WNYLC works with property
owners, developers, governmental agencies and community groups to
identify and assess potential properties.