Visiting Artist/Animator Ruedy Leeman presented his work at Beecher Auditorium @ The Butler Institute on February 28th, 2007at 6:00 PM.

Mr. Leeman has produced 3D animation and visualizations for advertising, broadcast and the ABC and the CBS networks. Mr. Leeman’s most recently developed historical railroad visualizations in high definition video are now being used in the permanent collection for the Grafton B&O Railroad Heritage Center Museum in Grafton West Virginia. The production group of which he was a part conducted Virtual Reality and 3D technology research and assessment, evaluation of existing and emerging technologies and analysis of their potential application to business development. He will be lecturing on his career as an animator.

The Beecher Center Digital Art Competition for 2007 has completed the judging process.
Show opening is April 25th at 5:00 pm at the Beecher Center at the Butler Institute of American Art:

524 Wick Ave.
Youngstown, OH 44502

Hours: 11 am to 4 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; Sunday noon to 4 pm; Wednesday 11 am to 8 pm; closed Monday and major holidays.

Below is a list of exhibitors in the 2007 competition:

Ahn, Ji Hyun
Aryai, Sia
Booher, Ryan*
Brinkman, Susan**
Conard, Scott Michael
Derezinski, Matthew
Diop, Corinne^
Gottlieb, Jason
M.Hylton, David
Martinez, Elaine
McPherson, Kait
Murphy, Michael Tyson+
Ramsey, Steven
Rusnak, Laura^
Sharp, Keith
Turner, Jennifer
Waldrum, Keith

*First place
**Second place
+Third place
^ Honorable Mention