{"id":31781,"date":"2014-07-14T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=31781"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:40:59","slug":"wright-state-grad-wins-two-daytime-emmys-for-art-direction-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/07\/14\/wright-state-grad-wins-two-daytime-emmys-for-art-direction-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State grad wins two Daytime Emmys for art direction and design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wright State alumnus Martin Fahrer won his fifth and sixth Daytime Emmys in Art Direction\/Set Decoration\/Scenic Design at 41st annual awards ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University alumnus Martin D. Fahrer<\/a> was surprised when he won two Daytime Emmys at the annual awards ceremony last month.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Fahrer, who graduated from Wright State in 1989 with a B.F.A. in Design\/Technology, won two Emmys in the same category: for outstanding achievement in Art Direction\/Set Decoration\/Scenic Design in a drama series. He was nominated twice for his work as art director on \u201cAll My Children\u201d and \u201cOne Life to Live,\u201d and received the same number of votes for both nominations.<\/p>\n

He said it is unheard of for one designer to win two Emmys in the same category.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tied with myself in the nominations and the Emmy Awards,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting to receive one, much less two, [Emmys].\u201d<\/p>\n

The Emmys were the fifth and sixth of Fahrer\u2019s career. He also received Daytime Emmys for outstanding achievement in Art Direction\/Set Decoration\/Scenic Design for the children\u2019s show \u201cBetween the Lions\u201d in 2001 and for the drama series \u201cAll My Children\u201d in 2003 and 2009 and \u201cOne Life to Live\u201d in 2007.<\/p>\n

As a student at Wright State, Fahrer majored in set and lighting design. Prior to enrolling at Wright State, he studied theater at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio, where he\u2019s originally from. He received an M.F.A. in design from New York University.<\/p>\n

Fahrer remains in New York, where he has worked as a set designer in television, theater, music videos and commercials. He\u2019s worked on numerous projects for MTV, VH1, PBS, HBO, Nickelodeon, NBC, CBS and ABC.<\/p>\n

For the last 10 years, Fahrer worked as art director on \u201cAll My Children\u201d and \u201cOne Life to Live.\u201d As soap operas have gone off the air or moved to Los Angeles, he\u2019s focused more on freelance set design.<\/p>\n

He recently finished production on the new \u201cAnnie\u201d movie and is currently working on \u201cPeter Pan Live\u201d on NBC.<\/p>\n

Fahrer said he likes that his job allows him to turn his ideas into something real. \u201cTo physically be able to walk through something you\u2019ve imagined is amazing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He credited the Wright State Theatre Program for teaching him how to design and understand how to work as a designer in the real world.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my best decisions ever was to go to Wright State,\u201d Fahrer said, \u201cto get that experience painting, being a scenic artist, then being in a studio with [former faculty member] Joe Tilford for six hours a day. That was our studio senior course and it really taught me how to design and how designers work, how to have self-discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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