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During
the past few years, students completing their second year of study in
the Visual Arts Program were awarded merit scholarships, largely on the
basis of portfolio presentations, to the following schools and
universities: Atlanta College of Art, Boston Museum School, California
College of Arts and Crafts, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cooper Union
School of Art and Architecture, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland
Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design, Philadelphia
University of the Arts, Pratt Institute and Washington University.
Visual arts alumni currently are working in the fields of animation,
architecture, arts education, fabric design, fashion, film and video
production, gallery management, graphic design, illustration, jewelry,
painting, photography and sculpture.
Shannon Brinkley, of Charlotte, N.C., graduated from the Visual Arts Program of UNCSA in 2001. Parallel to her undergraduate work, Brinkley also studied at the Ox-Bow School of Arts in Michigan and the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in Scotland. In 2005, she completed her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her background in painting, printmaking and material studies was both technical and conceptual, leading her to pursue art outside of the gallery setting.
Brinkley’s continued work in the arts is focused on arts education and creative development. She has worked extensively with communities in urban Chicago and rural South Africa, bringing together topics in sexual assault, mental health, HIV/AIDS and poverty through the visual arts. Brinkley now resides in rural South Africa. There she works as the operations manager for a community arts centre, where she is helping to establish new initiatives in the creative arts.
Paintings and prints of Brinkley’s can be viewed in the collections of the Chicago Transit Authority, University of North Carolina, and Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and have been exhibited at galleries in Chicago, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, and Mount Holly, N.C. For more information, visit her website at: http://shannonbrinkley.com/ |
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Jenny Kiehn (born Jenny Hamil) grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, N.C. In 1997, she moved to Winston-Salem to study visual arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating in 2000.
That same year, she moved to New York City to study sculpture and photography at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Upon graduating from Cooper in 2003, she moved to London, where she worked as a commercial photographer. She now lives in Reading, United Kingdom, with her husband. She teaches art at Icknield Community College and works as an artist in her studio.
Kiehn creates a blend of textiles, photography and sculpture which is often based around personal themes such as emotional attachment and portraiture. Selected exhibitions include Take Off at New Greenham Arts in Newbury, U.K., and At Play 3 at South Hill Park in Bracknell, U.K. Find out more about Kiehn and view her extensive portfolio of photography, sculpture and installations, quilts, paintings and drawings at www.jennykiehn.co.uk. |
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Derrick Little completed the Visual Arts Program at UNCSA in 1992 and also studied film directing at UNCSA from 1994-1996. He was a recipient of The Semans Art Grant through UNCSA and used his grant to travel through India photographing holy men and prostitutes in Calcutta. After showing that photographic portfolio at the UNCSA Visual Arts Gallery, Little moved to New York and began his career as a performance artist which then led him into the world of theatrical makeup.
Little’s makeup artistry has been featured on “The Martha Stewart Show” and his private clients include Madonna and Donald Trump. Little won theatre-industry acclaim for his makeup designs created for the Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway show "The Lily's Revenge" (by Taylor Mac in 2009), and has won awards at the International Face and Body Art Convention in Florida as well as the Canadian Body Art Championships in British Columbia.
Art industry experts including the project curator for American Art at the San Diego Museum of Art have praised his style and recognized his body art as "compelling," "inspired" and "historic."
Little currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y., and works both in New York City and abroad. More of his work can be seen on his website: www.bodyartbyderrick.com.
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After attending UNCSA’s Visual Arts Program from 2000-2002,
Case Simmons went
on to study painting and new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Since
then he has been collaborating with fellow UNCSA alumni Andrew Burke.
Burke
received his master’s degree in Music from the University of
Cincinnati College
Conservatory of Music.
To quote art critic and independent curator Heather Jeno Silva from a
2008
issue of Whitehot Magazine, “A dynamic duo of sorts, LA-based
artists Case
Simmons and Andrew Burke have combined their respective forces of art
and music
to form the collaborative art team Simmons & Burke.
… By using images and
accompanying audio files culled from hours upon hours of browsing the
web,
Simmons & Burke have managed to create work that is culturally
pertinent,
art historically referential and slightly compulsive in its
technological
obsession. Hyperactive and cyber spatial, the imagery comes at the
viewer from
all directions, both visually and audibly. In short, they have captured
the
attention of viewers who have no attention span with the same tools
that have
lured us into our digital dependency.
“The result is overwhelming, over stimulating large-scale
environments that
reflect the cacophony of sounds and images that increasingly barrage
our daily
lives through various forms of media. Accompanying the pieces are head
phones
with fragmented and overlaid audio files of things like street sounds,
popular
music and TV show chatter that complete the sensory overload
experience. By
tapping into infinite network of online imagery and digitalized sound
works,
Simmons & Burke have simulated fractured and condensed versions
of our
daily encounters with digital media. Their collage aesthetic, comprised
of
intricately layered images that have been cut and digitally
reconstructed,
mimic the act of web browsing as one image source leads to another and
to
another in a complicated web of chance and intuition. What defines
their work,
however, is a careful attention to composition
and a devoted consideration for
assembly.”
Recent exhibitions have included 2010’s “If Not
Winter” at Kohn Gallery, Los
Angeles, Calif.; 2009’s “Signs of the
Apocalypse/Rapture at Chicago’s Front
Forty Press in the Hyde Park Art Center; and 2008’s
“You Can
Live Forever in
Paradise on Earth at Kim Light’s Light Box gallery in Los
Angeles. Other recent
venues include Art Basel Miami Beach, Bew Langton Art in San Francisco,
Blackspace
Gallery in Oakland, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Their work
has been
acquired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York and is also in the
collection of
DigiSynd, the Burbank, Calif., -based social media division of The Walt
Disney
Company. To find out more, visit their website at www.simmonsandburke.com.
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Sarah
Searcy graduated from the
Visual Arts Program at UNCSA in 2005. She recently obtained
Bachelor of Arts in art and anthropology – with honors
– from East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
During the course of her studies, she has interned with the
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington,
D.C., and was the recipient of a William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowship to
the Penland School of Arts and Crafts in Penland, N.C. In
2009, Searcy was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship to India, where
she will be teaching English and conducting research on traditional art
practices.
Image
title: Double Bird
Size: 5 x 7 inches
Medium: encaustic on canvas
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Lauren
Frances Adams graduated
from UNCSA in 1998. She attended the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she studied art and art history and
co-curated and co-founded the series of LOOM shows at the Chatham Label
Mill. After graduation, she received the Phillips Scholarship for
European travel and was an Artspace Regional Emerging Artist in
Residence in Raleigh, N.C. In 2007, Adams gained her Master
of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University and received the Joan
Mitchell Foundation MFA Award.
Adams'
primary work features painting, drawing, printmaking and
sometimes video and performance in the context of installation works.
Adams has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte; the Warhol Museum in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; an ex-Turkish bathhouse in Belgrade, Serbia; Fraction
Workspace in Chicago, Ill., Branch Gallery in Carrboro/Durham, N.C.;
and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.
Recent work has been included in group shows at the Mattress Factory,
Pittsburgh; Rebus Works, Raleigh; and CUE Art Foundation, Chelsea, N.Y.
She has collaborated on a number of projects involving
performance, video, sculpture and camera obscuras. She also initiated
and fostered the TAI+LEE Gallery from 2006-07.
Adams
currently resides in St. Louis, Mo., where she is an assistant
professor of painting at Washington University in St. Louis. Recently,
she completed a residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. Her
website is: www.lfadams.com.
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After
graduating from NCSA in 2001, Damian
Stamer studied painting and
German at Arizona State University, where he graduated with a
bachelor's degree in 2007. Stamer also won a Fulbright Scholarship,
which allowed him to travel to Hungary to help build an
English-speaking volunteer program at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary
Art in Budapest while continuing to study painting at the Hungarian
Academy of Fine Arts. Prior to graduation, his work was shown in
"Divergence," a solo honors thesis exhibition at Step Gallery of
Arizona State in Tempe.
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attending the North Carolina School of the Arts,
Cristin Millett continued
her education at Kent State University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts
in 1990. Recognizing her true direction as a sculptor, she enrolled at
Arizona State University, where she received her Master of Fine Arts in
1996. Currently an associate professor of art at Penn State, Millett
teaches sculpture courses at all levels, including foundry and
installation art. Prior to her appointment at Penn State, she taught
four years at the University of Maine as an assistant professor of art
and built the sculpture and foundry program. She has also taught
courses in foundations and sculpture at Arizona State University, Mesa
Community College, and Phoenix College. Millett’s work has
been exhibited in numerous one- and two-person exhibitions, including
the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago; ATHICA (Athens
Institute for Contemporary Art) in Athens, Ga.; the Esther Klein
Gallery in Philadelphia; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in
Rockport; the Icehouse in Phoenix, Ariz.; the Urban Institute for
Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and the Arlington Arts Center
in Arlington, Va. Her work has been included in invitational and juried
exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, at venues such as the
Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the
Tucson Museum of Art, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, and the Grounds for
Sculpture in Mercerville, N.J. Her work has been reviewed in numerous
publications including Sculpture, Art Papers, Time Out Chicago, and the
Chicago Tribune. Millett has received numerous grants for both her
research and teaching, including an Individual Creative Artists
Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2007 and
Faculty Research Grants from Penn State and the University of Maine. A
2001 Djerassi Residency in Woodside, Calif., funded her examination of
historical and contemporary societal perceptions of human anatomy. In
2004, she received a three-month residency at Sculpture Space in Utica,
N.Y. While in residence there, she created Teatro
Anatomico, an installation
based on her research on anatomy theaters. This piece examines the
gendered power relationships created among the inhabitants of the space
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graduation from NCSA in 1990, Sarah
Greene Reed studied at
Parsons School of Design in New York and the SPEOS Photography
Institute in Paris France. In 1994 she obtained a B.F.A. from the Rhode
Island School of Design and, in 1996, a Graduate Certificate from the
Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York. Since 2006, Sarah has taught
Digital Imaging and Collage at the Art School of the Austin Museum of
Art in Austin, TX. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the
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Sarah Greene Reed
"Orange Candy", 2005
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, Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Ogden Museum of Southern
Art, New Orleans, LA; Beeville Art Museum, Beeville TX; National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; Art League, Houston, TX;
FotoFest, Houston, TX; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX;
Women and Their Work, Austin, TX; Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin,
TX; Galveston Arts Center,Galveston, TX. She is represented by Moody
Gallery in Houston, TX and D Berman Gallery in Austin, TX.
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Read about prize-winning alumna Rachel
Dalton (Née: Thomas)
in this
column by Michael Braude of the
Kansas City Business Journal. Dalton is a Visual Arts Program graduate
from Winston-Salem, who obtained a B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Kansas
City Art Institute in 2006. Currently, she is enrolled in the Master of
Arts program in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in
Richmond.
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After
graduation from NCSA in 1984, Amber
Eagle attended the
University of Christchurch in New Zealand, and received a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in Art from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. In
1993 she received a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of
Arts in Oakland, Calif. She then served for two years in the
prestigious Core Fellowship program at the Glassell School of Art in
Houston. In 1997 she received a travel grant from the Cultural Arts
Council of Houston to research fiestas and sugar craft in Mexico, and,
as a result has moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to live and
work. For nearly a decade she has worked primarily in sugar,
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a primary medium and to develop richly textured and colorful dioramas
that become "locations" for her photographic work. Recent exhibitions
include solo shows at Kerrigan Campbell Fine Arts in New York City,
Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Bellas Artes gallery in
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She has exhibited widely in
the United States and Mexico and is represented by Moody Gallery in
Houston. She is a native of Charlotte, N.C. Since the start of her
professional career, she has been awarded residencies at Oregon College
of Arts and Crafts in Portland, Ore. (1999); the Headlands Center for
the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. (2000); and, most recently, at the McColl
Center for Visual Arts in Charlotte (2006). Read about her in the February
2006 issue of Skirt! a magazine
about women covering the Southeastern United States. www.ambereagle.org |
Hajdeja
Ehline is an award-winning
designer who graduated from NCSA when Madonna was making her artistic
debut. In 1988, Ehline received a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute
College of Art. Currently she is a partner in Super Natural Design, an
award-winning design firm in San Francisco. Ehline and partner Christie
Rixford had been designing for various music companies and formed SND
to focus on the recording industry. Ehline’s work for SND was
honored with a Print Magazine Design Award in 2001, and in 1996 was
included in Typography 17, the Annual Type Director’s Club
42nd Exhibition; it also received a Graphis Design Award the same year.
Other of her honors include a 3rd Best of Show in Adobe Magazine for
her 1996 work on the E! Online website and a How Magazine Award in
1994. Ehline and Rixford have also collaborated with high profile
design firms such as Smart Industrial Design and Gap Inc. Currently,
they are moving into the product design world with a line of baby
products called Super Natural Baby. They have lectured at the American
Institute of Graphic Arts of San Francisco. http://www.supernaturaldesign.com
Randy
Wray is a painter currently
living in New York City. He received his B.F.A. from the Maryland
Institute College of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture. His exhibitions in New York include Derek Eller Gallery,
Jack Tilton Gallery, Alona Kagan Gallery, SVA Museum, Schroeder Romero
Gallery, Thread Waxing Space, David Beitzel Gallery, Universal Concepts
Unlimited, Ferragamo Windows, Silverstein Gallery, Lombard-Fried Fine
Arts, and White Columns. Wray has also exhibited in California, North
Carolina, Florida, Austria, Brazil, and Argentina. In 2002 he was
awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in painting. www.randywray.net
Rusty
Mills'career in the
animation industry has spanned more than 20 years. He
has worked as an animator on projects such as AN AMERICAN TAIL,
"Garfield's Thanksgiving Special," and “Sport Goofy:
Soccermania"; as a director on the first 65 episodes of
“Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs”; and as a
producer of “Animaniacs” and “Pinky and
the Brain” series. Mills has received 11 Emmy nominations and
has won five Emmy Awards in addition to a Peabody. He has produced 165
shows for broadcast television. He has also built websites and
consulted for graphic software companies. In 2003
he directed a pilot for Disney and recently worked on
the 3D show "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" and the new series "The
Replacements." He continues to follow his roots in
animation and visual arts by animating his own short film and doing
“plein air” oil painting.
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Sean
Yseult has been a resident
of New Orleans for more than six years. She received her B.F.A. from
the Parsons School of Design in New York, focusing on photography and
graphic design. She co-founded and played bass for the rock group White
Zombie and since the break up of the band has become a noted catalyst
for the Crescent City music scene. She has recently been creating
artwork independently (left) and in collaboration with artist Louis St.
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(below). Her exhibitions include Sylvia Schmidt Gallery in New Orleans,
Gallery Lombard in Texas, Lee Hainsley Gallery in North Carolina, the
CBGB’s Gallery in New York, and the Red Gate Gallery in
Beijing. The website for her new band is www.rockcitymorgue.com. |
Joel
Beck studied at the Boston
Museum School after graduating from NCSA. His exhibitions include the
Flag Gallery, Harcus Gallery, Fitchburg Art Museum, Newport Art Museum,
and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Beck has received three Clarissa
Bartlett Traveling Scholarships and in 1988 was awarded a National
Endowment for the Arts grant in painting. In 1998 he founded Roebling
Hall, a gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since then he has opened Satellite
Gallery in Soho and a second Roebling Hall gallery, in the Chelsea
district of New York.www.brooklynart.com
David
Ellis received his B.F.A.
from Cooper Union, New York, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is the
founder of an artists’ collaborative team called The
Barnstormers, a collective of artists, designers and friends. Since
1999, Ellis, along with partner Michael Houston, has led the group with
as many as 30 participants (from as far away as Japan), to create
large-scale, post-graffiti murals on a series of old barns,
tractor-trailers, shacks, and farm equipment in Cameron, N.C. His
public art projects can also be seen on industrial buildings in
Brooklyn and on the exteriors of Mo Jo Trucking vehicles. His
exhibitions include the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in
Winston-Salem, the Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, and Jessica
Murray Projects in New York. His “Paint on Trucks”
installation was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Watch
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s
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