The North Carolina Museum of Art will be opening an exhibition of contemporary painting by two Art School Alumni; Ashlynn Browning and Carmen Neely as well as faculty member Barbara Campbell Thomas. The exhibition will open March 7, 2020 and run through June 21, 2020 in the Joyce ...
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SHERRILL ROLAND has been awarded the Center for Documentary Studies’ 2018-19 Post-MFA Fellowship in the Documentary Arts. He will be in residence at the Center for Documentary Studies for 10 months. He is the founder of the acclaimed Jumpsuit Project, intended to raise awareness around issues related to ...
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“Just rip that paper off and toss it on the floor if you need to, just keep going.” That encouragement was from Dan Holland, an Art Director at Pixar Animation Studios to a group of 20 advanced Art students at UNC Greensboro’s College of Visual and Performing Arts ...
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Art History and English double major Eliza Rosebrock won the Special Award for First Prize in the Arts & Humanities category at the 2019 Honors Symposium in early March. Her award-winning research paper entitled, “Is Cleanliness Close to Godliness? The Restoration of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling Frescoes,” developed ...
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CARMEN NEELY Carmen Neely’s work—a combination of painting and found objects—is imbued with deep intention and awareness of her identity as a young black woman making art in the twenty-first century. “The mark”, revered and mythologized as the purest form of artistic intention in the art historical canon, ...
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Kyle T. Webster’s name is synonymous with digital painting.  This bold statement was true even before he joined the Adobe team in 2017 and released his custom brushes to every licensed user of Adobe Creative Cloud.  The drop down menu of brushes in adobe applications now include his ...
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Ibrahim Said makes cover of Ceramics Monthly ...
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The Institute for Visual Studies at James Madison University welcomes art alumnus David R. Modler back to campus along with colleague Samuel H. Peck for workshops and the reception of their exhibition titled Draw and Play Here: The tet[R]ad Project, which will be on display at IVS from ...
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This month, the College of Visual and Performing Arts awarded its highest honor to five alumni who exemplify excellence in their fields, recognizing them for their achievements in artistry and education. Carla Gannis '92 (Art); Doug Risner '88, MFA '90, PhD '01 (Dance); David Kish MM '02, DMA ...
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Welcome to the College of Visual and Performing Arts and our newly re-designed website! We hope you'll click around and see how easy it is to navigate and to find all the information you need. On the homepage, you’ll find a distinctive design that will guide you to the ...
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