Current 2021 MFA School of Art Students exhibit their work in Bad Touch 2.0 at the Lump Gallery in Raleigh. This is a group drawing exhibition curated by Bill Thelen. Bad Touch 2.0 is on exhibit from December 3 – January 16, 2022 with an opening Reception on Friday, Dec. 3 from… Continue reading…
UNCG’s School of Art Visiting Assistant Professor of Animation, Dan Hale was nominated for several awards by the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival for The Boy Who Cried, a film he co-directed. The Boy Who Cried is a dark, animated short about the complex relationship between a parent and a… Continue reading…
Stephanie J. Woods is a Charlotte, NC based artist creating textile, photography, and community-engaged projects. Through the use of symbolic mediums referencing black American culture and the southern experience, her multimedia works examine the cognitive effects of cultural assimilation, and how performance is ingrained in identity. Woods earned an MFA… Continue reading…
The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?” With a series of newly commissioned works, The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the region in terms… Continue reading…
Gina Gibson, 2006 MFA, is a multimedia artist and professor of digital communication at Black Hills State University. In the Summer of 2019, she was named as Sanford Underground Research Facility’s first Artist-in-Residence. Gibson first visited Sanford Lab in 2013 for the “Into the Dark: Artists Exploring Dark Matter” art exhibit, which challenged… Continue reading…
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 W. Pope… Continue reading…
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 incarceration. Rolland… Continue reading…
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 from her… Continue reading…
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, becomes an… Continue reading…
