Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Christina West, was recently named the 2009 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship recipient. The Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) is an organization devoted to the promotion of art in higher education through facilitating cooperation among teachers and administrators in universities and colleges‚ professional institutions and the community served by their institutions. The SECAC Fellowship was established in 1981 for the purpose of supporting member artists and to encourage individual creative growth‚ the development of new ideas for exhibitions and creative projects. Through this program‚ SECAC can more completely serve member artists and institutions.
The SECAC Artist Fellowship will go towards sponsoring West's next body of work, What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy.
Christina West joined the School of Art and Design faculty this fall. She received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2006 and her BFA from Siena Heights University in Adrian, MI in 2003. Christina was an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts from 2006-07, where she was awarded the Lilian Fellowship. Additionally, Her work has been supported by a grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Mary L. Nohl Artist Fund. During the summer of 2010 Christina will be an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE.
For more information:
SECAC website: http://www.secollegeart.org/secac-fellowship.html
Christina West website: cwestsculpture.com
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