Faculty Biennial Exhibition Planned for Guilford College Art Gallery Aug. 20-Oct. 10

Guilford College Art Gallery will present recent works by Art Department faculty in a biennial exhibition, Aug. 20-Oct. 10. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, Sept. 7, from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery, located in Hege Library. The reception is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Guilford College Art Gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday afternoons from 2-5 p.m.

This year's exhibition includes photographs, paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, mixed-media, sculptures and installations. The work represents the creative research and traditional and nontraditional approaches of eight faculty members, all of them working artists. The exhibition highlights the diversity of ideas, materials and imagery explored by the artists, and also draws attention to areas of common interest. In association with the exhibition, there will be an Art Faculty Forum on Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 7-9 p.m. The exhibiting artists will be on hand to discuss their work, as well as field questions, and refreshments will be served. This event is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.

Faculty exhibitors and their areas of expertise are:

ADELE WAYMAN (painting and mixed media)
The H. Curt and Patricia S. Hege Professor of Art, Wayman joined Guilford in 1973. She earned her M.F.A. from UNCG and her B.A. from Vassar College. She is on sabbatical during the 2007-08 academic year.

ROY NYDORF (printmaking and sculpture)
Professor of Art Roy Nydorf, who currently chairs the department, earned his M.F.A. with honors from Yale University and B.A. from the State University of New York at Brockport, and also studied at the Art Students' League. He has been on the faculty since 1978 and directs the department's Printmaking & Drawing Programs.

DAVID NEWTON (painting & sculpture)
Newton joined the department in 2003 as an assistant professor and directs the Sculpture Program. He earned his M.F.A. in sculpture from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, with additional studies at the Art Students League and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was awarded the Bruce B. Stewart Award for Excellence in Teaching for a junior faculty member in 2007.

HEEA CROWNFIELD (sculpture)
Crownfield earned her M.F.A. from Clemson University and her B.A. with high honors and departmental honors in Art and Religious Studies from Guilford. A Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, she has taught studio and art history at Guilford since 2001.

MAIA DERY (photography)
Dery earned her B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill and an M.A.L.S. from Duke University, and also studied at the Maine Photographic Workshop. A full time Instructor of Art, Dery has directed the college's Photography Program since 2001.

CHARLES TEFFT (ceramics)
A continuing part time lecturer and director of the college's Ceramics Program, Tefft earned a B.F.A. with honors from Guilford in 1997. He began teaching at Guilford in 1999.

TODD DRAKE (painting)
Currently a part time lecturer, Drake was a 2004-05 Rockefeller Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, and earned his M.F.A. in Painting from UNC-Greensboro in 1990 and his B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill. He has taught art history at Guilford since 2001.

ROB IGOE (painting)
Igoe earned both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. in painting from UNCG in 2006. He is a part time lecturer teaching painting and drawing during Wayman's sabbatical.

"The exhibition and related programs provide an ideal opportunity for people to see the strengths of the department, discover new instructors, and view media they might not have known they could study in our art department," says TERRY HAMMOND '81, director and curator of the Art Gallery. "This exhibit is always an eclectic mix of ideas and interests; it is a great celebration of all the talent and diversity the Guilford Art Department exemplifies."

For additional information, please contact the Gallery at (336) 316-2438.

Aug. 20, 2007