Heea Crownfield (mixed media)
Crownfield’s recent work
embodies an ongoing engagement with process and nontraditional
materials, exploring layering, accumulation, and the sensuous as
metaphors of embodiment. A Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at
Guilford College, she 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 College.
Maia Dery (photography)
A Visiting part-time Lecturer teaching photography, Maia 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. Her photographs have
been published in magazines and books, and she is the author of An
Adventure Guide to the Triangle. Dery will be exhibiting
black and white photographs depicting shorelines
from around the United States.
Todd Drake (painting)
Visiting Assistant Professor Todd Drake creates
community influenced paintings,
installations, and murals. A 2004-2005 Rockefeller Fellow at UNC-Chapel
Hill, his works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries
and museums throughout the Southeast. Drake earned an M.F.A. in Painting
from UNC-Greensboro in 1990 and currently teaches Modern Art History and
Introduction to Visual Art.
David Newton (sculpture)
Assistant Professor David Newton earned his M.F.A. from Bard
College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (1997), with
additional studies at the Art Students League and the Rhode Island
School of Design. Newton’s work has been exhibited nationally and is
included in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New
York and the RISD Museum in Providence. His media for
the works in this exhibition are predominantly
steel, hardware, and found materials.
Roy Nydorf (sculpture & printmaking)
Professor Roy Nydorf carves rhythmically
sinuous figures and masks from diverse woods such as catalpa,
cherry, mahogany, and boxwood. He earned his M.F.A. with honors from
Yale University and B.A. from the State University of New York, and also
studied at the Art Students’ League. He has been on the faculty since
1978 and is currently chair of the art department.
Charles Tefft (ceramics)
Tefft’s new forms and glazes are
influenced and inspired by a recent 3-week trip to Japan funded by a
grant from the Freeman Foundation. A continuing part-time lecturer and
director of the college’s Ceramics Program, he earned a B.F.A. with
honors from Guilford College in 1997. His work was the subject of a
feature article in the national publication, Clay Times (November 2005)
and has been published in Wheel Thrown Ceramics and The Ceramic Design
Book, both published by Lark Books.
Adele Wayman (painting)
Wayman’s recent paintings celebrate the
life and death of daylilies and iris. The natural cycle of these
flowers connects through titles to her meditation practice and ritual
altars. The H. Curt and Patricia S. Hege Professor of Art, Wayman joined
Guilford College in 1973 and currently chairs the arts division. Wayman
earned her M.F.A. from UNC-G and her B.A. from Vassar College.
