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Guilford College Art Gallery
will present recent works by Art Department faculty in a biennial
exhibition,
August
20 - October 10, 2007.
A reception for the artists will be held Friday,
September 7, from 5:00-7:00
p.m. in the gallery, located in Hege Library on the Guilford campus. The
reception is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.
The artists will discuss their
work and creative process in an
Art Faculty Forum on
Wednesday, September 26, at 7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
"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, director & 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."
Faculty exhibitors
include:
Adele Wayman (painting & mixed media)
The H. Curt and Patricia S. Hege Professor of Art, Wayman
joined Guilford College in 1973. Wayman earned
her M.F.A. from UNC-G and her B.A. from Vassar
College. She is on sabbatical during the
2007-08 academic year.
Roy Nydorf (printmaking & 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, 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
Community Service Award for an untenured
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 College. 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 College in
1997. He began teaching at Guilford in 1999.
Todd
Drake
(painting)
Currently a part time lecturer, Drake was a 2004-2005
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
UNC-Greensboro in 2006. He is a part time
lecturer teaching painting and drawing during
Wayman’s sabbatical.
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