This year’s awardees represent the fields of Creative Nonfiction/Fiction, Digital/Electronic Arts, Media Arts, Painting, Theater Solo Performance, and Works on Paper. Awardees were chosen, based solely on artistic merit, by an out-of-state jury of discipline-specific experts. READ MORE
Maryland States Arts Council
Congratulations to the SEVERAL TU faculty and alumni who are recipients of the Maryland State Arts Council 2019 Individual Artist Award. COFAC faculty and alumni work samples and websites available below:
Amanda Burnham, Professor, 2D Foundations Area Coordinator
Carrie Fucile, Digital Art & Design Lecturer
Tom Boram, Adjuct Professor Digital Arts + Design
Greg McLemore Adjunct III |Studio Arts, Foundations
G.D. oil on Arches oil paper, 30″ x 22″
Sam LaCombe, Adjunct III, Studio Arts, Foundations
The following MFA alums received awards:
Amy Boone-McCreesh ’10 creates multi-media artwork that addresses the clash between handmade and technical processes with an allusion to granduer.
Shop Til You Drop
2018, Mixed media and collage on paper with found objects, 52” x 34” x 3”
Alice Valenti is a Maryland-based artist who exhibits nationally. She has a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Towson University.
Leslie Shellow is a Baltimore based artist who grew up in the Washington DC area. Her work consists of ink drawing on panel and paper, oil painting on panel, bookmaking, printmaking and cut paper installation. She holds an MFA in Painting from Towson University.
Jackie Milad creates textured works on paper by cutting away and collaging older works into new pieces, as a practice to constantly reinvent the value and purpose of her artwork. She was also recently named a Sondheim finalist! She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and her MFA from Towson University.
