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Mixed Blessings
Bella Maria Varela, Dominique Muñoz, hazel batrezchavez, Martín Wannam, Marlene Tafoya, Roman Gabriel

Opening reception: Friday October 11, 5-8pm

Mixed Blessings is a group exhibition exploring our relationship with domestic spaces and how they relate to forming our identities. Exhibiting artists were invited to critique, redefine, and explore intergenerational tools of resistance, joy, healing, or rituals inherited from the domestic spaces they have navigated throughout their lifetimes.

Congratulations to PhD alumna Carlee Forbes, who recently started her new position as Associate Curator of African and Oceanic Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art!

Yun-Dong Nam
Balanced Warmth

September 26 – October 26, 2024
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 2-4 p.m. 

The UNCP A.D. Gallery presents Balanced Warmth, an exhibition featuring ceramics and painting by Yun-Dong Nam. 

Yun-Dong Nam, born in Seoul, Korea, earned his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has taught at Rutgers University, California State University at Long Beach, and Bennington College, and held an artist residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. Since 1995, he has been a Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2000. 

A renowned ceramic artist, Yun-Dong has exhibited his work widely, both in the U.S. and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Asian American Artist Exhibition at the Kentucky Museum of Arts & Design in Louisville and 6595 Miles (10614 KM) at the Network Gallery of the Cranbrook Museum of Art in Michigan. He frequently showcases his work abroad, including a solo exhibition at Tho-Art Space Gallery in Seoul, Korea.

Yun-Dong’s work has been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Ceramic Art Monthly, and he received first prize from the Korean Arts Foundation of America in 1992. 

More information about the exhibition and UNCP A.D. Gallery can be found at https://www.uncp.edu/departments/art/ad-gallery.

Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on September 19, 2024, and runs through January 12, 2025.

The exhibition features artworks, works in progress, and research materials by Sherrill Roland (b. 1984, Asheville, NC) from his ongoing exploration of the criminal justice system. The works are part of a cross-disciplinary project that critically examines United States Federal and State Correctional Identification Numbers, which are assigned to inmates upon incarceration and historically have been used to reduce individuals to a series of digits. Roland, who was wrongfully incarcerated in 2013, uses this numeric system to generate artworks that follow specific rules, like the sudoku puzzles that helped him pass time while he was in prison.

Accompanying the exhibition is an installation in the Trent A. Carmichael Academic Focus Gallery, curated by Roland. It features selections from the Nasher Museum’s permanent collection that depict prison architecture and the criminal justice system throughout history. A related installation, Processing Systems: Bonding by Sherrill Roland, is also on view at the Ackland Art Museum until July 13, 2025.

Mark Anthony Brown Jr. (MFA 2024!) has a solo exhibition that just opened up at Artspace in Raleigh, as a culmination of his residency there this past summer. The exhibition, Sing About Me, will be showing until September 29th with a reception on September 6th at 6 pm.

Sarah Walker received a BFA degree from the California College of the Arts and an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Walker has attended the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center of Creative Arts, and the American Academy in Rome. She was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell fellowship and a Rappaport Foundation Fellowship. Walker is a member of the National Academy of Art and Design.

Her work has been exhibited abroad recently at Galerie Joli (Netherlands), Gropea Kunstraum (Germany), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), and in the US at: Pierogi, Gregory Lind Gallery, DC Moore, McKenzie Fine Art, The Rose Museum, The Frist Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Crocker Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship makes unrestricted cash grants of $8,000 to New York State-based artists working in 15 disciplines, recognizing five disciplines per year on a triennial basis. This program is administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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Image: Sarah Walker, Headdress, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 52 x 48 inches, courtesy of the artist

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Here is Ethan’s latest update: Studio News Summer 24 He has a solo show at Winston Wachter in NYC coming up in September–check it out if you are there!

Congratulations to all of our graduates of the Class of 2024! Here are a few images of the celebrations that were held in the Friday Center in May.