Master of Fine Arts

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania has a long and distinguished history of preparing artists and art educators dating back over 125 years. Housed in the largest and best-equipped fine arts facility in the region, the graduate program of the Art Department provides for the creative growth and professional development of the MFA student. This growth and development reflects, as well, the ongoing commitment of the faculty to professional participation in the art world.


WITH HIGHEST HONORS
Four creative and productive students were selected for the department's most prestigious award of the year, the Outstanding Student Awards. Nadia DelMedico (graduate, art history), whose career in art history began as an undergrad researching the slave dwellings on UA campus; Kelsey Meadows (graduate, studio art), who based her ceramic sculptures on images she saw under an electron microscope; Emily Morgan (under-

UA ART & ART HISTORY OUTSTANDING STUDENTS NAMED
above: Nadia DelMedico, MA 2021, Outstanding Graduate Student in Art History grad, art history) whose research on Alabama sex workers was presented at the highly competitive Hunter Museum of American Art's 2020 American Art Symposium; and Ally Thomasson (undergrad, studio art), whose designs for adaptive fashion got her an internship at Anheuser Busch's ZX Ventures. Read more about them: https://bit.ly/uaoutstandingart

AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
BFA major Britt Guynes is sure he wants to get a job in graphic design when he graduates next year, but Guynes also enjoys playing and composing electronic music. Guynes recently collaborated with another creative and released an album, available on iTunes and Bandcamp, that is getting some attention. Guynes, who works under the name "Frogmore, " co-released a 34-track album in the genre of vaporwave titled Devil Cartridge OST with another musician, Ryan Naglak. They "worked on every single track together, " said Guynes, "It was a team effort. " https://art.ua.edu/news/student-spotlight-britt-guynes/

GRADS AND FACULTY PRESENT AT SECAC
Faculty and art history grad students presented research at the 2020 SECAC meeting held online. Grad students Nadia DelMedico ("Eras of Iconography in Manuel Hughes' ' Arkansas Memories' Series), Olivia Turner ("El Greco's Allegory of the Holy League and the Tradition of Prophetic Imagery in the Culture of Early Modern Spain") and Shannon Walsh ("The War Spirit at Home:  Notre-Dame de Paris, for which she made a study of its painted sculptures. Feltman is the only non-French citizen on this team, led by Prof. Dany Sandron of the Université Sorbonne. "I have previously been on the team focused on stone materials, but this new team has been developed to focus specifically on stones that were carved and often painted, " Feltman said.

PRINTAUSTIN PODCAST
Instructor and alumnus John Klosterman was one of only five artists out of 90 international printmakers selected for the juried exhibition, Contemporary Print: 5x5, sponsored by PrintAustin and Big Medium, for the artist festival PrintAustin 2021, in Texas. As part of being selected, Klosterman was featured on Studio Noize Podcast with host and fellow printmaker Jamaal Barber in an interview about his studio practice and approach to art. Klosterman discussed how he finds a meditative practice in the physicality and labor-intensiveness of making woodcuts. In his practice, he builds multi-layered mixed print media works that reveal powerful narratives about his experience and struggles with anxiety and OCD.

HIGH MUSEUM ACQUISITION
Five photographs by Assistant Professor Allison Grant have been acquired by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, for their permanent collection. Grant won the Atlanta Photography Group's (APG) Portfolio 2020 purchase award, and APG donated the works to the High Museum. Three of the five photographs will be on view through August 1, 2021, in the High's new exhibition, "Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection, " in a new acquisitions gallery.

QUILTING PAST CRIMES
Associate Professor Sarah Marshall's fabric work, Past Crimes, was juried into the 27th Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, by juror John Hitchcock, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work (seen above) combines screenprinting, relief printing, cyanotype and dye-work in a roughly two-foot square quilt.

WOMEN'S HISTORY MENTORING
Assistant Professor Dr. Doris Sung is one of 13 international scholars who are part of TEAM: Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring, an international academic network dedicated to the production and sharing of knowledge about women artists. The program is a new initiative of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. As a member of TEAM, Sung mentored art history gradu-ate students in researching and writing biographies of contemporary Chinese women artists. The biographies will be published in the AWARE artists' database.

UGA SITE INSTALLATION
Associate Professor Pete Schulte's new site-specific work was installed at the University of Georgia's Plaza Gallery as part of the Dodd Galleries' ongoing Wall Works series in February. Schulte's Untitled (Plaza) consists of two wall paintings that exist, as Schulte describes them, "in simultaneity, as twins and opposites. " Schulte's drawing, Untitled, graphite and ink on paper, 12 x 12 inches, which was exhibited in Properties of Dust and Smoke,pt. 2 at McKenzie Fine Art in New York in 2019, has been reproduced on the cover of Centre, the new record album by the "heavy winding psychedelic" rock band, Mt. Mountain, from Perth, Australia.