Whatever Shall Remain? A Look at Art and Permanence
Melanie Vote
Thursday, 10 Apr 2014 at 7:00 pm – Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design
Iowa State graduate Melanie Vote was a visiting artist at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art in 2013. She has taught drawing and painting at numerous institutions, including the Pratt Institute and the New School, and her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico and South Korea. Vote received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2007 and was awarded residencies with Abu Dhabi Art Hub in 2013, Jentel in 2009, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2007, and the Vermont Studio Center, with a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation, in 2002. She earned her BFA in craft design from Iowa State in 1995 and MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 1998.Cosponsored By:
- Integrated Studio Arts
- Painters Anonymous
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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