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For Immediate Release May 4, 2006 |
Public Information Office 310 Owen Hall, Campus PO 1820 Asheville, NC 28804-8507 828/251-6526 - FAX: 828/251-6677 web: http://www.unca.edu/news e-mail: pubinfo@unca.edu |
UNC Asheville Senior Receives $15,000 Windgate Fellowship Award
Joshua Copus, UNC Asheville
senior art major, has been awarded a $15,000 Windgate
Fellowship Award from the UNC Center for Craft, Creativity
and Design. Fifty-three
universities from across the United States were invited to
each nominate two graduating seniors or fifth year art/craft
students, their best and
brightest, for one of the largest fellowship award
programs offered nationally
to art students. Student applicants completed an
on-line application with images of their work, and a
proposal defining how the $15,000 would advance their
career. A panel of three nationally recognized arts
professionals, reviewed the applications on
the basis of artistic merit, the future promise of the
individual's work, and potential for the applicant to make a
contributions to the advancement of their field. Ten students
were selected from the national pool, each receiving
a $15,000 Windgate
Fellowship. Images of the work and proposal summary
of the ten 2006 Windgate Fellows can be found at
www.craftcreativitydesign.org.
Copus proposed using the
Windgate Fellowship to set up a professional ceramics studio
in Western North Carolina, using funds to construct a large
wood-fired kiln and obtain the necessary equipment to
process wild clay and glaze materials that are native
the region. This builds on research into local and
non-industrial processed materials in contemporary ceramics Copus began as an Undergraduate Research Scholar in the
summer of 2005.
The Windgate Fellowship
Award program is a three year pilot-program administered by
the UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in
Hendersonville, N.C. The Center also partners with four
museums awarding $5,000 Windgate Museum Internships. Museums
in the 2006 program include the Museum of Fine Art, Houston,
Texas;
San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design; the Woodson Art
Museum, Wausau, Wis.; and the Fuller Craft Museum, in
Brockton, Mass.
For more information, call
Dian Magie, Center for Craft, Creativity & Design executive
director, at 828/890-2050.
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