

Hershey Medical Center, and the Penn State College of Medicine. In the states, Professor Ralph Gilbert has been selected for panoramic paintings, commissioned by Penn State Health, the Milton S. Associate Photo Professor, Jill Frank, and Foundations Instructor, Jiha Moon, were both included in the newly-reinstated Atlanta Biennial this January 2019.įaculty Darien Arikoski-Johnson, Jess Jones, Ruth Stanford, Maria Gindhart, and Craig Dongoski have all participated in residencies, symposiums, and led workshops abroad in the last year in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Zambia, France, and Greece respectively. Welch professors have had museum shows: Pam Longobardi, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah Christina West, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh and Jill Frank, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has recognized the greatest artists, writers, and researchers “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts” since 1925. Notably, Craig Drennen, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting, was awarded the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts.

Fellowships and awards include MOCA GA's Working Artist Project Grant, the Idea Capital Grant, WonderRoot's Hughley Fellows grant, the Swan Coach House Emerging Artist Award, The Southern Arts Prize, and the Hudgens Prize.Ĭeramics Associate Professor, Darien Arikoski-Johnson, is a finalist for the highly-competitive 2019 Hudgens Prize the award of 50,000 USD and a solo exhibition is one of the nation’s largest monetary, merit prizes given to a single artist. In the last decade, over 55 of the region's most prestigious grants and fellowships have been awarded to Georgia State’s community of artists, faculty, and alumni.

The school offers an MA in Art History, MA in Art Education, MAT and MAEd in Art Education, and an MFA in Studio Art with concentrations in Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Textiles.ĭarien Arikoski-Johnson, Jeffrey Boortz, Kimberly Cleveland, Ryan Crooks, Melanie Davenport, Craig Dongoski, Craig Drennen, Tim Flowers, Jill Frank, Ralph Gilbert, Maria Gindhart, Glenn Gunhouse, Ryan Rasmussen, Jeremy Bolen, Grace Harpster, Dawn Haynie, Kevin Hsieh, Jess Jones, Pam Longobardi, Carrie Brown, Jennifer Siegler, Joseph Peragine, Neill Prewitt, Joshua Dudley Greer, Katherine Cunningham, Meta Gary, Cynthia Farnell, Nimer Aleck, Susan Richmond, Jennifer Hamrock, Wesley Harvey, Jason Snape, Ruth Stanford, Matthew Sugarman, Catherine Trugman, Christina West, Stephanie Kolpy, and Michael White The programs foster critical thinking and dynamic artistic production within an interdisciplinary environment.
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Welch School of Art & Design, of the College of the Arts at Georgia State University, features an internationally active faculty and a rigorous curriculum that prepares students for professional careers in art and design.

MAT & MA Ed application deadline: April 1 MA & MFA application deadline: February 1
