The Virginia Commission for the Arts announced the recipients of its 2015-2016 Artists Fellowships, given to individual artists to recognize and support creativity and excellence. Four artists have been honored in the field of sculpture and we’re so proud that three of those recipients are current Sculpture + Extended Media faculty and students. Associate Professor Michael Jones McKean and MFA candidates Steven Randall and Levester Williams have each received a $3,000 award from the Commission for their work.
McKean is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Nancy Graves Foundation Award and an Artadia Award. He has also been awarded fellowships and residencies at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The MacDowell Colony, The International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, and The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, among others.
Randall is a photographer, sculptor and installation artist originally from Buffalo, NY. He attended Alfred University on a Marlin Miller Scholarship earning a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture. His work replicates fragments of objects and images questioning their connectivity to the collective conscious.
Williams received his B.F.A. in Art and Design from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, magna cum laude. His artistic practice seeks to renegotiate questions of history, identity, and memory as sites of criticality. He dislocates objects from their original contexts and renders them within new contextual forms.
The Virginia Commission for the Arts supports the arts through funding from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Commission distributes grant awards to artists, arts and other not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, educators and local governments and provides technical assistance in arts managements.
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