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Department faculty are active both on campus and off: presenting their work, participating in group shows, and researching in the field.

Colby Caldwell will be showing at Sweet Briar College in October 2004. He has been chosen to be in the 2005 Corcoran Biennial, which opens in March. Represented by Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC, he will take part in a gallery artist show that opens in HemphillÕs new space in October of this year. CaldwellÕs solo show from November 2003 entitled, [still life] was chosen as one of DCÕs top 5 shows by the Washington City Paper. His work was included in "Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place", written by Ferdinand Protzman and published by National Geographic in 2003.

Sue Johnson had one-person exhibitions of her work at Swarthmore College (2007) and the Steinhardt Gallery at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (2007) and the John Michael Kohler Art Center (2006). She was awarded residency fellowships by the Jentel Foundation (2006), Salzburg Kunstlerhaus/VCCA (2006), and the Kohler Arts/Industry program (2007). Johnson received a 2005 Individual Artist Grant in Sculpture/Installation from Maryland State Arts Council, and was recently elected to the board of directors of the National Council of Arts Administrators. She presented two papers addressing aspects of her work and its contemporary and historical contexts; "Authentic Fictions" College Art Association conference on the panel, Print Cocktail (2005); and "Fiction as Fact" at the School of Visual Arts National Conference on the Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists: Art and Story (2004). Her work appeared in New American Paintings, Vol. 63 (2005) and a catalog on her work was recently published by Swarthmore College with an essay by art historian, Dr. Celia Rabinovitch (2007).

Joe Lucchesi presented “Naked Soldiers, Homoeroticism, and Selling Towels from the Front in WW2” at a session of the National Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference in Boston, May 2007.

Carrie Patterson will participate in the exhibition Placing Color traveling in 2008- 2009 to Bristol Community College in Fall River Massachusetts, Sherman Gallery at Boston University in Boston Massachusetts, Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, The Painting Center in New York City, and Winona State University in Minnesota. In October 2006 Patterson had a solo show at The Painting Center in New York City, and a group show at Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich Connecticut. In 2005, she participated in the exhibit New York Painters at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, Colombia and Three East Coast Artists at Washington Art Association in Washington Depot, CT. In 2005 and 2006 Patterson organized a group exhibition titled Conversations in Paint that travelled to The College of William and Mary, Eastern Connecticut State University, Haverford College, and The Painting Center. She is a contributer to the book 100 Creative Drawing Ideas compiled by A. Held and published by Shambala Press in 2004.

Lisa Scheer is working on several public and private commissions including sculptures for the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, the new terminal at BWI airport in Baltimore, and Petworth Metro station in Washington, DC.

 

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