2020 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

The Sheffield Wood Gallery is proud to host the dynamic Biennial Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition. The exhibition displays recent works completed by the Fine Arts Center Visual Arts Faculty. The show is available for students and faculty to view in person on weekdays from 8-4 pm and for the public anytime on the Sheffield Wood Virtual Gallery website. In addition to teaching students, the FAC Faculty continue to work as professional artists, showing their works across the country and even the world. We are happy to honor them in our home gallery and to see how their works interact with one another in the gallery space. Please enjoy viewing the works at the Sheffield Wood Virtual Gallery website.

Poinsett

Donna Shank

Poinsett

Donna Shank

Blister Diptych

Rebecca Stockham

Blister Diptych

Rebecca Stockham

FAC Visual Arts Faculty

Katy Bergman Cassell, Metals

kcassell@greenville.k12.sc.us

Katy Bergman Cassell was awarded a National Artists Teachers Fellowship travel to the Jurassic Coast in England, a huge inspiration for her current work. She earned an MFA from Kent State University, and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She taught at the college level for eight years before joining the faculty of the Fine Arts Center. She also worked as an archaeological illustrator in India and as a museum educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, in New York, and at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH, all of which continues to influence her art.

She recently exhibited her work in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the Blaze International Enameling Exhibition. She has had eight solo exhibitions, the most recently at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, AZ in 2017 and at Riverworks Gallery in downtown Greenville, SC in 2018. Her artwork has been recently published on web and postcard promotional material for the Society of North American Goldsmith’s Exhibition in Motion, and the Richmond Art Center’s Place as Landscape exhibition. Books and other publications include The Art of Enameling, 500 Enameled Objects, Metalsmith magazine, Cleveland Scene, At Home in the Upstate, and The Greenville News. Her website is www.katybergmancassell.com

April Dauscha, Fiber

adauschaupart@greenvilleschools.us

864-355-3581

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, April Dauscha, received her BFA in Fashion Design and her MFA in Fiber from Virginia Commonwealth University. April is a member of the Surface Design Association (SDA) and the International Organization of Lace, Inc. (IOLI) an association for lacemakers that promotes the study and preservation of handmade lace. She is represented by Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including recent juried shows in Portugal and Serbia.

After living in Chicago for 13 years, April moved to Greenville, SC to spearhead the new Fiber Arts Program at the Fine Arts Center. She has two young daughters, Perpetua and Ursula, and a home studio where she makes work inspired by personal experiences, costume history, Victorian literature and early photography.

Greg Flint, ARMES

email: gflint@greenville.k12.sc.us

Phone: 355-2373

Greg Flint, a native of Greenville SC, has spent his life pursuing careers as both a visual artist and a teacher. He began studying art at the Fine Arts Center while in high school where he focused on drawing and painting as well as metalsmithing. He earned a BA in Studio Art from Furman University in 1984, before going on to earn an MFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Indiana University in1987.

His first teaching position was in the art department at Oklahoma State University, where he taught Metalsmithing as well as both 2-D and 3-D design. In 1990 he returned to Greenville to start the visual art department for the ARMES program at the Fine Arts Center.

Greg has exhibited his work locally as well as in national and international shows. Since 2001 he has had a studio at The Artbomb studios in West Greenville.

Kelly King, Ceramics

krking@greenville.k12.sc.us

Kelly King holds a BFA (Art Education) and an MFA (Ceramics) from the University of Georgia. She makes and teaches both sculptural and functional ceramics. Her hand-built ceramics fuse drawing, art history and narrative with a sculptural sensibility. Thematically, her work deals with the human impulse to arrange and organize the natural landscape.

King has taught in the college and community setting for over 18 years. She has led numerous workshops, including the Potter’s Council Series “Focus on Function” in Cincinnati, Ohio. She exhibits her work in galleries both regionally and nationally. Her sculpture and functional pottery have been featured in several art publications, including a feature article and cover photo in Ceramics Monthly. Originally from Georgia, she joined the Fine Arts Center in 2015. She holds a studio in her home in Greenville that she shares with her husband and two children.

Zane Logan, Photography

dlogan@greenvilleschools.us

Zane Logan was born in Pickens, South Carolina. He earned his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007. In 2009, while employed as an adjunct instructor of photography, he began his graduate studies. He received his MFA from Clemson University in 2012. He is an Instructor of Photography at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States in both solo and group shows, including at the Columbia Museum of Art, the Riverworks Gallery, the Redux Contemporary Art Center, and the PhotoPlace Gallery, amongst others. He is currently the Southeast chapter chair for the Society for Photographic Education, and lives in Inman, South Carolina.

Ryan Roth, Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking

email: rroth@greenville.k12.sc.us

Before joining the faculty of the Fine Arts Center in 2012, Ryan Roth taught at The Ohio State University, Denison University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and The University of Georgia. He also was living in New York City working as an artist and for the top antique framer in the nation, Eli Wilner & Company. The company’s clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the White House, Yale University, the New-York Historical Society, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, as well as many top collectors. Mr. Roth managed the graphic design of the company creating digital mock-ups as well as installing, fitting and framing some of the world’s most famous paintings. Ryan Roth earned his BFA from Valdosta State University and got his MFA in Drawing and Painting at The University of Georgia. Mr. Roth continues to exhibit work in New York and across the Southeast. He has also participated in international exhibits in Europe and China. Ryan Roth was honored to be "Teacher of the Year" for the Fine Arts Center for the 2019-2020 school year.

Donna Shank, Design

dshank@greenville.k12.sc.us

Donna Shank studied at Furman University and received her BA and M.Ed from Converse College. She teaches 2D and 3D Design and also serves as the Coordinator for Explore the Arts summer program. She grew up in Greenville and was a graduate of The Fine Arts Center. She works in a variety of media and techniques including clay, printmaking, and bookmaking. In 2013, she received a National Artist Teacher Fellowship to study bookmaking in Florence, Italy. She has received many grants, including a Fulbright Memorial Fund grant to study in Japan, fellowships to study at Arrowmont School of Crafts and was selected as a SC State Park Artist in Residence. Her work has been exhibited in shows at the Art Bomb Studios, Open Studios with the Metropolitan Arts Council, and FAC faculty shows at the Vandiver Gallery at Anderson University.

Rebecca Stockham, Architecture and ARMES

rstocka@greenville.k12.sc.us

Rebecca Stockham received her MFA in Design from the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996. She received a BA in Art from Lander University in 1993. As part of the Honors International Program at Lander University, she studied at the Exeter College of Art in Exeter, England in 1992. In 1999, she spent the summer studying in Beijing, China with New York University.

She has taught as an adjunct faculty in photography at Virginia Commonwealth University and Greenville Technical College, as a visiting faculty at Furman University and in the lifelong learning program at Tri-County Technical College.

Rebecca has exhibited her work nationally in solo, group and juried exhibitions. Her work is included in many private and public collections in the U.S. and in China. She has received several grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission and from the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, SC. She has been a visual art instructor in the ARMES program at the Fine Arts Center since 1998 and has been teaching as a design instructor with the Architecture program at the Fine Arts Center since 2017.

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