Thursday, May 5, 2011

Nan Smith Awarded SEF Research Grant and Sabbatical

After a year of hard work on the UF Pre-Conference for NCECA, curatorial work for the UF NCECA Invitational exhibition, and Alchemy the Harn Musuem Juried Ceramics National, I am now able to fully focus on my studio practice.

I am very excited to have been awarded two very competitive honors from the University of Florida.

I have received a significant research award to fund my new sculpture "Mercury". This award covers my sculpture materials, studio assistant and life model for the project. I am working in collaboration with two UF scientists and a UF Professor of lighting design on my new installation.

I will have the time to do much work in the studio. I have been awarded one of the few fully funded sabbatical leaves offered within the College of Fine Arts for fall semester 2011.

It is wonderful to have the next 8 months to develop and create this new installation.

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