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UD faculty selected for fellowships in the arts
2:21 p.m., March 8, 2007--Four UD faculty members were among the 16 Delawareans receiving prestigious 2007 individual fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts. The awards are based on the excellence of the artists' work, judged by out-of-state experts in different artistic fields. Jennifer Margaret Barker, associate professor of music, received the “established professional, music composition” award; Anne Colwell, associate professor at the UD Academic Center in Georgetown, received the “emerging professional, fiction” award; Priscilla Smith, associate professor of art, received the “established professional, photography” award; and Peter Williams, professor of art, received the “established professional, painting” award. In addition, Norman Sasowsky, professor emeritus of art, received an honorable mention in the “established professional, painting” category. The public is invited to meet the artists at 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 9, at the Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St., Dover. For information call (302) 577-8284. Jennifer Margaret Barker has had her compositions performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. She has received commissions and had her music performed by the New Jersey Symphony with the New Jersey Youth Chorus, the Virginia Symphony with the Virginia Children's Chorus, Network for New Music, the Society for New Music, Trio Arundel, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra String Quartet, and others. She also was invited to compose a work for the American Liszt Society. Her music has been broadcast on PBS and the BBC and she has two CDs, “Nyvaigs” and “Geenyoch,” which included four DVD videos interpreting her compositions, an art form she said she wishes to explore further. A graduate of the University of Glasgow in Scotland where she grew up, Barker received her master's degrees in piano performance and music composition from Syracuse University. She was a William Penn Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she received her master's and doctoral degrees in music composition. She joined the UD faculty in 2000 and is on sabbatical this year focusing on composing. Some of her music will be performed at UD's Center for the Arts, at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, April 15. For information, call (302) 831-2577. Anne Colwell is known for her poetry but has recently become interested in writing fiction and has two novels being considered for publication. Colwell has had several poems published in journals and has two books published, Twenty Poems: An Online Chapbook and Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. Another book of poetry, Believing their Shadows, was a finalist for the Anhinga Prize in Poetry, the Brittingham Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and The Quarterly Review. She has received previous grants from the Delaware Division of Arts. Colwell received her bachelor's degree from Immaculata University and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Delaware and has taught English at UD's Academic Center in Georgetown since 1991. She serves as the coordinator of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program in southern Delaware. Colwell will give a reading of her fiction at 7 p.m., Monday, April 30 in the Lecture Hall of the Carter Partnership Center, Delaware Technical and Community College, Owen Campus. For information and directions, call the UD Academic Center at 855-1657. Priscilla Smith has work in the collections of Eastman Kodak, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum of Art, American Express and Munson-Proctor-Williams Institute. Her work has been in several group and solo exhibitions, including “Bodies for Water,” which was shown at Cornell University, Oklahoma State University, Spartanburg Museum of Art and the Rochester Institute of Technology. The coordinator of photography at UD, Smith joined the faculty in 1991 and was UD faculty director of photography in New Zealand. She was a photographer for National Geographic and also taught at Colgate and Syracuse universities, where she taught overseas in Syracuse's Italian Program. Smith received her bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University and her master's degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Peter Williams is a contemporary artist whose narrative paintings, using popular icons such as Mickey Mouse, are a commentary on issues of race and culture in today's society. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2004 Painters & Sculptors Grant Program award, a Ford fellowship, a McKnight Foundation fellowship, a Michigan Council for the Arts grant, and other awards. His works have been included in the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at a Shrinking Cities exhibition in Berlin and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Mott Foundation and the Detroit Art Institute, among others. A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Williams received his master's degree from the Maryland Institute of Art. He came to UD in 2004 after teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was a distinguished professor. Norman Sasowsky retired from UD in 1996, and his work includes paintings, computer-generated prints and artists' books. He studied art at City College of New York and New York University and at the Art Students League. Each “emerging professional” will receive a monetary award of $3,000 and each “established professional” will receive $6,000 to further their work and careers. Each artist will give a public presentation of their work in exhibits, readings or performances during the year. In addition a master is chosen in a selected category is chosen to receive an award of $10,000. |
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