John Grade returns to Emory Campus

DON'T MISS THIS ARTIST TALK WITH JOHN GRADE! From Emory University's Home Page: Location Carlos Museum Reception Hall University Event Topic Arts, College Department/Organization Visual Arts Program Artist John Grade Type of Art Visual Arts & Art History - Exhibitions, Lectures, & Events Series Water 2011-2012 Speaker/Presenter John Grade Event Open To All Building/Room Carlos Reception Hall Cost FREE Contact Name Mary Catherine Johnson Contact Email mcjohn7@emory.edu More Info / Register www.visualarts.emory.edu Environmental artist John Grade returns to campus to speak about his work as well as the experience of creating Piedmont Divide, a two-part sculptural installation that visually and conceptually links two of Emory’s most beloved and frequented locations - the Quadrangle and Lullwater Preserve (on view through April 2012). John Grade is the recipient of the 2010 biennial Willard Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, an Andy Warhol Foundation Award (NY), two Pollock Krasner Foundation Awards (NY), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (NY), A Contemporary Art Award from the Portland Art Museum, five grants from Artist Trust, five grants from 4Culture and four grants from the city of Seattle. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. He recently exhibited at Galerie Ateliers L'H Du Siege in France, Fabrica in the UK, and Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York. Grade has been a fellow at the Djerassi Foundation (CA), the MacDowell Colony - twice - (NH), the Espy Foundation (WA) and the Ballinglen Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland. His work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, Artweek, American Craft, ARTUS, the Boston Globe, and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Studio 360. Two monographs of the artist’s work have been published coinciding with major museum surveys of his work. Articles about his current work are forthcoming this spring in Sculpture, The Huffington Post, Art in America, The Seattle Times, American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Arcade, Conde de Nast Traveller and Italian and Russian Domus.