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April Issue 2004
Nina Liu and Friends Gallery in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Joe Bova
The Nina Liu and
Friends gallery in Charleston, SC, will present an exhibition
of ceramic sculpture by Joe Bova from Apr. 2 - 31, 2004.
Artist/ceramist and educator, Bova, has been a professor of art
at Ohio University in Athens since 1990, and served as the Director
of the School of Art from 1990 - 1997. From 1971 to 1990 he served
on the faculty of the School of Art at Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge. His first teaching appointment was at Nichols
State University in Thibodaux, LA, from 1969-1971. Bova has also
taught at the alternative schools of Haystack in Maine, and Penland
School of Craft in North Carolina, and he is currently on the
Board of Trustees of Penland School.
Bova studied in his native city at the University of Houston (BFA-
1967) and the University of New Mexico (MA-1969). He has been
a visiting artist at many schools, notably the University of Georgia's
Studies Abroad Program in Cortona Italy (1982 and 1984) and the
NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (1989). He has
also served on the board of the National Council of Art Administrators
(NCAA), and as the President of the National Council on Education
for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 1992- 1994. Bova has also been the
recipient of a Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
Fellowship and a Southern Arts Federation - NEA Fellowship.
Bova has exhibited his work since 1988 at such venues as the Pewabic Gallery in Detroit, the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, the Masur Museum of Art in Louisiana and Ostricher Gallery in New Orleans. His art has been exhibited internationally, and is included in several books about ceramics, most recently The Craft and Art of Clay by Susan Peterson. In the Carolinas, Bova has had works included in exhibits at Blue Spiral Gallery in Asheville, NC, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, NC, and at the Penland Gallery in Penland, NC.
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