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August Issue 2004
SC Arts Commission Announces Visual Artist Fellowships for 2005
The Board of Commissioners of the SC Arts Commission in Columbia, SC, is honoring two professional visual artists residing in South Carolina with 2005 Artist Fellowships. Each fellow receives $2,000 in recognition of superior artistic merit. In addition, the SCAC has named alternates in each category who do not receive monetary awards, but are considered notable in the competitive selection process. The 2005 SC Arts Commission Fellows for visual arts are:
Jocelyn Chateauvert, Charleston - Crafts
Alternate - David Ross Puls, Charleston
Jack Steve Gerstner, Jr., Columbia - Visual
Arts
Alternate - Jennifer Marie Wallace, Catawba
Fellows and alternates are selected through a competitive application process. Out-of-state review panelists make recommendations for selections, which are approved by the board of the SC Arts Commission. 2005 Fellowship panelists were: Julie Sasse, Barbara Rogers, and Alfred Quiroz, all of Tucson, AZ (Crafts and Visual Arts).
Jocelyn Chateauvert was born, raised and educated in Iowa. She received her MFA at the University of Iowa where she studied metalworking, hand papermaking and sculpture. After teaching in London at Middlesex Polytechnic she established herself as an art jeweler in San Francisco. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, she earned a place in the New Museum of Scotland's survey of contemporary jewelry, Jewellery Moves. Hand papermaking informs her work in the Lowcountry. A resident of downtown Charleston, Chateauvert pursues her creative work, raises her son, Elvin, and is rehabilitating a home and studio in the historic district with her husband, David.
Jack Gerstner was born in Cheraw, SC in 1963. His family moved to Columbia in 1972 and he entered the University of SC in 1981. At USC, he completed a BFA degree in printmaking and drawing and pursued his MFA studies there, focusing in sculpture and installation. Most of Gerstner's work for the last ten years has focused on installation and sculpture using found objects, tree branches, fibers and interesting environments, usually abandoned, rustic and distressed locations and buildings. In 1996, he founded Gallery 701, a progressive arts center located in a turn-of-the-century cotton mill community center. Gallery 701 features art exhibitions, dance, jazz and classical music concerts, theatre, opera and presentations of Tibetan and Native American culture.
The next round of Artist Fellowships (for 2006) will select fellows in prose, poetry, dance performance, music composition, visual arts and craft. The deadline for applying is Oct. 1, 2004. For an application and guidelines, as well as more information about the Artist Fellowship program and the SC Arts Commission, call 803/734-8696 or visit the agency's website at (www.SouthCarolinaArts.com).
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