Virtual Art Salon with Addoley Dzegede
August 13, 2020
Posted In: Events, Locals' Clubs
Our Virtual Art Salon will be held online using the video conferencing platform Zoom.
The Virtual Art Salon welcomes all artists, art students, educators, and enthusiasts. This week, Addoley Dzegede will present her work in conversation with Artistic Director of Painting, Drawing & Printmaking, Elizabeth Ferrill. We invite you to join us!
Please contact Elizabeth Ferrill, Artistic Director of Painting, Drawing & Printmaking at [email protected] for more information.
Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist who grew up in South Florida and is currently a fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and was awarded a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship at Washington University in St Louis, where she completed an MFA in Visual Art.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Africa, and she has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, Osei Duro in Accra, Ghana, Thread: a project of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, The University of Kansas, the Arteles Creative Center in Finland, Foundation Obras in Portugal, and Nes Artist Residency in Iceland, as well as a post-graduate apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.
Group exhibitions and projects include the Ask Addoley + Anna podcast with Anna Ihle, commissioned by Coast Contemporary in 2019 and by the National Museum of Norway in 2020; SOM, at theWoodland Gallery, Penn State Abington, PA; This Country, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; Overview is a Place at SPRING/BREAK Art Show: Stranger Comes to Town in New York; Another Country at 50/50 in Kansas City; the Counterpublic Triennial, organized by The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; Color Key at the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis; and Surface Forms at The Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia. She is half of the collaborative duo, LAB:D, with Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Solo exhibitions include, Ballast, at the Contemporary Art Museum and millefiori at KSMoCA in Portland, Oregon. Recent awards include the 2018 Great Rivers Biennial award; a MICA alumni award; a Creative Stimulus Award from Critical Mass for the Visual Arts; and a 2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.
