National Juried Art Exhibition

Each year, the Fred Parker Giles Gallery at Eastern Kentucky University, in conjunction with the Chautauqua Lecture Series and the Department of Art and Design, mounts a National Juried Art Exhibition focused on that year’s theme. The exhibition is organized by Giles Gallery curator, Esther Randall, who selects the juror and manages the submission process. Entrants are required to submit an artist’s statement that expresses their sense of their work’s connection to the series theme. Jurors typically select 50-70 works in all media as finalists for the exhibition and award merit prizes and monetary awards for the top three (or more) entries. In addition, a special theme award is conferred by the curator in collaboration with the lecture series coordinator.

The juror for the 2019-20 "Balance and Resilience" exhibition is Garry Bibbs of the University of Kentucky. Bibbs is Associate Professor with an expertise in sculpture and printmaking at SA/VS, and he is head of the Sculpture Area in Art Studio area. Graduated with a B.S. degree with honors in Arts Studio from Kentucky State University, Prof. Bibbs took his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kentucky, and received in 1986 a  Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship to study art at the Chicago Art Institute.  He has taught and created art at the University of Kentucky for the last 24 years.  He has completed over 35 public art commissions throughout the eastern regional states. Several in Kentucky include  the Frankfort KY New Transportation Building, the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, the University of Kentucky Allied Health Professions and Sciences, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, the Urban League of greater Chattanooga office Building, and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center. He has received numerous prestigious art awards such as the Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences, the Al Smith award in Sculpture, an Outstanding Kentucky artist award and the NEA Southern Arts Federation Award for Outstanding Printmaker. 

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Garry Bibbs

Source: https://finearts.uky.edu/savs/faculty-staff/garry-bibbs

Published on January 22, 2020