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Alair Wells (MFA 2004) obtained a BFA and MFA in sculpture. Alair has organized and participated in a multitude of iron-casting workshops and events nationwide; her mixed-media installations have been exhibited in Atlanta, North Carolina, New Orleans, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, and Seattle. She taught at Binghamton University before relocating to Seattle in 2006, where she currently owns a metalworking business, Tinder Heart Metals & Design. She continues to teach metal fabrication, casting, and blacksmithing classes.

Katie Naquin received a BFA in painting and drawing at LSU in 2013. She has been inspiring students since 2009. She is owner and instructor of 7 elements BR, a place for students to be challenged in the critical-thinking and scientific aspects of art making. Katie is also the Talented Art Teacher at the Baton Rouge Center for Visual & Performing Arts. Her own artwork is both a technical and gestural mixed-media representation of lifelong youth. Visit katienaquin.com for more information and to view her portfolio.

Trees of Joviation

Haejung Lee (MFA 2008) was born in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received a BFA and MFA in ceramics at Kyung Hee University in Korea and a second MFA in ceramics at LSU. She has been an artist in residence in Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, and the United States. She has exhibited internationally; her work has been featured in 11 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. She has received several remarkable prizes and fellowships. Visit haejunglee.com for more information.

Haejung’s Portfolio

Shelby Prindaville is is the art department head, director of the Helen Levitt Art Gallery, and associate professor of art at Morningside College in Sioux City, IA.

Prior to her employment at Morningside, Shelby was the art program director and assistant professor of art at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS. She also worked in various roles – including as an instructor and gallery special projects coordinator – at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, while completing her Master of Fine Arts from the LSU Painting and Drawing Program in May 2013. She received her Bachelor of Arts in fine arts with a concentration in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, in 2008.

Her studio practice combines her interests in the sciences and art. This interest extends to her collaboration with LSU Chemistry Professor John A. Pojman, which has led to the development of new polymer clays used in her mixed media reliefs and sculptures.

Shelby’s artwork has been exhibited in various venues internationally and throughout the U.S., including Madrid, Buenos Aires, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Baton Rouge, Fort Worth, and Los Angeles, as well as online. Her work is included in a number of public and private collections, and she has been awarded a variety of grants, prizes, and international and domestic residencies. She has been selected as a World Wildlife Fund tour artist and has been published in a number of journals, catalogs, and media outlets.

Shelby’s Porfolio

David DuBose received his BFA from Texas Tech University in 1986 and his MFA from Louisiana State University in 1990. He has had artist residencies in Ireland, Canada, Germany, and the United States. He lived in Northern Ireland for 13 years, where he taught printmaking at the University of Ulster in Belfast and was a visiting artist or lecturer at a number of other schools and colleges throughout Ireland. He regularly taught printmaking courses at Belfast Print Workshop and Seacourt Print Workshop and was the director of Seacourt Print Workshop for seven years until he returned to the United States in 2005. He is currently assistant professor of drawing and foundations at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

View David’s portfolio at daviddubose.com.

Aaron Hussey received his MFA with a concentration in sculpture from LSU in 2002. Aaron is a sculptor based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work is in permanent collections and has been exhibited in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and beyond. His most recent activity includes the completion of a public art installation in San Marcos, Texas, and St. Tammany, Louisiana. Visit aphstudio.com for more information.

Ceramic artist Sin-Ying Ho (MFA 2001) was born in Hong Kong, immigrated to Canada, and currently resides in New York City. She holds an honor diploma from Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and an MFA in ceramics from LSU. Ho has taught and run workshops, lectures, and exhibitions all across Canada and from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University to Hong Kong and Jingdezhen—the more than 1000-year-old city of porcelain in China. She has taught at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond; Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver; Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary; and Concordia University in Montreal. Among her honors, she has received the San Angelo National Ceramic Competition Merit Award, Canada Council Grant for the Canada Year of Asian Pacific, Canada Council of the Art Research and Development Grant, and a PSC-CUNY Grant. She was nominated for a 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. She was one of the featured artist on a documentary TV series, Routes: The Spiritual Odyssey of Chinese American Artists. Recently, her Eden series was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her pieces are in the permanent collections of the Icheon World Ceramic Centre in Korea, Glenbow Museum in Canada, Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, and Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong. Her work Music serves as the cover image of Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice, edited by Ruth Chambers, Amy Gogarty & Mireille Perron (Ronsdale Press 2007).

Jonathan Mayers is an artist and activist. He has been an instructor of painting and drawing at Louisiana State University. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he attended Louisiana State University as a computer science major before changing his course of study and earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art with a concentration of painting and drawing in 2007. In 2011, Mayers received his Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of New Orleans. In 2012, he became a co-manager and founding member of the TEN Gallery + Collective, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. He has been known to use a traditional, old master’s drawing technique of silverpoint to create fantastic surreal images on canvas and paper, but more notably, has incorporated his metaphorical Green Guedry character into many of his works.

Kyle Bauer moved to Baltimore after earning his MFA from LSU in 2011. Since 2012, he has been the conservation technician of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. He recently completed a three-year residency at Baltimore Clayworks and is a 2014 Sondheim Artscape Prize finalist, a 2015 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Award recipient, and a finalist for the 2015 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for which he was awarded third place by juror Ann Barlow, executive director of art in General NYC. He has had recent exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum, Vox Populi, Flashpoint Gallery, Randall Scott Projects, McDaniel College, Arlington Art Center, School 33 Art Center, and Maryland Art Place. Since 2011, Bauer’s mixed-media sculptures and installations have been featured in more than 30 exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic region and internationally at Galway, Ireland, at The Shed. He was also invited to present at MAP Gallery’s THIRTY speaker series, a program that brings attention to 30 emerging Baltimore artists under the age of 30.

Visit kylejbauer.com for more information.

Kyle’s Portfolio