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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture | Stephanie Kolpy
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Kolpy, TORRENT. 7 ft x 3.5 ft-triptych. drypoint, monoprint, watercolor.\n \nArtist Stephanie Kolpy delivers a public lecture on her current arts practice — an exploration of the visual and thematic parallels between apocalyptic mythos and the Holocene extinction, our present and ongoing sixth great extinction event due to climate change, through multiple layers of monoprinting, drypoint, and hand-painted high-density watercolor ink. Kolpy is a Visiting Artist at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, invited by the school to participate in a three-day interaction with students, faculty, and members of the UGA campus community.\n \nAbout the Artist\nStephanie Kolpy is Senior Lecturer of Art in the focused areas of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art at Georgia State University in Atlanta Georgia. Kolpy has participated in over 140 international, national, invitational, and regional exhibitions with seven solo exhibitions since 2003. Kolpy has a solo exhibition titled, Nearing Singularity, at Gallery 72 in Atlanta GA, scheduled for June of 2024. Since 2003, she received over 30 awards based on her own portfolio and has been included in 30 art publications including the international publication in 2011 NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, highlighting contemporary southern artists and in 2022 The Hand Magazine, a competitive journal publishing printmaking and photography. In 2019 she received the Don A.Tilton Purchase Award from The Delta National Printmaking Exhibition. In 2022 she received, Top Jurors Award in Artist’s Vision 2022 International.  Kolpy’s work is in the permanent collections of The Bradbury Museum in Arkansas, The Zuckerman Museum of Georgia, and The Yun Xiang Ju Group / Baoding City China Cultural Museum.\nKolpy continues to curate many international and national artist’s solo and group exhibitions, in January 2024, Kolpy curated a group Invitational for The Hand Magazine’s 10th anniversary with works by international printmakers and photographers such as LaToya Hobbs and Kahn & Selesnick who have been featured in the publication over its 10 years, Titled: “10 YEARS OUT OF HAND: Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from The Hand Magazine” for the Welch Galleries at Georgia State University. Her curatorial project for The Southern Graphics Council International Printmaking Conference in 2017 where she curated the solo exhibition for internationally acclaimed artist Sue Coe’s, The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto for the Welch Gallery. In 2020 she curated a multimedia experience and solo exhibition for the Welch Galleries and Kopleff Recital Hall with the work of Josh Dorman, titled, Higher Ground. The proposal winning her the Cencia Spotlight Grant. In 2021 she received The Visiting Artist Series Grant as related programming facilitator for the exhibition, Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran.
LOCATION:Lamar Dodd School of Art | S151
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