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  NOVEMBER 8, 2004
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  Scientist gets $2.6 million to research marine bacteria
 
  Meigs teaching award is elevated
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  Two UGA faculty elected Fellows of AAAS, national science association
 
  MacArthur Fellow Judy Pfaff visits School of Art
 
  UGA plans International Education Week events
 
  Teaching Academy anniversary commemorated
 
  Pack MULEs: UGA scientists discover that some transposable elements in rice often carry fragments of other genes when they reproduce themselves
 
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MacArthur Fellow Judy Pfaff visits School of Art
Judy Pfaff
The Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist Series has brought a wide range of talented and respected artists to Athens, but installation artist Judy Pfaff is its first certified “genius.” A professor and established installation artist in New York, Pfaff was named a MacArthur Fellow in September. Commonly referred to as the “genius award,” the fellowship provides a $500,000 stipend with no strings attached.

During Pfaff’s visit to UGA, art students will be able to work closely with her in studio visits and class discussions. Students and the public will have a chance to see the artist and a slide presentation of her work during her lecture on Nov. 15, at 5:30 p.m. in room 101 of the Student Learning Center. The lecture is free.

Pfaff’s expansive yet intricately detailed installation art integrates architectural frameworks, sculptures, drawings and prints. In awarding her the fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation said, “From the beginning of her career in the 1970s, she has worked with a wide and unusual range of materials and has inspired younger artists to venture outside the traditional distinctions made between painting and sculpture.”

Pfaff has exhibited in major venues throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work can be found in collections at the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In addition to the MacArthur Fellowship, Pfaff has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently serving as Fisher Professor in the Arts at Bard College, she received her B.F.A. from Washington University and her M.F.A. from Yale University.
 
 


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