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UA Ceramics Instructor Receives National Award

UA art instructor Wade Folger MacDonald received the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2018 Emerging Artist Award. The award recognizes exceptional early career artists and helps promote their work internationally for the year. As part of the award, MacDonald participated in an exhibition at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburg, Penn., during this year’s NCECA conference and addressed the conference with an artist talk. A generous monetary prize is also granted to the award recipients. In addition, an exhibition titled Parallel/Collision that MacDonald proposed and is co-organizing has been accepted for this year’s NCECA conference. Here is a video of MacDonald’s talk:

He also wrote a post, titled “Becoming an Artist and Advice for the Future” for the NCECA Blog. MacDonald teaches courses in ceramics and art foundations in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama.

For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/.