CLARKSVILLE, TN – The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) are welcoming artist Stacey Holloway for her exhibition “Through Thick and Thin” from Oct. 20 through Dec. 5.
Holloway will give a lecture at 6 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Art + Design Building Room 120, and a gallery talk at noon Oct. 29 in The New Gallery.
“The Department of Art + Design is delighted to have Stacey Holloway with us as an exhibiting artist to share her sculptural works and unique perspective with our students and community,” said McLean Fahnestock, chair of the Department of Art + Design.
About the artist
Stacey Holloway received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota in 2009, her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Herron School of Art and Design/IUPUI in 2006, and has been living and working in Birmingham, Alabama since 2013. She currently serves as the associate professor of sculpture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition to teaching, Holloway is an active national mixed media artist, sculptor, and fabricator that works within a variety of media including drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and interactivity. Through the exploration of storytelling and ethology, she creates work that communicates a universal societal connectivity. Holloway has exhibited throughout the Midwest, South and East Coast in galleries such as Wayfarers, Brooklyn, New York; FM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Gallery 924 at the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indiana; and Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama. She has received distinguished awards such as the 2021 Visual Arts Fellowship through the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the 2017 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship and the 2010 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship through the Central Indiana Community Foundation in Indianapolis.
To learn more about the Department of Art + Design and The New Gallery, contact department chair McLean Fahnestock at fahnestockm@apsu.edu. For more information regarding the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, contact Dr. Andrea Spofford at spofforda@apsu.edu.