Faculty artist Priscilla Hollingsworth and art student Annie Gatward are busy making teapots in the ceramics lab in preparation for their trip to Shanghai in April where Ms. Hollingsworth will be among a handful of artists participating in an exhibition celebrating the Chinese Year of the Ox. Her upcoming visit to China was reported in the Midwestern electronic and print publication Art-to-Art Palette, and she has been asked to write an article for the publication upon her return from China.
Professor Hollingsworth is an internationally recognized ceramic artist, recognized for her work in sculpture, installations, and vessels. For the Shanghai exhibition, her work will focus on teapots. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions through America, and photographs of her work have been published in the books Surface Decoration for Low-Fire Ceramics; The Ceramic Design Book: A Gallery of Contemporary Work; and The Best of Pottery.
She has received residency awards from the Kohler Company’s Arts/Industry Program; the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine; Artpark in Lewiston, New York; and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Ms. Hollingsworth received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University-Bloomington. She joined Augusta State in 1993.
She has received individual artist grants from the states of Georgia and Indiana. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, and an A.B. degree from Princeton University, where she studied with Toshiko Takaezu. She earned her high school diploma in visual arts from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Currently, Ms. Hollingsworth is an associate professor of art at Augusta State University in Augusta, Georgia.
Mar 25, 2009
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