Visual Arts Students to Learn from Internationally-acclaimed Artist
Interlochen, Mich – The visual arts department at Interlochen Arts Academy is pleased to welcome internationally renowned guest artist Endi Poskovic to its campus. Poskovic will spend the week working with Academy visual arts students and exhibiting his solo work at the visual arts gallery from October 18 to November 22.
The Bosnia-born artist is best known for his large scale, multi-block woodcut prints. His work has been shown in more than 300 individual and group exhibitions. His solo exhibition, La Cérémonie: Selected Works from La Souffrance et L’Aventure Series, is the inaugural exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery in the new Herbert H. and Barbara C. Dow Center for Visual Arts. This is the first time his work will be on exhibit in Michigan. Poskovic’s visit will also include a public lecture about his work and career and a woodblock workshop for Academy visual arts students.
Earlier this year Poskovic was appointed as the Associate Professor of the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Prior to 2008, he was a tenured Professor of Art at Whittier College in Los Angeles where he had been teaching since 1997. He has also been on faculty at Daemen College, Ball State University, California State University-Long Beach, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Columbia College Chicago and has been a visiting artist at numerous universities in the United States and abroad.
Poskovic is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Art Matters Foundation, Camargo Foundation, Indiana Arts Commission and New York State Council on the Arts. His works are represented in recognized public collections in the U.S. and abroad including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium and Musée d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca-Saint-Louis, France.
Students in the visual arts division at Interlochen Center for the Arts learn from a distinguished faculty and benefit from an active visiting artist program. Intense studio experience gives students an opportunity to develop a portfolio, prepare for college and explore career options.
Interlochen Arts Academy attracts exceptionally talented and motivated students from nearly every state and more than 20 other countries to study creative writing, music, dance, visual arts, theatre, motion picture arts and rigorous college preparatory academics. The facility will also house adult education programming as part of Interlochen College of Creative Arts.
