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Jack Girard, Chair of Fine Arts Division and Professor of Art at Transylvania University Jack Girard is currently a Professor of Art, and the Fine Arts Division Chair at Transylvania University, in Lexington, KY, USA, where he teaches multi-level drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, and travel-related courses. He received his BFA (1973) and MFA (1976) degrees from East Carolina University, with additional studies at the University of South Carolina and the University of Kentucky. His primary medium is collage, although he frequently works in paint, assemblage, and installation. Mr. Girard’s work has been included in over 300 exhibitions, and is represented in many corporate, institutional, and private collections around the country and overseas. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. His work addresses a variety of topical issues, inclusive of aging, discrimination, archaeology, ordnance, politics, and human conflict. His is currently represented by Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. Additionally, his scholarship has included publications on the artwork of American assemblage artists Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, and Spanish painter, collagist, and writer Asensio Saez. Tim Glotzbach, Director of Berea College Student Craft Program Tim Glotzbach, a professional jeweler and metalsmith, has served as an educator for more than 20 years. He grew up on his family’s farm in southern Indiana with seven siblings, surrounded by an environment that both stimulated and encouraged imaginative solutions to everyday needs. In high school, Glotzbach followed his interests in math and science in preparation for college. As an undergrad at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, he chose to major in archaeology. But by his junior year, he had taken several graphic design and art courses and found himself spending more time in the studio than anywhere else. He eventually learned the art of jewelry and metalworking, which led to an MFA at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. After teaching two-dimensional design, drawing, and jewelry/metalworking courses at the State University of New York in Oswego, he moved to Kentucky to start a new jewelry and metalworking program at Eastern Kentucky University. There he also served as a consultant for various art projects throughout the area and worked to develop new programs and recruit students. In 1999, he joined a national advocacy council to devise a new community college program. Soon afterward, he accepted the position of academic dean of the Heritage and Humanities Division of Hazard Community College and helped to found and direct the Kentucky School of Craft in Hindman, Kentucky. He currently serves as the Director of the Berea College Student Craft Program. In addition, he continues with his own art; his metal work has been exhibited every year since 1975 in noted museums, galleries, and traveling exhibits across the United States. Adrian Swain, Kentucky Folk Art Center Curator Adrian Swain grew up in England and moved to the United States in 1971. His exposure to contemporary folk art began with a chance encounter with Kentucky woodcarver and folk artist Edgar Tolson in 1973. Soon afterward, Swain followed his interest to Rowan County and began working as a potter. He spent five years as an artist-in-residence, moving in 1977 to Morehead, where he ran a gallery for four years in the early 1980s. In addition to displaying his own work, he met many artists in the area who were looking for a place to exhibit their work and began to open his space to other folk artists. Morehead State University had also acquired a substantial collection of folk art and asked Swain to serve as a part-time curator of the collection. He helped develop the program into the Kentucky Folk Art Center, a museum and art center that houses a permanent collection and acquires and promotes rotating exhibitions of folk artists. Since coming to work at MSU in 1987, Swain has overseen the growth of the center’s permanent collection to more than 900 pieces and has produced numerous exhibits on-site as well as traveling exhibits for other cultural institutions. Swain has written extensively on Kentucky folk art and is a frequent guest writer for Arts Across Kentucky magazine.

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