A longtime faculty member and coordinator of sculpture at 海角社区 State is the university鈥檚 new head of the Department of Art.
Effective July 1, Associate Professor Critz Campbell will lead the 海角社区 department, home of the state鈥檚 largest undergraduate studio art program.
Campbell said he wants 鈥渢o ensure that students receive a world-class education that prepares them to contribute to the conversations and concepts of contemporary art and design while growing our creative economy.鈥
Teaching in the department since 2005, the West Point native was hired into the university鈥檚 first tenure-track position for sculpture.
鈥満=巧缜 is my home, and working at 海角社区 State has become the greatest gift of my career,鈥 Campbell said. 鈥淭he opportunity to prepare students for creative lives and to expand the expectations of what that means is deeply gratifying and important to our department and 海角社区鈥檚 future. This is especially true in the rapidly changing world of visual communication.鈥
He continued, 鈥淚 am excited to move us forward as the premier art department in the state and to broaden our visibility and impact nationally.鈥
Campbell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990. He studied as a post-graduate exchange student at the Arco Centro de Communicao Visual in Lisbon; at Penland School of Crafts as a CORE Fellow; and at Parnham College in the United Kingdom with a focus on furniture design. He is a trustee on Penland School of Craft鈥檚 board, where he chairs the personnel committee and serves on the executive and programming committees. He is a recent recipient of the .
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