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Dana Tupa’s work has been exhibited throughout the Southern United States, including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indianapolis, and Florida. Her work has been reviewed and published in numerous periodicals and newspapers, making history at the American Quilt Society’s National Quilt Museum. She has presented on her work at local, state, and national conferences—from the Monarch Tile Show, the National San Angelo Ceramic Symposium, the Contemporary Art Center’s Art Speak in New Orleans, Potter’s Rendezvous of Louisiana, NOLA Fired-Up!, the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Summit, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, to the Amelia Island Quilt Guild and other workshop venues. She is in multiple collections, with purchased acquisitions at The Bluegrass Museum of Contemporary Art, Newcomb Art Gallery, the City of Jacksonville’s West Regional Library, The Crystal Dehan Museum, and permanent university and corporate collections. Tupa has been the recipient of Artist Enhancement Grant awards and, at Jacksonville University, the prestigious Excellence in Scholarship and Professional Activities and the Excellence in Service faculty recognition awards
Currently ranked as Associate Professor of Art in Ceramics at Jacksonville University, Tupa serves as Chairperson for the Division of Visual Arts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from Tulane University of New Orleans and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from Texas Women’s University of North Texas
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Bill Hill holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Intermedia from the University of Florida and a Bachelor degree in Communications from the University of North Florida. He is a receiptant of a University Academy of Scholars Grant funded in part by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. His work has been exhibited at the THAILAND NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL in Bangkok, Thailand, the VAD 2003 - FESTIVAL - VALINTERNACIONALDE VIDEO ARTS DIGITALS in Girona, Spain, the V SALON INTERNACIONAL DE A RTE DIGITA Lin La Habana, Cuba, PixxelPoint’s international exhibition in Slovenia, Siggraph’s Annual International Conference, as well as in galleries and museums throughout the United States. His work has been published in numerous periodicals and newspapers including Computer Arts, Exposure and Leonardo, in addition to the book entitled “Art, Technology, Consciousness: Mind @ Large”. Presentations on his work have been given at national and international conferences including Siggraph, the College Art Association, the International Symposium on the Arts in Society, International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies, and Consciousness Reframed at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts in Newport, Wales.
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Cari Coble received her early training at the prestigious Washington School of Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and The Pennsylvania Ballet. Professionally, she has danced for such companies as Alabama Ballet Company/Ballet South, The Appalachian Ballet Company, Festival Ballet-Atlanta, and The Ballet Company of Spokane. She has also appeared as a guest artist for many projects including the Spoleto Festival-Charleston, the International Ballet Competition Gala-Jackson, the International Improvisational Festival- Birmingham, Adele Myers and Dancers-New Orleans, Several Dancer’s Core- Atlanta, The People’s Touring Project-NYC, and Sydney Olympics 2000. Cari received her BA from Birmingham-Southern College and her MFA in dance at Florida State University where she was the recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Fellowship and the School of Visual Arts and Dance Teaching Fellowship. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Dance at Jacksonville University, Florida, where she has choreographed and performed numerous original works. |
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