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    Forrest Gard, M.F.A.

    Forrest Gard

    Part Time Faculty

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    Office location Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Ceramics; Three-Dimensional Design

    Overview

    Forrest Sincoff Gard is an artist and educator. He received his BFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 2009, completed post-baccaleaute studies at the University of Florida in 2011, and earned his MFA in Studio Art from Louisiana State University in 2014. From 2014­–2018 Forrest worked as an associate editor for Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Currently Forrest is teaching Ceramics and 3D design at the University of North Georgia Oconee. He has previously taught in Cortona, Italy, as part of the University of Georgia’s study abroad program, at Ohio State University, and at Wesleyan College.  

    Forrest has shown his ceramic art and interactive installations in exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and South Korea, including the 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale at the Icheon World Ceramics Center in South Korea; and at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in California; The Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee.

    Forrest has completed short and long term artist residencies at Red Lodge Clay Center, Arrowmont, the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, and at the Mill Hill Community Arts Center in Macon, Georgia, where he received a $25,000 grant to install a large-scale public artwork.

    Courses Taught

    • Ceramics I
    • Three-Dimensional Design

    Education

    • M.F.A., Studio Art, Louisiana State University, 2014
    • Post Baccalaureate, Ceramics, University of Florida, 2011
    • B.F.A., Ceramics, Ohio University, 2009

    Noteworthy

    Selected Exhibitions

    • Macon Arts Alliance, Macon, GA. Commemorate Macon (Collaboration with Jeni Hansen), 2019
    • Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. Creative Museum Navigation, 2019
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. SECC Florida, Curated by Elizabeth Kozlowski, 2018
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