罗伊·阿卡夫卓越主席

Established in 1985, the Roy Acuff卓越主席 brings regionally and nationally acclaimed artists to campus to work with students and the community in a dynamic atmosphere 不受限制的实验. 该中心和阿库夫卓越圈产生 a video in tribute to Roy Acuff and to showcase the importance of the Acuff Chair 对大学和学生的卓越.

Former recipients of the Roy Acuff卓越主席 include:

桑娅克拉克 (2017 - 18)

桑娅克拉克 is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia 联邦大学. From 2006 – 2017 she served as chair for the Craft/ Material 研究部门. In 2016, she was awarded a university-wide Distinguished Scholars 奖. She earned an MF一个从 Cranbrook Academy of Art and was honored with their 2011年获杰出校友奖. 她拥有艺术学院的文学学士学位 芝加哥. Her first college degree is a B一个从 Amherst College where she also received 2015年获得荣誉博士学位. 她的作品曾在350多家博物馆展出 galleries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. 她是接受者 of a United States Artist Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner award, an 1858 Prize, Art Prize Grand Jurors 奖, and an Anonymous Was a Woman 奖, a Red Gate Residency in China, a BAU Carmago Residency in France, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in Italy, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Knight Foundation Residency at the McColl, a Civitella Ranieri Residency in Italy, a Yaddo Residency, and a VCUarts 罗马美国学院附属奖学金.

斯科特McCloud (2013 - 14)

Mr. McCloud is an internationally known comics theorist and creator of graphic novels, best known for his three works of non-fiction, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics, all written in the graphic novel format. 大学毕业后，他开始 his career in New York in the traditional superhero comics business, but soon branched 独自一人创造佐特!, a light-hearted comic about both superheroes and normal 地球上的生命.

伊恩·贝瑞 (2009-10)

Ian Berry is the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. A specialist in contemporary art, he has organized several exhibitions for The Tang Museum, including projects that combine antique maps, scientific equipment, Rube Goldberg cartoons, and Shaker furniture, with new works of international contemporary art.

琳达Norlen (2005-06)

琳达 Norlen 当过设计师、教育家和作家. 她在洛杉矶经营了15年 own communication design studio and also taught at two art and design colleges in California: first at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, and later 帕萨迪纳艺术中心设计学院. 她当了五年的教务长 Art Center, where she was responsible for all the undergraduate and graduate programs 在大学里. 

 乔治·麦考利 (2001-02)  

George Metropoulos McCauley, a Greek/American potter, has had 23 solo shows and has 参加展览175次. 他曾在国际上教授和举办讲习班. The recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and the prestigious Roy Acuff卓越主席 for the Arts at 奥斯汀佩伊州立大学 in Clarkesville, TN, his pottery and sculpture are included in international collections in 11 countries. He was the first non-Asian artist to be shown and included in the permanent collection 位于韩国首尔的Ajo亚洲艺术博物馆.

弗朗西丝·怀特海德 (1997-98) 

弗朗西丝·怀特海德 was born in 1953 in Richmond, Virginia. 她得了B.F.一个从 1975年在东卡罗莱纳大学获得硕士学位.F.A. 来自北伊利诺伊大学 in 1978. Since 1984, Whitehead has been a professor of sculpture at the School of 芝加哥艺术学院. 她曾获得路易康福特蒂芙尼的奖项 Foundation in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. 她展示了 at the Museum of Arts and 设计, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the National Gallery of American Art, Washington.

吉姆·纳特 (1993-94) 

吉姆·纳特 graduated from the School of 芝加哥艺术学院 in 1965. 他第一次 came to prominence in 1966 as one of the Hairy Who, a group of six SAIC alumnae (Jim Falconer, Art Green, Suellen Rocca, Gladys Nilsson and Karl Wirsum) who exhibited together on the south side 芝加哥 at the Hyde Park Art Center. 他和妻子， Gladys Nilsson, moved to Sacramento, CA in 1968 where he taught for 7 years at Sacramento State College, returning to the Chicago area where he continues to live and work. Among the shows he participated in at the time was Human Concern/ Personal Torment at the Whitney Museum 1969 and the Venice Biennale in 1972. 当代艺术博物馆 Art in Chicago gave him a one man show in 1974 which travelled to the Walker Art Center 和惠特尼博物馆. More recent shows include Eye Infection at the Stedelijk Museum 2001, Disparities and Deformations Our Grotesque at Site Santa Fe Biennial 2005 and Gossolalia:绘画的语言，MoMA 2008. 他的代理律师是大卫·诺兰画廊 纽约，纽约.

泰德·奥兰 (1988-89)

Orland received a degree in Industrial 设计 from USC in 1963. 1966年他参加了 在约塞米蒂和摄影师一起举办的研讨会  安塞尔·亚当斯 , and the next year he returned as his assistant, who was his only formal photography 教练. After this period he worked to receive a Master's degree in Creative Arts 从年代.F. 州立大学. Orland began his career as a photographer shooting subjects 以类似于亚当斯的方式. 不过，随着他个人风格的发展，他也在搬家 from straight large format nature photography to hand painting black and white photographs, 然后使用“Holga”塑料相机. 他还使用数码和电脑设备 在摄影技术发展的早期. 现在已经知道他带走了 first computer based photographic images of Yosemite in the early 1980s. 之后, the technology advanced, he tested early versions of Photoshop for Adobe. 奥兰的 subjects range from idyllic scenes of tranquil nature to surreal explosions of humorous human activity, and he tends to manipulate his subjects heavily in photoshop to achieve 各种各样的效果，有些往往是非常微妙的图形.