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CALIFORNIA STATE
UNIVERSITY'S EDWARD FORDE NAMED NEW CHAIR OF ART AND ART
HISTORY  Edward Forde. "I am very excited to join the faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and look forward to working with the faculty and staff, the students and the university community," Forde said. Forde received both his M.F.A. in Art and his B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He began teaching art at California State University, Los Angeles, in 1971 and has taught there from 1971 to 1985 and 1987 to the present. His primary teaching areas are ceramics, writing and contemporary art. He has served as Chairman of the Art Department from 1981-86 and again from 2002 to the present. He served as Chairman of the Art Department at Illinois State University from 1986-1988 and was a visiting professor of art at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1993. He has also served as Project Director and Editor of a two-year grant program called LINKING funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust to develop community service courses and programs in art and design on six California State University campuses in Southern California in 2000-2002. In 1972, he received an Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He won an Outstanding Professor Award from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1981. His artwork has been represented in more than 100 exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world. He has also published numerous articles and reviews of art in various Magazines and journals. Forde replaces Joseph M. Ruffo, who retired last Fall after serving as Chair since 1984. "As a result of many years of fine leadership by former Chairman Joseph Ruffo, the Department of Art and Art History is now poised to take another significant step forward," said Giacomo M. Oliva, Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. "We feel most fortunate that Ed Forde has accepted our invitation to lead the Department at this important time in its history, in that he brings a wealth of experience as an artist, a teacher and an administrator that will be necessary to get the job done. We all look forward to working with Ed as he undertakes this new and exciting challenge." |
