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SCAD Museum curator Ben Tollefson to visit Georgia Southern Nov. 2
October 23, 2017
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Ben Tollefson, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum curator and former director of Non-Fiction Gallery in Savannah, will visit Georgia Southern University on Thursday, Nov. 2, to discuss discuss the range of ways to build a creative career, and what he looks for when putting together gallery and museum exhibitions. The artist talk will begin at 5 p.m. in Arts Building room 2071.
“Ben is a compelling artist, a curator with great breadth of vision, and a very dynamic speaker,” said Center for Art and Theatre Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher. “The range of creative endeavors Ben takes part in is truly inspiring and will offer great insights in the different ways students, emerging artists and creative people in general can build a career.”
Tollefson’s painted creations pose an alternatively constructed view on the human body and general space in which those bodies exist.
“Through a distortion of bodies and uncertainty of spaces, I ask the viewer to reconsider reality,” Tollefson mentioned in his artist’s statement.
Tollefson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wisconsin Lutheran College and Masters of Fine Arts from SCAD. Tollefson currently resides and works in Savannah, Georgia.
The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) is committed to offering quality undergraduate and graduate degree programs that prepare students to become professional artists, designers, art historians and industry leaders. The BFSDoArt is recognized as an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). For more information, visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu/art.
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is the largest of the eight colleges that make up Georgia Southern University, and it plays a central role in every student’s core of knowledge. CLASS, also described as the University’s College of the Creative Mind, prepares students to achieve academic excellence, develop their analytical skills, enhance their creativity and embrace their responsibilities as citizens of their communities, their nations and the world. CLASS offers more than 20 undergraduate degrees and several interdisciplinary minors from its 11 departments and five academic centers. CLASS offers eight master’s degrees, two graduate certificates and one doctoral degree. For more information, visit class.georgiasouthern.edu.
Georgia Southern University, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 118 degree programs serving 20,673 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. Visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu.
