UNIVERSITY NEWS - NOVEMBER 2004

MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971; ssmith@fau.edu

FAU Professor Awarded Fellowship by
Southeastern College Art Conference

BOCA RATON, FL (November 9, 2004) - Carol Prusa, professor in Visual Arts and Art History in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, has been awarded the 2004 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Artist's Fellowship. SECAC is the leading regional organization dedicated to the development of the visual arts in higher education by facilitating cooperation among professors and administrators in universities, colleges and museums. The SECAC Artist's Fellowship carries a $3000 stipend.

rusa will document the fellowship in an exhibition at the 2005 SECAC conference in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Prusa has exhibited widely in regional, national and international exhibitions, has served artist residencies, received many grants and awards and has been reviewed and documented in newspapers, catalogs and magazines. Her recent one-person exhibitions include J. Johnson Gallery (2004), Gallery Camino Real (2004), Dominican University (2004), Kendall Campus Gallery, MDCC (2003) and Coral Springs Art Museum (2002). In 2002, Prusa received both the South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual Art Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Over the last two years, Prusa's work traveled internationally in the Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by the American Museum of Arts and Design of New York.

Upcoming shows include the project room at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami and Gallery 621 in Tallahassee.
Prusa earned her MFA in painting and drawing from Drake University. She taught art at Drake and Iowa State University for several years. Prusa has been teaching at FAU for five years and is currently the coordinator of FAU's MFA in painting and ceramics. Her area of specialization is painting, with an emphasis on historic methods and materials. For more information about FAU's Department of Visual Arts and Art History, call 561-297-3870.

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