Virginia Scotchie

Professor                                                                                

Department of Art                                                                  

University of South Carolina 29208                                        Home Address:

803.777.4236 (Office)                                                            317 S. Waccamaw Avenue

803.777.0535 (Fax)                                                                 Columbia, South Carolina 29205

virginiascotchie@hotmail.com                                                803.799.2533

 

EDUCATION

 

1985                                M.F.A. New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY

1978                                American School of Oriental Research, Merion, Israel

1977                                B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

1973-1975              Undergraduate Study, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC

 

ACADEMIC PROFESSION

 

            1992-Present  Professor, Head of Ceramics

                                    University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

 

PROFESSIONAL GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

2006                           Educational Foundation Research Award, USC 
                        
                        Sculpture Public Art Award, Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei County, Taiwan

 

      2003        Artist Residency Award, Tainan National University for the Arts, Tainan Taiwan

 

2002                                Research and Productive Scholarship Grant, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC ($6,800)

 

Sydney Meyer Fund Premier Award, International Ceramic Competition Shepparton Gallery, Victoria, Australia ($15,000)

 

CLASS Award, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC ($4,150)

 

Artist Residency Award, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia

(one month residency)

 

2001                                CLASS Award, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC ($3,500)

 

Provost Instructional Development Grant, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC ($1,300)

 

Honorable Mention Award, Ceramic International Juried Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH

 

Artist Residency Award, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO

 

2000                                Provost Teaching Development Grant, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC ($1,000)

 

                                    South Carolina Arts Commission Annual Project Support Grant ($5,000)

                                    Honorable Mention Award, ANA 28, Holter Museum of Art

 

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2005                                Indigo Translations, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC

 

Everyday, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Monoa, Honolulu, HI

 

2003                Virginia Scotchie, Stephen F. Austin University Gallery, TX

 

Virginia Scotchie and Fred Liang, Art Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

 

2002                                Ceramics Southeast:  Virginia Scotchie, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

Virginia Scotchie Residency Exhibition, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia

 

Virginia Scotchie and Sam Chung, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO

 

Virginia Scotchie: Between Form and Function, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC

 

Virginia Scotchie and Randy Schull, Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC

 

2000                Domestic Abstractions (Catalog), Traveling Exhibition:  New Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida; University Art Gallery, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, SC; Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL; continuing to 2001:  Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH; Rowe Art Gallery, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

                                    Alfred University, Alfred, NY

 

                                    Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

 

                                    Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

 

                                    Colorado Mountain College, Vail, CO

 

                                    Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

 

                                    Yingge Ceramic Museum. .

 

                                    Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

                                    Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, FL

 

                                    Hoyt Institute of Art, New Castle, PA

 

                                    Kruithuis Museum, s’Hertongenbosch, The Netherlands

 

                                    Price Waterhouse, Charlotte, NC

 

                                    South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC

 

                                    Wustum Museum, Racine, WI