 Angi
Curreri
Professor of Art
acurreri@mail.barrry.edu
| Teaching Philosophy |
| “I enjoy working with my students: first,
helping them to see as artists see; then, challenging them
to be playful and experimental with a variety of materials
and techniques; and finally encouraging them to develop personal
styles as a creative means of self expression.” |
Bio:
Teaching at Barry since 1985, Born in Brooklyn,
New York and raised in South Florida, Angi Curreri earned a BFA
in art from The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida in 1980
and an MFA in ceramics and drawing from the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas in 1983. While in graduate school, she attended
the University of Georgia’s summer Study Abroad program in
Cortona, Italy through the generosity of a Ford Foundation Grant
and two University of Kansas fellowships. Since then travel, dreams,
memories, and personal experiences inspire her colorful work. Curreri’s
clay works and drawings have been exhibited at museums and galleries
throughout the U.S. and occasionally abroad. Her work is included
in private and public collections in the United States as well
as in Canada, Japan and Australia. For the past ten years she has
been actively involved in the public art arena in South Florida.
| Selected Professional Activities: |
| 2005 |
College Art of America (CAA), Panel chairperson and moderator
for “Approaching the Spiritual: Contemporary Artists
as Shrine Makers” and panel presentation slide lecture:
Small Offerings |
| 2005 |
Sacred Icons: A Collective Vision of Symbolic & Ritual
Objects, juried national, Artisans Center of Virginia, Waynesboro,
VA |
| 2003 |
“Art and Spirituality: Angi Curreri”, aired repeatedly
on WXEL television station, Sunday mornings, on Barry University’s
Center for Studies Dominican television program: “Pathways
to Possibilities” |
| 2003 |
Wealth of Women, invitational, Florida Craftsmen Gallery,
St. Petersburg, FL |
| 2001-2003 |
Hearts of Hope, General Services Administration
Domestic Violence Shelter Project,
$20,000 Miami-Dade Art in Public Places grant
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| 2002 |
Pushing Clay, juried international, USM Art Gallery,
The University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME |
| 2002 |
Italian Connections, juried national, Frog Hollow, Vermont
State Craft
Center, Burlington, VT |
| 2000 |
Small Offerings: Ceramic Sculptures and Drawings by Angi
Curreri,
solo exhibition, The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL |
| 1995-2000 |
The Word Garden, Franklin Park Neighborhood Improvement Project,
$65,000 Broward County Public Art and Design grant |
| 1999 |
South Eastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Paper presentation – Toys
Now and
Then, Panelist in Do One’s Childhood Toys Influence One’s later Art
Playground?,
Norfolk, VA |
| 1998 |
South Eastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Paper presentation
- Pitfalls in Public Art, Panelist in Artists as Community
Builders I, Miami , FL |
| 1997 |
Artwork included in The Ceramic Design Book – Introduction
by Val Cushing, Editor Chris Rich, Lark Books, Ashville, NC,1998 |
| 1997 |
Small Offerings and Florida Fantasies, solo exhibition, Lead
Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1997 |
Universal Emotions, solo exhibition, Coral Springs Museum
of Fine Art, Coral Springs, FL |
| 1995-1996 |
Heart House , Joseph Caleb Team Metro Community
Center Project, $10,000 Metro-Dade Art in Public Places
grant |
| 1993 |
Angi Curreri and Rick Yasko, invitational, Albertson-Peterson
Gallery, Winter Park, FL |
| 1991 |
Rick Yasko and Angi Curreri, juried, Andrews Gallery, College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
| 1990 |
Angi Curreri and Rick Yasko, invitational, Fred P. Giles
Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY |
| 1989 |
Still Life: Variations on a Theme, invitational, Sarrat Center
Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
| 1989 |
Angi Curreri and Rick Yasko, invitational, Shoemaker Gallery,
Juniata College, Huntington, PA |
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