Professor Timothy Frerichs of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media will present the 2015 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Lecture, “On Paper: Creativity and Transformation in Education,” on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. in Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall.
The President’s Award for Excellence is given each year to a teacher-scholar on the Fredonia faculty whose teaching is innovative and highly effective.
Professor Frerichs will be introduced by President Virginia Horvath, and a reception will follow the lecture in the Mason Hall lobby.
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| Frerich's artist book, “Anthropocene – Shale” |
Frerichs received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Iowa. He has received numerous awards including a 2013 Thomas and Charlotte N. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award from Fredonia, a USA Projects Grant, a Netherlands-America Foundation Cultural Grant, a United States Embassy (The Hague, Netherlands) Project Grant, three NYFA S.O.S. Grants, a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Grant for Printmaking, two Fulbright awards and a Scandinavian-America Foundation Fellowship.
Frerichs’ drawings, installations, prints, and artist books are widely exhibited nationally and internationally, and included in international and national public, corporate and private collections. His artist book, “Anthropocene – Shale” is on exhibition at the Museum Leone in Vercellie Italy. The work is part of an international juried artist book exhibition - "Error" 7th Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnuis, 2015. Frerich’s work was also exhibited at the Leipzig Book Fair this past spring. The Italy exhibition will travel to Vilnuis, Lithuania, in October, The Museum Der Arbeir in Hamburg, Germany for the Norddeutsche HandpressenMesse BuchDruckKunst in January 2016, and The Cole Art Center in Nacogdoches, Texas, in July 2016.
The additional recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in 2015 was Cynthia Haase, agency program aide in Accounting/Accounts Payable, who was recognized with the award for University Service.
