The Graduate programs in Painting and Drawing are designed to further the student's art making practice through the development of enhanced conceptual, aesthetic and technical skills. The programs also provide the student access to a wide variety of courses including: classical and contemporary art history, criticism, aesthetics, postmodern thought, art law, arts administration, museum studies and the business of art. Graduate Faculty offer instruction through a series rotating, topic specific Painting and Drawing graduate seminar courses, as well as individual instruction on a tutorial basis, and meet with individuals or small groups regularly. Complementing this individual instruction is a series of group critiques involving the Painting and Drawing students and faculty. These critique sessions offer the student a variety of opinions and provide a public forum for lively topical discussions and sometimes-conflicting points of view.

Facilities

Currently each painting and drawing graduate student is provided with individual, private studio space. Studios are located at two locations across campus: Yon Hall and the new McCarty Annex Graduate Painting Studio Building. The studios are fully air conditioned, ventilated, well lit, and each facility has a dedicated critique space. In addition, students are allowed access to facilities in various area facilities such as printmaking, sculpture shop, ceramics, photography, as well as 24-hour access to Macintosh and PC
computer labs.

Faculty

Jerry Cutler

Professor Cutler is the winner of two Florida Fine Arts Council Fellowships, a NEA/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, and the J. Atwater Kent Prize in American Painting. Cutler's teaching excellence has been recognized with two University of Florida "Excellence in Teaching" awards, a UF "Fine Arts Teacher of the Year" award as well as a "Teaching Improvement Program" award.

He competes regularly in national juried exhibitions and is often invited to participate in specialized group shows. Paintings and drawings have been seen in important group exhibitions in museums throughout the southeast, including the Ringling Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Alternative Museum, The Muscarelle Museum, The Harn Museum of Art, The Mobile Museum, The Chrysler Museum of Art, The S.E. Center for Contemporary Art, The Polk Museum of Art, The Lemoyne Art Foundation, The Society of Four Arts, The Butler Institute of American Art, and The Deland Museum of Art. Cutler is represented by the Center of the Earth Gallery in Charlotte, NC.

Richard Heipp

Richard Heipp has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions and has been included in over eighty group exhibitions at such venues as The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Seattle Art Museum, and the Tampa Museum of Art. Public collections featuring his work include: Albion College, Alabama Power and Light, Harn Museum of Art, Jacksonville Museum of Art, Miami University, Ohio National Bank, Polk Museum of Art, Progressive Companies, Stetson University, and the Seattle Art Museum. Heipp has been awarded an NEA/Southern Arts Fellowship as well as three State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He has received nine research awards from the Division of Sponsored Research of the University of Florida. The University has recognized his teaching excellence through an Outstanding Achievement and Performance Award, a Teaching Improvement Program award and Teacher of the Year. In addition to his extensive exhibition record, Heipp is active in the Public Art arena, having recently been selected to complete his twelfth Art in Public Places, site-specific project.

Ronald Janowich

Ron Janowich has had over 20 one-person and 60 group exhibitions internationally. His work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Tate Gallery, London, U.K.; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; and numerous private collections. His work is published in various books including History of Modern Art by Arnason, The Aesthete in the City by David Carrier, Beyond Piety by Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe, and Art Speak by Robert Atkins. His work has been reviewed in magazines including Artforum, Arts, Art in America, and Tema Celeste. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships in Painting (1976, 1989).

Professor Isaacson's work has been included in over sixty-five exhibitions at museums, galleries, and universities across the country. She has received eleven national/regional juried purchase and merit awards. Her drawings are reproduced in twenty-two major exhibitions catalogs and appear in textbooks, journals, and numerous articles and exhibition reviews. Awards include Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship; two Artist Fellowship Grants from the Florida Arts Council; NEA/SECCA Southeastern Artist Fellowship, Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art; MacDowell Colony Fellowship; Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia, Summer Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy; and Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Teacher of the Year, and Teaching Improvement Program awards from the University of Florida.

She has served on the selection panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA/SECCA 7 Grants, Illinois Arts Council, and the Florida Fine Arts Council. Isaacson's drawings are included in over twenty museum, university, corporate, and private collections including Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul; Florida House of Representatives; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham.

Fall Application Deadline: February 1

Prospective students are encouraged to apply for admission as early as possible. The Graduate Assistantship/Fellowship application deadline is also February 1. Assistantships are generally offered only at the beginning of the fall term and students applying for spring are not eligible for fellowships.

Late Applications

Late applications are accepted; however, students will be considered for admission and assistantships according to available space in the program.

Contact

Students interested in contacting a Drawing or Painting faculty member or scheduling a visit to the Drawing or Painting areas should contact: Richard Heipp.

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