Anna Calluori Holcombe
Art & Art History

Professor and Director
T: 273-3050
F:
E: aholcombe@arts.ufl.edu

Address:
101B Fine Arts Building C
P.O. Box 115801


Anna Calluori Holcombe arrived at the University of Florida in July 2007 to serve as the Director and a Professor of the School of Art and Art History. . She graduated cum laude with a BA in art education from Montclair State University in 1974. She received her MFA in ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1977. Teaching in higher education since 1978, her first position was at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington. After five years she taught and ran the gallery at State University of New York College at Brockport. In 1994, she was appointed Head of the Art Department at Kansas State University and served in that position for 6 years. After that she went back to teaching in the Ceramics program there until being appointed to her current position.

Calluori Holcombe exhibits on a national and international level, having work in shows in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, South Korea, China and Australia. Most notable of her exhibition awards is the Gold Medal for the 46th International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Faenza, Italy in 1989. She has been artist in residence in the US, France, Hungary and China.

In 1997, she was honored as a Fellow of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts for her accomplishments as President. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics since 2002.


On the web:

http://www.annaholcombe.com