Anna
Calluori Holcombe
School of Art + Art History
Professor
Specialization: Ceramics
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273-3050 0
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392-8453
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aholcombe@arts.ufl.edu
Address:
P.O. Box 115801
Gainesville, FL 32611
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Currently Professor of Ceramics, 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 coming to UF.
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 recently served as On Site Co-Liaison on the NCECA Board for the successful 2011 Tampa Bay Conference in March. She is an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics since 2002.
Her research project on European Porcelain, funded by a Faculty Enhancement Opportunity grant, was recent publish in Ceramics Technical, an international journal. This summer she is completing her FEO travel with a trip to Australia where she is a visiting artist in residence at Australia National University for a month. She is working in porcelain, using the 3D rapid prototype models created in the Art and Architecture Fab Lab.