Megan Gottfried grew up in Boone, NC and later earned her BFA in Painting and minor in Social Practice from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She recently became a Masters of Fine Arts student at Pennsylvania State University and plans to explore the world of color mixing and fiber while earning this degree.
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Education
●MFA Student, Pennsylvania State University: State College, PA 2022
● BFA in Painting and Minor in Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice: Greensboro, NC 2020
Exhibitions
● Greensboro Cultural Arts Center: Self-Recognition through the Other 2020
● Greensboro Project Space: Drawn Together, Greensboro, NC 2020
● Guilford College: A Walk Though Womxn’s Worlds, Greensboro, NC 2019
● Salem Art Works Greensboro Exhibition: Shape Shift, Greensboro, NC 2019
● Greensboro Project Space: Art is Love Exhibition, Greensboro, NC 2019
● Annual Tri-State Sculpture Exhibition and Conference, Greensboro, NC 2018-2019
● Gatewood Atrium Moving Gallery Participant, Greensboro, NC 2018
● University of North Carolina at Greensboro Gatewood Gallery Student Exhibition, Greensboro, NC 2018
● Watauga County Arts Council Solo Exhibition, Boone, NC 2016
● Blowing Rock Art and History Museum Student Exhibit and Competition, Blowing Rock, NC 2015-16
●Elberson Fine Arts Center: Identity, Winston Salem, NC 2015
Residencies and Studies
Overland Artworks Shelter Residency 2020
● Location: Streets and Paths of Greensboro, NC
● Two month residency devoted to walking and relic collection
Salem Art Works Residency 2019
● Located at Cary Hill Sculpture Park in Salem, New York
● Two week outdoor residency and studio practice
● One of four chosen UNCG Students
Traditional Nepal Painting Retreat, Greensboro, NC 2019
● Three day painting and cultural retreat
● Learned about traditional Napali painting, practices and history.
Austria and Germany Art History Study Abroad 2018-19
● 40 page art history and research report
● December-January experience
● Beginning of German language studies
Salem College Ecuador Art and Cultural Study Abroad 2016
● January experience
● Immersion in Ecuadorian art and culture
● Pre-Columbian art history
Publications
● Printmakers.016 Online Printmaking Exhibition, 47 Countries 2020
● The Carolinian, Art Intervention: ‘Take a lunch break’, Greensboro, NC 2019
● The Coraddi Art and Literary Publication, Greensboro, NC 2018
● Incunabula, Salem College Literary Publication, Winston Salem, NC 2017