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