Two SMCM Professors Honored by Arts Council
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) awards outstanding artists each year through a competitive application process. This year, two St. Mary’s College of Maryland professors were chosen.
Jennifer Cognard-Black wins award for fiction
Billy Friebele wins award and grant as an individual artist in media/digital/electronic arts.
Billy Friebele, assistant professor of art at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, has been chosen for a Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Individual Artist Award in media/digital/electronic arts. The award comes with a $1,000 grant to support Mr. Friebele’s art.
This year, MSAC awarded individual works in the following categories: fiction; theater: solo performance; visual arts: media/digital/electronic arts; visual arts: painting; and visual arts: works on paper. The awards program is administered by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation which announced the MSAC Individual Artist Awards earlier this year.
Mr. Friebele, a 2012 Hamiltonian Fellow, has recently had his art featured in the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center exhibition “The Fellows Converge: The Obstructions,” as well as in the Corcoran College of Art and Design’s exhibition “This is Not a Museum: Portable and Lurking.” He has also exhibited in New York, NY; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; Colorado, and Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Mr. Friebele received his B.A. in philosophy from St. Mary’s College in 2000, and his M.F.A. in sculpture and new media from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. He started teaching at St. Mary’s College in 2008.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, was also chosen for a Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Individual Artist Award in Fiction.
