Visiting Artists and Scholars Residency Program (VASRP)

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Residency Program bring studio artists, art historians, art critics, and curators to campus. Residents lead workshops related to their disciplines, as well as giving public lectures on their work. They engage in dialog with students and faculty and are given the time to pursue their own research and/or creative production. Students often become involved in collaborative projects with our residents. Residents may offer a seminar course on a topic within their area of expertise. Residents are afforded the opportunity to propose exhibitions in our galleries. Our residents have found their time at CSU to be engaging, positive and highly productive.

2013 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
Long Term VASRP
Short Term VASRP
River Fellow  VASRP

2012 Summer River Fellow

Columbus State University Department of Art is pleased to announce our 2012 Summer River Fellow, Claire Zitzow.  Zitzow was born and raised near Richmond, Virginia.  She attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied sculpture and intercultural urban studies.  In 2011 Claire Zitzow participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 2005 she received a grant to explore and research the nitrate factories, abandoned miner's housing and battlefields in the Atacama Desert of Chile.  She has recently received several project grants and awards including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship.   She has exhibited in Andrews Gallery in San Diego, Cheekwood Museum in Tennessee, Thompson Gallery in Massachusetts, and Curfman Gallery Colorado.  Claire Zitzow continues to explore environments that occupy abstract and distant spaces in our social psyche.