Sharif Bey
Craft/Material Studies Visiting Artist Lecture
November 4th at 10:00am
Fine Arts Bldg., Room 238
Sharif Bey spent his formative years as an apprentice, in ceramics, at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s in Pittsburgh. He holds a B.F.A from Slippery Rock University, an M.F.A from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Ph. D in Art Education from Penn State University. Bey is a Fulbright scholar and has been a visiting artist at the McColl Center for Visual Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the University of Kentucky. His ceramic/mixed-media works explore traditional and contemporary notions of function, ritual and identity. Currently Bey is an assistant professor of Art Education at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina.
