Alumnae Named 'Emerging Visual Artists' Fellows
Rebecca Gilbert MFA '02 (Book Arts/Printmaking) and Kay Healy MFA '08 (Book Arts/Printmaking) selected for prestigious 2-year program
February 9, 2012
Rebecca Gilbert MFA '02 (Book Arts/Printmaking) and Kay Healy MFA '08 (Book Arts/Printmaking) were two of the six fellows selected out of this year's applicant pool of 352 artists for the Center for Emerging Visual Artists' (CFEVA) two-year Career Development Fellowship.
CFEVA's Career Development Program is a highly selective fellowship with only a two percent acceptance rate. While active in the program, the artists have a full exhibition schedule, career counseling and mentorship, earn money from the sale of their work, and teach in the community.
Rebecca Gilbert is a printmaker who works primarily in woodcut and intaglio. She has been an artist in residence at Jentel Foundation in Banner, Wyo., and is an alumnus of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art in Philadelphia, where she presented two solo exhibitions and curated the Extra-Dimensional Printmaking Invitational. Rebecca teaches Printmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally.
Kay Healy investigates themes of home, transience and the search for stability in an ever-changing world, working in many media including silkscreen and woodblock printing, books, fibers, installation, ceramics and web-based art. She is currently working on a 40-foot installation for the Philadelphia International Airport supported by the University of the Arts Faculty Enrichment Grant. Healy was also the recipient of the Leeway Art and Social Change grant, which funded a yearlong body of work based on interviews of refugees from Southeast Asia.