Chris Ramsay
Recent Activities
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Chris Ramsay
Recent Activities:

  • Three artworks published in 500 Metal Vessels, by Lark Books.
     December  2007.

  • Fall 2007 Sabbatical

  • Studio relocation to Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Travel to museums and galleries in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.

  • Workshop with Jerry Spagnoli, creating dagguerotype photographs.  Penland School
                of Crafts, Penland, NC.

  • Workshop with Will Dunniway, creating collodion wet process photographs:   
                ferreotypes and ambrotypes, Corona, CA.

  • Completion and delivery of artwork, Trace, for Acadia National Park Artist-in    
                 Residence Program

  • Taught workshop in precious metal clay at the Plymouth Art Center, Plymouth, MI.

  • University of Michigan Witt Foundation Visiting Artist  
                             -Critiques with U of M School of Art IP and CFC Students.
                             -Presentation of my artwork and workshop in low-tech photoetching.

  • Conversion of 35 mm slides of personal artwork to digital format.  Creation of
                  Powerpoint presentation and generation of this first website you are reading.
Trace, objects collected from Mount Dessert
Island left behind by visitors and inhabitants
complicating the park mission of "leave no
trace".  Objects layered into 2 inches of clear
epoxy resin over island ownership map.
2007.   36" x 48" x 3.5"
Trace, Detail of 1887 Mount Desert
Island Land Ownership Map
Toe River Eddy, found glass and ceramic shards
found by  Jennifer Mendes on the banks of the Toe
River, Penland, NC.  24" Dia. x 3" high.  2007.
Chris Ramsay
2008 Upcoming Events :

  • Invited to exhibit in Lineage and Legacy, Curator Gail Brown,
    Savannah College of Art and Design, Spring 2008.

  • Invitation to exhibit 5 artworks in Tokyo, Japan, during the Japan
    Jewelers Association annual conference (Japan's equivalent organization
    to SNAG.   Spring 2008.

  • Invitation to teach in Cortona, Italy for the University of Georgia Study
    Abroad Program.  June - August 2008.
 

Chris Ramsay is an artist and Professor of Art at Oklahoma State University in
Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he teaches three-dimensional design and metals
and jewelry courses.  Ramsay's artwork is composed with objects that he has
collected and arranged to pursue his interests in conservation, life cycles, and
his relationship to nature.   If you wish to contact Chris Ramsay please email:   
                                                                                                      
                            c.ramsay@sbcglobal.net
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