AARON BADHAM

AARON BADHAM

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Education:

2014       MFA, Sculpture, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, No. Dartmouth, MA

2011        BA, Sculpture, Graduated with Honors. University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Teaching / Professional Experience:

2016-Current Visiting Instructor, Hastings College, Hastings, NE

2016         Visiting Instructor University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2014-15     Adjunct Professor of Art, Hastings College, Hastings, NE

2012-13     Instructor of Record, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

                  Sculpture Shop Tech, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

2012          Art-Mobile Educator, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

2012-14     Visiting Artist/Speaker, Alma del Mar School, New Bedford, MA

2011-12      Studio Tech/Class Assistant, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

2010-11      Studio/ Shop Tech, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2009-10    Studio Assistant, Michael Johnson, sculptor, Gig Harbor, WA

University Service: 

2017          Curriculum Committee, Hastings College

                  Faculty Senate, Hastings College

                  Deliberate Mentoring working Group, Hastings College

                  Faculty Search Committee, History Department. Hastings College

2012          University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Gallery 244 officer: Secretary

Honors/Awards/Grants:

2014           Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ

2013            Lillian Telles Jenkins Scholarship for Fine Arts

2012            Untapped Emerging Artist, The Artist Project, Toronto, ON

                     Research-Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, February 28th-March 4th (principal investigator)

2010             Greek/Fine Arts Leadership Award

                      Juror’s Award, Art Students Annual Exhibition

2009            Greek/Fine Arts Leadership Award

                     Juror’s Award, Art Student’s Annual Exhibition

Exhibitions: (* one and two person exhibitions)

2017               What Happened Here: University of Puget Sound Alumni Show, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2016              *Inflated Fabrications, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

                      Faculty Exhibition, Jackson Dinsdale Art Center Gallery, Hastings College, Hastings, NE

2015               International Sculpture Center Student Award Exhibition, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

                       *Risk and Repair, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

                       *A Spirit of Inquiry, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE

2014               International Sculpture Center’s 20th Annual Student Award Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

                       UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

                       MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

                       CO/OP, New Bedford Public Library, New Bedford, MA

2013               Surface, Face, Side, Plane, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

                       Art in the Environment, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, West Port, MA

                       Park About: AHA’s Parking Space Installations, New Bedford, MA

                       Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University

                       Student Exhibition, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA

2012               Cester: A Collaborative Sculpture Installation, Granite State Minerals, Portsmouth, NH

                       The Artist Project, Queen Elizabeth Building, Toronto, ON, Canada

                       The Figure Interpreted, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA

                       3rd All Media Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA

2011               Glimpse, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA

                       Senior Art Show, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2010               Art Student’s Annual Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2009              Art Student’s Annual Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget  Sound, Tacoma, WA

Bibliography

Rosemary Ponnekanti, Review: Aaron Badham’s Inflatables play with your mind at Kittredge Gallery. Tacoma News Tribune, February 22, 2016 http://www.thenewstribune.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article57740033.html

Alec Clayton, Aaron Badham and Rita Robillard at UPS, The Weekly Volcano, Feruary 18, 2016, http://www.northwestmilitary.com/music-and-culture/arts-    features/2016/02/aaron-badham-and-rita-robillard-at-UPS/  

Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Sculpture Magazine, 49.  October, 2014

Don Wilkinson, MFA Exhibition Offers Kaleidoscopic Variety, South Cost Today, April 13th, 2014

Cate McQuaid, What’s up at Boston-area art galleries, Boston Globe, August 06, 2013

Don Wilkinson, Review UMD student work at Klein Gallery shows bright promise, Southcoast Today, March 23rd, 2013

Dave R. Davison, 2011 Art Seniors triumph at Kittredge, Tacoma Weekly, May 5th, 2011

Kate Albert Ward, Tacoma Arts in Review: University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University senior exhibitions, Exit 113, May 14th, 2011