By Jill Yesko, University Relations
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Posted 7-8-08
Peter Goff's Award-Winning Sculpture "listen-clean-stop."
GREENSBORO, NC – Peter Goff, a 2008 MFA graduate, has received the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
He was one of 12 winners selected from a field of 401 student nominees from more than 162 art departments at colleges and universities around the world. This is the second consecutive year a UNCG student has won the ISC’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
In addition, Goff has been selected as one of two UNCG students to receive a Fulbright Scholarship. Goff will be a visiting artist at Chancellor College in Zomba, Malawi, beginning in August. While there, he will produce sculptures and document the work of Malawian artists through photographs and on the Internet.
Goff’s winning ISC work consists of three sculptures, “mark-shade-spray,” “listen-clean-stop” and “chew-drive-comb” that incorporate found objects such as vinyl records, forks, bicycle parts, cotton swabs, wine corks, thorns and chicken bones. “I consider factors such as place, material an process in the production of socially engaged artifacts,” said Goff.
The works will be displayed from October, 11, 2008, to April 26, 2009, at Grounds for Sculpture, an outdoor park and museum in Hamilton, N.J. Winners receive a biographical profile and photograph of their work in Sculpture magazine and a chance to win a residency to study sculpture in Switzerland with distinguished sculptor Heinz Aeschlimann.
The International Sculpture Center, based in New Jersey and Washington D.C., is the world’s leading international organization devoted to the creation and understanding of sculpture.
