Alex Russell
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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022 Home Body, Curator, 3 Dots Downtown, State College, PA (upcoming)
2022 Thesis Exhibition, Two Person Exhibition, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA (upcoming)
2022 BUDS!, Public Art Installation, State College, PA (upcoming)
2021 kaleidoscope answers, Solo Exhibition, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
2021 How are we doing?, Performance, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
2020 What Binds Us, Public Art Installation, State College, PA
Group Exhibitions
2021 Graduate Research Exhibition, HUB-Robeson Gallery, University Park, PA
2020 THROUGH, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA
2020 Kitchen Sink, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA
2019 Of Circumstance, Patterson Gallery, University Park, PA
2016 Artlightenment Art and Film Festival, Nashville, TN
2015 Juried Exhibition, Wilson Atrium, Lexington, VA
2015 Science, Society, and the Arts Conference, Lexington, VA
2013 Drawing Italy, Wilson Atrium, Lexington, VA
2013 Group Exhibition, Villa Pieve, Corciano, Italy
Awards and Grants
2022 Awesome Grant, 3 Dots Downtown, The Awesome Foundation
2021 2nd Place Visual Arts Award, Graduate Research Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2020 Sustainable Teaching Fellow, The Sustainability Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2019-2021 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2014 Levy Neuroscience Endowment Grant, Lexington, VA
2011 Questbridge National College Match Recipient, Lexington, VA
Teaching and Employment
2021-2022 Instructor of Record, Introduction to Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2020-2021 Instructor of Record, Introduction to Drawing, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2020-2021 Research Assistant to Nichole Van Beek, SHAPE: Systems-Thinking in Arts Practice, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2020 Teaching Assistant to Anna Divinsky, Art 10 Introduction to Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2019 Studio Technician, Drawing and Painting, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2018–2019 Teaching Artist, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville, TN
2017–2019 Health Policy Services Analyst, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
2015–2016 Clinical Research Coordinator, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Presentations
2022 “Listening2Indigenous” a Decolonial Land-Conscious Instagram Archive: Ethical Guidance to being the Allied Non-Indigenous, National Art Education Association, New York, NY (upcoming)
2021 Shaping Change: Sustainable Narratives and Charcoal Animation for Introductory Drawing Courses, Sustainability Roundtable Teaching Panel, The Sustainability Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2021 The Giving Tree: The Gift of Sticks and Figures, Studio for Sustainability and Social Action Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2021 Land We Care About: Artful Disruption of the Settler Colonial Territorial Project, Studio for Sustainability and Social Action Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2018 Art As Reclamation: Nature and Human Memory, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
2018 Poster Presentation, Tennessee Public Health Association, Franklin, TN
2016 Social and cognitive factors relate to the presence of subjective cognitive decline in non-demented older adults, Presentation, International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA
2016 Poster Presentation, International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA
2015 Presentation, Science, Society, and the Arts Conference, Lexington, VA
Press and Publications
2021 College names second cohort of Sustainability Faculty Teaching Fellows
2015 The Stone – Interdisciplinary Academic Journal, Lexington, VA
2014 Muse Literary and Art Journal, Lexington, VA
2013 Muse Literary and Art Journal, Lexington, VA
Commissions
2015 Language Center, Oil Painting Commission, oil on canvas (48in x 16in), Washington and Lee University Psychology and Neuroscience Department, Lexington, VA
Education
2022 MFA (expected May 2022), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2015. BA, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (Psychology)