MFA Sculpture, 2016
Biography
Ceci Cole McInturff is artist/owner of 87FLORIDA, a working studio and exhibit/performance space in Washington, D.C. Her bodies of work comprise writing, sculpture, sculptural book objects and narrative installation, hand-formed papermaking, and alternative/non-linear screen prints. Utilizing relationship between materials, her work has been described as “brave” in its use and combinations of mediums, and “evocative” in eliciting objects’ “ability to express emotion.”
Jurors selecting her work include Vesela Sretenovic, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection; Curators Office Director Andrea Pollan; Jamie Smith of Connor Contemporary; and independent curator and critic Sarah Tanguy of Sculpture Magazine.
A native of Florida, she spent two years studying MA/Art and the Book at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and obtained her MFA from George Mason University in 2016. A former executive with the CBS Television Network, she is the mother of two sons and a member of the International Sculpture Center, Washington Sculptors Group, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington Project for the Arts, ArtDC Forum, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, National Museum for Women in the Arts, NY Center for Book Arts, and the Friends of Dard Hunter.