UT School of Art graduate student awarded fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Rachel Dove, third year graduate student in the School of Art's painting program has been awarded a highly coveted Skowhegan Fellowship this summer. 1,681 applicants competed for sixty-five residency spots this year. From these sixty-five residents seventeen were awarded the Skowhegan Fellowship. The 3.9% acceptance rate made Skowhegan one of the most competitive residency programs in the country.
Founded in 1946, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists. Neither a "school" in the traditional sense nor a "retreat," the program seeks to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for artistic creation and interaction by providing a concentrated period of work, created with the critical assistance and camaraderie of a distinguished faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists. Alumni often report that the intensity of the Skowhegan experience has had a profound effect on their work and their lives. In order to allow others entry, no artist is allowed to return for a second summer. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Rachel Dove is an MFA candidate in the painting program at the University of Tennessee. She is a native of Ohio. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003. She is the second Skowhegan Fellow in the past three years from the School of Art. Hao Chov (M.F.A. '05) was awarded the same fellowship in 2005.