The Department of Art: The University of Maryland

Foon Sham

fsham@umd.edu - www.foonsham.com


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Prof. Sham lives in Springfield, Virginia. He received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is professor of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has had 20 solo exhibitions in the Washington Metropolitan region and in New York, Ohio, Delaware, New Mexico, Canada, Norway and most recently in Australia. His work have been included group exhibitions at Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His public collections include the Nayatad Sculpture Park in Hungary, United World College in Norway, Universidid De Palermo in Argentina, the Sallie Mae Corporation in Reston, Virginia, the Mitchell Museum in Mt Vernon, Illinois, and the large scale sculpture at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metrorail Station and Convention Center in Washington DC. He has received many awards including a Residency Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Nordic ArtistsŐ Centre in Dale, Norway, the Franconia Sculpture Park/Jerome Fellowship and the Virginia Commission of the Arts individual Fellowship.

Sample Syllabus

Artt 333 - Elements of Sculpture: Wood and Mixed Media (in PDF format)

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