Don Boyd's retrospective featured in Schnormeier Gallery
September 3, 2010
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- Recently retired Mount Vernon Nazarene University professor Don Boyd will be the featured artist in MVNU’s Schnormeier Gallery in September. The opening reception is Friday, September 3, from 6-9 p.m., as part of First Friday (College Night).
The public is invited to experience the collection exhibiting highlights from throughout Boyd’s career, which will run through Oct. 8.
Boyd, a former member of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen and director of Fluxus West, began his education with a degree in graphic design and painting in 1956 from The Ohio State University. From there, he received a Master of Arts in teaching from Harvard University in 1961 and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1966. Boyd will continue teaching at open Fluxus Foundation in Fredericktown, Ohio.
Boyd, who has worked as a sculptor since 1962, has maintained a private studio since 1987. He has been featured in “La Revue Modern,” “Work Illustrated” and “The National Arts Guide.” He has done work at and gained recognition through Tulsa University, Kenyon College, Muskingham College, the Wexner Center for the Arts, ArtReach Experimental Art Gallery, the South Dakota Arts Council, The Ohio State University, the Dayton Art Institute, and the Boston Arts Festival. He’s been consecutively listed in Who’s Who in the World since 2000, was named the director of Fluxus West in 1975 and has received four Ford Foundation grants.
His personal theory of art involves chance operations, the use of sheep skiver to wrap found objects, intermedia, design principles from the Bauhaus and DeStihl, figurative and non-objective abstraction and numerous materials. Boyd continues to cast bronze.
Boyd initiated the sculpture department at Kenyon College, as well as “Pam Am Clipper,” a public relations magazine for 10,000 employees at Cape Canaveral in 1970. He has written several articles on art and two photo/history books about the area, “Mount Vernon” and “Knox County Bridges.”
Boyd is married to Karen, MVNU social work chair, and has four children and eight grandchildren. His teaching spans 50 years in education. Some of his former students have gone on to achieve national prominence. His close personal friends have included artists Dick Higgins, John Cage, Ken Friedman and others.
Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, visit www.mvnu.edu/art or call (740) 392-6868, ext. 3042.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a private, four-year, intentionally Christian teaching university for traditional age students, graduate students and working adults. U.S. News & World Report ranks MVNU in the top 50 Best in the Midwest (Baccalaureate) institutions for the sixth year in a row. With a 400-acre main campus in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and eight additional satellite Adult and Graduate Studies sites throughout the state, MVNU emphasizes academic excellence, spiritual growth and service to community and church. MVNU offers an affordable education to more than 2,500 students from 25 states and six countries/U.S. territories.
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