Dave Beck in Menomonie, WI | Granville High School - University Of Wisconsin - Madison

Dave Beck

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Assistant Professor of D Animation and Game Design at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. Coordinates a student art concentration within the student Game Design and Development Program. Teaches courses in D digital modeling, animation, and game design. Beck is the recipient of the International Science Engineering Visualization Challenge Award, given by the National Science Foundation. Beck's artwork has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, National Geographic, the journal Science, and the book GameScenes Art in the Age of Videogames. He has shown his work in exhibitions across the country, including Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, LA, Minneapolis, Boston, Milwaukee, and San Diego. In , Beck was a distinguished fellow at Nebraskas Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. The Science Museum of Minnesota chose him as a distinguished fellow and visiting artist for the summer of . In the past two years he had solo exhibitions at Wisconsins Overture Center for the Performing Arts, the State University of New Yorks Gibson Gallery, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees SARUP Gallery. His work has been reviewed in international publications focusing on contemporary art, including Sculpture Magazine and DailyServing. In the summer of , he will be presenting a solo exhibition of his work at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, while he is in residence as a Board of Director's Award Fellow. From -, he was employed by Clarkson University, where he directed the Digital Arts Sciences Program, which received the " Innovative Program Award" from the International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa). He has also taught sculpture and contemporary art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. read more ...