Kelley McClung
Education
- M.F.A., theatre, University of Minnesota
- B.A., studio art, Transylvania University
Credentials
• Chair, fine arts, 2023-present
Professor, foundation studies, 2022-2023
Chair, foundation studies, 2013-2022
Professor, foundation studies, 2009-present and production design, 2000-2006
Designer/design coordinator/project supervisor, 2006-2013
Production director, 2002-2006, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
• Artist, 1980-present, Savannah, GA
• Production designer, 1989-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
• Technical director, 1998-2000, Minneapolis
• Demonstration/guest lecturer/light lab supervisor, Department of Theatre and Dance, 1997-2000, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Interim executive director, 1993-1994, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
• Cultural arts specialist, 1988-1993, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Lexington, KY
• Art Instructor/artist in residence, 1984-1999, Lexington, KY
Awards, recognitions, and honors
• Prague Quadrennial 03, International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture USA Exhibit Lighting Design, selected for inclusion, Prague, Czech Republic
• Jury winner, Kennedy Center Faculty Fellowship (Lighting Design), Washington, D.C., 2002
• Who’s Who of Design Professionals and Architects, 2004
• Who's Who of American Women, 2003
• Crisis Point Theatre Grant, Digital Angel Project, Minneapolis, 2000
• Century Lighting Award, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1999 and 2000
• Joncas Scholarship, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1998 and 1999
• Scott Norcostco Scholarship, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1998 and 1999
• Dorothy Mullin Arts and Humanities Award, Bowling Green, Ky., 1991 and 1992
Organizations
• New Media Caucus
• Southeastern College Arts Conference (SECAC)
• College Art Association (CAA)
• ISEA International
• Performance Studies International (PSi)
• Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
• International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD)
• SIGGRAPH United States Institute of Theatrical Technology (USITT)
• USA Amateur Boxing Official 1989-1994 Region IV Olympic Official
Publications and presentations
• Pulse Art + Technology Festival, Lecture and Performance: Decoding and Reprogramming the Televisual, 2015
• POST-SCREEN: Device, Medium, and Concept, International Festival of Art, New Media, and Cybercultures, 2014
• SAI review, The Medeology Collective: Geometries of Power by Jordan Dotson in Exhibitions, Museums, Pulse, SAI What, February 2014
• SAI review, Medeology TV, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, by Kristopher Monroe in Art News, Pulse, SAI What, 2014
• TAT presenter, “Re-Mediations in Art, Transformations and Transitions,” SCAD Foundation Studies Department, 2012
• TAD TAD presenter, “Remediation in a Remix Culture: Social Media In and Out of the Classroom,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., 2012
• PULSE Artists Session #2, lecture with Björn Schülke and Craig Kapp, Jepson Center for Contemporary Art, Savannah, Ga., 2011
• SECAC, panelist/presenter, “The Academy of the Spectacle: Art Education in the Age of Perpetual Apocalypse” for the Art in the Culture of Continuous Spectacle, Richmond, Va., 2010
• Frakcija Performing Arts Journal Performance Studies International Conference # 15, Misperformance: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading, 2009
• World Stage Design, Exhibition Catalog, 2005
• Women by Women, The Presence of Absence, Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, TD&D, USITT Design Exhibition, 2002
• Translations/Transitions/Transformations, Performance Studies International Conference Genealogie of Präsenz/Genealogy of Presence, 2001
• TD&D, USITT Design, Exhibition, 2000
Solo exhibitions
• Tied Up in Rope (solo exhibition), River Club, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2009
• Wire Wheels (solo exhibition), West Elm SCAD show house, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2008
• Hands in Flight (solo exhibition), SCAD Student Center, Savannah, Ga., 2006
• Women in Transition (solo exhibition), Tilsner Artist Atrium, St. Paul, Minn., 1999
• Vessels (solo exhibition), Tilsner Artist Atrium, St. Paul, Minn., 1999
• Execution (solo exhibition), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1998
• Alter to Woman (solo exhibition), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1998
• Sticks and Things (solo exhibition), Lowertown Commons Art Crawl, St. Paul, Minn., 1997
• Club Heresy (solo exhibition), Lexington, Ky., 1995
Group exhibitions
• ECLECTRIC, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2014
• Water Nymphs Circus, InLight, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2013
• Water Nymphs Circus, Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga., 2011
• Juried, World Stage Design, Digital Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2005
• Prague Quadrennial 03, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003
• Juried, Presence of Absence, Installation, Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris; Savannah Gallery, Atlanta; and Red Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2002
• Juried, Design Expo, Jury Winner, USITT Design Exposition, New Orleans, 2002
• Juried, Design Expo, Jury Winner, USITT Design Exposition, Denver, 2000
• Juried, World Women's On-Line Participant, Electronic Art Networking Project: UN Conference on Women, Beijing; Sydney; Washington, D.C.; Tempe, Ariz., 1995
• Juried, Home Is Where the Hell Is, Juried Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 1995
• Juried, Proposal 95, Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Rasdell Gallery, Lexington, Ky., 1995
• Juried, Rust Never Sleeps, Invitational Exhibition, Barnhart Gallery, Lexington, Ky., 1993
Performance and media installations
• Media Machina, Pulse Art and Technology Festival, Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga., 2018
• The Four Unicorns of the Apocalyse, Pulse Art and Technology Festival, Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga., 2017
• Passages, SHIMMER the Art of Light Festival, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2016
• Prismatica, Pulse Art and Technology Festival, Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga., (invited) 2016
• Medeology TV, Pulse Art and Technology Festival, Savannah, Ga., Audio Visual Performance, 2015
• Medeology TV, Post Screen Festival, International Festival of Art, New Media, and Cybercultures, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
• Medeology TV, Tour of European cities including Lisbon, Leipzig, Berlin, London, Plymouth, 2014
• Geometries of Power: Pyramid Faces, InLight, Richmond, Va., hosted by the 1708 Gallery (juried by Denise Markonish, curator MASS MoCA), 2014
• Medeology TV: Super, Off-site Pulse, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah Geometries of Power, Medeology Collective Pulse Technology Festival at the Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga., 2014
• Water Nymphs Circus, InLight, Richmond, Va., hosted by the 1708 Gallery (juried by Ken Farmer, creative director, Nuit Blanche, New York), 2013
• Bridge of Signs, Medeology Collective at InLight, Richmond, Va., hosted by the 1708 Gallery (juried by Ken Farmer, creative director, Nuit Blanche, New York), 2013
• Medeology TV, Medeology Collective, Creative City Project, Orlando, 2013
• Indi-Visible, Medeology Collective, Pulse Technology Festival at the Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, Ga. (Invited), performance installation, February 2013.