Subject Areas: Sculpture
Office: 5 Scales FAC
FAC Phone: 336-758-5077
Home Page: http://www.wfu.edu/~finndt

      David Finn has taught sculpture at Wake Forest University from 1987- 1991, and since 1995. He has had over 15 solo exhibitions, including shows in New York, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Lund, Sweden. The recipient of fellowship grants from the Bemis Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Finn currently holds a Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellowship. Two catalogs of the artists work have been published, and he is listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Art.
     He has worked as a sculptor for over 16 years, often using non-traditional materials such as newspaper and trash. His current work uses realistically modeled or carved figures that are broken or incomplete. The subjects are often heroes or leaders, and the damage to them reinforces their vulnerability and paradoxically, their presence as objects.    

Art Pro Humanitate
Diggs Elementary School Art Project
The purpose of the project is to show elementary students visual arts in action. We propose to do this through teaching, making work with the students and showing them our work and ideas. We would like an equal involvement of Mr. David Finn, the lead artist for the project, Diggs Art teacher, Ms.Carolyn Mundy, and a group of Wake forest students. Other goals for the project are: find learning bridges between art and other classroom disciplines create artworks that are physical amenities on the Diggs campus, and make art that can bring external recognition to the school. (Details...)