Subject Areas: Digital Art and Photography
Office: 202 Scales
FAC Phone: 336-758-4177
Home Page: http://www.wfu.edu/~jrpickel

   John Pickel received his BFA in Photography and Art History from Indiana State University in 1982. After graduating with a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1986, he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Herron School of Art/IUPUI. In 1993, he was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, School of Design. In 1997, John was appointed, Assistant Professor of Art in Photography and Digital Imaging in the Art Department at Wake Forest University, where he set up a conventional 15-station gang darkroom and a 15-workstation digital studio and established a course sequence in photography and digital media.
     John has exhibited his photography, digital prints and multi-media installations in galleries in New York, Indianapolis, Raleigh, Chicago, Winston-Salem, Houston, Detroit, etc. He was recently commissioned to create an installation at the Light Factory Gallery in Charlotte, NC as their year 2000 "New Works", annual invitational exhibition.
     John has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, the North Carolina Arts Commission and research grants from Wake Forest University.  

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