Charles Goolsby - July 2023
Charles Goolsby in the Split Studio at SPF. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Charles W. Goolsby, professor of art at Emory & Henry College, has been a practicing professional painter and printmaker for more than forty years. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University and M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University. Goolsby's work has been featured in more than 45 solo exhibitions throughout the southeastern United States at various college, university, fine arts center, museum and commercial galleries. Blue Spiral I Gallery, in Asheville, North Carolina represents him. His work has received awards in numerous regional and national juried exhibitions throughout the United States. His work is included in a number of public and corporate collections throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Goolsby’s honors include fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. He was selected as a resident associate artist by the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida where he worked with internationally acclaimed artist Donald Sultan. In 2012 he was selected as a Fellow at VCCA-France at Le Moulin à Nef, a studio center in the Gascon village of Auvillar. In 2019 Goolsby completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris and returned to the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship. In 2021, two of Goolsby’s paintings were selected for Creative Quarterly: The Journal for Art and Design. In August of 2010, three of Goolsby's oil paintings were included in the highly selective journal, New American Paintings. One of Goolsby's paintings was featured in Oxford American Magazine's Fall 2005 issue on Southern Art and Architecture. His art appeared on the April 1989 cover of School Arts Magazine. In 2015 the Arts Alliance of the Mountain Empire awarded Goolsby an Arts Achievement Award for his significant contribution as a studio artist and teacher to the region of Southwest Virginia.
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