Derrick Mc New
USA
email the_ventriloquist@hotmail.com

Education
1998 to 2003 – Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Philosophy at East Carolina University.

Solo Shows
2003- “I’ll let you know tomorrow and The Importance of Important Surfaces.” A show of stuff, mainly junk at Emerge Gallery. Greenville, NC.
2002- “Two Scatted Ideas and Random Sentences” A show of sculpture at The Community Council for the Arts. Kinston, NC.
2001- “Precognitive Study: Batch 17525” A show of drawings at The Percolator. Greenville, NC

Group and Juried Exhibitions
2003- Sculpture Salmaghundi IX, Rocky Mount Arts Center. Rocky Mount, NC
“Truth, Denial, Faith and Other Random Experiments.” Show for the candidacy of a BFA in sculpture from ECU. Burroughs Wellcome Gallery. Greenville, NC.
ECU Undergraduate Exhibition. Wellington B. Gray Gallery. Greenville, NC.
The Tiny Art Show. Emerge Gallery. Greenville, NC.
Sculpture Salmaghundi VIII, Rocky Mount Arts Center. Rocky Mount, NC.
ECU Undergraduate Exhibition. Wellington B. Gray Gallery. Greenville, NC.
CCA Fine Arts Exhibition. The Community Council for the Arts. Kinston, NC.
The Tiny Art Show. Emerge Gallery. Greenville, NC
Show of “Precognitive Study: Batch 17525” and sculpture in tandem w/ The Tiny Art Show at Emerge Gallery. Greenville, NC
2001- Iron Exhibition. Pirrkala, Finland.
“Svetvieta – Sacred Place” A collaborative Earth Work. Pedvalé, Latvia.
Firelands Iron Exhibition. Pedvalé, Latvia.
16th Annual Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Celebration, J.E. Broyhill Park. Lenior, NC.
Sculpture Salmaghundi VII, Rocky Mount Arts Center. Rocky Mount, NC.
ECU Undergraduate Show. Wellington B. Gray Gallery. Greenville, NC.
CCA Fine arts Exhibition. The Community Council for the Arts. Kinston, NC.
2000- East Carolina University’s Art and Literary Magazine, The Rebel, Exhibition.
Greenville, NC.
First Annual Sculpture Consortium Exhibition. Burroughs Wellcome Gallery. Greenville, NC.
15th Annual Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Celebration, J.E. Broyhill Park. Lenior, NC.
Beaufort County Arts Council’s 2000 Fine Arts Show, Washington Civic Center. Washington, NC.
Sculpture Salmaghundi VI, Rocky Mount City Hall. Rocky Mount, NC.
Sculpture Exhibition II. Burroughs Wellcome Gallery. Greenville, NC.
Sculpture Exhibition I. Burroughs Wellcome Gallery. Greenville, NC.
1999- ECU Undergraduate Exhibition. Wellington B. Gray. Greenville, NC.

Awards and Scholarships
2003- JOSA Award of Excellence in the Arts
Taeylor Award
Lowe’s Award of Merit in Wood.
Greenville Museum of Art Award of Excellence in
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, and Sculpture.
2001- Hanna and Jodi Jubran Scholarship
Award of Merit in Sculpture.
2000- 2nd Place. East Carolina University’s Art and Literary Magazine, The Rebel.
1st Place. Beaufort County Arts Council’s 2000 Fine Arts Show.

Related Work Experience
2003- McConnell Studios (steel, wood, concrete, fiberglass)
Assistant to Thomas Sayre (monumental Earth cast concrete)
Instructor and Technician at International Symposium for public art in Pirkkala, Finland
Assistant to Phil Proctor (stainless steel fabrication)
2002 to2003- Assistant to sculptor Kirk Davis (woodwork, fabrication, and blacksmithing)
2002- Internship at Emerge Gallery. Greenville, NC.
2001 to 2002- Graphic Design for R.A. Jeffrey’s Distributing. Greenville, NC.
2001- Assistant to sculptor Hanna Jubran (monumental casting)
2000- Assistant to sculptor Jonathan Bowling (assemblage and found objects)
2000 to 2002- Treasurer for ECU Sculpture Guild