- MFA – East Carolina University (Ceramics/Sculpture)
- University Department Art & Design
- Location Wilson Commerce 105
- Phone Number +1 (336) 841-9596
- Email [email protected]
Mark E. Brown is a sculptor whose current works engage a nontraditional materiality employing media with histories of political and societal commodification; specifically elements that spoil, degrade, or are characteristically transient. His works have been exhibited in Japan, France, New Zealand, Australia, Hungary, Finland, and Spain as well as over 350 exhibitions here in the United States at venues including the National Arts Club (New York, NY), SECCA (Winston-Salem, NC), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, MN). His work was included in the national outdoor traveling exhibition Southern Bent, organized by International Arts and Artists.
His sculptural works are included in numerous private and public collections including the Daura Museum of Art at the University of Lynchburg, the Meridian Museum of Art, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Coca Cola Company, Wake Forest University, Toyota Motor Racing, and the city of Kinston, NC.
Brown is a past President of the Tri State Sculptors Educational Association and has participated on and led panel discussions for the International Sculpture Center, FATE, Southeastern College Art Conference, the North Carolina Zoo, the NC Sculptors Consortium, and the Asheville Museum of Art. He has been a juror for the Virginia Commission on the Arts (Sculpture Fellowship), the William King Arts Center, the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission, and the Central Piedmont Artist Grant Program from the North Carolina Arts Council. He has curated three traveling exhibitions.
Brown earned his M.F.A. degree from East Carolina University and has been teaching art, primarily sculpture and ceramics, since 1983. Prior to coming to High Point University he was the Sculpture Professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.