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Renewed Visions: The Cumberland River Basin Project is a community art project that addresses issues about water quality, the disappearance of animal species, and the quality of life within the Cumberland River watershed. The digital prints seen in Schlanger’s exhibition at Nashville International Airport represent one part of this project. He explains, “I examine environmental issues through a long process of educating myself on the subject. It is exciting for me as an artist to work with biologists who share a similar passion.”
Gregg Schlanger is a professor of art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University in 1989. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and includes projects for the City of Providence, RI; the Galerie Neue Raume, in Berlin, Germany; Galerie Amfischmarkt, Erfurt in Germany; the Waschhaus in Potsdam, Germany; University of Northern Iowa; University of Arkansas; University of Memphis and Fassbender Gallery in Chicago. He has received many awards including sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts, an Israel-Tennessee Visual Artist Exchange Project Fellowship, a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a USIA Arts America Grant and a New Forms Regional Initiative Grant from the NEA.
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