JOHN DOUGLAS POWERS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SCULPTURE:
John Douglas Powers is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He attended the University of Georgia (MFA in Sculpture, with distinction, 2008) and Vanderbilt University (B.A. Art History, 2001). John is the recipient of a prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant as well as a Southeast College Art Conference Individual Artist Fellowship and the 2001 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award.

Drawing from areas as diverse as natural history, architecture and the history of technology, Powers is engaged in an intense investigation of what is possible to be revealed by the intersection of cinema, computation, music and physical space.