Visual Art - Faculty / Staff

Stacey Fox

Game Art, Animation, Immersive Environments

A transdisciplinary artist, Stacey Fox breaks the boundaries between performing, visual and cyber arts. Her works combine sound scores, animation and film in live telematic multi media performances around the globe and in the virtual synthetic worlds such as Second Life. Fox's virtual avatar personality Sage Duncan, works in the synthetic world with students in the public schools, libraries, museums and universities to create new works of art, animation and machinima - filmmaking in a virtual world or gaming engine. Fox is currently on faculty in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where she teaches Game Art, Digital Animation and Immersive Environments - Virtual Worlds. She is Senior Design/Interactive - Immersive Technology Advisor and Educator for the Smithsonian Institution's Latino Virtual Museum. She is the artist for the Urban Entrepreneur Partnership - Gulf Coast, a Kauffman Foundation project as well as artist for Geoworlds, another interactive Kauffman sponsored project about geosciences for teens. Fox also works with the Brooklyn is Watching mixed realities art project based out of Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery in Brooklyn and the Impermanence Sim.

Her collaborations with choreographers, poets and visual artists often utilize contemporary digital technology to preserve and interpret traditional folk music, dance and visual art. Fox collaborated with the Lied Center for Performing Arts - UNL in an effort to bring more Indigenous artists into the educational main stream. Through a Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she served as the Artist Mentor for the Omaha Cultural Arts Partnership, working with Native American artists in a project to strengthen the growth of indigenous artists in educational residencies. Through a Kennedy Center Partners in Education Grant she broke new ground with the Lied Center in helping educators bring Arts and technology harmoniously into their academic curriculums. She often conducts workshops for artists in the techniques and uses of digital sound and film technology for artistic preservation and the creation of new works.

Fox was commissioned through the American Composers Forum Continental Harmony Project in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, to compose a new sound and film work for the Omaha Indian Nation's Band in commemoration of the Omaha Nation's Pow wow Tradition and the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. She was awarded an Artist Exploration Grant from Arts International with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to travel to Peru for study of indigenous Andean folk music and visual art. An international artist, she has performed and lectured in Japan, South America, North America and Europe. She has been invited several times by the U.S. Department of State to present her live works and workshops through their Performance Art Initiative program in Eastern Europe. Fox is also on the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program list for international teaching.

Her works have been experienced in numerous venues including the American Dance Festival, St. Marks Church, Judson Church - NYC , Southwest Dance Celebration, Dance Place in DC, American College Dance Festival, Dance on Film, the Tang Museum, National Museum of Dance, International Human Rights Festival — SL, Skopje Summer Festival, Belarus Philharmonic, Smithsonian Institution's Latino Virtual Museum and Olympolis Art Project - Greece. Fox has collaborated with numerous artists including dance choreographers Jean Denney Grotewhol, Ione Beauchamp, Pegge Vissicaro, Germaul Barnes, Debra Fernandez, Sue Lauther and performance artist Angela Ellsworth.

She has presented Game Art, Animation and Immersive World workshops and lectures at numerous conferences including New Media Consortium's Conference on Creativity, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), Best Practices in Education — Second Life, Summer Institute on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology and Media Grid's Immersive Education Initiative Conference.

Fox holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Music in Solo Performance, both from the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y. Potsdam, with post graduate studies in Solo Performance at Arizona State University. Formerly, Fox was principal timpanist with the Arizona Opera and Chamber Orchestra of Northern New York.

Department of Visual Art
Art & Design Building
1467 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7531
785.864.4401
renard@ku.edu
www.staceyfox.com