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Garry R. Bibbs is an associate professor, head of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. He received a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which allowed him to study with internationally renowned sculptor Richard Hunt, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. He was recipient of a 1996 Southern Arts Federation, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship for Outstanding Printmaker in the Southern States. His exhibition history includes showings at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Raus in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Hertz Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. His works are in the collections of the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois, ATT Corporation–York City, Brown-Forman Corporation, Commonwealth Insurance, the Brown-Williamson Tobacco Corporation, the Robert Derden Collection, the Richard Hunt Collection, the Louisville City Fire Department and the Living Arts and Science Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Bibbs a member of the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative, a coalition group in Lexington whose goal is to confront and solve issues relevant to the community on race relations and leadership.  He received a Bachelor of Science from Kentucky State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky before his postdoctoral work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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