MKA's Cuccolo Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Congratulations to Alicia Cuccolo, MKA’s Upper School Fine and Performing Arts Department Chair and sculpture teacher, who has been awarded a prestigious summer Fellowship with the Jentel Artist Residency Program.

Located on an idyllic working ranch in Wyoming, Jentel provides a four-week residency and retreat for artists and writers to work and achieve personal artistic goals in creative and communal surroundings. Selection for the program is rigorous, and Cuccolo’s application, with supporting artwork, was reviewed by a panel of arts and literary professionals prior to her acceptance.

Cuccolo received a BFA from School of Visual Arts and a MA from New York University. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in New York City, New Jersey, Venice and Brescia, Italy. Her work was most recently included in an exhibition, NYU Venice 1974-2011 Artists and Angiola Churchill, at 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University. Cuccolo’s small, evocative sculptures made from ordinary materials explore scale, texture, and space. She plans to use her fellowship to create sculpture installations that evolve from being at the site and using materials found there. The American West has long been a source of inspiration for Cuccolo, who received a PAMKA Faculty Grant in 2011 to travel there to study prominent site-specific outdoor sculptural projects and create video lessons for her students.