Ashton Bird wins Honorable Mention Award for 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture

FSU Art MFA ’18 Ashton Bird has won Honorable Mention in the 2018 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award through the International Sculpture Center. Bird is an installation artist and mixed media printmaker, whose work manipulates discarded materials such as lumber, wood, tile, clay, concrete and cloth to create large sculptures and site-specific installations. Both sculptures and installations often have temporary life-spans with the materials being constructed, the structure documented, taken apart then re-invented in new a form. After graduating in 2018, he is pushing himself in his creative endeavors as both a working artist and gallery director.