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Maggio's work "Subway Martyrs #1" received the Best of Show award in an international exhibition in San Antonio.

MAGGIO RECEIVES BEST OF SHOW AWARD IN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIT

GREENSBORO -- John T. Maggio, a master printmaker and an associate professor of art at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, recently received the best of show award during the Ninth Annual Stonemetal Press exhibit "Hand-Pulled Prints IX," held in San Antonio, TX.

Maggio's winning piece "Subway Martyrs #1," is described as a densely textured, expressionistic print that mingles Pablo Picasso's geometric cubism with M.C. Escher's apocalyptic labyrinths. The work combines lithography, woodcut and serigraph. This year's "Hand-Pulled Prints" exhibition attracted more than 300 entries from around the country including Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Maggio's print was one of 50 selected for the exhibit, which recently displayed in San Antonio's Parchman Stremmel Galleries.

A UNCG faculty member since 1973, Maggio is certified as a master printer of the Tamarind Institute, located in Albuquerque, N.M. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. His work is held in more than 20 public and private collections and has been shown in such museums as North Dakota Museum of Art, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Duke University Medical Center and Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, N.M. among others. He has also served as judge for competitions and a featured lecturer on the art and skill of drawing. Most recently, Maggio was invited to speak at the Hollins University Art Gallery in Roanoke, VA.

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