Bio

Nathan Cox currently teaches Foundations 1 and 2 in the Dept of Art and Design. and serves as Associate Provost and Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence, working with faculty across the university.

In the past he has taught all levels of ceramics and sculpture, foundations of design, advanced graphic design, painting, drawing, art appreciation, advance junior and senior studio courses, seminar courses for studio artists, a cross-disciplinary introduction to aesthetics course, and first year/college intro. courses.

He has also served as the Foundations of Art and Design Program Coordinator for the Department of Art and Design, and as Associate Dean of the South Carolina School of the Arts at AU.

He is both a 2-D and a 3-D artist, recently making mixed-media drawings, and mixed mixed-media sculpture. Much of his past work focused also on pottery and sculptural ceramics vessels. His work has been published in Ceramics Monthly Magazine, the foremost periodical publication on ceramic art in the county, and has been featured in over 80 solo, group, juried or invitational exhibitions, where it has won numerous awards.

He has also received a South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award, was twice named a Mobile Learning Innovator at Anderson University, and was named a lifetime Fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, where he has twice been an artist in residence.