Featured Artist

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Jud Yalkut

Waynesville, Ohio

Besides a long career as a visual artist, Jud Yalkut has had a long and distinguished career as a film and video artist, with museum and festival screenings of his work nationally and internationally. Born in New York City in 1938, he attended the High School of Music and Art, the City College of New York , and McGill University in Montreal , Canada . He has taught at the School of Visual Arts , the City University of New York , and New York University . A resident of the Dayton area since 1973, he was Assistant Professor of Art at Wright State University , and taught at Sinclair Community College in Dayton and Xavier University in Cincinnati . A six-time recipient of Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council (five in Media, and one in Arts Criticism), he was also awarded a Writing-in-Media grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a Master Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. In 2003, he was the awarded a Lifetime Achievement Fellowship from the MCACD. For 2005 he was awarded the Citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts from the Ohioana Library in Columbus , Ohio . He was the recipient of a One-Man Film/Video month-long Retrospective, “Dream Reels: VideoFilms and Environments by Jud Yalkut” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City from November 4-December 3, 2000. “Videoscapes by Jud Yalkut,” a video installation retrospective, was mounted at the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio, from April 23 through June 9, 2002 .

He has written consistently on the arts and the media since 1966 for such publications as ARTS magazine and the East Village Other in New York, the New York Free Press, Bijitsu Techo art monthly in Japan, and was a arts writer for the Mid-West art journal “Dialogue” from 1980-1999. He has been Visual Arts writer for the weekly “ Dayton City Paper” in its various incarnations since 1994. He was a founding Trustee member of the Dayton Visual Arts Center and the artistic director of the Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery for fourteen years.  

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