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Marek Ranis

Art & Art History
Summary

Office: Rowe 119
Phone: 704-687-0194
Email: mpranis@uncc.edu

Academic Interests
Alaska and the Arctic
anthropology
art
climate
climate change
ecology
environment
installation
landscape ecology
landscape evolution
multimedia
painting
photography
politics
sculpture
social issues
sustainability
video
visual arts
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Keith Bryant
Deborah Ryan
Robert Campbell
Jacob Scheff
David Thaddeus
Blaine Brownell
Colleen Hammelman
Lydia Light
Erin Eldridge
Lisa Homann
Ann Kluttz
Mona Azarbayjani
Sandra Clinton
Eric Hoenes
Andrew Leventis
Gang Chen
Martha Eppes
Ken Lambla
Cathy Mahaffey
Jae Emerling
Maja Godlewska
Andrew Hartley
Jane Dalton
Betsy West
Kelly Carlson-Reddig
Bruce Arrigo
Nadia Anderson
Bonnie Noble
Vaughn Schmutz
Lydia Thompson
Matthew Parrow
Aspen Hochhalter
Lidia Klein
Chris Jarrett
Brian Magi
Anna Kenar
Liz McCormick
Jim Frakes
David Gall
Emily Makas
Angela Rajagopalan
Elizabeth Yoder
Thomas Schmidt
Nancy Bishop
Celia Sinclair
Jessica "J.B." Burke
Mark Pizzato
Janet Williams
Kristin Rothrock
Nicole Peterson
Cynthia Frank
Jennifer Wallace
Jamie Franki
Malena Bergmann
Erik Waterkotte
Adam Reitzel
Arthur Zillante
Eldred Hudson
Fotini Katsanos
Jeff Murphy
David Brodeur
Stanley Schneider
David Fillmore
Rachel Engstrom
Deborah Wall
Mary Tuma
Catty Dan Zhang
Heather Freeman
Jefferson Ellinger
Sara Gagne

Marek Ranis is an Associate Professor and the Sculpture Area Coordinator in the Department of Art & Art History and a multi-media environmental artist. Through sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and video, Ranis explores social, political, and anthropological aspects of phenomena such as climate change.He is a recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies, including UNESCO Aschberg Fellowship, American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant, and NC Artist Fellowship Award. Ranis has presented work in more than a hundred individual and group shows nationally and internationally. His work is included in private and public collections in North America and Europe.

Since 2003, Ranis has been working on an artistic project and research titled “Albedo,” focusing on global climate change and the era of Anthropocene. He continues working in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Norway Australia, and South Africa. In 2017, in recognition of his work and research in the Arctic Circle, he was appointed Curator at Large at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.

See his faculty profile at coaa.uncc.edu >>

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