Novie Trump

The Art of the Reliquary

The winner of a 2009 Strauss Fellowship, Novie Trump is a sculptor working in ceramics and mixed media.

She received her degree in Classical Archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. After graduation, she studied art at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2004 she became the executive director of the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA, a leading center in the mid-Atlantic region for ceramics and printmaking.

Her sculpture is in public and private collections and has been shown throughout the United States and the UK. Her work has been exhibited at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, the Museum of Contemporary Craft in the Pacific Northwest and the US Botanic Garden in Washington DC.

She has completed several public art commissions, among them a large tile mural at the National Institutes of Health and a large-scale outdoor sculpture for the Riverside Center in Anacostia, MD, which was funded by a Creative Communities Initiative Grant received in 2008.

Novie Trump’s sculptures have been featured in several publications such as Home and Design Magazine and the Lark Books 500 Series. In 2009, she and her work were featured in a film documentary by Colby Hartburg.

Novie Trump is founder and director of Flux Studios, a contemporary art space in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, where she maintains her studio. Flux houses the professional studios of six artists, maintains a small informal gallery space with rotating exhibitions, hosts master workshop programs and offers an international visiting artists residency program.

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Visual Arts Program Faculty

Painting and Mixed Media Program