Meghan Tranauskas

717-602-6725
meghantranauskas@gmail.commegtranauskas.weebly.com

Education

PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
UniversityPark,PA
|CeramicsBFACandidate/ArtHistoryCandidate2017
UpperDauphinAreaHighSchool
Elizabethville,PA
|HighSchoolDiploma|Salutatorian2013

Affiliations

StudentProgrammingAssociation
LecturesCommittee(ApplicationBased)
2015Current
LogisticsCommittee(ApplicationBased)
Spring2015
EntertainmentandLatenightCommittees
Spring2014Current
MarketingCommittee
2016
Photographer
2014Current
ClayClub
Treasurer
MidSpringSemester2016Current
PennStateThespians

2013Current
NoRefundTheater
2013Current
PennStateWomensChorale
20132015
SmallandExoticAnimalsClub
ScrapbookingChair
Fall2014
MillersburgAreaArtAssociation
201314
HersheyAreaArtAssociation
201314

Work Experience

MichaelsCrafts
|
UniversityPark,PA
PaintingandDrawingInstructor2015Current
Framer
2015Current
Cashier/SalesAssociate
2015
HersheyPark
|
Hershey,PA
FrontDeskClerk/CustomerService
2013

Exhibitions

PolarOptics
JuriedExhibition|
HUBArtAlley
March2016
UndergraduateShow
ZollerGallery
January2016
NoRefundTheaterTellMeaStory
JuriedPlaywritingContest|
TheaterBuilding,PennStateUniversity
|Finalist|2015
GratzArtAlley

 Juried Exhibition |
Gratz, PA
| Multiple Painting Awards, 1st 3rd Place| September
20092013

Scholarships and Awards

HockenberryandParkerScholarship2015
EdwinZollerArtScholarship2015
TrusteeScholarshipFundforArts&Architecture2014
GratzFairScholarship2014
WilliamS.andArthurR.StambaughScholarship20132017
HarryWheatallRenaissanceScholarship20132017
MillersburgAreaArtAssociationMeritintheArtsScholarship2013
HersheyAreaArtAssociationMeritintheArtsScholarship2013


MeghanTranauskas
ArtistStatement

The work that I create resides on the ledge between the expected and the unexpected,
shifting aspectsofthehumanfigureintosomethingofmyown.Iembraceabackgroundinarthistory,
enveloping concepts of great artists and translating them into my own vocabulary. My work is a
continuous exploration of the material at hand, stretching the limits of whatit can do and its fight
againstgravity. Myexaggerationsof thehuman form questions theboundarybetweenthebeautyof
humanityandtheprimalinstinctsthatareaspectsofourselvesthatweattempttohide.
I am heavily influenced by the work of 16th
century Baroqueartists, namelyCaravaggioand
Bernini. The fleshiness of their human figures is a concept Iembodywithclay. I establish a physical
heaviness with seemingly unsteady attachments within my work that groundsthem in asimilar way
that Caravaggio plays with intense light and dark. I think criticallyabout how the sculpturefunctions
on a three dimensional, in the round plane to evoke a similar sense of momentum and spiraling
upwardsin mylarger works,aconceptBerninisworkexemplifies.MycurrentfascinationofBuddhist
and Hinduartisdrivingmyworktobecomemorecomplexandstorytellinginnature,apaththatIam
likelytoexpounduponinthenearfuture.