Celeste Roberge

Celeste Roberge maintains studios in South Portland, Maine and Gainesville, Florida where she is a Professor of Sculpture in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida. She received a M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Maine College of Art, and a BA in sociology from the University of Maine. In 2008, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine.

Celeste Roberge has received numerous awards and fellowships. In summers 2010 and 2011 she began her current research into seaweed structures as a resident artist at the Baie Ste. Marie Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia sponsored by the Maine College of Art.  In 2008, she held the William Randolph Hearst Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was a resident artist at SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2007.  She has received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She was awarded a Research Foundation Professorship by the University of Florida from 2004-2007.  She is the recipient of two Florida Individual Artists Fellowships.  She was a Bunting Fellow in 1988/89 at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a summer resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1979.  During her twenty year tenure at the University of Florida, she has received generous support and numerous research grants, including this professional development leave to be at Kohler during Fall 2013.