Terry Ward

Terry Ward is an American artist, actor, and radio announcer. Ward's artwork is in the collection of former US Vice President Al Gore.
Background
Majoring in studio art and art history, Ward received an honors BS from James Madison University. His thesis related showings were at JMU's Sawhill Gallery, Bridgewater College's Kline
Gallery, and Mary Baldwin College's Demming Alternative ArtSpace. Ward obtained a CPTL and worked as an art instructor for a few years. Since 1997, Ward has been on-air with a National Public Radio affiliate covering western Virginia.
Career
Artist
As an artist, he was thought to have influenced the Tribute in Light temporary memorial, which honored the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City. He sent design ideas similar to Tribute in Light to Mayor Giuliani, the Port Authority, the governor's office, and other offices in mid-October 2001. (This was six months before Tribute in Light was unveiled.) Ward also submitted a design for the Harriet Tubman Square Sculpture in Manhattan, and a design for the September Eleventh Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Ward submitted designs for new national flags for East Timor and for Mozambique. He is thought to be the creator of the unofficial Washington, DC "statehood flag" nicknamed the "map-star flag". Ward created the new municipal seal for Bridgewater, Virginia.
In 2007, Ward developed a method for creating long rectangular paintings capable of being hung horizontally, vertically, upside-down or at nearly any angle. In an artist's statement, Ward calls such works omnidirectional paintings . Ward's artwork is influenced by postmodernism, minimalism, abstract expressionism, arte povera, dada, and pop art. .
Some Ward artwork has social criticism themes, such as a 2009 painting series nicknamed Ashcroft's Fig Leaves which subtly pokes fun at the decision under the John Ashcroft administration to censor the partial nudity of the statue Spirit of Justice inside the Great Hall of the U.S. Department of Justice. The drippy and bespattered polyptych of nonobjective painting has spraypainted outlines of where fig leaves had been once been, along with repeated stenciled lettering which reads, "remove".
Recognition
Ward won the "best in show" prize at an emerging artist's exhibit at Charlottesville, Virginia's Sage Moon Gallery. His art has been displayed in Washington, DC's Capitol Riverfront
HalfStreet center and is in private collections in New York City and in several states. Ward art work is on the cover of the book An African-American Community of Hope (ISBN 978-1-60402-690-0).
Actor
Ward's acting filmography is listed on the selective Internet Movie Database as Terry Ward VII. More than once he has been asked to portray an artist on stage or in film, including the HBO
Partial filmography
*Past Life " (filming) (2009)
*Rocktown: From the Small Farm to the Big Box (2009)
*Lives and Deaths of the Poets (2009)
*Washingtonienne (2009) (TV)
*Body of Lies (2008)
*John Adams (2008) (TV)
*Evan Almighty (2007)
*Hana yori dango 2 (2007) (TV)
*War of the Worlds (2005)
*Milagro en el circo (1979)

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