Sherry Lee Short

Sherry Lee Short




Sherry Lee Short is an artist, teacher, writer, and activist. She received her Master of Fine Arts with Distinction from the University of Georgia in 1988. Following, she taught art, education, and women’s studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead through the mid-1990s.



At that time, her interests in social justice turned her life towards a different career path. From 1994-1999, she served as the executive director of the Women’s Network of the Red River Valley (Moorhead, Minnesota). From 1999-2001, she served as the executive director of the Minnkota Health Project, a program that serves persons affected by HIV/AIDS in rural areas in half the state of Minnesota and seven counties in North Dakota.



In 2001, she was drawn back to the arts. From 2001-2012, she taught full time in the Department of Art & Design at Minnesota State University. Currently, she continues to teach drawing and art business courses in the Department of Art & Design and is also serving as the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies.



Although a figurative artist for most of her artistic career, Short’s most recent artistic focus has been landscape. This work also reflects her fondness for drawing media and works on paper

Eric Bowman

Eric Bowman



About the Artist

Award winning painter Eric Bowman began his career as a commercial artist in southern California creating original oil paintings for such high profile clients as Coppertone, Nike, GTE, Hallmark, Kellogg's, Nabisco, Southwest Airlines and the Kentucky Derby.

His work has also adorned the covers of TIME magazine and The Saturday Evening Post, along with numerous books, music CD’s and other popular periodicals. His original oil paintings reside in many private and corporate collections including the offices of Major League Baseball, the NBA and the United States Postal Service.

As a fine art painter, Eric has garnered many awards in juried competitions, showing in national & regional exhibitions in some of the country's most prestigious galleries. His paintings are in collections around the world, including England, Australia, Canada and Mexico.

Eric Bowman is an artist member of the Oil Painters of America, a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society and artist member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. He lives with his wife and daughter in Tigard, Oregon.

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Kendric Tonn

Kendric Tonn




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I have always held drawing in a kind of reverence, both as an art form in its own right and as a foundational skill for other arts. When I was trained in the classical tradition of oil painting, it was a touchstone and constant companion--first throughout several years worth of studies in charcoal and pencil, and finally, when my teachers allowed me to begin painting, a question that accompanied each brushstroke: "Does this paint I'm putting down improve the drawing in my picture?"

Even now, out of the painting academy and working on my own, I find myself frequently returning to the pure drawing I was taught as a neophyte painter. With these studies of the figure in pencil or portraits in charcoal, I have the chance to concentrate on questions of line, shape, and value--in other words, drawing, the hard skeleton that will give structure to a painting or teach one to produce a subtly-varied line that expresses form with elegance and economy.


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born: 1982, Phoenix, Arizona

education

The Florence Academy of Art, 2010
Sewanee: The University of the South, BA, 2004

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