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Bio and Artist Statement

Lynn Sisler received her MFA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME in 2021 and completed a BFA in painting with a minor in Art History from Northern Illinois University in 1991. Her MFA thesis and accompanying exhibition, Entangled: Envisioning Ecocentrism through Visual Narratives, was shown at the ICA Gallery in Portland. Sisler received the prestigious Hildreth Family MFA Scholar Award and the Hale Residency at the Artist Association of Nantucket. Currently an adjunct professor at Springfield College, MA, she previously was a professor at Kennesaw State University and has shown work at KSU’s Zuckerman Museum.

Lynn Sisler works predominantly in painting and ceramic sculptures, often foraging natural materials as reference or to directly imprint into the work. Her studio practices and imagery evoke an ethereal space and imagined ecology. She intentionally creates multiple viewpoints, perspectives, and a chaotic painting language to re-envision different ways of seeing and pondering alternative realities. Visual Gaia stories feature animals, plants, and humans, often blended as one entity, in a magical, folkloric construct. Sisler's work strives to create thoughtful consciousness about life and death cycles, humans’ relationship to the earth, and the inter-connectedness within all species.

Education

2021 M.F.A. Interdisciplinary Studies. Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2018-19 Art Assessment, Choice-Based Learning, Differentiation, and Studio Drawing. Online platform for 30+ graduate-level credits. Art of Education, Osage, IA

2018 Children’s Book Illustration. Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI

2006 MS-Ed., Reading and Literacy. Walden University, Minneapolis, MN

2001 BS-Ed., Elementary Education. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

1991 B.F.A., Painting. Minor, Art History. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Teaching Experience

2022 Adjunct Professor of Art and Design, Springfield College, Springfield MA

2021 Professor of Art and Design, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

Graduate Adjunct Instructor, Art of Education University, Online platform

2020 Teaching Assistant. Online platform, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

(Creative Non-Fiction)

2016-20 Art Teacher. Mosier Elementary School, South Hadley, MA

2016 Art Instructor. IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires, Stockbridge, MA (Mixed

media collage, beginning encaustic)

2015 Art Instructor. The Yellow House. Palmer, MA (Drawing for adults and young

adults)

2014-15 Summer Camp Art Director and Instructor. Venetian Swim Club, Decatur, GA

2014-15 English-Language Arts and Social Sciences Teacher. Midtown International

School. Atlanta, GA (5thgrade and Middle-School)

2013 Art and Writing Instructor. Wild Oats and Billy Goats Folk Gallery, Decatur, GA

(Mixed media and painting for adults)

2010 Art Instructor. Color Wheel Studio, Decatur, GA.

2005-13 Academic Elementary School Teacher. City Schools of Decatur. Decatur, GA

(3rd and 4th grades)

2002-2005 Academic Elementary School Teacher. Gwinnett County Schools. Lilburn,

GA (3rd grade)

Honors/Awards/Grants

2020 Hildreth Family MFA Endowed Scholar, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2019-20 Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund. Five-time recipient.

Adamsville, OH

2020 Cover Art; Coyote Song. Silkworm 13: The Annual Review of the Florence

Poet’s Society. Florence, MA

2013 Animals Art Exhibition, Special Merit Award. www.lightspacetime.com

1989 Northern Illinois University Student Show, Second Place, Jack Olson Gallery,

DeKalb, IL

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Ocean Life-Force; An Artist’s Exploration of Halcyon Days. Elusie Gallery,

Easthampton, MA

Migration Stories, revisited. Art Stop, New England Public Radio,

Springfield, MA

2016 Migration Stories and Other Curious Lore. ECA+ Gallery, Easthampton, MA

2013 The Book of Saints. The Cube Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011 Portraits. Farm to Loft Gallery, Decatur, GA

1999 Café Montmartre, Madison, WI Ground Zero, Madison, WI

1989 Solo Student Work, Northern Illinois University Student Union, DeKalb, IL

Group Exhibitions

2023 Sourced: Origins of Inspiration. Springfield College Fine Arts Gallery, Springfield, MA

2022 Part-time Faculty Show. Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw State University,

Kennesaw, GA

Winter Works. Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition. ICA Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Urgent Unity, Unprescidented Healing Reflections from Covid. You and Me

Gallery, Greenfield, MA

2020 Post-Pause. Curated by Maggie Nowinski. Easthampton City Arts,

Easthampton, MA

2020 Project Project: Be Seen Initiative. Congress Square Park, Portland, ME

Love Your Beautiful Neighbor. Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA

2019 Northampton Arts Council Biennial. Forbes Library, Northampton, MA

2018 If Water Could Speak. Hope and Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA

2017 Changing Shape. MAEA Member’s Exhibition. Student Union Gallery,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2017 While Art is Still Legal; Art in the Age of Trump. Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA

2016 IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires Faculty Show. Williamstown, MA

2015 7th Annual Small Works Show. ECA+ Gallery, Easthampton, MA

Open Studios. One Cottage Street Studios, Easthampton, MA

Grand Opening. Greenfield Gallery, Greenfield, MA

A Celebration of Birds. MAC 650 Gallery, Middletown, CT

Passages. Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

Telephone. Satellite Collective, Online Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Animals. Light, Space, and Time Online Gallery

2012 Recent Paintings; Kelly Enzor and Lynn Sisler. Atlanta, GA

1996 Local Artists. Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

1989-90 Northern Illinois University Student Show. Visual Arts Building, Jack Olson

Gallery. DeKalb, IL

Art Festivals/Shows/Sales

2020 Collect: Online Summer Art Sale. Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2016-22 Snow Farm Annual Seconds Sale. Snow Farm New England Craft,

Williamsburg, MA

2015 Open Studios: Holiday Show. Cottage Street Studios, Easthampton, MA

2014 Autumnfest. Avondale Estates Fall Festival, Avondale Estates, GA

The Revival: A Vintage Marketplace. Decatur, GA

Holiday Gift Show. Garage Door Studio, Avondale Estates, GA

2013 Summer Shade Festival. Grant Park Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA