Megan Singleton will give an Artist Talk, Thursday, October 23, 3:30pm in the lecture hall of Bedford 111.
Megan Singleton is a practicing artist and educator located in St. Louis, Missouri. Her ecology-based work crisscrosses the boundaries of contemporary art and craft, combining sculpture, hand papermaking, installation, and digital applications. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Louisiana State University and BFA in Photography from Webster University. She actively exhibits nationally and internationally, her work can be found in the collections of the Louisiana Art and Science Museum, the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, as well as numerous private and corporate collections. Megan has served on the board of directors for the hand papermaking organization The Friends of Dard Hunter, as V.P of Membership and Development, and is a member of the International Art Collective Expanded Draught, based in Galway Ireland. In recent years she was the recipient of the RAC Artist Fellowship, the Smelser-VallionVisiting Artist Fellowship in Taos, MN and was invited to install site-specific mural projects at Brown University in Providence, RI, Lambert Airport in Saint Louis, and the Gaylord Trust Building in Lockport, IL. She has been resident artist at Haystack, Craft Alliance, A Studio in the Woods, Tide Institute and Museum, Doel Reed Center for Art, A Studio in the Woods, Kingsbrea Gardens, and the Great Sand Dunes National Park.
An exhibition will be in the Bedford Gallery, with a reception following the talk, from 4:30–5:30pm.
Learn more about the artist at https://www.megansingleton.com/