BA, Wesleyan University. MA, Columbia University. MFA, University of Cincinnati. Recipient of national grants, including NEA Artworks Grant with WPU Galleries, Paterson, NJ; ARTPLACE with McColl Center, Charlotte NC; and Mural Arts Project/ Restored Spaces. Completed residencies at ISCP (NYC), Millay Colony, McColl Center (NC), Golden Paints (NYC) and Lightwork (NY). Wilson Instituted a New Direction on social sulpture curriculum as a professor at Syracuse University (until 2017) and spearheaded several public art and architecture projects, including: MLAB; MossLab, 601 Tully; and now 100 Lagoon Pond, a floating studio and public platform on Martha’s Vineyard. Wilson drove a renovated RV from Upstate New York to Miami with PULSE art fair. She has shown with Frederieke Taylor (NYC) and Cheryl Pelavin (NYC); New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC); and Herbert Johnson Museum; her work has been published by Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Time Out, and The New York Times. SLC, 2021–
Undergraduate Courses 2022-2023
Visual and Studio Arts
Liquid Drawing
Open, Seminar—Spring
This course offers both a traditional and a contemporary approach to drawing. Students will gain an overview of basic drawing terms and practices, including line, mass, light and shadow, and the use of black-and-white media. Sketchbooking is an important part of the class practice. Additionally, students will be introduced to principles of color through the use of watercolor, gouache, and ink. This class will introduce some basics of color theory, color mixing and the effects of layering, transparency, translucency, and absorbency inherent in the watercolor medium. We will use landscape, portraiture, and other subject matter to represent water, light, flesh, atmosphere, and solid earth. In your conferences, you will be able to explore a specific theme or content. In a final sequence of this class, students will learn about sustainable contemporary art practices, including organically created pigments.
Faculty
Previous Courses
Visual and Studio Arts
Color and Light: Painting With Watercolor, Dyes, and Fluid Media
Open, Seminar—Fall and Spring
This course uses water-based media in both traditional and nontraditional ways to create evocative paintings on paper, with pigments (both art and non-art) suspended in water. Watercolor and gouache are two of the oldest pigment-based media and continues to be used widely by artists, illustrators, designers, and architects. This class will specifically focus on color and the effects of layering, transparency, translucency, and absorbency. Students will be introduced to a range of brushes, sponges, paper types, paint media, and techniques. We will use landscape, portraiture, and other subject matter to represent water, light, flesh, atmosphere, and solid earth. In a final section of this course, we will introduce sustainable painting practices by introducing organically created pigments. Artists surveyed include Charles Burchfield, Anselm Kiefer, Marcel Dumas, Winslow Homer, Egon Schiele, Vik Muniz, Dana Sherwood, Tattfoo Tan, Taylor Davis, Laylah Ali, and Marcel Dzama.
Faculty
Painting with Watercolor, Dyes, and Fluids
Open, Seminar—Spring
This course uses water-based media in both traditional and nontraditional ways to create evocative paintings on paper, with pigments (both art and non-art) suspended in water. Watercolor and gouache are two of the oldest pigment-based media and continues to be used widely by artists, illustrators, designers, and architects. This class will specifically focus on color and the effects of layering, transparency, translucency, and absorbency. Students will be introduced to a range of brushes, sponges, paper types, paint media, and techniques. We will use landscape, portraiture, and other subject matter to represent water, light, flesh, atmosphere, and solid earth. In a final section of this course, we will introduce sustainable painting practices by introducing organically created pigments. Artists surveyed include Charles Burchfield, Anselm Kiefer, Marcel Dumas, Winslow Homer, Egon Schiele, Vik Muniz, Dana Sherwood, Tattfoo Tan, Taylor Davis, Laylah Ali, and Marcel Dzama.