Scott Stephens
Professor of Art
Printmaking and Photography
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Professional Biography Scott Stephens is a printmaker and Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo, where he has taught since 1983. He earned his BFA degree at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Peter Marcus, an innovator in large-scale printmaking. During his undergraduate studies Stephens received a fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art. He began his graduate work with an assistantship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed his MFA at the University of Alabama. Stephens has completed artist residencies at the Centrum vor Grafiek Frans Masereel in Kasterlee, Belgium and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. More recently, he attended the Tamarind Summer Workshop in Traditional Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His prints have been seen in over 100 exhibitions and are held in regional public collections as well as private and corporate collections nationally. His work has been recognized with a fellowship from the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts and two individual artist fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1992 and 2002. Stephens' long term involvement with big prints has lead to the creation of large format printmaking facilities at the University of Montevallo that feature a 44 x 84 inch Takach etching press. In 2002 he organized the Alabama Big Prints project where 12 accomplished artists were invited to campus to create new large-scale prints. A selection of the work produced is featured in a traveling exhibition that premiered at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art and which toured the state for two years. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Suzanne Voce Stephens. Stephens' work can be seen in many other exhibition catalogues, as well as in two books, E.C. Cunningham's Printmaking: A Primary Form of Expression published by the University of Colorado Press in 1992 and The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection selected by Lynne Allen and Phyllis McGibbon and published by Quarry Books in 1997. Scott Stephens was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1954 and moved to Birmingham in 1977. He directed the Birmingham Mural Project through the Greater Birmingham Arts Alliance, which employed artists to create 18 public works in the central city. He also designed stage sets for the Birmingham Festival Theater and exhibits for the children's museum, now the McWane Center. |
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