
Artist at Gregory Scheckler Artworks
Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

Artist at Gregory Scheckler Artworks
Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area
Visual art generalist; artist offering original paintings, drawings, photos for fine art, graphic art or commercial use, gallery and museum exhibit. See website http://www.gregscheckler.com for examples. About a decade of undergraduate college teaching experience. Available for consulting, workshops, exhibit, original art.
Academic and historical oil painting and drawing methods; landscape painting; digital photography; relationships among art and science; oil painting, acrylic painting, drawing, experimental art.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)
Specializations: Drawing, Painting, Historical Drawing and Painting Techniques, Digital Photography, artwork based in representation of visual observations, landscape, nature, environment. I teach classes that integrate fine art, nature and imagination. Also serve as Director of the Art Major at MCLA.
(Fine Art industry)
May 1990 — Present (19 years 8 months)
Fine art oil and acrylic paintings, photography, illustration, drawings, creative writing, essays, occasional design work and contrarian disharmonies. Wide array of art styles and methods, from graffiti-like cartoons to rigorous realism. Artworks owned by corporate and private collections. Record of exhibits includes MCLA Gallery 51, Tunnel City Gallery, Kolok Gallery, Southern Vermont Art Center, Washburn Historical and Cultural Museum, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Glendinning Gallery, One West Art Center Colorado.
MFA , Art , 1993 — 1996
Drawing 1992 — 1993
BFA , Painting , 1990 — 1992
BA , Modern and Classical Languages, Art , 1986 — 1990
Innsbruck, Austria Study Abroad Program 1987-88
Fine Art, Illustration, Design, Photography, Poetry, Science Fiction, Science, Astronomy, Biology.
College Art Association, Leonardo: International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, The Skeptics Society, Massachusetts Teachers Association, National Education Association
2007 Faculty Creative Project Award, MCLA; 2007 Who’s Who Among American Teachers & Educators; 2006 Davis Educational Foundation, Faculty Grant “Building the Technology Enhanced Visual Arts Classroom”; 2004-05 U.S. Department of Education Title III Strengthening Institutions Grant (Worked on team; grant awarded to MCLA $1.8 million, with $105,000 for fine & performing arts labs.); 1995 Utah 95 Juror’s Award; 2005 National Dean’s List; 1994 George B. and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Scholarship; 1994 Purchase Award, Illinois State University Center for the Visual Arts, Nat’l Graduate Works on Paper; 1993 Presidential Fellowship, USU; 1992 Certificate, College Teaching Seminar for Graduate Instructors,USU; 1992 Eliot Honors Scholar at WashU; Yale/Norfolk Award (runner-up) at WashU; Millikin Prize (runner-up) WashU; 1990 WashU Scholarship; 1990 Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in German, Notre Dame; Delta Phi Alpha, German National Honor Student Society.