Faculty
Churchill G. Davenport, MFA Yale School of Art; MA Indiana University; BA Rhodes College
Foundation: Drawing I, II, III; Painting I, II; Color and Design I, II
Churchill Davenport is the Dean of the Kentucky School of Art. He has a Bachelors of Art degree from Rhodes College, an Masters of Art from Indiana University, and a Master of Fine Art degree from Yale University. Churchill taught at the Pratt Institute in New York, Yale University and MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). At Pratt he was the Chairman of the Promotion/Tenure Committee and the Provost Search Committee. He served on Pratt’s Board of Trustees. Churchill has juried, lectured and curated at universities and art centers in New York and throughout the country. He has shown his work nationally and internationally, and his work is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum and the National Academy of Design.
Laurie Fader, MFA Yale; BS New York University
Foundation: Drawing I, II, III; Painting I, II; Color and Design I, II; Academic Affairs
Laurie Fader studied art at the University of Cincinnati, has a Bachelors of Science degree from New York University, an Masters of Fine Art from Yale in Painting; she studied with Graham Nickson in the New York Studio School. She has completed artist-in-residencies and fellowships in France, Hungary and Haiti. She has taught studio art courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Villa Julie College, Goucher College, Pratt Institute, the Silvermine School of Art, Brandeis University and more. She has exhibited her work in over 30 galleries in New York, Connecticut, Maryland and France. She is currently the Director of Academic Affairs at the Kentucky School of Art.
Skylar Smith, MFA Chicago Art Institute; BFA Maryland Institute College of Art
Foundation: Drawing I, II, III; Painting I, II; Art History; Programming
Skylar Smith has a Bachelors of Fine Art from Maryland Institute College of Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work regionally, and in Delhi and Rajasthan, India. She has completed artist-in-residencies in India and Peru. In addition to her work as a fine artist, she has worked as an art educator at The Living Classroom Foundation in Baltimore, MD, the Louisville Visual Art Association, and as a Artist-in-Residence at Colegio Trener, an elementary school in Lima, Peru. Smith has taught Drawing and 2D Design at the University of Louisville and Painting, 2D Design, Renaissance to Modern, and Art Introduction classes at the Jefferson Community and Technical College. In addition, she has taught college-level fine art and art history courses in three regional men’s prisons and one regional women’s prison. Skylar directs the ‘Sunday Series’, weekly life drawing and yoga classes at 21c Museum in Louisville, KY. She is currently the Programming Director at the Kentucky School of Art.
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Aaron Lubrick, MFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; BFA Columbus College of Art & Design
Foundation: Drawing I; Painting I; Life Drawing
Aaron Lubrick has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design; he then went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has received accredited awards from Creative Quarterly Magazine, and the Columbus College of Art and Design Presidential Scholarship. He has exhibited his work in New York, Maine, Connecticut, as well as other locations along the east coast. Aaron has taught college level studio art classes at Indiana University Southeast, Drawing, Color Theory, and 2D Design at The Art Institute of Charlotte, Color Theory and Drawing at Camden County College, and Figure Drawing at Drexel University.