Monday, June 16, 2008

Day 3: Conversation with the Artist

Tonight's conversation was with Drawing and Painting Faculty, Isak Applin.

Isak Applin received his B.F.A. in1998 from the Maine College of Art and his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Giftshop Project Space and Contemporary Art Workshop, both in Chicago. Applin has participated in group exhibitions at Roots and Culture in Chicago, University of Saint Francis in Joliet, Illinois, The Helm in Tacoma, Washington, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His work is part of the public collections of the New York Public Library Special Collections and the Boston Public Library Print Collection. Applin has received the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, the Lawrence Sisson Traveling Fellowship and the Roger Brown House Residency. Applin is currently an instructor in the painting and drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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