About Donna Phipps Stout
Donna Phipps-Stout received her B.A. degree in painting and drawing from Georgetown, College (KY) and her M.F.A. in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington. She taught art at Berea College in Kentucky, after which she was adjunct professor of art at Florissant Valley Community College in St. Louis, and later, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Stout has received many honors including the Mid-America Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting and Works on Paper, and the Garman Still Life Prize, Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France. There were 425 attendees at the exhibition opening reception. This is your opportunity to hear more directly from the artist.
My paintings are an opportunity for me to experience time, the passing of time, the time to notice the fragile and the fleeting. I want to create a configuration made of lengthening shadows, the glimmer appearing on the lip of a glass, the rose dropping its pedals. I look for how all these small things make a whole, a breathable, and a unique space: a visual poem. I want to evoke, not describe. It is about creating an experience for myself, and hopefully, for the viewer.
About the art
Donna Phipps-Stout received her B.A. degree in painting and drawing from Georgetown, College (KY) and her M.F.A. in painting from Indiana University, Bloomington. She taught art at Berea College in Kentucky, after which she was adjunct professor of art at Florissant Valley Community College in St. Louis, and later, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Stout has received many honors including the Mid-America Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting and Works on Paper, and the Garman Still Life Prize, Salon Biennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France. There were 425 attendees at the exhibition opening reception. This is your opportunity to hear more directly from the artist.
My paintings are an opportunity for me to experience time, the passing of time, the time to notice the fragile and the fleeting. I want to create a configuration made of lengthening shadows, the glimmer appearing on the lip of a glass, the rose dropping its pedals. I look for how all these small things make a whole, a breathable, and a unique space: a visual poem. I want to evoke, not describe. It is about creating an experience for myself, and hopefully, for the viewer.