2027 Keynote: Toby Sisson
Toby Sisson earned her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and is a Professor of Visual Art at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition to her studio practice in drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, Sisson’s areas of specialization incorporate community-based service learning, collaborative public art, and curatorial projects. Her creative research explores themes at the intersection of history and race in America with a recent focus on migration movements, ancestral homelands, and the ways place makes us who we are. She is a recipient of an Artistic Practitioner Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, and an Artist Research Residency at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Sisson has exhibited her work widely, including the Tianjin Art Museum in China, the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Connecticut College, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, among them Brown University, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Newport Historical Society. She is also a member of the recently founded New England Black Artists Collective. Toby Sisson’s home and studio are located in Providence, Rhode Island.
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