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Margaret (Maggie) Evans

Foundation studies professor

Education

  • M.F.A., painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A., illustration, Utah State University

Credentials

  • Professor of foundation studies, Fall 2022—present
    Part-time professor of foundation studies, 2009–10, 2012–22, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Grand Prize, solo exhibit, 23rd Annual No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2019
  • Best of Category Award, Installation/3D, ArtFields, Lake City, SC, 2018
  • Winner, Western Bureau Art Prize, San Jose, CA, 2017
  • Best of Category Award, painting, ArtFields, Lake City, SC
  • China Government Scholarship, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2011–12
  • Juror's Award, Axis Gallery Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2010
  • Honorable Mention, 15th Annual Telfair Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2009
  • Best of Show, 14th Annual Telfair Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2008
  • Purchase Award, 2008 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 2008
  • Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008
  • Best of Show, 2007 Juried Art Exhibition, The Fine Art Center, 2007
  • Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, NC, 2007

Publications and presentations

Selected solo exhibitions

  • Collective Behavior, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2018
  • Status and Sameness, J. Costello Gallery, Hilton Head, SC, 2017
  • The Cube, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC, 2017
  • Hierarchies and Displacement, Gallery 621, Tallahassee, FL, 2016
  • Human Hierarchies, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2015
  • Status, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2014
  • Observing from the Outside, J. Costello Gallery, Hilton Head, SC, 2012
  • Observing from the Outside, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, 2012
  • Invitational solo exhibit, Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA, 2010
  • Psychological Interiors, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2009
  • View from the Stage, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2007
  • Night Rhythms, Gallery Espresso, Savannah, GA, 2007
  • Graduate Thesis Exhibit: A View from the Stage, Moon River Brewing Company, Savannah, GA, 2007

Selected juries and group exhibitions

  • Please Form a Straight Line, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX, 2020
  • Art in an Age of Anxiety, Arts Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, 2018
  • ArtFields 2018, Lake City, SC, 2018
  • Gathered III, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA, 2017
  • Place, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2017
  • ArtFields 2017, Lake City, SC, 2017
  • Drawing Invitational, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2010
  • Artrageous AIDS Fundraiser Exhibit, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2009
  • 15th Annual Telfair Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2009
  • Invitational Group Show, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2009
  • Invitational Two-Person Exhibit, Cultural Arts Center, Douglasville, GA, 2009
  • 14th Annual Telfair Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2008
  • Fresh Blood, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2008
  • Gen X: Post Boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2008
  • Artrageous AIDS Fundraiser Exhibit, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2008

Permanent collections

  • Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 2008
  • Cultural Arts Center, Douglasville, GA, 2007
  • Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2006

Publications and presentations

  • "Quarterly Poetry and Art," Dialogist, online journal, 2017
  • Sandra Tyler, The Woven Tale Press, online and print arts and literary journal, 2017
  • "INPA 6," Manifest Press, Cincinnati, 2017
  • Lauren Coulson, Paint Pulse Magazine, Issue #3, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2015
  • New American Paintings Southern Edition #94, Open Studios Press, Boston, 2011