Visiting Artists Series: Evan Boggess
Thu 22 Oct · 6:00 PM Katzen Arts Center at American University
AU's Studio Art MFA program presents an artist talk with Evan Boggess in Katzen Arts Center Rm. 201. Evan Boggess’s paintings are conflations of personal experiences, cultural allegories, references to natural resources, paradoxical circumstances, and geographical features of his home state. Boggess received his MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 2011. He currently maintains a home studio in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, where he lives with his wife and two children. In addition to his painting practice, he has also been a member of the Department of Contemporary Art and Theater at Shepherd University since 2014. Boggess was the director of Shepherd University’s Phaze 2 Gallery from 2014 to 2023. Images: Evan Boggess, Flooded Simulation. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48” x 71”; Evan Boggess, Mason Dixon Sunburn, 2025. Oil on canvas, 56” x 47” Learn more about visiting the Katzen Arts Center. The building is fully accessible and paid parking is available in the underground garage. Learn more about the Studio Art MFA Program at American University.