2008
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
• Master of Fine Art in Painting
2005
Columbia University, New York, NY
• Columbia Scholastic Press Association
• Continuing education
2004
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
• Advanced Placement Accreditation
2003
The University of Georgia, Magna Cum Laude, Athens, GA
• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• Full Academic/Athletic Scholarship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Georgia Society of Contemporary Painters Visiting Artist Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2008
A First Date, A Funeral, and Moments in Between, Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
An Iconography of an Imagined History, The Tew Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003
Effigy, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
Senior Exit Show, DCF Space, Athens, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Hambidge Art Auction, The Foundry at Puritan Mill, Atlanta, GA
Little Things Mean A lot, Swan Coach House Gallery
Plugged In 35, The Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
SCAD@Large, The Factory, Atlanta, GA
Mining the Surface: New Sensibility in Art Textiles. Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
150: A Fundraising Event Benefiting Artists for Charity, Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The MFA Experience, Red Gallery, Savannah GA
SUB-SPACE; An Exhibition of Installation and Objects, SCAD 1600, Atlanta, GA
SCAD on the EDGE, VAkNIN Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Notions of Landscape, TEW Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
Innovations, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA
Pin Up Show, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
3556 Kilometeros, Casa de la Cultura Alamos, Alamos Sonora, MEX
Seven Artists, Used Film Studios, Atlanta, GA
Case Studies, The Defoor Center, Atlanta, GA
Give Your Heart to Art, Sandy Springs Art Association, Atlanta, GA
2005
Route 29, South Fulton Art Council Fall Show, Atlanta, GA
2002
Aesthetic Impulse Fashion Show, Cotton House, Athens, GA
2001
Aesthetic Impulse Fashion Show, Cotton House, Athens, GA
Dong-Fiber Arts Exchange, Lyndon House, Athens, GA
HONORS & AWARDS
2009
Hambidge Residency Fellow
Atlanta Printmakers Studio Emerging Arts Residency
The Georgia Society of Contemporary Painters Visiting Graduate Artist, at the Lamar Dodd School of Art
2008
New York Studio Residency, at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City
2007
Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers
Savannah College of Art and Design Educators Fellowship
1998-2003
Deans List
Scholarship Athlete.
Fourth place, 3000m Steeple Chase--SEC Outdoor Championship
2003
National Collegiate Division I All-Academic Team
PUBLICATIONS
BURN AWAY Jeremy Abernathy, “Our Favorite Things: 2008” January 2009
Atlanta PEACH Portraits by Lucinda Bunnen, Jonathan Lerner, “Movers and Shakers” November 2008
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Catherine Fox, “Galleries gear up for fall” September 2008
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Debra Wolf, “Mining exhibition diverse and deep” August 2008
The Atlantan Felicia Feaster, “Four Score!” July 2008
Atlanta PEACH Drew Brown. “Smart Set” April 2008
Creative Loafing Felicia Feaster. “Art Smarts” March 2008
Art in America Rebecca Dimling Cochran. “Whitney Stansell at TEW” January 2008
The Connector, “Her (mother’s) childhood”, by Channen Paddyfote, September 2007
Creative Loafing, “Images of Endearment” by Felicia Fester, July 2007
counterforces.blogspot.com, “Tew Galleries: JF Baldwin, Deedra Ludwig, Whitney Stansell” by Jerry Cullum, July 2007
Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, “Gallery News” by staff, July 2007
The Sandy Springs Herald, “Heart-felt Art,” by Kelly Brooks, January 2007
Whitney Stansell was born in Greenville, SC. She received her BFA from the University of Georgia in Fiber Arts and her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta in painting. She combines painting, drawing, textiles, and fibers to create work that explores memory, history, and imagination. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The Atlantan, Creative Loafing, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Stansell was recently included in the Atlanta Peach magazine’s thirtieth anniversary of Lucinda Bunnen’s Movers and Shakers in Georgia. Stansell is an adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Atlanta and currently resides in Historic College Park with her husband and filmmaker, Micah Stansell.
