Visiting Artist: Anthony Mead

Anthony Mead is an artist and educator living in Lexington, KY, and working as the Director of the Morian Gallery and faculty in Studio Art at Transylvania University in the areas of printmaking and graphic design. Mead received his Master of Fine Arts at Arizona State University in 2019 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2010 from Kendall College of Arts and Design following studies abroad at Florence School of Fine Arts. Also, in 2010, he co-founded Dinderbeck, a community artist and printmaking studio, in Grand Rapids, MI. Mead has exhibited nationally and internationally, presented on topics such as the role of digital technology in printmaking and arts education and the history of printmaking at the museums and national conferences and taught classes at Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, Arizona State University and Kendall College of Arts and Design in the fields of printmaking, graphic design and art foundations. Mead’s work focuses on concepts related to the universal elements of the human condition such as the use of fire, trade, and the chemical composition of the body and how these relate to human origins, social development, identity, ecology, and responsibility.

Mead came to WKU on March 30th, 2022 to create a mural installation in the 3D gallery space on the second floor of the Fine Arts Center. During his visit he also gave a printmaking demo so that students could learn from his techniques.