Originally from rural northwestern Pennsylvania, Michael Gunn recently graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Painting. His time at RISD allowed him to function as a community builder, event organizer, curator and teacher through his various leadership and teaching positions. His art practice balances between painting traditions, sculpture, and craft to produce narrative and symbolic images and objects. He was awarded Residency in Scotland by the Royal Drawing School, a fellowship in curating at the RISD Museum, and now works at ODD-KIN gallery in East Providence. Originally learning how to oil paint and draw in a community based intergenerational course himself, Michael’s School One Intergenerational Advanced Drawing Class hopes to forge relationships between adults and teens as they uncover tools to map and depict the world surrounding them and in their imaginations. Michael’s course utilizes still life traditions to give students strategies to depict and practice drawing any type of subject matter or to return to for visual research when making work that is entirely from the imagination.
