Join us for a public conversation between artist Stacy Lynn Waddell and Emily Stamey, Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, on Thursday, November 6 in the Weatherspoon Auditorium. This event is part of Waddell’s Falk Visiting Artist Residency, during which she will be in residence with the UNCG School of Art, working with students and creating a new artwork on site.
Stacy Lynn Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power.
Since earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art among other venues.
Her work is included in several public and private collections that include The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Baltimore Museum of Art among others.
Waddell is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Artist-in-Residence at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, QueenSpace in New York and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. During Fall 2022, Waddell ended the year with an exhibit at Sala1 in Rome, Italy and as a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow in Umbria, Italy where she spent six weeks producing works and conducting research in a 15th century castle. In March 2025, Waddell was selected as an inaugural Artist-in-Residence of the Suzanne Fitzallen Jackson Foundation Residency. During fall 2025, she will live and work in the Savannah, GA home and studio of artist Suzanne Jackson.
She lives and works in North Carolina and is represented by Candice Madey in New York.
Time to be announced. Free and open to the public.
In addition to public presentations, artists in the UCLS series have important interactions with UNCG students, such as holding masterclasses, talkback sessions, and seminars, often just hours before performing on stage. Thanks to a grant from The Cemala Foundation, some of these artists also work with K-12 students in the Guilford County Schools.
