Professor Meredith Laura Lynn Awarded 2024 Halo Arts Fellowship

Professor Meredith Laura Lynn was awarded a fellowship from the Halo Arts Project. Halo Arts Project exists to provide financial resources and programming support to Visual Artists in Florida. The Halo Arts Fellowship Awards Program funds the work and advancement of locally talented emerging artists, mid-range artists and established artists. Seven artists in the state of Florida were selected to receive funding from the Sarasota-based non-profit. The funding will directly support Lynn’s upcoming exhibitions in Philadelphia and St. Augustine.

Meredith Lynn is an artist, curator, and educator based in Tallahassee. Through her creative and scholarly projects she researches the impacts of climate change and land management and ownership. Her work has recently been shown at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), and Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL).

She has been an artist in residence at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (St. Augustine, FL), the Jentel Foundation (Sheridan, WY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Kimmel Harding Nelson (Nebraska City, NE). Her curatorial projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University where she is also the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts.

She frequently works with collaborator Katie Hargrave, an artist and educator based in Chattanooga, TN.

More at: https://haloartsproject.com/fellowship-award-recipients/