Larry Thompson  Chair

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Phone: (205) 726-4631
Fax: 726-4547
Office: Swearingen Hall 142

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Biographical Information

Larry Thompson, Professor of Art, has served as Chair of the Art Department since coming to Samford in 2007.  A native of El Paso, Texas, Thompson has taught in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas prior to moving to Birmingham.  In addition to teaching painting and drawing courses, and chairing the department, Thompson is an artist who has recently exhibited work in China, New York, Texas, California, Alabama, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  He is an active member of the College Art Association (www.collegeart.org),and has served as Career Mentor for CAA in 2010 at the annual conference in Chicago, in 2011 in New York, and will be doing the same at the 2013 conference in New York.  Thompson also served on the panel for the Open Studio Session entitled “Studio Art in CAA’s Next Fifty Years" at the 2011 CAA annual conference in New York in 2011.  Thompson holds an MFA in Painting from The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and a BFA in Art and Design from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and is represented locally at Space One Eleven Art Space.

Leaving Louisiana

Oil on Wood

12”x 24”

2010 National Juried Exhibition

Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, California

www.sylviawhite.com

Reading Friedman

Oil on Wood

42”x 48”

Art of the State Juried Exhibition 2010

Tennessee Valley Museum of Art

Tuscumbia, Alabama

Chasing Blue Sky

Oil on Wood

8”x 18”

National Small Oil Painting Juried Exhibition, Juror’s Award

Wichita Center for the Fine Arts, Wichita, Kansas

A Monday

Oil on Wood

48”x 66”

Art of the State Juried Exhibition 2010

Tennessee Valley Museum of Art

   Tuscumbia, Alabama

  Someone Else

  Oil on Wood

  24” x 48”

TKAM 2010Exhibition:  An exhibition of works celebrating Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

  Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

  Birmingham, Alabama

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College Art Association