Troy University to host 2nd Artist-in-Residence, visiting artists in 2025

Troy University's (TU) Department of Art and Design will host its second artist-in-residence and additional five visiting artists in the spring of 2025. 

The artist is UAB Associate Professor Douglas Pierre Baulos. 

“The Artist-in-Residence program has quickly connected our University to the wider creative community within Alabama,” said Sara Dismukes, Associate Professor of Art and Design.

“With our first public call in Fall 2024, we received applications from dozens of artists at all career stages and from all regions within the state. Additionally, because this program is funded by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, it has helped to connect us to other organizations in the state and generated a buzz around the region about the quality of work being created by our department.”

Baulos' research interests are papermaking, drawing, photography, ceramics, and the "scientific side of art to include chemistry, botany and biology."

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“Most of my recent work reflects a multitude of interests, including grief and mortality, nesting and mending, meditation, vision, medical illustration and procedure and spirituality,” said Baulos. 

“I’m interested in the forms and images that accompany the body and in the traces the body leaves: a bed, disease, a nest, a web, decay and shadows. My studio practice investigates how to link the outside surface of things with inner experience, creating installations and objects that present themselves as humble objects that open into a vast, imaginative and immersive space for the viewer.”

Visiting artists will be the following: 

• Winter Rusiloski, Associate Professor of Art at Baylor University
• Angel Fernandez, Associate Professor of Art at Tarrant County College
• Aaron Sanders Head
• Jenny Fine
• Bethany Moody, Instructor of Art at the University of Alabama

“The Department of Art and Design has a long and rich history of excellence at TROY,” Department Chair Greg Skaggs said. “The fact that our enrollment has grown steadily since the pandemic is a testament to that history and our strong current faculty. We are excited by the growth of this new program, and eager to continue making connections between TROY and the creative community in our state.”