Faculty Profiles

Beverly Penn’s sculpture explores the contradicting need to both idealize and modify the natural environment. She was recently awarded a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Grand and was recently selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts as the State of Texas 3D Artist of 2017. Penn’s sculptures are included in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Contemporary Austin; the Moody Foundation; the Racine Art Museum; the El Paso Museum of Art; and the Monarch Center for Contemporary Art in Washington. She has been commissioned for several Public Art Projects, including Unity in Diversity in Las Cruces, NM; the Community Core Sample Project and the Threshold Project with Steve Wiman in Austin; the Natives Project at Whole Foods in Austin; and the 719 Ash Hilton Hotel and the Carte Hilton, both in San Diego. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships including a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy; a Fulbright Fellowship in Barcelona, Spain: and a Connemara Conservancy Artist Grant. She has also received nine Texas State University Faculty Research Grants involving research in Mexico, Italy, Spain, and New York. She is a tenured Professor in the School of Art & Design at Texas State University. Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth, and Flatbed Press in Austin represent her work.