The Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts is an annual appointment for visiting teaching artists that rotate through each studio discipline at the Hartford Art School. For the 2022-23 academic year, the Painting Department is pleased to welcome Genevieve DeLeon, whose recent work centers on Mayan astronomical knowledge and cosmology. The showing will occur on Thursday, March 2 from 12-6 PM in the Visual Arts Center Donald and Linda Slipe Gallery.

Genevieve DeLeon is an artist, poet, and MFA graduate from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she worked under the direction of Beverly Fishman. Her work has been exhibited at MCAD Gallery, DC Artspace, Tessellate Gallery, Forum Gallery, and the Washington Studio School, and is forthcoming at Modus Locus.

She works on community-based projects in the Twin cities and DC area. She received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University and worked as managing editor of Poet Lore magazine, America’s oldest continuously published poetry journal.

Her poems and writing have appeared in Mnartists.org, Poetry Quarterly, Ekphrasis, and Poet Lore. For more information on the exhibition and related programming, visit: https://hartford.beacontest.com/academics/schools-colleges/art/galleries/default.aspx