Photo courtesy of trevorcoopersmith.com
The Arts Council is excited to welcome its 2021 College Station Artist in Residence, Trevor Coopersmith. Trevor will spend the summer working on projects, adding to his portfolio, and preparing for a solo exhibit at the Arts & Visitor Center Gallery.
Trevor Coopersmith is an interdisciplinary artist from Carlsbad, California. He received a bachelor’s degree in art from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was recently accepted to the University of London, Goldsmiths MFA program. Coopersmith has sold to private collections across the globe, completed murals, founded the Urban Art Scholarship Foundation, and exhibited internationally and online. His recent work presents a series of concentric mushroom gills representing and translating a personal experience; eight days and 115 miles by skateboard across central California to question methodologies of progress and capitalism. Another series explores the relationship between memory and urban and natural landscapes. These juxtapositions are in relation to Roman Mythology and the planets within our solar system, humanity and its connection and alienation to the cosmos.
Trevor Coopersmith will teach a free adult art class, Introduction to Life Drawing, on Sat. June 26, from 1–4 p.m. at the Arts Council of Brazos Valley. Students will learn basic fundamentals to understanding how to draw the human body, including gesture, structure and anatomy of the figure, learning to draw using movement and fluidity. A live model will be provided. Sign-up information for the figure drawing workshop is to be determined. For more information, visit acbv.org/p/programs/adultclasses.
For more information about Trevor Coopersmith, visit trevorcoopersmith.com/about.
To learn more about The Arts Council's College Station Artist in Residence program, visit acbv.org/p/programs/artistsinresidence/college-station-artist-in-residence.
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