Biography

Currently an Assistant Professor of Painting + Drawing in the Department of Art + Design at Utah Valley University, Giannell formerly taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University and Auburn University, as well as with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was also the Department Gallery Coordinator. Giannell holds a diploma in Visual Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a MFA in Painting from Clemson University.

Giannell has been an Artist in Residence with the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation in Poland researching the Holocaust as well as the inaugural Artist in Residence with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project teaching in men's prisons. Her work has received multiple awards, including the Florita Eichel Memorial Purchase Award from the Evansville Museum of Art, History + Sciences in Evansville, IN and the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Award from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, AL. Giannell's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibits with the Museum of Art in Orem, UT and Lyon College in Batesville, AR, well as in two-person exhibitions at Coker University in Hartsville, SC, Gaston College in Dallas, NC, and Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC.

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