Evelyn Terry, also known as Evelyn P. Terry or Evelyn Patricia Terry (born 1946) is an American visual artist, art educator, writer, lecturer, exhibition curator and community advocate from

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. Her

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works have been exhibited and sold locally and internationally, including in Japan, Germany, and Russia. Terry's mediums include printmaking, drawing, painting,

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Early life and education

Terry was born to mother Jessie Mae Terry and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She attended North Division High School. With a concentration in printmaking, she earned a BFA and a MS in visual arts from the

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. She later earned an MFA from the

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Career

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Terry's work has been locally, nationally, and internationally exhibited in both public and private collections, with over 400 private, corporate, and public collections featuring her work. Her pastel work ''Watermelon Slice'' is in the permanent collection of the

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and other artwork is featured in the

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Haggerty Museum of Art The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, sometimes referred to simply as "the Haggerty", is located at 13th and Clybourn Streets on the campus of Marquette University in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The museum opened in 1 ...

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, the

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, and the

Wright Museum of Art The Wright Museum of Art is a small art museum maintained and operated by Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. It houses a collection of approximately 6,000 objects, has five gallery spaces, and provides training for undergraduate students in muse ...

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. Terry's 12-part sculpture ''Giving Gifts'' is located in the

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parking facility. The public artwork represents ethnic legacies in Milwaukee and was completed in 2002 by Terry with welding by George Ray McCormick Sr. In 2009, Terry converted her

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in Milwaukee to an art gallery, the Terry McCormick Contemporary Fine and Folk Art Gallery, in honor of her late husband, the artist George Ray McCormick, Sr. Terry authored the book ''Permission To Paint Please: A 150 Year History of African American Artists in Wisconsin''.

Awards

* 2012: Wisconsin Visual Artist Lifetime Achievement Award * 2014: Artist of the Year ( Milwaukee Arts Board)

References

External links

Official websiteEvelyn Patricia Terry
on ''Wisconsin Life'', PBS, September 13, 2018.
Interview with Evelyn Patricia Terry
''Artful Lives'', WXRW, May 3, 2021. {{DEFAULTSORT:Terry, Evelyn 1946 births Living people American women artists African-American artists Artists from Milwaukee University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni