Troy Wingard
Foundations
A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA- Graphic Design) and the University of Georgia (MFA – Drawing & Painting), Troy Duane Wingard is currently the foundations coordinator for the Department of Visual Art at Southeastern Louisiana University. For the past five years he taught at the University of Georgia both undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of studio classes – from basic foundations to more advanced painting and drawing directed study classes. Wingard has also been a visiting artist at a variety of institutions where he has conducted lectures and panel discussions, graduate studio critiques, and materials workshops.
An honor in Wingard’s academic career was to be selected as one of the 2005-2006 Top Twelve Professors of the University of Georgia by the UGA Student Government Association. Over eighty educators from all UGA academic departments and schools were nominated for this award. Of the twelve who were chosen for the award, Wingard was the only adjunct faculty member.
For two years Wingard was the Associate Director of the UGA Latin America Studies Abroad Program, where he planned, budgeted, managed and instructed in the art programs for Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. During his tenure with this intensive program he instructed over one hundred students, both graduate and undergraduate, while also managing the combined educational budgets of over $605,000. In August of 2006 Wingard was presented with the UGA Outstanding Leadership in Study Abroad Art Education Award for exceptional teaching and directorial service for the University of Georgia.
Wingard’s pastel paintings and drawings addresses questions centering on individualism and the shared experiences of others. His work has appeared in numerous group, solo and museum exhibitions throughout the Southeastern United States, and even internationally in Havana, Cuba, Budapest, Hungary, and Camagüey, Cuba. His painting have also been shown in both of the 2001 and the 2003 southern region editions of the nationally distributed periodical New American Paintings.