Lissa Gill
Assistant Professor, Art
Degrees: B.F.A., Auburn University; M.F.A., University of Tennessee
Office Location: Heydel Fine Arts Center
E-mail: lgill@cumberland.edu
Degrees: B.F.A., Auburn University; M.F.A., University of Tennessee
Office Location: Heydel Fine Arts Center
E-mail: lgill@cumberland.edu
Lissa Gill is Assistant Professor of Art in the CU School of Music & the Arts. She has worked there since 1995, teaching studio art and art history. Ms. Gill is primarily responsible for the two-dimensional studio disciplines of design, drawing, color and painting. She tries to help each student realize that visual art is a direct means of expression and communication in a culture which is increasingly dependent on visual images. Visual art is a means of personal expression, as well as a way to study and understand other times and cultures.
Ms. Gill has been a director of the Adams Gallery Exhibition Series since its inception in 1996. Located in the Heydel Fine Arts Center, the Adams Gallery exhibits a wide variety of visual art forms, so that students gain first-hand awareness of contemporary trends and traditional media. Ms. Gill thinks it is very important for developing artists to see and analyze the work of others.
Prior to her arrival at Cumberland University, Ms. Gill taught drawing as a member of the faculty of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She also worked as a graphic designer for Kentucky Educational Television in Lexington, Ky. After relocating to Tennessee in 1985, she completed courses to obtain teacher licensure in Art Education at Middle Tennessee State University and served as an adjunct instructor in the MTSU Art Department before joining the Cumberland faculty.
Ms. Gill has works in the collections of the Tennessee State Museum, Gaylord-Opryland Hotel, University of Kentucky Art Museum and the Capitol Hotel in Frankfurt, Ky. She has been included in numerous exhibits across the southeast, including 'From the Mountains to the Mississippi,' a statewide juried exhibit sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Several of her drawings are included in Discovering Drawing, a textbook published by Davis Publications.
Ms. Gill is a member of the Tennessee Art Education Association, the College Art Association, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Tennesseans for the Arts and the Cumberland University Fine Arts Council (CUFAC). She has judged many student exhibits in the state of Tennessee, including the East Tennessee Scholastic Arts Competition.
Ms. Gill has been a director of the Adams Gallery Exhibition Series since its inception in 1996. Located in the Heydel Fine Arts Center, the Adams Gallery exhibits a wide variety of visual art forms, so that students gain first-hand awareness of contemporary trends and traditional media. Ms. Gill thinks it is very important for developing artists to see and analyze the work of others.
Prior to her arrival at Cumberland University, Ms. Gill taught drawing as a member of the faculty of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She also worked as a graphic designer for Kentucky Educational Television in Lexington, Ky. After relocating to Tennessee in 1985, she completed courses to obtain teacher licensure in Art Education at Middle Tennessee State University and served as an adjunct instructor in the MTSU Art Department before joining the Cumberland faculty.
Ms. Gill has works in the collections of the Tennessee State Museum, Gaylord-Opryland Hotel, University of Kentucky Art Museum and the Capitol Hotel in Frankfurt, Ky. She has been included in numerous exhibits across the southeast, including 'From the Mountains to the Mississippi,' a statewide juried exhibit sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Several of her drawings are included in Discovering Drawing, a textbook published by Davis Publications.
Ms. Gill is a member of the Tennessee Art Education Association, the College Art Association, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Tennesseans for the Arts and the Cumberland University Fine Arts Council (CUFAC). She has judged many student exhibits in the state of Tennessee, including the East Tennessee Scholastic Arts Competition.