Join us February 17 when the CAC welcomes acclaimed artist and Centre College Stodghill Professor of Art Sheldon Tapley for our next installment in the Lunch with the Arts series. Vivid and dynamic, Tapley's realism captures the eye and the imagination. In a feature article of American Artist Magazine, Bill Creevy writes "Tapley masterfully blends the discipline of a hard-earned classical technique with a vision that is thoroughly modern and personal."

Tapley was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela and raised in Europe and the United States, where he earned an MFA in prints and painting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BA in art at Grinnell College, Iowa. His still-life works have gained national repute with exhibitions in numerous states and various honors received, including the Al Smith Fellowship awarded by the Kentucky Arts Council in 1998. For most of his life Sheldon has also been an ardent teacher, often drawing and painting alongside his students. He has held an endowed professorship at Centre College since 2002 and in 2005 received the Stodghill Professorship, a permanent endowed chair at the college. Sheldon and his wife, Ann Silver, live in Danville, where they raised their two children. For more on the artist, visit his website www.sheldontapley.com.

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