Melinda Whitmore Fine Art
Statement
Melinda Whitmore received her MFA cum laude in painting from the New York Academy of Art and BA degrees in Art History and Studio Art from Indiana University. In addition to her eleven years of teaching experience in oil painting, life drawing, sculpture and anatomy, she has been a part of numerous exhibitions from New York to Chicago, held an assistant curatorial position in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, sculpts anatomical figures and models for many of the country's top anatomical supply companies, and has been featured in American Artist Drawing magazine. In 2008, Melinda won the top prize for The National Sculpture Society's Figure Sculpture Competition and in the summer of 2010, she was awarded the Agop Agopoff Memorial Prize for Classical Sculpture by the National Sculpture Society. Melinda has taught in Virginia and in Chicago at the American Academy of Art in Chicago from 1999-2006 teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. She is co-founder of the Vitruvian Fine Art Studio in Chicago with her husband, painter David Jamieson.
