Phillip T. Counselman is an associate professor of art and chair at the University of Mobile. He also teaches art seminar courses in the university’s Masters of Art Program and is a visiting printmaking professor at the University of South Alabama. In addition to his teaching duties, he is the director of the Marilyn Foley Gallery at the University of Mobile where he has held professional art exhibits and visiting lectures. He was awarded the William A. Megginson Teaching Award from the University of Mobile in 2012. Counselman’s works have been exhibited nationally including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona CA., Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC., Masur Museum of Art, Monroe LA., The Sawtooth Center for the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC., The Huntsville Alabama Museum of Art., Biggin Gallery at Auburn University, AL, and locally at the Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope Al. Recently, he has lectured and held a solo display at the Pensacola Museum of Art and completed an artist residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center for the Arts in Clayton Georgia.
PROFILE
Born: Selma, Alabama 1978
Universities
MFA– Studio Art 2005, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BFA– Painting 2003, University of South Alabama
BA– Painting 2001, University of Mobile
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Art, Chair, Gallery Director, University of Mobile, Mobile Al.
Instructor of Art, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Alabama
Visiting Printmaking/Sculpture Instructor, University of South Alabama, Mobile Alabama
Visiting Instructor, Winston-Salem State University,
North Carolina