Geo Sipp

Geo Sipp
Director of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Art

Education:
MFA, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
BFA, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Areas of Emphasis and Teaching Experience:
Drawing: Foundation, Figure, Graphite, Charcoal, Pastel; Painting: Acrylic, Oil; Illustration: Concept Development, Analogy, Metaphor, Professional and Portfolio Presentation, Client Relations, Contracts and Negotiations; Printmaking: Intaglio, Serigraphy, Relief, Collagraph, Vitreography, Solarplate, Photoetch, Mono-Printing and Lithography; Sequential Art: History, Scholarship, Artistic Practice.

Geo Sipp is the Director of the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University. Enrollment at the School of Art and Design has grown to over 1000 students, making it the largest unit in the College of the Arts. The School continues to grow by offering students a rigorous fine arts education as well as applied design programs, including, Graphic Communications, a BAT in Apparel Textiles Technology, a BFA in Digital Animation and concentration areas of study in Illustration as well as Sequential Art. In keeping with the university’s focus on Global Engagement, the School of Art and Design has a formal articulation agreement with Ecole Supérieure des Arts (esa) Saint-Luc Bruxelles. ESA St. Luc is one of the renowned design schools in Europe, with particularly strong programming in Illustration, Sequential Art and Graphic Design.

Geo Sipp is an artist and illustrator who has worked for top international advertising agencies and clients, and his work has been published by many of the leading newspapers, magazines and book publishers in the United States and abroad. Among his clients include: ABC Television, Atlanta Ballet, BBDO Advertising, BellSouth, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Fortune, General Electric, Harris Corporation - Trans-Siberian Railroad, Los Angeles Times, Metropolitan Opera, National Football League, Newsweek, New York Times, Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, St. Martin's Press, Time-Warner, United States Postal Service, U.S. News & World Report and the Walt Disney Company. Geo’s research and scholarship on sequential art has appeared in numerous national and international peer-reviewed publications and has resulted in international speaking engagements and exhibitions. His current work is primarily intended for inclusion in a graphic novel entitled Wolves in the City, which has the French-Algerian War as its subject.

His work has been exhibited at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Weinberger Fine Arts in Kansas City, the Algerian Cultural Ministry in Algiers, Algeria, Clemson University, International Print Center, New York, McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Sharjah Museum of Art in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida and the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University. His work has also been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States as well as in Algeria, Belgium, China, England, France, Spain, and Tunisia. He has lectured and given workshops at many universities including: the University of Kansas, Dartmouth College, École de Recherche Graphique Brussels, Institut St. Luc Brussels (ESA St. Luc), University of London, London College of Communications, and the University of London-Paris.

Sipp is a recipient of the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Education. His artistic awards include numerous gold and silver ADDY’s for his work in the field of Illustration.

Fight Night in Algiers

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