THE BENNETT-SCHMIDT LECTURES ON THE HIGHER AIM OF ART: MARGARET BOWLAND - "WHAT IS APPROPRIATION?"

Margaret Bowland was born in Burlington, North Carolina. In 1969, she graduated from Governor’s School in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and in 1971, from UNC Chapel Hill. In 2010, Margaret was a Finalist and People’s Choice Award Winner for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. In 2014, Margaret was awarded the Florence Gaskins Harper Chair in Art Education at the Maryland Institute and College of the Arts. “Being an artist, in any medium is a form of synthesis. You are, yourself, a collision. You are the result of every decision that you have made. The images that imprint themselves upon your psyche are not chosen; they demand to be seen. Always these images surprise the very person who created them. In the midst of a painting one is being pulled, as if through a fog. When the fog breaks and one beholds what has occurred it is often a shock. They are the messages from your unconscious laid before you, bare.” – Margaret Bowland