Steven Pearson is the Joan Develin Coley Endowed Chair in Creative Expression and the Arts and Professor of Studio Art at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD where he has been teaching studio art courses since 2004. He has served as the director of the college’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery since 2005. Pearson has explored narrative through nonrepresentational and representational painting and drawing, most recently through the use of figures and still life. He received his A.A. in Fine Art from Fulton-Montgomery Community College in Johnstown, NY, his B.S. in Studio Art from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and his MFA in Painting from the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA in Baltimore, MD, where he studied under Grace Hartigan, Sam Gilliam, and Raoul Middleman. He has participated in more than 150 group and solo exhibitions. Pearson’s solo exhibitions have been in such places as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA, VisArts, Rockville, MD, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Art Association of Harrisburg, Delaplaine Visual Art Center, Frederick, MD, and Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA. His group exhibitions have been at places like American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnatti, OH, and McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA. Pearson’s paintings can be found in public and private collections such as Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Penn National Insurance, PNC Bank Regional Headquarters, Schenectady Museum, Siena College, and University of Mary Washington.