Steven Pearson is the Joan Develin Coley 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 also served as the director of the college’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery since 2005. Pearson served honorably in the United States Navy and then 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 Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, where he studied under Grace Hartigan, Sam Gilliam, and Raoul Middleman. Pearson exhibits both regionally and nationally, and currently is exhibiting his work in a solo exhibition, Hercules’ New Labors and Other Domestic Affairs, at the Gallery at the Scott Center at Carroll Community College in Westminster, MD.