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In his 50th year of teaching at RIT, Luvon Sheppard’s career as an artist, educator and community collaborator cannot be summarized easily. From his early days as a student at RIT’s downtown campus, to his work at Memorial Art Gallery and the Allofus workshop, to his advocacy for RIT City Art Space, to the opening of his own Joy Gallery and Studio, to the countless individuals who have benefitted from his mentorship, Sheppard’s creative life continues to grow in himself and within the creative lives he’s affected. Whether painting his classic plein-air or layered thematic watercolors, or experimenting with collage, Sheppard is determined to keep his work fresh and forward thinking.

Luvon will be working with Ephraim Gebre to bring one of his compositions to larger than life scale.