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John McGiff

John’s interest in art began while he was a student at the Bancroft School in Essex, England, where he studied for his “A” Levels in art, literature and history, and earned the school prize in painting.

In 1984, John received his B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase, winning the Dean’s Commendation for Painting and Drawing. As part of his study for the M.F.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, which he received in 1989, John spent seven months in Padua, painting from the Italian landscape and visiting the many art meccas between Venice and Rome.

John taught painting, drawing and design for seven years at Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia.

John has received two fellowships in painting from the Delaware Division of the Arts in painting and has shown his work in a variety of mid-Atlantic galleries, including the Design Arts Gallery at Drexel University, the Fleisher Art Memorial, the Art Alliance of Philadelphia, the Delaware Agricultural Museum and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts.

With his wife, Elizabeth, their children, Olivia ’10 and Aidan, and their two cats and two dogs, John lives in the School farmhouse.

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