Member, Committee on Nomincation
Elected October 2024; term ends October 2026
JASON GUYNES is a Professor of Art and Chairperson of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama, and has held academic appointments at universities in Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama. He has been working in academia for thirty-one years and has served as a chairperson at three institutions for a total of twenty-eight years. In his current position, he managed the design and construction of a new graduate studio building and is currently overseeing the renovation of studio classrooms in historic Woods Hall. As part of his commitment to internationalization efforts, he has designed and directed study abroad programs in Spain and Italy since 2008 and has organized visiting scholars from Spain and China. He served as President of SECAC from 2014-2017 and participated in the governance of that organization for over ten years.
Professor Guynes exhibits his work nationally and internationally, and his work has been featured in Creative Quarterly’s virtual gallery, Negative Capability Journal, and Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual 8 and International Drawing Annual 15. Group exhibition venues include The Bowery Gallery (NYC), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), AIR Gallery (Manchester, England), University of North Carolina Asheville, Stephen F. Austin State University (TX), LaGrange Museum of Art (GA), Mobile Museum of Art (AL), University of Kentucky (Lexington), Notre Dame University of Maryland (Baltimore), Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX), Wiregrass Museum of Art (AL), Valdosta State University (GA), and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum (Roanoke, VA), among others. In addition to exhibiting his artwork, Professor Guynes has completed both private and public mural commissions throughout the United States. His most recent mural project was the Moulton Bell Tower Mural for the University of South Alabama. Continuing a lifelong commitment to the improvement of society through the arts, Professor Guynes also works in social practice. His latest project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control, was exhibited in 2023 at the David J. Sencer CDC Museum in association with the Smithsonian Institution.
Professor Guynes serves NASAD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Guynes holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Tulane University.
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Posted January 2025