Member, Committee on Nominations
Elected October 2025; term ends October 2026
McLEAN FAHNESTOCK is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Her artistic practice is primarily in video and other forms of new and digital media, animation, installation, and sculpture, most often engaging in appropriation and collage strategies, integrating forms of digital capture, presentation, and creation with embodied layering and sculptural containers for media. The grandchild of an explorer, Professor Fahnestock’s work questions how desire shapes our relationship with the land, manipulates our perception and judgment, and can manifest in conflict, violence, and ownership.
Professor Fahnestock’s work has been exhibited and screened across the United States and Internationally at institutions such as the Aurora Picture Show and Menil Collection (Houston), Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Black Mountain College Re{Happening} (North Carolina), Technisches Museum Wien, (Vienna, Austria), The California Science Museum (Los Angeles), The British Library (London), MOCA Hiroshima, (Japan), and Off the Screen at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her work has been supported by grants from the Puffin Foundation, Hoff Foundation, Durfee Foundation, South Arts, and Current Art Fund, a regional regranting program of the Warhol Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at Cerritos College, Vanderbilt University, The School of Making Thinking, Stove Works, Mineral House, and The Lock-Up. She has given lectures and gallery talks at many institutions including the University of Houston, University of Newcastle, and Black Mountain College Museum.
Professor Fahnestock serves NASAD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Fahnestock holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach.
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