Evelyn Patricia Terry (1946 - )

Evelyn Patricia Terry is an award winning full-time professional visual artist living and working in Wisconsin. An entrepreneur who founded her own business, she is also active as a highly respected art educator, writer, lecturer, exhibition curator and community advocate. Terry's mixed-media works have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in Spain, Germany, Japan and Russia and are included in numerous public and private collections. In 2002, her commissioned sculptures were installed in Milwaukee’s General Mitchell Airport parking structure. Additionally, her artwork can be viewed on public thoroughfares and at the Midwest Convention Center in Milwaukee.

Terry is one of the founders of the advocacy group, ABEA, African-American Artists Beginning to Educate Americans about African-American Art. She has organized exhibitions for the group and works to obtain corporate and public support to feature African-American Art in museums.

Primarily known for mixed media work, Terry’s early style was figurative and has evolved to become centered around religious questions and spiritual concepts as well as non-objective color pastel drawings. “My work reflects my life; I am releasing and documenting my feelings through layers and blends of smeared and scribbled color.”

Terry grew up and attended school in Milwaukee. She earned a BFA and MS degree from The School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.