Lynn Sisler MFA ’21 of Menagerie Fine Art Studio
Lynn Sisler received her MFA at Maine College of Art in 2021 and completed a BFA in painting with a minor in Art History from Northern Illinois University in 1991. Sisler received the prestigious Hildreth Family MFA Scholar Award, the Hale Residency at the Artist Association of Nantucket, and has shown work at the Zuckerman Museum. She is currently an adjunct professor at Springfield College. Working predominantly in painting and ceramic sculptures, Sisler forages from her emotional, textural, and deeply personal interactions with the natural world. Often imprinting found materials directly into the work and firing ceramics with Raku methods, her studio practices and imagery create a dynamic, ethereal and imagined ecology. Sisler’s work tells visual Gaia stories featuring animals, plants, and humans in a magical, folkloric construct, creating thoughtful consciousness about life and death cycles, humans’ relationship to the earth, and the interconnectedness within all species.