Ed Kerns

An internationally known painter, Ed Kerns has mounted more than 40 one-person shows in galleries in New York, and elsewhere. He has also participated in more than 170 group exhibitions in the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Mexico. 

His work is in numerous public and corporate collections, including those of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Citicorp Collection; New York, N.Y.; Bass Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Fla.; Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, N.Y.; and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas.  It has been reviewed in many journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Kerns, whose interests include painting and digital imagery, joined the Lafayette faculty in 1980.  He was awarded the Clapp Professorship in 1988.  Through scholar research projects, independent studies, and honors projects, he has mentored more than 5000 students.  He is currently collaborating with Elizabeth Chapman on digital images and experiments in various media with an archival printer.

Kerns has been the recipient of several major College-wide awards at Lafayette, including the Mary Louise Van Artsdalen Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement (2001), James P. Crawford Award for superior teaching (1996), Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to campus life (1992), Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Award for superior teaching and scholarly contribution to his discipline (1987), and the Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Faculty Lecture Award in recognition of excellence in teaching and scholarship (1985).

Elizabeth Chapman

Elizabeth Chapman is a practicing architect and painter who began studying the impact of technology, on thought, in the early 80s while working with UNESCO.  Her Graduate work at MIT, in how meaning is constructed and knowledge is transferred, launched Miss Chapman’s exploration of neurology and architecture.  In recent years, her work has involved layers of topography, urbanism, and linguistic symbols in a visual metaphor for the development of self.  Chapman’s work is shown primarily on the East coast and most recently in a collaborative show in New York City at the Florence Lynch Gallery in Chelsea.  She maintains an architectural and painting studio and travels extensively to study the overlap of art, architecture, and neurology.