User:JKizzieHumanities/Eric Telfort

Eric Telfort is an acclaimed artist and educator living and working Providence, Rhode Island.

Telfort was born in little Haiti, Miami, Florida, the son of Haitian immigrants. Telfort earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Telfort was the chair of Providence's Art in City Life Commission.

Telfort taught at Brown University, and he is currently a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

As an artist, Telfort works in a number of mediums, including painting and illustration. Some of the places Telfort's work has been exhibited include Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, Maryland, Smith Center for Healing and Arts in Washington, D.C. and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. In 2020, he was awarded the MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Art.