Scott Stephens

Stephens learned about fabric painting and incorporated it into his work in printmaking from Toni Tully in 2001. Tully was invited to teach at the University of Montevallo and direct a Fabric Painting Project designed to create hand-painted and screen printed panels for the Huntsville Museum of Art. The project and studio facilities were sponsored by Betty Grisham, Class of ’43, who ran a successful fabric business in New York producing original fabric for interiors and fashion. Toni continued to offer classes and workshops at Montevallo and worked with dozens of students, whose work is informed by Toni’s art. 

Scott Stephens is a printmaker and Professor of Art and Chair at the University of Montevallo, where he has taught since 1983. He earned his BFA degree at Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA at the University of Alabama. Stephens has completed artist residencies at the Centrum vor Grafiek Frans Masereel in Kasterlee, Belgium, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and the Hamilton Printmakers Arts Association in Ontario, Canada.  His work has been recognized with a fellowship from the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts and two individual artist fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1992 and 2002. Stephens was designated the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching CASE Alabama Professor of the Year for 2006.