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Scott Raynor

high point university faculty Scott Raynor portrait
Scott Raynor
Chair and Professor, Art and Graphic Design
Education
  • MFA – University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Painting/Printmaking)

Scott Raynor is an award winning artist who creates works that explore the complex relationship of the artist and his studio through complex spatial and formal relationships. His works have been shown both nationally and internationally in over 60 peer juried exhibitions and shows. Recent highlights include 

 

  • The 40th International Mini Print Exhibition, Pineda De Mar, Spain; Bages, France; Wingfield, UK 
  • Exhibition of work at the Blue Mountain Gallery, in NYC 
  • Art on Paper, MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD 
  • A Tribute to Small Works, MVA Art Gallery, Modern Visual Arts, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 
  • 2018 Shortlisted for the Sunny Art International Prize in London UK  

 

In addition to his exhibitions, he has been a visiting artist at Del Mar College, the University of Alabama at Mobile and Georgia Southern University. He has completed artist residencies at the highly competitive Scuola di Arts Grafica in Venice and the Vermont Studio Center. He has given 12 juried presentations at numerous conferences including the College Art Association, Southeastern College Conference and Midwestern College Art Conference.  

 

He won the Ruth Ridenhour Award for excellence in Research at High Point University and was a finalist for a 2019 Fate Visionary Leadership Award. This national level award recognizes excellence in department leadership and curriculum. In 2021 Raynor was chosen by the US House of Representatives to be a judge for North Carolina art students for works to be displayed at the US Capitol.  

 

Raynor led the Art and Graphic Department in achieving accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. He teaches courses in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking and a freshmen level course on Creativity in the Arts.