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FRANCES BAGLEY

Witness

source: francesbagley

Representing a portion of the cameras that are recording most of our public moves, these individual sets of eyes collectively ask the question of who is watchihng whom?
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source: frontrowdmagazine

A Tennessee native, Ms. Bagley holds multiple degrees—Bachelor of Fine Art and Master of Art from Arizona State University and Master of Fine Art from the University of North Texas, Denton. Her first degree was in painting, and she also worked as a potter, apprenticing with world-renowned British ceramicist Michael Leach at Yelland Pottery in Devon, England in 1971 and 1972. Bagley has taught at a number of institutions, including Oklahoma State University, University of Texas at Dallas, Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and Southern Methodist University.

In the course of her career, Bagley has won both national and international awards in both solo and group exhibitions. She is the only American to have won an award in the Kajima Sculpture Competition (the 10th Annual, in 2008), a competition held every two years in Tokyo. Her art is represented in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kajima Corporation in Tokyo, the El Paso Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Arkansas Art Center, the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as numerous corporate collections.