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Artist: Mark McWhorter
Originally from Ashland, KY, He earned both a BA (1977) and a MA (1979)
from Morehead State University, Kentucky.
Beginning in 1980, he started teaching art at Indian Hills Community College
in Ottumwa, Iowa.
In 1984, McWhorter was asked to design the Indian Hills Art Gallery on the
Ottumwa campus of IHCC. With the gallery’s completion, McWhorter was
appointed Indian Hills Art Gallery director and curator. Then in July of 2000,
he was appointed lead professor of the IHCC Art Department. In the summer
of 2020, McWhorter retired from his teaching position at Indian Hills in order
to continue his work as an artist full time.
McWhorter works comfortably in several different media: mostly watercolor
and acrylics. Ideas for his work are usually taken from the rural Iowa
landscape or from travels
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