Terry Lennox
Biography
Detail, Portrait of Abigail
Detail, Portrait of Abigail
Terry Lennox earned a BFA, Magna Cum Laude in Painting from Syracuse University, a fellowship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, and a MFA degree in Painting from Yale University in 1974.
After college, Ms. Lennox embarked on a series of community-involved arts initiatives, including painting and directing numerous murals in New Haven with teenagers and receiving a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts to paint murals in the local welfare department and correctional center. Ms. Lennox also became involved with an arts-in-social service non-profit called City Spirit Artists. Through working and volunteering at all levels in this award-winning organization, up to Board President, she learned that practice of the arts have a huge human value, even to the extent of prolonging the life of a terminally ill person.
Since 1993, Terry Lennox has been creating art for corporate and private clients in illustration, design, portraiture, and sculpture. Selected clients include: General Motors, Scandinavian Airlines, United Technologies, The Blue Buffalo Company, EMCOR Group, Chubb Insurance, Hartford Hospital, Mason Inc., Tossed Express, and the Connecticut Children’s Museum.
From 2000-2004, Ms. Lennox worked for Business Performance Technologies, as Graphic Designer and Senior Designer. At BP-Tech, she was responsible for the look and feel of the company’s collateral materials and e-learning courseware for corporate clients. Ms. Lennox was Creative Services Lead for numerous courses for Verizon GNI. A partial client list includes: CVS Pharmacy, FDIC, Inter-American Development Bank, Motorola, MedcoHealth, Nestle, SkillSoft, and Toyota.
Currently, Terry Lennox is tenured Professor of Digital Art & Design and Chair of the Art & Art History Department at Eastern Connecticut State University. She teaches illustration and graphic design.
Ms. Lennox’s portraiture is represented by Francesca Fine Art/Portraits North in Lexington, MA.
Terry Lennox exhibits her artwork and has won awards and grants. Terry Lennox is a member of the College Art Association, Graphic Artists Guild, Connecticut Society of Pastel Artists and Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists.