Born in Southern California, Meghan Fleming received a BA in Studio Art from Smith College where she studied with Martha Armstrong, Susan Heideman, and Gary Niswonger. During her junior year she spent a semester at the New York Studio School working under Graham Nickson. Fleming earned an MFA in Painting at Indiana University where she studied with Barry Gealt, Bonnie Sklarski and Robert Barnes. She is the recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts fellowship, a US Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Grant, and several endowed professorships. Her work is featured in the book Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape by John Kemp (University Press of Mississippi, 2016). A continual investigatiion of themes such as adaptation, fluctuation, and impermanence are central to her paintings and drawings. She is a Professor at McNeese State University and lives in Southwest Louisiana.
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1999
B.A. Studio Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA (cum laude) 1995
The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, NY, NY 1994
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Winter Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY
2023-1999 Annual Faculty Exhibition, Grand Gallery, McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA2022 It’s the Little Things Juried Exhibit, Girls Who Paint Gallery, Kensington, MD
2020 Two-Fold: Lake Charles Legends, Invitational
Historic City Hall, Lake Charles, LA
2019 Shanghai Biennale: Feast on Paper Art International Paper Art Exhibit Invitational, Fengxian Musuem, Shanghai, China
#5WomenArtists Social Media Campaign Invitational Hillard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
2018 Fluctuations: An Installation of Handmade Paper—Solo exhibition
1911 Historic City Hall, Lake Charles, LA
TASIMJAE 2018 —The Art Studio, Inc—Juried Exhibit
Beaumont, TX
Rochester 6 x 6 x 2018
Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2017 Feast on Paper Art The First Shanghai International Paper Art Exhibit,
Shanghai, China
2016 Feast on Paper Art D-Lab Art Center Guangzhou, China
American Landscapes: Scenes from the Americas Maryland Federation of Art
2015 Ink and Stick Invitational Grand Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2014 Alternative Show Art Studio, Beaumont TX
McNeese State University 75th Anniversary Exhibit Lake Charles, LA
2013 Fluid Land: Cartographic Drawings of a Southwest Louisiana Landscape
Solo Exhibition, Art Associates Gallery, Central School, Lake Charles, LA
Annual Juried Exhibition 2013 Art Associates Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
2012 Lost and Found: Louisiana's Landscapes Revisited ACA, Lafayette, LA
DoodleVirus Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Meghan Fleming/Lisa Reinauer—Recent Works
Art Associates Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
National Drawing Invitational
Grand Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2011 Vision/Verse Art Associates Gallery, Central School, Lake Charles, LA
Emerging Artists and their Mentors
Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2010 Big Lake, Small Scapes
Meghan Fleming and Lisa Reinauer Abercrombie Gallery, MSU, Lake Charles, LA
2009 TASIMJAE The Art Studio, Beaumont, TX
12X12X12 BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Art Associates of Lake Charles 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition
Central School, Lake Charles, LA
2008 Java Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA
2007 5oth Anniversary Juried Exhibition Art Associates of Lake Charles,
Lake Charles, LA
2006 Resident’s Exhibition
International School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Galleria G8,
Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
49th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
2005 Meghan Fleming and Elemore Morgan: Two Visions of the Prairie
Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA
Town and Country: The Landscape in Contemporary Art
Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
2004 American Landscapes Exhibit 2004
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Dishman Art Competition
Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
8 from Lake Charles Galerie Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Faculty Invitational Art Associate Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
2003 Meghan Fleming and Garrett Middaugh: Paintings
Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 Meghan Fleming --Recent Works
Solo Exhibition
Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
“The Enduring Landscape” Juried Exhibition
Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Juried Exhibition
University Place Gallery Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
1999 MFA Thesis Exhibition SoFA Gallery
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
National Arts and Letters Juried Exhibition, Bloomington Chapter
Miller Gallery Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN
AWARDS/ GRANTS/ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Guest Lecturer—for Literary Writing: People, Plants, and Plight course, McNeese State
University: Landscape and Mapping 2023
Robert Jones Beauregard Endowed Professorship 2022
Robert Jones Beauregard Endowed Professorship 2020
Consultant/Collaborator on the Drawing Experience Exhibition Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX 2019
Art Consultant for Project SOS (Sisters of STEAM) 2018
Juliet Hardtner Women in Arts & Humanities Professorship 2017
Juliet Hardtner Women in Arts & Humanities Professorship 2015Gallery Conversation: HERstory: Women in Western Art
Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX 2015
Juliet Hardtner Women in Arts & Humanities Professorship 2014
Co-Coordinator: Foundations Exhibit Abercrombie Gallery July 2013
Violet B. Howell Endowed Professorship 2012
US Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Grant 2010-2013
Shearman Professorship in Liberal Arts 2007
Lecture: “The Beautiful Sights of Water: Images of Water in Painting and Architecture” SAGE: Senior Academic Group Encounter, McNeese State University 2007
Residency: International School of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Montecastello, Italy 2006
Award: Roberta and Jack McKibbon Award for Painting, 49th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY
Curator: Women Painting Women Exhibition, McNeese State University
Panelist: Women Painting Women Exhibition 2004
Lecture: “America the Beautiful on Canvas: Hudson River School Landscape Painters” SAGE: Senior Academic Group Encounter, McNeese State University 2003
Artist Fellowship: Louisiana Division of the Arts 2002
Grant-in-Aid Research for travel to Florence, Italy 1999
Artist Talk: Indiana University Undergraduate Summer Program, Florence, Italy 1999
Artist Grant and Residency: Vermont Studio Center 1998
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Kemp, John Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape 2016
Aerial Views LERC journal McNeese State University 2014
Kemp, John Artist Profile: Meghan Fleming
Impressions of the Sabine Delta Louisiana Life January/February 2014
Bannon, Anthony. The Chautauquan Daily, July 11, 2006
Heath, Benita. Lexington-Herald Ledger, February, 11, 2005
COVER ART/ILLUSTRATIONS:
Connelly, Neil In the Wake of Our Vows 2016 (Short story collection)
Connelly, Neil Pocket Guide to Divorce: A Self-Help Work of Fiction 2014
COLLECTIONS:
Port of Lake Charles, Lake Charles, LA
EOG Resources, San Antonio, TX
POGO-Midland, TX
Chevron, Houston, TX
Glodking Energy Corp., Houston, TX
Private collections
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 1999- present