Associate Professor from 2000 to 2024
Painting and Foundations

Area Coordinator from 2000 to 2024
Painting

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Jill Eggers served as the lead painting instructor and head of the Visual and Media Arts Department Painting Program from 2000 to May 2024. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Western Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University. Before coming to GVSU, she worked previously as an Associate Professor of Painting at Wichita State University. She also taught for several years in Chicago's inner-city public schools, where she established several grant-supported art programs for disadvantaged and special needs youth. Her paintings and drawings explore, among other things, relationships between consciousness and physicality. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in many private and public collections. She recently retired from teaching and continues to create and exhibit a series of paintings based on dense forest landscapes in Michigan, many of which are influenced by places in the fiction and poetry of writer Jim Harrison.

MFA, Painting/Printmaking, Yale University

BFA, Painting, Western Michigan University