The Art Educator
Courtland Mead is an art educator by trade. She currently teaches at James T. Alton Middle School in Vine Grove Kentucky. She teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade levels. Ms. Mead has been teaching in after-school programs for 5 years before she began to teach formally within Hardin county schools. Her experience was in programs such as Louisville Visual Arts Association, Stage One, Paint spot, and most recently the summer programs at the Louisville Zoo.
Courtland Mead is a contemporary figurative painter who lives in Kentucky. Mead invites us to partake in an allegorical world filled with invigorating paranoia that illustrates a Fox Hunts as more than meets the eye. Her illustratively fluid paintings are an experience of visual and mental disruption that intrigue and titillate the imagination. Mead’s use of organic shapes and circumfluous paint application in hopes of triggering a response of alleviated anxiety from her viewers. Mead’s love for painting as a medium began in 2009. This passion cultivated and grew throughout her teenage years, ultimately resulting in her pursuit of her Bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of Louisville. She is currently a graduate student at EKU working towards obtaining her MAT degree in the winter of 2023.