Meredith Ferguson

Meredith Ferguson is pursuing a PhD in Art Education at the University of Georgia. She holds a Master’s in Art Education and a BFA in Printmaking. A dedicated high school art educator, Meredith is passionate about fostering creativity, innovation, and meaningful learning experiences. She is also a working watercolor portrait artist, and her personal work explores the degradation of time and memory through printmaking and installation. She brings her professional art practice into the classroom, giving students opportunities to engage with real-world creative experiences.

Her research interest focuses on restructuring art critique in the classroom to create engaged, collaborative spaces where students can learn deeply. She is committed to exploring teaching methods that promote student growth, innovation, and community building through the arts.

Outside of her professional work, Meredith is a mother of four children, all five and under. Balancing family life with her roles as an educator and artist informs her dedication to nurturing creativity, empathy, and resilience in her students.

Meredith Ferguson’s photogravure prints and installation work explore the intersections of space, time, and memory, investigating how objects carry meaning and how that meaning shifts when the mind forgets their purpose. Her work questions the relationship between materiality and cognition, creating environments where familiar forms become estranged, allowing viewers to reflect on the impermanence and fragility of memory.

Through layered imagery, repetition, and spatial interventions, Ferguson’s work engages with the passage of time, revealing how memories fragment, overlap, and decay. By challenging the assumptions we place on everyday objects, her prints and installations provoke a reconsideration of how we assign significance, inviting audiences to confront what is remembered, forgotten, or transformed.

Ultimately, her practice seeks to illuminate the tension between the physical and the cognitive, asking viewers to reconsider the stories objects tell when their purpose is no longer remembered.