Fan Lee Warren
Email: fanwarren@sbcglobal.net
Biography
Fan Lee Warren received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1985 and a BFA from Illinois State University in 1982.
She has been teaching drawing, sculpture and painting for 22 years in a multitude of settings from colleges, museums to housing projects in culturally
diverse communities. Also, she has taught art history and art appreciation for nine years and currently teaches painting and African American Art History
at Laney College.
Ms. Warren has been exhibiting her sculptures, drawings/paintings and installations professionally for over 21 years. Her work is in several
collections such as the public collections of the New Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago and the Alameda County Art Commission also the
permanent collections of the Bemis Foundation in Omaha Nebraska and Laney College in Oakland California.
She has received various grants, awards and art commissions including a Oakland Creative Artist Fellowship Grant; Western States Arts
Federation/National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Regional Fellowship for Visual Artist; an NEA as part of the Urban Renewal Laboratory exhibit,
the California Arts Council (Artist in Residence Grant); 2 Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grants; and Astraea Foundation Visual Artist Award.
Her work has been reviewed in Open Door Contemporary Art Project, American Vision, The New Art Examiner, Artweek, and The International Review of African
American Art. Currently she is featured in "Who's Who in America" 2004-2007, "Who's Who in the World" 2001-2007, "Who's Who of American Women" 2000-2007
"who's Who in American Education" 2004-2007.