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Marc Schepens Named CFA School of Visual Arts’ Next Director

Schepens, a painter, has served as SVA’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, the Meds at the MFA program for BU Medical students, and the Visual Arts Summer Institute high school program

Schepens will step into the role of Interim Director of the School of Visual Arts for an anticipated two-year term spanning the academic years of 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. As Director, he will lead a strategic planning exercise for the School of Visual Arts informed by the current 2024 SVA Academic Program Review. 

Marc Schepens is a visual artist whose exhibition work spans paintings, drawings, and prints. Recent solo exhibitions include “East Point”, Bromfield Gallery (2020), Boston, MA; “Dog Paintings”, Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School (2019); “Works on Paper”, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston (2018); and “Egem”, Artspace Gallery, Northern Essex Community College (2017). Recent Group shows include “Overflow”, Page Gallery, Camden ME (2021); “The Areacode Art Fair”, Boston, MA (2020); “Take A Walk for A Line”, MUSA collective, Boston, MA (2020); “The Missing Half Second”, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME (2019); and “Those Who Can”, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (2019).

Schepens has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Visual Arts and has been deeply involved in the ‘Meds at the MFA’ program for BU Medical students at the Museum of Fine Arts. He also helps direct the BU Visual Arts Summer Institute for high school students.

“Marc Schepens played a key role in the design of new Visual Arts degrees which has been instrumental to the national ascendance of CFA Visual Arts.” says Dean Harvey Young. “A painter with a dynamic presence across New England, he is perfectly positioned to lead CFA School of Visual Arts.”

School directorships rotate among senior faculty. The College thanks and will soon celebrate Dana Clancy, who has led CFA School of Visual Arts for the past six years.