Ernest Bryant III

Ernest A. Bryant III is an artist, critic and professor. His interests include traditional and augmented drawing, printmaking, nature, and its relationship to aesthetics and value. Bryant is the co-founder and co-host of the discussion series "Criticism and Value," an online forum and discussion series co-founded and hosted by ‘The Last Physician of Images’— a morphing avatar-persona, that acts as host and interlocutor with guests, artists and audience members through the creative reanimation of the visage of non-living artists, poets etc. the collaborative and critical ethos of Criticism + Value is also taught at New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, as a course embeded amongst the artist fellows of Silver Art Projects, located at the World Trade Center. Bryant was an SEI research fellow and assistant professor in the Experimental Foundation Studies Division, and the Illustration department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He was an inaugural fellow and faculty for the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and taught for the BARD Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and BARD L&T at Annandale. Bryant has served as a resident critic and teaching fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, as a guest critic at the following Institutions: Pratt Institute, Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Illustration Department, MFA Sculpture Department and Textiles department, and in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Bryant was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Shangyuan Art Scene in Beijing, China. He has received fellowships for his work and research from the Jerome Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yale University, RISD and the Lunder Institute for American Art.