Tula telfair biography

She received her BFA in from Moore College of Art and Design as a W.W. Smith Foundation Fellow and earned her MFA in from Syracuse University as a Graduate Fellow.!

Born in Bronxville, NY in , she grew up in Africa, Asia and Europe before settling in the United States.

I grew up traveling all over the world because of my father's profession.

She received her BFA in from Moore College of Art and Design as a W.W. Smith Foundation Fellow and earned her MFA in from Syracuse University as a Graduate Fellow.

Tula Telfair is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Numerous key galleries and museums such as Forum Gallery have featured Tula.

Tula Telfair spent her childhood in West Central Africa.

Tula Telfair in her studio in Old Lyme, CT
Photograph by Paul Horton

Born in Bronxville, NY in 1961, Tula Telfair grew up in Africa, East Asia, and Europe before settling in the United States.

She received her BFA in 1984 from Moore College of Art and Design as a W.W. Smith Foundation Fellow and earned her MFA in 1986 from Syracuse University as a Graduate Fellow. Telfair is currently the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where she has taught since 1989 and served as Academic Dean of the Arts and Humanities, in addition to receiving the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Paintings by Tula Telfair have been exhibited at galleries in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Connecticut and included in Museum exhibitions throughout the United States.

Hers is a progressive art, a continuous exploration like each individual painting. The works might seem to contain the panoramic observations found in 19th Centur