About FAVA’s winter artist residency “The Artist Is In”:
During this residency artist are given the time and space to explore and create a new body of work, or complete one in progress. The artist will have their studio set up in our gallery space which will be open to the public during our regular house. This is a wonderful opportunity for visitors to interact with the artist, and see how artworks come alive, progress, and change over time. The artist will be present working during some regular house, and at scheduled hours over the weekends.

2025 Resident Artist: Michael Boyd Roman

About the Artist: 
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Michael Boyd Roman (b. 1981) comes to Northeast Ohio to serve as an Assistant Professor of Design & Black Visual Cultures at Oberlin College & Conservatory.  His mixed media and charcoal drawings seek to portray the ordinary grace of the contemporary Black experience informed by religious iconography juxtaposed against hip-hop and pop cultural references.  His extensive experience as an art educator includes teaching K-12, with his work in higher education beginning as the Visual Arts Program Director at Morehouse College in 2013.  Roman earned his MFA in drawing at California State University, Northridge in the spring of 2020, a MA in community arts from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 2007, and a BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 2004.