D Derek
2D Instructor | Painting
D Derek attended Parsons School of Design, American Conservatory Theatre for Dramatic Arts and Providence College. He is a recipient of 2025 NAACP Image Award, a New England Foundation for the Arts Grant, State of Connecticut DMHAS Arts Initiative Grant, public art commissions by the City of Norwich and Ocean Chamber of Commerce, awarded an ARPA Grant and an Artist Professional Development Cohort Grant and recently accepted to the Masters Abstraction Intensive In-Residence program at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and a fellowship residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He also placed 1st for Abstract Art at the New York City Washington Square Art Exhibit, presented at the New Britain Museum of American Art, and has been an art educator at the Mystic Museum of Art since 2020. His artwork is in many private residences, corporate locations, galleries in the U.S. and Europe.
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Website: dderek.com