Conrad Nelson Fellow

ARTIST LECTURE

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
6 p.m.

Biemesderfer Hall
Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center, 60 W. Cottage Ave., Millersville, PA 17551

Reception to follow.  Free and open to the public.

This visiting artist fellowship is endowed by Millersville alumna Conrad Nelson and Luceille B. Hagarman and presented by the Millersville University Department of Art & Design.

FALL 2025 Conrad Nelson Fellow Ι SARAH Mceneaney

Presented by the Department of Art & Design, acclaimed Philadelphia painter Sarah McEneaney will discuss her vibrant autobiographical work, known for its meticulous detail and intimate storytelling. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and are held in major collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

About the Artist - For decades, the life and art of Philadelphia based painter Sarah McEneaney have been symbiotic. Sarah’s autobiographical subject matter presents an unpretentious approach to rendering people, places and things with vibrant, meticulous and detailed brushwork. Sarah’s paintings are an invitation into the story of a life lived. Sarah McEneaney was born in Munich, Germany in 1955. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 and to this day lives, paints and commits herself to the community of Philadelphia.

McEneaney has had solo museum shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Mills College Art Museum, CA; and the List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA. She has been in over seventy group shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and had consistent solo exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia over the last twenty years. McEneaney’s work is in the collections of Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. McEneaney has had artist residencies at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Sarah McEneaney is represented by Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, and Taymour Grahne Projects, Dubai.

ABOUT THE CONRAD NELSON FELLOWSHIP ...

The Conrad Nelson Artist-In-Residence Fellowship was established in 2000 by MU alum Conrad Nelson, to host accomplished visual artists working in various media, to display and describe their works, to give public lectures on issues in the arts, and to interact with students, faculty, and other members of the greater Millersville community.

WITH SPECIAL THANKS . . .

The Conrad Nelson The 2026-26 Conrad Nelson Artist's Lecture by artist Sarah McEneaney is organized by the Department of Art & Design at Millersville University.  The annual fellowship is endowed by Millersville alumna Conrad Nelson and Luceille B. Hagarman.  This event is free and open to the public.