Stephanie Lewis received her MFA in painting at the University of Arkansas in 1998. She is currently Chair of Visual Arts and Media at Northwest Arkansas Community College where she has taught since 1999. Her work has been shown regionally (multiple venues in Northwest Arkansas, Little Rock, and Tulsa) and nationally, notably, in Chicago. She has received awards for Drawing (Virginia Cammack Award for Best in Drawing/Pastel in the 20th Annual Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Exhibition), for Painting (Purchase Award in the 19th Annual Small Works on Paper Exhibition), and one of her linocuts was published in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion 2009 Engagement Calendar. The work presented in this exhibition are part of a larger series called “Unsung Heroes” partially supported by a professional development grant by NWACC.