Artist Stephanie Kolpy delivers a public lecture on her current arts practice — an exploration of the visual and thematic parallels between apocalyptic mythos and the Holocene extinction, the present and ongoing sixth great extinction event due to climate change, through multiple layers of monoprinting, drypoint, and hand-painted high-density watercolor ink.

Kolpy is a Visiting Artist at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, invited by the school to participate in a three-day interaction with students, faculty, and members of the UGA campus community. 

Kolpy is senior lecturer of art in the focused areas of drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art at Georgia State University.

Kolpy has participated in over 100 international, national, invitational, and regional exhibitions with seven solo exhibitions since 2003. Since 2003, she has received over 20 awards based on her own portfolio and has been included in 30 art publications or critically reviewed publications including the book NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, highlighting contemporary Southern artists, and most recently, The Hand Magazine, a competitive journal publishing printmaking and photography.

In 2019, Kolpy received the Don A. Tilton Purchase Award from the Delta National Printmaking Exhibition. In 2022, she received the Juror’s Award in Artist’s Vision 2022 International. Kolpy’s work is in the permanent collections of the Bradbury Museum in Arkansas, the Zuckerman Museum of Georgia, and the Yun Xiang Ju Group / Baoding City China Cultural Museum. Kolpy continues to participate in and curate many international and national group exhibitions, such as her curatorial project for the Southern Graphics Council International Printmaking Conference in 2017, where she curated the solo exhibition for internationally acclaimed artist Sue Coe and her show The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto for the Welch Gallery. In 2020 at the Welch Gallery, she curated Higher Ground, featuring the work of painter Josh Dorman, which included a multimedia experience at the Kopleff Recital Hall at GSU and was funded by the CENCIA Spotlight Grant. In 2021, she received The Visiting Artist Series Grant for a joint curated show called CRASH in combination with the exhibition, Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes and Missy Cochran.