Artist: Ted Whisenhunt | Location: Young Harris, GA
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Artist: Ted Whisenhunt | Location: Young Harris, GA
Young Harris, GA
Ted Whisenhunt, an Alabama native, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1995. Upon graduation, he studied ornamental iron, black-smithing, and metal fabrication techniques under noted Birmingham artisan Robert Lehman.
After his apprenticeship with Lehman, Ted continued his education at The Florida State University where he earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1998.
Since then, Ted has studied traditional Italian oil painting at the University of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy during the Summer of 2003. Ted served as the Head of the Art Department at Judson College in Marion, Alabama for eleven years prior to his arrival at Young Harris College in 2009. Ted is currently the Chair of the Art Department and Associate Professor of Art at Young Harris College, located in the mountains of North Georgia, where he teaches drawing, painting, sculpture, and continues to create his own works of art.