Discipline: Visual Arts
Based In: Warren, PA
Year at Millay: 1993
Awards/Honors: Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL (2012); Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2011); Artist-in-Residence, American Artists Abroad, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Athens (2006); Grant Recipient, Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA (2005); Artist-in-Residence, Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME (2004); Artist-in-Residence, Visiting Artist Residency, American Academy in Rome, Italy (2000); Visiting Artist, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales (1999); Artist-in-Residence, USM/Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange, Paros, Greece (1999); Visiting Artist, Plymouth University, Exeter, England (1999); Grant Recipient, Travel Grant, John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Cambridge, ME (1998); Artist-in-Residence, National Park Service Artists-in-Residence Program, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA (1997); Artist-in-Residence, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME (1994); Artist-in-Residence, National Park Service Artists-in-Residence Program, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO (1993); Fellow, CAVA Fellowship and Residency, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Miami Beach, FL (1989–1991); Fellow, Full Graduate Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL (1985).
Website: https://thomaspaquette.com/
"Millay's Woods" by Thomas Paquette
Thomas Paquette is landscape-based gouache and oil painter, with more than 65 solo exhibitions and a couple solo traveling museum exhibitions since becoming a full-time artist directly after graduate school (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, MFA-Painting) in 1988.