Mollie Hosmer-Dillard

Mollie Hosmer-Dillard is a painter and arts educator. She teaches college credit art classes through Utah Tech University’s Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth (HEIY) Program and organizes public exhibitions of HEIY students’ work. Mollie is also currently the staff writer for the Education Justice Project, a comprehensive college-in-prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mollie holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Indiana University. Her recent artistic research investigates working with communities to create large-scale “multi-vocal” paintings, images that celebrate a diversity of visual art styles and challenge traditional Western art’s emphasis on the isolated individual.