corina willette

visual artist & educator

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Corina Willette is an artist and educator. Born in 1971 she spent the first few years of her life in a transient lifestyle traveling between the East and West United States coast. Eventually her family settled in rural New England within a hippy community. This experience of minimalist living, outside of the mainstream, influenced her sense of self, place and belonging, and informs her art. Drawing from an early age, art for Willette is a form of communication, expression and play. 

Willette has an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the State of New York University in New Paltz (2020). Currently, Willette is an Adjunct Professor of Painting and Drawing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has taught multiple ages and group sizes, ranging from a workshop for over 200 middle school students in the Philippines to individual lessons.

A third generation artist, Willette’s informal training in art includes an apprenticeship in fabric with her mother, Deidre Scherer. Her grandfather Fred F. Scherer painted dioramas at the Museum of Natural History in New York City and grandmother Cicely Aikman was also a painter.