M.F.A. University of Oregon
B.A.     Pitzer College
FCC Public Radio Broadcasting License (10 years volunteer community radio broadcast and programming experience)

Linda Southwell joined Irvine Valley College in fall 2002, having previously taught full-time in Alaska for 12 years where she was a tenured faculty member and promoted to Full Professor. She directed the Art Department, a Northwest Coast Native Arts Program designed to keep the traditional arts of the Northwest Coast alive, and served as faculty mentor for Alaska Native students at the University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus.

A recipient of two international NEH Fellowships, she most recently studied on site in Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize with the Summer 2006 Maya Worlds Institute. 

Linda Southwell’s training has focused on human/representational form and design, Northwest Coast Native arts and culture. She has studied from museum collections in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the US and in 2004 completed a metalsmithing course in Ireland. Her drawings and sculptures have been exhibited in Alaska, Oregon, Maine, Washington and California. She is currently an exhibiting member of the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Her honors include a Distinguished Teaching Award and Jan Zach Sculpture Award from the University of Oregon, NEH/Community College Humanities Association Summer Institute fellowship in Central Mexico and New Mexico, Guest Artist in Residence at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and adoption by the Tlingit Kiks.adi Clan in Alaska.

Her teaching experience spans the art curriculum including; drawing, life drawing, life sculpture, anatomy for artists, sculpture, design, painting, art appreciation, art theory and interdisciplinary humanities and fine arts courses.