About

Honor Bowman Hall (b. 1984) is an artist and experienced arts administrator and academic leader living and working in Atlanta, GA. Bowman Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014, and after moving to Anchorage, AK to teach and manage and not-for-profit contemporary art gallery, returned to SCAD in 2017 to join the faculty.

Bowman Hall has since served SCAD as Associate Chair of Foundation Studies, Chair of Fine Arts, Associate Dean of Foundation Studies and Fine Arts, Dean of the Schools of Fine Arts and Visual Communication, and most recently, Executive Dean of Academic Services.

Under her leadership as Chair of Fine Arts, enrollment in the School of Fine Arts increased 20%. Under her leadership as Dean of the School of Fine Arts, enrollment increased an additional 16% while her leadership as Dean of the School of Visual Communication saw the Illustration program at SCAD grow to the second largest program at the university. Her leadership contributed to several national and international awards and competition wins for SCAD Painting, Photography, and Illustration students.

As Executive Dean, Bowman Hall is the senior academic leader at SCAD Atlanta and leads a team of six Associate Deans and Deans. In her role, she spearheads/contributes to initiatives in all of SCAD's locations across Atlanta, Savannah, SCADNow Online, and Lacoste, France. Her accomplishments in each academic leadership role center on her work to build community, grow enrollment, promote student and alumni employment in creative fields, secure student accolades and awards, and to ensure that student work in all programs reaches professional quality.

Bowman Hall is a practicing painter, and her artwork is represented by galleries Kai Lin Art (Atlanta) and SCAD Art Sales (Savannah, Atlanta, online). Her paintings appear in collections across the US and abroad. She has experience leading and managing teams of high performing educators, developing curriculum and course content, and teaching art to students at all levels from elementary school to graduate students enrolled in an MFA program.

Hall is a member of the Friendship Magic Collective, an ongoing two-person art and music project for which she paints and plays cello. FMC’s most recent exhibition, Homecoming, was reviewed for Art Pulse Magazine #33.