Richard Scott Hill

Richard Scott Hill, an internationally renowned artist, graduated from Northside High in Atlanta in 1960, attended West Georgia College, and in 1969, graduated with honors from the University of Georgia with a Master of Fine Arts degree. While at the University of Georgia, his artwork was included in numerous prestigious exhibitions, including Drawings USA and the American Drawing Biennial.

As a senior at the university, Mr. Hill won the top award in painting during the Arts Festival of Atlanta. As a graduate student, his work was selected by John Canaday, art critic of the New York Times, to represent contemporary American art in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

He served as the head of the Drawing Department at the Atlanta College of Art for 14 years, achieving tenure in 1981. He taught at West Georgia College, where he was invited to be the Artist-in-Residence in 1992. As a professional artist, Mr. Hill's artwork has been included in many national and internationally recognized exhibitions and is part of numerous corporate and museum collections, including the High Museum of Art, the Augusta Museum of Art, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Atlanta Civic Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Olinda, Recife, Brazil, and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia.

His most notable artistic achievement the magnificent, spiraling tower that soars 80 feet high for the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Village in the Georgia Tech Plaza at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This sculpture, known as "The Kessler Campanile," remains a landmark for the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia after the Olympic Games.

Richard Scott Hill is also an active community leader and serves as chairman of the Banning Neighborhood Coalition, Inc. In 1993, he received the Environmentalist of the Year Award from the West Georgia Chapter of the Georgia Conservancy.