Darlene Farris is an associate professor of art at East Stroudsburg University. Her educational background includes a MFA from the School of Art and Design at SUNY, Purchase College, a BFA at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an AAS in Digital Media Arts from the College of Technology in New York City. Besides teaching, she creates art in the form of sculpture and illustration. She also works as both designer and fine artist.

​​Her Work
Her overall predominant theme requires scholarly research concerning the health of our natural surroundings and the vulnerable species that influence our future existence. Her installations are designed to embody the results of research through environmental interaction and the studying of a variety of eco-systems such as frogs, crabs, bees that pollinate and many more. These vulnerable species have large roles in the world we all thrive, during a critical point in time, with our planet currently existing in a fragile ecological state.
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​Background
In January 2012 she had a retrospective of her work at the Wu Xing Gallery in Shanghai, China. She was also recently honored to exhibit her new work called “Water Has No Boundaries” at the Fine Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College in New York. This sculpture was composed with over 900 bottles of water samples from 60 various locations. In November 2011, she lectured and presented her art at the Visualizing Science and the Environment symposium at the University of Brighton, UK. In January 2012 she had a retrospective of her work at the Wu Xing Gallery in Shanghai, China. She was also recently honored to exhibit her new work called “Water Has No Boundaries” at the Fine Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College in New York. This sculpture was composed with over 900 bottles of water samples from 60 various locations. In 2010 she had a solo show in the Sykes Gallery at Millersville University called Rhythms of a Whole. It was a multimedia environmental art installation with sculpture, illustrations, video, and sound (combining harmonic melodies of monks and honey bees) about the importance of bees. In 2008, she had a solo show in the Madelon Powers Gallery at East Stroudsburg called A Symphony on Shallow Waters. This was also a multimedia environmental art installation about the fragile waters of both vernal pools and saltwater marshes. In 2009 she was invited to exhibit in the “Best of New York” exhibition associated w