Ryan Muldowney is an artist, writer, and educator. He currently teaches painting and drawing at Brigham Young University-Idaho. A native of Philadelphia, he studied illustration at the University of the Arts and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He began writing seriously and publishing short stories, poems, reviews, and articles in local newspapers and in a New York magazine called Magazine Art, and has since taught in colleges and universities all over the country including Sheridan College, Southwest Minnesota State University, Middle Tennessee State University, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, Tidewater Community College, and Brigham Young University-Idaho. He also writes reviews as the chief curator for a curatorial website called De Cogitatum.
