Jeff Whipple is an artist, playwright and filmmaker based in Tampa, Florida. He has won awards for painting, sculpture, video and playwriting in professional competitions. He has had more than 65 solo exhibitions in galleries, universities and museums throughout the USA. He has participated in dozens of group exhibitions across the country and won numerous top awards in art competitions. His videos have been regularly featured in film festivals and last year he wrote, directed and acted in a video called "Chicken Feet", which won Best Narrative Comedy at the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image. Whipple won fellowships for visual art from the Illinois Arts Council in 1985 and 1990 and from the Florida Arts Council in 1982 and 2006. In 1996, he won a Florida artist fellowship for playwriting. In 2001, he was the first recipient of the Fulton Ross Award for Artists, a $10,000 grant based on career achievements. Whipple received a MFA from the University of South Florida in 1980. He has taught at several colleges including Arizona State University and Northern Illinois University. He currently teaches at the University of Tampa.

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