Whitney Trisler Causey is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the Louisiana Tech University School of Design where she teaches in the Foundations Department. While teaching is one of her great passions, Professor Causey is an active exhibiting artist. Causey’s current body of work is a series of portrait paintings that question the notion of identity and challenge our perceptions and assumptions of a person. She has also completed 11 large-scale murals in north Louisiana within the last five years. Her work has been exhibited nationwide including New York at the Chautauqua Institution, and Cleveland Ohio, at the Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center. Whitney Trisler Causey most recently received an award from the City of Ruston for her work on multiple murals within the community.