Mr. Nathaniel Allen III was born in the Mississippi Delta but grew up primarily in Lansing, Michigan. He earned a BFA in Painting at Michigan State University and an MFA in Painting at the University of Mississippi. He served as Director of Visual Studies at Andrew College from 2004 through 2008 and began work as an Assistant Professor of Art at Alabama State University in 2009. Mr. Allen has since then been promoted to Associate Professor of Art and was appointed to Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Alabama State University in 2016.
Mr. Allen has created commissioned portraits, mural paintings, book and magazine illustrations, logo designs, won a variety of awards in juried art exhibitions and had sequential artwork published in the British horror anthology “Hallowscream.”