Eugenia Campbell Nowlin

Eugenia Campbell Nowlin was an American arts administrator, civil servant, teacher, and artist. She was the chair of the United States Army arts and crafts program for almost 3 decades. Nowlin was an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council starting in 1978.

Biography

Nowlin as born 6 June 1908 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; her father was a Methodist minister and her mother was a teacher. She was raised in Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas.
Nowlin attended Southern Methodist University and Texas Woman's University. She was a still life and abstract painter. During World War II, she worked with the American Red Cross in Europe. She served as a Girl Scouts of the USA official in Minnesota.
Nowlin was a United States Army department civilian employee, who helped establish global arts and recreation programs at the military branches, from 1950 to 1978. She also taught art at George Washington University and at the NYU Washington, DC satellite campus.