Scott Niemi is an award-winning fine artist/illustrator who completed his formal education at Florida Atlantic University where he earned an MFA in visual art.
He has participated in many shows both on the national as well as the local level. His work is in the collections of Children’s Hospital of Boston (Peabody, Mass.), Clinton Hospital (Clinton, Mass.), The Essex Inn (Chicago), North Shore Children’s Hospital (Salem, Mass.), Oak Brook Bank (Oak Brook, Ill.), The Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts (Plantation, Fla.), and in the UMass Medical Center, Ambulatory Center (Massachusetts). He has work in hundreds of private collections, ranging from Beverly Hills to Australia.
Before joining Clark, he was a professor of interactive media at Becker College where he has taught in the Game Design program since 2005. In the past, he worked as an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce University and at Florida Atlantic University. Scott has also worked as the interim coordinator of the Thoreau Gallery from 2007-2008 (Rindge, N.H.), for The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (Lake Worth, Fla.), The Florida Atlantic University Galleries (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Galerie 624 (West Palm Beach, Fla.). In 2017, he was awarded the 2016-2017 Award for “Excellence in Teaching” from Becker College.