Boggess teaches Art Structure and Applied Design and Art Education courses at Fairmont State. She received her bachelor’s and Master of Arts degrees in Art Education and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from West Virginia University.

Prior to her work at Fairmont State, she was Assistant Professor of Art at Alderson Broaddus College, where she developed and taught the Bachelor of Arts curriculum for Painting. She was also director of the college’s Daywood Gallery.

While working on her Master of Fine Arts degree, Boggess was the director of the Innovation Gallery at the West Virginia High Technology Consortium in Fairmont. Additionally, she has served on the faculty of the West Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts Academy for Teachers.

Boggess has an extensive exhibition record. Recent solo and collaborative shows include “Concrete Collaboration” at Salisbury University in Maryland; “Land Marks” at Concord College, Athens, W.Va.; and “Personal Journeys” at the Parkersburg Art Center. Group invitational exhibits include “The Best of West Virginia” traveling exhibit and “New Work in the Mountain State,” at the Museum in theCommunity, Scott Depot, W.Va.