She earned her master of fine arts degree in painting at the University of Pennsylvania, where her work was singled out for the Charles Addams Memorial Prize. The awarding of a two-year teaching fellowship kept Engman at Penn, where she served as an instructor of drawing in both the fine arts and architecture departments. She has been an assistant professor at Colby since 1996. Engman's work will be on display through March 28. The Colby College Museum of Art is on the college's 700-acre campus in Waterville.
Admission is free, and the museum is accessible to disabled persons.