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EDUCATION
1982 Ph.D. New York University, Art Education
1974 M.A. Hunter College, Painting
1969 B.A. Bennington College, Painting
EMPLOYMENT
2007- present Associate Professor, School of Art and Design and School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003-2007 Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design and School of Social Work, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998-2003 Lecturer, University of Michigan, School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
Taught color, drawing and outreach classes
1995-1998 Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Michigan, School of Art and Design,
Ann Arbor, MI
Taught color, watercolor, drawing and outreach classes
1989-1994 Freelance Technical Writer, New York, NY
Wrote educational materials for Merrill Lynch, Barclays Bank and other major corporations
1986-1992 Freelance illustrator, New York, NY
Jacket covers and interior illustrations for New York Times, Daily News, Random
House, Simon and Schuster, William Morrow, Harper and Row
1982-1986 Artist in Residence, Studio In a School, New York, NY
Worked with elementary school children and teachers in under-served neighborhoods
1976-1977 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Jersey City State College
Taught art education
1976-1987 Instructor, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Taught color, life drawing and painting
1972-1980 Instructor, The Brooklyn Museum, Education Department
Taught studio classes for children and developed educational community programs
CREATIVE RESEARCH
Landscape
painting, printmaking, exhibitions
Prison Arts and Incarceration in the United States
writing, curatorial, video, teaching, organizing, conferences
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Lane Hall, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
2005 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois Champagne, Illinois
2005 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Tsongas Gallery at Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts
1998 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Hopkins Center Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1998 Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998 Special Collections Library, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1996 Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
1996 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Nature Reperceived, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2003 5 Women Artists, Rankin Gallery, Grand Valley State University, Big Rapids, Michigan
2000 Landscapes, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1999 Drawings, Prints & Paintings, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1999 Works on Paper, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York
1998 Drawings, Prints & Paintings, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton. Rhode Island
1998 Secret Spaces of Childhood, East Quad Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998 Michigan Book Artists, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998 Art and the Natural World, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1996 Small Works, Zone One Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
1995 Water, Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
1994 Landscape: Seen and Remembered, Police Building Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Winter Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, New York, New York
1993 New England Landscape Painters, Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut
1993 Triangle Artists, Lorraine Wexler, Poughkeepsie, New York
1993 Land and Sea, Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1991 The First Decade, Sound Shore Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
1991 1991 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ,Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield Massachusetts
1990 Landscapes of Vermont, Kristal Gallery, Warren Vermont
1989 All About Color, Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York
1988 1988 Painting Exhibition, Art Director’s Club Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Group Exhibition, Artist’s Space Gallery, New York
1983 Chelsea Walking Tour, New York, New York
1983 OIA Art in Public Places, New York, New York
1981 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco California
COLLECTIONS
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Concord Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts
Edwards and Angell, Hartford, Connecticut
London Associates Ltd., New York, New York
Creative Medical Communications, Inc. New York, New York
Private collections in New York, London, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, and San Francisco
PUBLISHED WORK
2008 July 2008, Co-author “Editor’s column: Prison, Activism and the Academy ,”
in Publication of the Modern Language Association
2008 June 2008, “Drawn Together: The Detroit Connections Project,”
in Where Do the Children Play, ed. Elizabeth Goodenough, National Institute for Play, distributed by the University of Michigan Press
2007 “”This Is Our Bridge…And We Built It Ourselves!” The Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners,” co-authored with Buzz Alexander, The Michigan Independent
2005 Doing Time, Making Space. Self-published
2003 Measuring Up! Building Metric Measurement Skills Through Art at Harms Elementary School
self-published
2000 The Art/Science Curriculum for Harms Elementary School After School Program
self-published
1998 The River, a self-published portfolio of prints in an edition of twelve
1980 “Judy Padow: An Analysis”, Dance Scope Magazine, Vol. 14/No. 4
1996 “In Kalmia Woods,” and “For Buzz at the Hambidge Center,” The Great Lakes Poetry Project
PERFORMANCE WORK
2002 Co - creator and performer, “When Can We Talk?”
A play created by formerly incarcerated people and members of the Prison Creative Arts Project, directed by Gillian Eaton, about the US criminal justice system, performed in Detroit, Flint, Plymouth, Birmingham, Ann Arbor
2001 Performer, “The Hallelujah Project, Ann Arbor”, The Liz Lehrman Dance Company
The Power Center, Ann Arbor
A work that brought together people from Detroit and Ann Arbor to celebrate
the Detroit African American community of the 1920’-1940’s
1999 Performer, “An Improvisational Theater Facilitator Finally Listens to Silence,”
choreographed by Amy Martin, part of “In a Minute,” a dance concert at the Ann Arbor
Dance Gallery
1971 -1973 Member, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, New York, New York
performed in sites including Whitney Museum, Judson Church, 14th St
Dance Space
1974 -1975 Member, Hudson Dance Collective, New York, New York
CURATORIAL WORK
2008 Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2007 Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 Tenth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 Ninth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003 Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2002 Seventh Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2001 Sixth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2000 Fifth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1999 Fourth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 Art and the Natural World, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 Third Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1997 Second Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1996 Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1994 Landscape: Seen and Remembered, OIA Exhibition, Police Building Gallery, NY, NY
RESIDENCIES
2008 The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, Clayton, Georgia
2006 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2005 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1997 The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
1994 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
1994 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1993 The Leighton Center, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1992 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1992 The Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, New York
1991 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
1991 Thupelo Workshop, South Africa, Guest Artist
1991 Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1990 Emma Lake Workshop, Saskatchewan, Canada
1989 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
1974 MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, New Hampshire
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2008 Michigan Campus Compact Venture Grant, co-recipient
Support for a co-created publication by University of Michigan design students and child participants in Detroit Connections
2007 Arthur R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, University of Michigan
2007 Ginsberg Center Award for Community Service & Social Action Outstanding Faculty Member Award, University of Michigan
2006 Office of the Vice President for Research, Intergenerational Photography Project in
San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, University of Michigan
Support to fund a historical and artistic community project based on family ethnographic
photographs from the 1940’s and 50’s
2006 Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Intergenerational Photography Project
in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, University of Michigan
2005 2005 R.D. Richards Memorial Faculty Award, School of Art and Design, U. of Michigan
Awarded to one faculty member each year, for outstanding acheivement
2004 Gilbert Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching Grant: Faculty Development at the
School of Art and Design: Initiating New Outreach Curricula for Undergraduates
2004 Humanity in the Arts Award from the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the College
of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University
In recognition of work with under-served Detroit schools through Detroit Connections
2004 Michigan Campus Compact Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Community
Service-Learning
In recognition of work with Detroit Connections and the Prison Creative Arts Project
2004 Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies, Consultant and Collaborator for
Implementation Grant, for Art in the Alley Project
For a community mural project in South West Detroit, sponsored by Communities in
Schools at Harms Elementary School and the University of Michigan School of Art and Design
2003 Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies, Consultant and Collaborator for Planning
Grant, for Art in the Alley
2001 Rockefeller Pact Grant, Consultant and collaborator
Support for the Linkage Program, a mentoring program for formerly incarcerated artists, and for the Seventh Annual Exhibition of Michigan Prisoners
1999 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
For Silicone Intaglio Workshop and visiting artists, Heather and Nathan Arak-Kanofsky
1999 Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan
Support for art workshops with incarcerated juveniles at four facilities
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Consultant and collaborator for Fourth Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
1998 Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Consultant and collaborator for Third Annual
Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
1998 Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan for artist’s book, The River
Support for work on an edition of twelve portfolios of prints based on writing by Henry David
Thoreau
1998 Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, for artist’s book The River
1998 The Hugh Whipple Award for Volunteer Excellence, Michigan Association of Children’s Alliances
In recognition of the Prison “Creative Arts Project for our work with incarcerated youth
1997 Washtenaw Council for the Arts, Consultant and collaborator, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
for the Second Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
1997 Lecturer’s Development Grant, University of Michigan, for artist’s book, The River
1991 USIA Grant, guest artist at the Thupelo Workshop, South Africa
Annual Thupelo workshops were the first multi-racial arts workshops in South Africa
1968 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
Museum provided work space and a program of visiting critics for a select group of young
artists
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
2007 Co-organizer, “Creating Campus-Community Partnerships in the Arts.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sponsored by Arts of Citizenship to bring together faculty graduate students and community members to network, learn and initiate projects
2007 Presenter, “Creating Space, Creating Community”, the Penny Stamps Visiting Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Visual presentation on the development and integration of my community and my studio practice
2006 Presenter, “Anthropology, Creativity and Community,” Conversations Across
Social Disciplines, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
Co-presenter with Ruth Behar (Anthropology), on the influence of my anthropological family
and their ethnographic photographs on my development as a community based artist
2005 Panelist, “Addressing Inequality Through a University/School Partnership”, Social Theory,
Art and Politics Conference, University of Washington, Eugene, OR
Visual presentation on the topic of reciprocity between college students and children in the
Detroit Connections Project
2005 Presenter, “Learning In Urban Schools and Prisons”, National Art Education Association
Conference, Boston, MA
Visual presentation of my work with Detroit Connections and Art Workshops in Prisons class
2005 Presenter, “Painter as Activist: Creating Place, Creating Resistance, Institute for the
Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Visual presentation on the connections between my work as a painter and my work with
prisoners and children
2004 Panelist, “Art As Therapy” Community Service Learning and the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Slide lecture about my work curating and teaching in prisons and youth facilities
2003 Panelist, “Invisible Communities”, Animating Democracy Conference, Flint, MI
Slide presentation about the Prison Creative Arts Project;s work to bring issues of incarceration into public view
2003 Presenter, Criminology I, Michigan State University. Lansing, MI
Presentation about the Prison Creative Arts Project
2003 Visiting Artist and Consultant, New Folsom Prison, Sacramento, CA
Facilitated a workshop with incarcerated men and met with artists in residence
2003 Panelist, “Not OZ: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” at Critical Resistance East: Beyond
the Prison Industrial Complex, New York, NY
Presented the work of the Prison Creative Arts Project and the importance of
art in prisons
2001 Presenter, “Prison and the Artist,” Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Program,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 Conference Participant, The Blue Mountain Group To End Massive Incarceration,
Blue Mountain Lake, NY
A group of artists and writers who work in prisons convened to brainstorm ways to publicly
visualize the US crisis of incarceration and to share working methods
1997 Panelist, “Emancipatory and Community Based Art Work in Prisons and Half-Way
Houses, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, NE
With Buzz Alexander, presented the pedagogical methods of the Prison Creative Arts Project
1997 Conference Participant, The Blue Mountain Group To End Massive Incarceration,
Blue Mountain, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Ann Arbor News, “Open Secrets” Unveils Mysteries,” by John Carolos Cantu, July 13, 2008
The Michigan Independent, “PCAP Showcases Prisoner Creativity, Challenges Misconception,” by Kimberly Leung, March 27, 2006
The Ann Arbor News, “Brig Strides in This Year’s Prisoners’ Arts Exhibit”, Roger Green, March 19, 2006
The Michigan Citizen, “Ingenuity Blossoms In Prisons”, March 12, 2006
The Grand Rapids Press, “Prisoners’ Work Powerful, Engaging and Nontraditional”, by Gail Philbin, March 10, 2006
La Prensa, “U of M Is Venue for 11th Show Exhibiting Prisoner’s Art”, March 3, 2006
Sentinel-Standard, “Exhibit to Feature Ionia Prisoners” Art” by Laura Rico, March 2, 2006
The Michigan Independent, “PCAP Artist Shares Experience”, by Mary Heinen, February 2, 2006
Detroit Free Press, “ Inmate Artists,” Jeff Garrett, March 2, 2005
Ann Arbor News, “Canvas unlocks inner need” Roger Green, March 20, 2005
The Oakland Press, “ Tragic yet uplifting, prisoners: stories are truly resonant,” John Sousanis, September 29, 2002
The Flint Journal, “When Can We Talk?” Carol Azizian, October 4, 2002
The Oakland Press, “When Can We Talk?”, John Sousanis, September 29, 2002
Ann Arbor News, “Prison art cultivates humanity,” Roger Green, February 9, 2001
Ann Arbor News, “U-M hosts 7th edition of prisoner art exhibit,” Roger Green, March 15, 2002
Detroit News, “Joy is College Students, Detroit Kids Changing Each Others’ Lives,” Laura Berman, February 20, 2001
Ann Arbor News, “Unlocked Imagination: U-M exhibit brings prisoners’ dreams to light,” Roger, Green, February 7, 1999
National Catholic Reporter, “Prison Creations,” Nancy Hand, Winter 1999-2000
Fortune News, “Prison Art Breaks Down Walls, Kat Wimmer, Winter 1999-2000
Saline Reporter, “Prison art exhibit breaks through barriers,” Alice Tippery, February 18, 1998
Detroit Free Press, “ Behind Bars; Prison Walls Lock Up a Wealth of Talent,” Jeff Garret, March 11, 2002
Ann Arbor News, “Institute for the Humanities”, John Carlos Cantu, March 25, 1998
Ann Arbor News, “Book Em”, March 21, 1998 John Carlos Cantu, March 25, 1998
Ann Arbor News, “Art and the Natural World”, John Carlos Cantu, March 17, 1998
Ann Arbor News, “Freedom of Expression,” John A. Woods, February 9, 1997
Jackson Citizen Patriot, “Prison art on exhibition at UM, February 23, 1996
Ann Arbor News, “U-M exhibit explores the view behind bars,” Susan Oppat, February 23, 1996
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