WENDY COLLIN SORIN
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| EDUCATION | ||
| The Cleveland Institute of Art -- Cleveland, Ohio (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, 1993) | ||
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
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1999–02 |
*Kent State University, Assistant Professor (part-time), Department of Art |
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2000 |
*The Cleveland Institute of Art (workshop) *Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH (workshop) |
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1999 |
*Millersville
University, Millersville, PA (workshop) *Zygote Press (workshop) |
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1998 |
*Zygote Press (workshop) |
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| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| 2008 |
*DESLIZ
II; La Habana, Cuba
*BLACKBOX, Fall issue (www.williamjamesaustin.com/blackbox.html) |
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| 2007 |
*The Little Magazine; University at Albany; (http://www.albany.edu/~litmag/index.html) |
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| 2006 |
*“Silver Apples of the Moon” (essay for chapbook); Cleveland State University Poetry Center *addendum, “Foreign Affairs” bilingual catalogue (project coordinator) |
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| 2005 |
*GreenPandaPress – “You Can’t Hither Than That” *Angle Magazine (Summer Literary Issue) *AUGHT, no. 14 (http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages6/ronhenry/aught.html) |
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| 2004 |
*DIAGRAM (www.thediagram.com) *Zunai (http://www.officinadopensamento.com.br/zunai/) *SleepingFish zer0.5 – calamari press, New York, NY *Generator Press – “Gen Gallery” (www.generatorpress.com) *“Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective” (bilingual catalogue) |
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| 2003 |
*www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com (Issue 2, Fall) *xStream #12 (http://xstream.xpressed.org) – Espoo, Finland *“The Seduction of Cyberspace” (with Michael Basinski); Ohio Writer; May/ June. *xStream Concrete #2 (http://xstream.alturl.com) *xStream #7 *Generator Press – Vol.12 (1); 12 (1.2) |
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| 2002 |
*An American Avant Garde: Second Wave (exhibition catalogue); The Ohio State University *Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad (exhibition catalogue): Ohio Arts Council *Enculturation (e-journal, Purdue University) “Where the Visual Meets the Verbal: Collaboration as Conversation” (essay/ installation with poet Robert Miltner) |
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| 2000 |
*Generator Press -- Volume 10 |
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| 1998 |
*Generator Press -- Volume 8 (I & II) |
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| ARTIST BOOKS | ||
| 2007 |
*Vispoeologie:
Winter Book 2007; Minnesota Center for the
Book; visual poetry anthology |
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| 2005 |
*name cloud; collaboration with John M. Bennett; fabelhaft press, Cleveland/ Luna Bisonte Prods, Columbus *TELLTHISMUCH; collaboration with Carlos M. Luis; Runaway Spoon Press, Port Charlotte, Florida |
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*P.S. At Least We Died Trying to Make You in the Backseat of a Taxidermist; collaboration with Derek White; calamari press; New York City |
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| 2003 |
*ABZU; collaboration with Michael Basinski; Runaway Spoon Press; Port Charlotte, FL *Butter & Pepper Poems”; with Michael Basinski; Muse Apprentice Guild; Summer |
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| 2002 |
*PIE PIECES; (online) collaboration Michael Basinski; xPress(ed), Espoo, Finland *Ghost of a Chance; poem by Robert Miltner; paper by Gwen Cooper; letterpress by Carolyn Fraser; Zygote/Idlewild Press |
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| 2001 |
*Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert; collaboration with Michael Basinski; typography/publisher luigi-bob drake; Burning Press, Lakewood, OH) |
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| COVER ART | ||
| 2005 |
*Angle Magazine - Summer literary issue |
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| 1999 |
*Poetry International -- Fall |
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| 1996 |
*The Wallace Stevens Journal – Spring |
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| CURATING | ||
| 2007–8 |
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Connections II: Ohio Artists Abroad; Riffe Gallery; Columbus |
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| 2006 |
* Blends & Bridges: An International Survey of Contemporary Visual Poetry; Gallery 324; Cleveland |
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| 2003–06 |
*Project Director, co-curator, catalogue writer & editor: “Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective”; Cleveland State University Gallery; Fisher Gallery, Otterbein College; Staendehaus, Dresden. |
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| 2000 |
*The Poetic Image; Zygote Press Gallery |
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| 1999 |
*The Visual Word: Poets and Artists in Collaboration; Zygote Press Gallery |
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| FILM | ||
| 2005–08 |
*film: W; or Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (with filmmaker Alfred Eaker); Visual Design/ Art, Associate Producer, actor |
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| 2009 |
*Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival; Japan *New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (New York City; Los Angeles) |
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| RELATED EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2002 |
*Juror, C.A.C.P. Gallery, Cleveland, “Artist/Educator” -- Cleveland Public Schools art teachers’ exhibition *Panelist, Associated Writers' Program Annual Conference, New Orleans; “The Chapbook as Genre” |
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| 2000 |
*Kent State University 6th Annual Celebration of Scholarship: “Scholarship Beyond Your Discipline: Interdisciplinary Collaboration” (prints with poems by Robert Miltner) *
Member, Board of Trustees, Poets’ and Writers’ League of Greater
Cleveland |
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| 1998 |
*Technical Assistant to Nik Semenoff -- Mid-America Print Conference, Cincinnati, OH |
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1997–06 |
*President, Board of Directors, Zygote Press (board member through 2007) |
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| 1997 |
*Women Celebrating the Bicentennial (invitational project: designed tile for time capsule) |
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| 1996 |
*Juror, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Department of Printmaking; Frank N. Wilcox Memorial Prize |
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| 1993 |
*The Cleveland Institute of Art, technical assistant to: Mary Beth Edelson (screenprinting); Anthony-Petr Gorny (lithography) |
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| LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS | ||
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2008 |
*Curator
talk: Connections II; Riffe Gallery, Columbus |
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2007 |
*Visiting
Artist, The Cleveland Institute of Art |
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2006 |
*Visiting
Artist, The Cleveland Institute of Art |
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2002 |
*“From Impression to Expression: How Art Translates to Words” workshop co-teacher (“SilverApples of the Moon” art and poetry project) |
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2001 |
*Visiting Artist, Kent State University (Stark Campus, Department of English) |
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1999 |
*Visiting Artist, Millersville University, Millersville, PA *Lecture at Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland, OH *Lecture and demonstration at Kent State University for Ohio Art Educators' Conference *Lecture at The Cleveland Institute of Art for Non-Traditional Students orientation |
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1998 |
*Lectures and Demonstrations at Zygote Press for art students and faculty from: Lake Erie College; Oberlin College; Kent State University. Members and docents from: The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; University Print Club; Cleveland Print Club |
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COMMISSIONS |
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2005 |
*COSE (Council of Small Enterprises) – Business Plan Challenge Grant Awards |
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2004 |
*HeightsArts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH – First Annual Patron Print |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2007 |
*William Busta Gallery, Cleveland; “Safety Nets: New Drawings” |
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2001 |
* Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland; Virginia Weiss Gallery, Empire State College, Buffalo, NY “Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert” |
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1999 |
*Sykes Art Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA “these forms are visible to the eye that needs” *Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA -- “Forgiveness” (with poems by Ted Lardner) |
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1996 |
*Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT -- “First Annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash” |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
*Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; “Visual Dialogues” |
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2008 |
*Yale University, New Haven, CT; “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art and the Book” |
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2007 |
*HeightsArts,
Cleveland Heights, OH; “Layers” *White Columns online gallery, New York, NY *Terra Gallery, “Amanda Julca and Wendy Collin Sorin: From There to Here”; Columbus, OH *Cleveland Public Theatre; Art Extravaganza at CPT; *Universidad Nacional de Cordoba of Jornadas Internacionales de Poesia Experimental; Cordoba, Argentina |
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2006 |
* New
Gallery Concert Series; Community Music Center; Boston, MA; Visual
Poetry;
*Gallery 324, Cleveland; “Blends and Bridges: An International Survey of Contemporary Visual Poetry” |
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2005 |
*Cricket Engine Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Pink Week XII *University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY; Sound & Text *Wheeler Arts, Indianapolis, IN; Peace NOW! *The Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts; *SoundVision/ VisionSound III *Humphrey Atrium Gallery, University Hospitals, Cleveland – “Collage Invitational” *107 Neville, University of Maine *Durban Segnini Gallery, Coral Gables; Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. – “Visual Poetry” |
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2004 |
*Neopolis Gallery, Cleveland -- “I, Foreign Eye” *HeightsArts; “Four Extraordinary Books” *HeightsArts; “Collector’s Choice” *Cleveland State University Gallery; Fisher Gallery, Otterbein College “Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective” |
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2003 |
*Zygote Press Gallery -- “10 x 10” (Artist-in-Residence Annual Exhibition) *Zygote Press Gallery – “Four” *Cleveland Hopkins Airport – Zygote Press Printmakers |
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2002 |
*Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; SPACES, Cleveland; Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati “Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad” *Fine Arts Association, Willoughby, OH – “Northeast Ohio Printmakers” *Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH -- “Art for Life” *Cuyahoga Community College Gallery West: “Prints from Zygote Press” |
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2001 |
* Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH -- “2nd Ohio Print Biennial” *Zygote Press Gallery; “retrovirus” (collaboration with AIDS Task Force and SWAY magazine) *Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH -- “Print Invitational” *Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH -- “Insight/ IN SIGHT” (invitational) |
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2000 |
*Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT -- “23rd National Print Biennial 2000” *Zygote Press Gallery --“The Poetic Image” (part 2 of collaboration with the Poets' and Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland) *“2000 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition” -- Columbus, OH *The Cleveland Institute of Art -- “Drawn Together: Annual Exhibition of Alumni Art” *Gallery 138, Kent, OH -- “com(PROMISE)” (2-person show) *The McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH -- “Works on Paper” *Phoenix Rising Gallery, Columbus, OH -- Zygote Press Invitational *Brew House SPACE 101 -- Pittsburgh PA -- “Reading Visual\Text: Regional Volumes” (invitational) |
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1999 |
*Expressions Gallery -- Chicago, IL (Zygote Press Invitational) *Beck Center for the Arts -- “All-Ohio Print Biennial Exhibition and Invitational” *Art at the Powerhouse (Cleveland) *Cleveland Institute of Art -- “Drawn Together: Annual Exhibition of Alumni Art” *Banana Factory -- Bethlehem, PA; “Contemporary Printmaking: Innovative Printmaking Workshops” *Zygote Press -- “Hypothetical Digs” (2-person show) *The Jewish Community Center -- Beachwood, OH -- “Beyond & Between: Text in Contemporary Art” *Art at the Powerhouse -- “Invitational Print Exhibition” *Zygote Press -- “The Visual Word: Poets and Artists in Collaboration” (collaboration with Poets' and Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland) |
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1998 |
*Zygote Press -- “Zygote Cornucopia” *Bockrath Gallery -- Cleveland: “Multiple Images II” *Gallery 138 -- Kent, OH: “Split Fountains” |
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1997 |
*William Busta Gallery -- Cleveland: “Zygote Press -- Year One” *William Busta Gallery -- “Diaries, Dilemmas, Digressions, Obsessions” (2-person show) *Cuyahoga Community College (Metro Campus) -- Cleveland: “Limited Editions” (invitational) *The Cleveland Institute of Art --“Drawn Together: Annual Exhibition of Alumni Art” *Southern Ohio Museum -- Portsmouth: “Articles of Faith” (invitational) *Bradley University -- Peoria, IL -- “26th National Print and Drawing Exhibition” |
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1996 |
*William Busta Gallery --“Northeast Ohio Print Annual 8” *Corning Gallery, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History “Bound and Unbound: Explorations in Nature” (3-person show) *Firelands Association of the Visual Arts -- Oberlin, OH -- “Artists' Marks” (4-person show) *Fine Arts Association of Willoughby – OH
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“Boundaries Uncharted” (2-person show) *Minnesota Print Biennial |
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1995 |
*Coburn Gallery, Ashland University; Ashland, OH, “Under Pressure: Four Ohio Printmakers” (invitational) *William Busta Gallery -- “Artist's Book Fair 1995” *Owens Illinois Art Center -- Toledo, OH “Ohio Women's Caucus for Art 6th Annual Juried Exhibition” |
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1994 |
*William Busta Gallery -- “Northeast Ohio Print Annual 6” *Chitrakala Parishath School of Visual Art -- “Ohio/ India Portfolio” (traveling exhibition) |
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1993 |
*William Busta Gallery -- “Ohio/ India Portfolio” |
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ARTICLES & REVIEWS |
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2009 |
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Brian Morton, Rogue Cinema; Joe Shearer, Indianapolis Star; Claytron,
Putrid Reviews; Nick
Peron, Micro Shock Cinema; Richard Propes, The Independent
Critic; Richard Moria, Moria Reviews) |
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2006 |
*Tarpaulin Sky, May (online); “Abandoned Museums: Thoughts Towards Calamari Press &
Text/Image”; *Ahadada Books, May (online); “Received & Recommended: Wendy Collin Sorin & DerekWhite” *The Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 28; “Poetry or Art? Exhibit Built on using Words for Visual Effect”; *Small Press Review, January-February; “Experioddica”; review of TELLTHISMUCH (Bob Grumman) |
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2005 |
*The Cleveland Plain Dealer, November; “COSE is sold on arts as business” (Carolyn Jack) *The Cleveland Institute of Art website: “Featured Alumni” *dbqp.blogspot.com; “Clean and Dirty at 107 Neville”; geof huth *Heights Arts
e-newsletter, March; “An Artist is Your Neighbor, in the Heights”
(interview *dbqp: visualizing poetics; “Stratigraphy and Significance in the Fibonacci Sequence” (geof huth) |
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2004 |
*Akron Beacon Journal, January; “Contrasts in two good exhibits” (Dorothy Shinn, art critic) *Cleveland Free Times, January; “Mickey in Dresden: Print Retrospective Links German and Ohio Artists” (Lyz Bly, art critic) |
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2003 |
*Muse Apprentice Guild; “A Review of ABZU” (Chris Mansel) |
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2002 |
*“Portfolio” (Dialogue Magazine, September/October) *“Nations Unite” (Brooke Perkins, Cleveland Magazine, September) *“Making Connections” (Frank Green, Northern Ohio Live, September) *Jacket 16 on-line magazine: STBtHWaMCitAD (Tom Hibbard) *Small Press Review: STBtHWaMCitAD (Bob Grumman) |
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2001 |
*Poetrybay on-line magazine: review of STBtHWaMCitAD (Bill Costley) |
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2000 |
*“Illuminating Poetry Through Her Art” (The Cleveland Jewish News, May 12) |
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1999 |
*“More Than Words” (The Cleveland Free Times, February 10) *“Making a Run at Poetic Art” (The Cleveland Jewish News, January 29) *LAGNIAPPE on-line magazine (Vol. 1, #1); review of GENERATOR 8 (“A Working Paper Towards an Eventual Visual/ Concrete Essay” by Michael Basinski) |
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1997 |
*“First And Last Things” (The Cleveland Free Times, December 17) |
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1995 |
*“Shovel Works Now Artists' Digs” (The Plain Dealer, May) |
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HONORS & AWARDS |
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2003 |
*Ohio Arts Council project grant through the U. S. Department of Education (“Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Exhibition” (exhibition and catalogue) |
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2000 |
*Ohio Arts Council project grant (collaborative book project) *Ohio Arts Council five-week artist residency (Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany) *Rembrandt Graphics Award -- 23rd National Print Biennial, New Canaan, CT *“Works On Paper” -- McDonough Museum of Art (award) |
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1999 |
*“Drawn Together: CIA Alumni Exhibition” (honorable mention) |
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS |
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*The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL *The Progressive Insurance Company, Mayfield Village, OH *Avant Writing Collection, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH *Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT *Brown University Library *Poetry/ Rare Books Collection, State University of New York, Buffalo *The Cleveland Institute of Art, artists’ book collection *Kent State University, artists’ book collection *Centre International de Poesie, Marseille, France *Ashland University, Ashland, OH *Chitrakala Parishath School of Visual Art, Bangalore, India *Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP *The Literary Center, Poets &Writers League of Greater Cleveland *Ohio Building Commission, Vern Riffe Center, Columbus, OH *Champion International Corporation, Hamilton, OH *Millersville University, Millersville, PA *University Hospitals of Cleveland *University of Maryland *numerous private collections |
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