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Biography CRAIG DENNIS Born in Lansing, MI EDUCATION 1974Master of Fine Arts Degree, Ohio State University; printmaking major, photography and sculpture minor 1972Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, University of Michigan; printmaking major, painting and drawing minor EMPLOYMENT 1985–PresentPresident and co-owner, Arts & Letters, Ltd., Falls Church, VA 1977–1985Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 1974–77Instructor of Fine Art, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1973–74Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH GRANTS AND AWARDS 2013Strauss Fellowship, Visual Arts; The Arts Council of Fairfax County, VA 2012Semi-Finalist; The Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, Baltimore, MD 2009The Arts Council of Fairfax County, Strauss Fellowship/Visual Arts 2005Professional Artist Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 1985Purchase Award: Manhattan National Print Exhibition; Kansas State University Permanent Collection, Manhattan, KS 1984Massachusetts Arts Grant: Northern Berkshire Council of the Arts 1978Artist’s Fellowship in Printmaking and Drawing: Massachusetts State Council on the Arts and Humanities Purchase Award: 12th National Print Exhibition; The Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT 1977Juror’s Award: National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition; Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, KS 1975Honorable Mention: Texas Fine Art Association National Exhibition; Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, TX First Prize in Drawing and Printmaking: The Kirkland Annual Exhibition; The Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY Purchase Award: 19th National Print Exhibition; Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ 1974Purchase Award and Juror’s Award of Merit: 2nd New Hampshire International Graphics Annual; Hollis, NH Best of Show Award: Print Competition; Columbus Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters, Columbus, OH Purchase Award: Potsdam Prints National Competition; Potsdam, NY 1973Full University Graduate Fellowship for study in fine art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015"Mutations/Hide & Seek"; Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2014Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC: “Washington Art Matters II: 1940s–1980s” 2012-13The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ: “Feast for the Eyes: The Art of Food” 2012Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD: “The Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalists Exhibition” McLean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA; “MPA at Fifty: 4 Perspectives” Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: “Who We Are, Past and Present” Longwood University, Farmville, VA: “More Than Meets the Eye: Photographs from the Permanent Collection” 2010-11Goucher College, Towson, MD: “Insectology” 2010"Reflexions"; Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC "Catalyst"; Washington Project for the Arts, American University Art Museum, Katzen Center 2009"Strata", New Photographs, Susan Eder/Craig Dennis; Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC "Letters, Words and Phrases"; Goucher College, Baltimore, MD 2006Taken for Looks"; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL 2005"Nothing Lasts Forever", New Photographs, Susan Eder/Craig Dennis; Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2004Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards/ The Trawick Prize, Creative Partners Gallery, MD Concentrics, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2003Food Matters; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Susan Eder/Craig Dennis: New Photographs; Collaborations; Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC 2002Contemporary Photography in Virginia; The Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA 1986Printmakers Make Prints Invitational; The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA 1985Manhattan National Exhibition; Kansas State University Department of Art, Manhattan, KS Two-person Exhibition; Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO 19848th Annual Small Works Exhibition; New York University, New York, NY Projections, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY 198314th National Print Exhibition; Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, New Canaan, CT Expansions: New Approaches & Applications of the Printed Image Invitational; Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage Three-person exhibition; Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 11th National Exhibition of Works on Paper; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 1981Three-person exhibition; Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1980Solo exhibition, Languages in my Brains; Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA Seven Graphic Artists; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA National Print Competition; San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Alumni/Emeritus Invitational Exhibition; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1979Chromosome 725, a large photographic work; Trinity College, Hartford, CT 55th Annual Traveling Exhibition; Print Club of Philadelphia, PA 31st National Exhibition; Boston Printmakers, Brockton Art Center, Brockton, MA 1978Colorprint USA; Texas Tech University Department of Art, Lubbock, TX 21st National Invitational Print Exhibition; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Art of the State: 1978 Massachusetts State Artists’ Fellowship Recipients; Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Belknap Memorial Print Exhibition; Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, NY 12th National Print Exhibition; Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT 1977Miami Graphics Biennial International Print Competition; Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL New Photographics; Ellensburg, WA LaGrange National Competition III; LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA 5th Annual Print, Drawing and Photography Exhibition; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Prints and Drawings; Miami University, Oxford, OH Korean Exchange Exhibition; Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Seoul, Korea Graphic Impetus, National Traveling Exhibition; Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA 3rd International Exhibitions of Graphics; National Arts Club, New York, NY Prints-in-Progress; traveling exhibition originating at Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition; Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, KS Spokane National Print Competition; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA 197639th Annual Exhibition: Artists of Central New York; Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, NY Four in One; four-artist invitational, Hartwick College Art Museum, Oneonta, NY 19753rd National Print Exhibition; Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA National exhibition; Texas Fine Art Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX Works on Paper National; Springfield College, Springfield, MA 2nd Miami International Graphics Biennial; Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL Colorado National Print and Drawing Competition and Exhibition; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 24th National Exhibition of Prints; traveling exhibition, The Library of Congress and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC New American Graphics National Invitational; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Pratt Graphics Miniature Print Competition and Exhibition; Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY Appalachian National Drawing Competition; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 15th National Bradley Print Show; Lakeview Center of the Arts and sciences, Peoria, IL Solo exhibition of prints and drawings at St. Andrews College Department of Art, Laurinburg, NC 19742nd New Hampshire International Graphics Annual; traveling, originating in Hollis, NH 37th Annual Exhibition of Artists from Central New York; Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, NY Potsdam Prints National Print Competition; State University College of New York, Potsdam, NY Mount Holyoke College National Print and Drawing Competition; South Hadley, MA SELECTED BOOKS / CATALOGS Europa, cover, Issue #31, Dec. 2011–Jan. 2012; Emmanuel Lemoine, editor. Journal Europa, Nantes, France “Insectology,” exhibition catalog, Laura Amussen, 2011; Goucher College, Baltimore, MD “Letters, Words and Phrases,” exhibition catalog, Laura Amussen, 2009; Goucher College, Baltimore, MD Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, cover, Fall 2008; Darra Goldstein, editor. U of California Press, Berkeley, CA “Taken for Looks,” exhibition catalog, Sarah Tanguy, 2006; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL “Food Matters,” exhibition catalog, Sarah Tanguy, 2003; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY "Recent Work by Williams College Studio Art Faculty", exhibition catalog, Zirka Filipczak, editor, 1984, Williams College Mus. of Art, Williamstown, MA. "Twenty-First National Invitational Print Exhibition", exhibition catalog, Gene Baro, editor, 1978; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY VISITING LECTURES / RESIDENCIES 1984The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY: slide lecture 1980The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA: Gallery talk/slide lecture P.S. 1, New York, NY: three one-day residencies The University of Missouri, St. Louis: slide lecture 1976Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY: slide lecture SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Bradley University, Peoria, IL Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY Franklin Furnace Archives, New York, NY Hillstone Restaurant Group, Beverly Hills, CA Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Longwood University, Farmville, VA Mark Twain Banks, St. Louis, MO National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY Silvermine Guild of Artists, Inc., New Canaan, CT Southeast Banks Inc., Miami, FL State University of New York at Potsdam Texas Tech University Museum, Lubbock, TX Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA