Curlee Raven Holton

Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951)[1] is an American painter, printmaker, academic, author and at present the director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.[2]

Biography

Holton received his BFA from Cleveland State University and his MFA with honors from Kent State University.[3] From 1989 until 1991 he had a Fellowship with Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in New York City.[4] From 1991 until his retirement from the Lafayette College in 2017 he taught printmaking and African American Art History there. While at Lafayette he founded the Experimental Printmaking Institute.[5]

As a painter and printmaker Holton's work has been the subject of over thirty one man exhibitions, including at the Noyes Museum of Art,[6] the Cleveland institute of Art,[3] and the Teaching Museum at Lehigh University.[7][8] In 1999 he had a two person show with Faith Ringgold at the Williams Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey.[9] In 2004 he co-authored a book with Ringgold on her work titled "Faith Ringgold a View From the Studio.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Curlee Raven Holton - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Curlee Raven Holton". www.askart.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Storyteller: At 85, Her Star Still Rising, Faith Ringgold Looks Back on Her Life in Art, Activism, and Education - ARTnews". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Curlee Raven Holton - Cleveland Institute of Art". www.cia.edu. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  4. ↑ http://magazine.lafayette.edu/spring2017/an-experimental-life/
  5. ↑ St, Lafayette College 730 High; Easton; Us, PA 18042 Tel330-5000 Email. "Celebrating 20 years of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, at Lafayette · Art Galleries · Lafayette College". lafayette.edu. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  6. ↑ St, Lafayette College 730 High; Easton; Us, PA 18042 Tel330-5000 Email. "The Noyes Museum of Art – Curlee Raven Holton Exhibit · Experimental Printmaking Institute · Lafayette College". lafayette.edu. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Curlee Raven Holton - Lehigh University Art Galleries". luag.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Curlee Raven Holton". www.michellesofdelaware.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Curlee Raven Holton and Faith Ringgold exhibit at The Williams Gallery". www.wmgallery.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Preview of Faith Ringgold : a view from the studio [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.


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