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D O N A L D F U R S T Biography A member of the
faculty since 1985, Furst is Professor of Art and Chair of the UNCW Department
of Art and Art History. He has received the following recognitions for
teaching: University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence
in Teaching, 1999; University Distinguished Professorship, UNCW, 1996-98; Board
of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, UNCW, 1996; College of Arts and Sciences
Excellence in Teaching, UNCW, 1992.
Furst currently
operates Ars Longa Press, a fine print atelier specializing in mezzotint and
other forms of intaglio printmaking. He has shown widely in national and
international exhibitions, including the International Print Triennial, Krakow,
Poland; Norwegian International Print Triennial; Sapporo International Print
Biennial in Japan, the Macedonia International Print Triennial, and the British
International Miniature Print Exhibition.
Vitae Date
of Birth: November 21, 1953 Ann Arbor, Michigan Education M.A.
and M.F.A. in printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky, University of Iowa,
1977, 1978 B.A.
in art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa,
1974 Selected
One-Person Shows "Mystery
in the Mundane," Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach , South Carolina,
2002 Blue
Spiral Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, 2001 "Quintet:
Five Print Suites by Donald Furst," St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington,
NC, 2000 "Out
of Darkness: Mezzotints by Donald Furst," Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas,
1996 "Archways,
Stairways, and Night Ways,"
Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, 1993 "Donald
Furst: Eighteen Years of Printmaking," Collectors Gallery of St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, 1992 "From
Here to There," University of
Alabama in Huntsville, 1990 "Love
and Architecture," Fanny
Garver Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, 1990 Saint
MaryÕs College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1986 St.
JohnÕs University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1985 State
University of New York at Geneseo, 1983 Biola
University, La Mirada, California, 1983 College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1982 Selected Group Exhibitions (* denotes purchase
award) Pacific
Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Hilo, * 2005 VII
International Biennial of Engraving, Acquie Terme-Ovada, Italy, 2005 3rd
Biennial International Mini Print Exhibition, New Leaf Editions, Vancouver BC
2004 Juried
Show for Small Engravings, Muzeal Florean, Maramures, Romania, 2004 Boston
Printmakers North American Biennial,* 2003 77th
Annual International Competition, * The Print Center of Philadelphia, 2003 "Prints
U.S.A. 2003," Springfield Art Museum (Missouri) 2nd
Bienal Internacional Douro 2003, Alijo,Portugal 5th
American Print Biennial, *
University of Richmond Museums (Virginia) "New
Prints 2002 Autumn," International Print Center, New York Bradley
National Print and Drawing Biennial,* 2001 "Interiors,"
North Carolina Museum of Art, 2000 International
Print Triennial 2000, Cracow, Poland
and travel to NŸrnberg, Germany Norwegian
International Print Triennial, Frederikstad, Norway, 1999 The
Boston Printmakers 1999 North American Print Exhibition 15th
Los Angeles Printmakers National Biennial Exhibition, 1999 Agart
World Print Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998 34th
International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Art Museum, Finland, 1998 "Colorprint
U.S.A.," 50 American artists
at 50 exhibit sites, one in each state, 1998. "Common
Ground," American Print
Alliance touring exhibit, 1998 1st
Northern Ireland International Small Print Exhibition, Townhouse Gallery,
Belfast, 1998 Davidson
Galleries International Juried Mezzotint Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, 1998 International
Print Triennial 97, Cracow, Poland and travel to Museum of Modern Art, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil Parkside
National Mezzotint Invitational, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 1997 "The
Art of the Mezzotint," Chicago Center for the Print, three-person, 1996 "New
Traditions: Contemporary Mezzotints," Bradley University, Peoria,
Illinois 1994 Macedonia
International Print Triennial, Zavod, Muzej I Galerija Bitola, Macedonia, 1994 British
International Miniature Print Exhibition, Leicester City Gallery, London, and
Scotland, 1994-95 Sapporo
International Print Biennial, Sapporo, Japan, 1993 North
Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1993 Third
Annual International Miniprint Exhibition,*** Juniper Gallery, Napa,
California, 1993 Harper
College National Print and Drawing Exhibition, ** Palatine, Illinois, 1993 Clemson
National Print and Drawing Exhibition,*
Clemson University, South Carolina; juried by Ned Rifkin, Chief Curator of Hirshhorn
Museum, Washington, D.C., 1991 Stockton
National V Print and Drawing Exhibition,* Haggin Museum, Stockton, California, 1990 "The
Architectural Image," Arkansas State University, three artists, 1989 American
Miniature Printmaking Exhibit, Best of Show Award, San Diego State University,
1988 Traveling
show of twenty American graphic artists selected by the Virginia Museum of Art,
Richmond, 1986-89 tour Rockford
International '85,* Rockford
College, Illinois; Andrew Stasik, Director of Pratt Graphics Center, New York Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, two artists, 1985 Society
of American Graphic Artists National Print Exhibition,* New York; Una Johnson, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 1985 Alabama
Works on Paper Exhibition,*
Auburn University; Richard Field, curator of prints and drawings, Yale University Museum of Art, 1985 "Interiors,"
Duluth Art Institute traveling exhibit to Hibbing, Saint Paul, and Duluth,
Minnesota, 1984-85 "American
Printmakers," American Cultural Affairs Center, Taipei, China, 1984 Prints
U.S.A.,* Pratt Graphics Center,
New York; Gabor Peterdi, head of printmaking at Yale University, 1982 Dallas
National Print Invitational, University of Dallas, with 1982 tour of Scotland and England "Architectural
Images," World Print Council Gallery, San Francisco, 1982 Miami
International Print Biennial,*
Miami Metroplolitan Art Center, 1982 Hawaii
National Print Exhibition,*
Honolulu Academy of Arts;
Nathan Oliveira, artist,
1982 All
on Paper International Exhibit,*
AAO Gallery, Buffalo, New York;
Douglas Schulz, curator at Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, 1982 Washington
and Jefferson College National Painting Exhibition,* Washington, PA, award for best oil painting in show; juried by Patterson
Sims, associate curator, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1981 "Two
by Two"Ó Cudahy Gallery of the Milwaukee Art Museum, 1980 American
Drawings III,* Smithsonian
Institute Traveling Exhibit (see "Institutional Collections"); juried by Harold Joachim, curator of prints
and drawings, Art Institute of Chicago; James Melchert, director of Visual Arts Program of the National
Endowment for the Arts; Louise Svendsen, curator at the Guggenheim Museum, 1982 Print
Club of Philadelphia National Exhibition,* 1979 Selected
Institutional Collections Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Nelson-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City, Missouri State
of Hawaii Foundation on Culture and the Arts Governor's
Office, Heilongjang Province, China Pratt
Graphics Center, New York Plains
Art Museum, Moorhead, Minnesota State
of Iowa, Wallace Building, Des Moines Portsmouth
Community Art Center, Virginia Hunterdon
Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey St.
John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota Oregon
Art Institute, Portland, Oregon Teaching Current Position Professor
and Chair, Department of Art and Art History University
of North Carolina at Wilmington Teaching History
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1985-present
Mount
Senario College, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, 1979-1985 Hamline
University, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1978-79 (sabbatical replacement) Teaching
Awards University
of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999 University
Distinguished Professorship, UNCW, 1996-98 Board
of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, UNCW, 1996 College
of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching, UNCW, 1992 Grants and Research
University
Research Reassignment, fall semester 2001, for "Rembrandt's Computer" Cahill
Grant (UNCW Faculty Research Committee) for "Chemical Milling Film Adapted for
Art," 2001 Summer
Research Initiative, College of Arts and Sciences, for "Etching
Photopolymer Film," 2000 North
Carolina Arts Council Artist's Fellowship, 1996 Cahill
Grant (UNCW Faculty Research Committee) for "New Halftone Screens for
Photographic Printmaking, 1996 Summer
Initiative, UNCW College of Arts and Sciences, for "Waterless Lithography
from Glass Plates," 1996 North
Carolina Arts Council Artist's Project Grant, 1994 for intaglio print suite
"421 Nights" University
Research Reassignment, 1994-95 Cahill
Grant (UNCW Faculty Research Committee) for "New Methods of
Vitreography," 1993 Electroetch
Corporation, microtint research materials, 1993 UNCW
Faculty Research Committee grant for "The Acid-Tint Method of Aluminum
Plate Lithography," 1992 UNCW
Faculty Research Committee grant for "New Methods of Mezzotint Plate
Preparation," 1990 Emerging
Artist Grant, Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear, Wilmington, NC, 1990, for
"Monotype Exhibit" PPG
Corporation materials grant for "Printmaking with Teslin, "
(synthetic paper), 1989 Fellowships and Travel Travel
in France, Italy, Greece, and
Germany in preparation for National
Endowment for the Humanities
pilot course "Our Classical
Legacy," 1984 MacDowell
Colony Fellow, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1983 Yaddo
Fellow, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1981 Workshops Taught
Indiana
University Graduate Printmaking Program, mezzotint and digital photopolymer
intaglio sessions, November 2000 Print
Studio South, Charleston, South Carolina, two-day workshops in mezzotint
printmaking, 1994, 1996 and 1997 Flatbed
Press, Austin, Texas, "Mezzotint: The Richest Black," two-day workshop, August,
1996 Southern
Graphics Council annual conference: studio demonstration presentations at
conferences in Baltimore (1993), Tampa (1997), and Austin (2001) East
Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, "Art from Steel Teeth," mezzotint demonstration, March 1994 |
