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Jack Damer

Jack Damer


Professor
Lithography
1965
jdamer@education.wisc.edu
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Currently Professor in charge of Lithography. Taught at Indiana University and Concordia in Montreal in addition to workshops at Tamarind Institute, Landfall Press, Chicago, and Lakeside Press, Lakeside, Michigan. Widely exhibited prints and drawings plus numerous workshops and visiting artist lectures. Grants include a NEA award and MacDowell Fellowship, and was lithography director for the American Pavilion during the 1970 Venice Bienniale.

Education

1965 MFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1960 BFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Other Teaching Positions

1976 Concordia in Montreal
1973 Indiana University

Significant Achievements

1997 Print International, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (group)

1983 Jack Damer: Prints and Multiples 1965-1983, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (solo)

1982 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship

1979 21st Brooklyn Museum Exhibition of Prints, Brooklyn, NY (group)

1971 Multiples exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group)

1970 Lithography director, US Print Workshop, 35th Venice Biennale