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Frances Myers

Frances Myers


Professor
Printmaking/Etching
1988
fjmyers@facstaff.wisc.edu
 



Myers is known for her prints and installations. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has chaired and served on panels concerning prints at the College Art Association's annual conferences, as well as those of the Southern Graphics Council. She exhibits regularly at Perimeter Gallery in Chicago and has had exhibitions in New York, Washington, DC, Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, London, and Cologne, Germany. Her work has been collected by most public print collections in this country, including the Chicago Art Institute, the National Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Myers studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches Etching, Monotype, and advanced research in Graphics and Painting.

Education

1965 MFA University of Wisconsin
1962 BS University of Wisconsin

Other Teaching Positions

University of California at Berkeley
Mills College, Oakland, CA
St. Martin's School of Art, London
Birmingham College of Art and Design, England

Significant Achievements

1998 Collaborations 1998, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (group)

1997 In Good Taste, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago (solo)

1997 Text/Subtext, Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, WI (solo)

1997 Contemporary Prints by Women Artists, Milwaukee Art Museum

1996 Parts of the Performance, Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (solo)

1995 Investigations in Printmaking, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford School of Art, University of Hartford, CT (3-person)