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BONNIE B. COLLIER
22401 Shiloh Church Road
Boyds, Md. 20841
bbcollier571@verizon.net
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Education:
• George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Master of Fine Arts, 1971
• Radford College, Radford, Virginia, Bachelor of Science, 1966
• Rhode Island School of Design, Honors Seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, 1985
• Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Recipient, Kodak Educator’s Scholarship, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992
• Savannah College of Art and Design, Recipient, Art Educator’s Scholarship, Savannah, Georgia, 1994 ______________________________________
Experience:
• Art Instructor, Montgomery County Public Schools, 1968 -1995
• Member, Program Advisory Committee, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland, 1985 and 1986
• Art Instructor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 1975
• Art Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1971-74
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Online Images:
• The National Museum of American History:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections
• Washington Project for the Arts: Art File Online:
https://www.wpadc.org/artists
• Maryland State Arts Council: Visual Artist Registry:
http://www.msac.org/artist-registry
• U.S. Department of State - Art in Embassies:
http://aieregistry.org
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Selected Exhibitions:
• Home, jurors: Terence Nicholson and Erwin Timmers, Strathmore Mansion Gallery, North Bethesda, Maryland, Honorable Mention, January 11, 2020 – February 23, 2020
• Captured Light: Current Photographic Processes, juror: Nate Larson, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland, November 16 – December 21, 2019
• Latitude, The Washington Women’s Arts Center 1975-1987, juror: Françoise Yohalem, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., catalogue, June 16 - August 12, 2018
• 2018 Cumberland Valley Photographers Exhibition, juror: Michael Mendez, Museum of Fine Arts – Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland, February 4 - April 7, 2018
• 2017 Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers, juror: Frank Herrera, Museum of Fine Arts –Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland, January 29 - April 9, 2017
• Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Post Memory: Photographs of a Certain Place and Time, Silver Spring, Maryland, January 21 – March 3, 2017
• National Juried Photography Exhibit, juror: Frank Van Riper, The Delaplaine Arts Center,
Frederick, Maryland, November 1-30, 2014
• Photo '08: juror: David Griffin, The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, Feb. 22 - April 12, 2008
• 5th Photographic Image Biennial, juror Mark Klett, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2007
• PhotoGenesis, jurors Stephen Bennett Phillips, Claudia Bohn-Spector, Charles Brock,
Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, 2006
• Photo 06: Photographs You Have Taken In The Last 75 Years, juror: Michelle Delaney, The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, 2006
• Hickok Warner Cole Architects Art Night 2005, co-curators: Erin Chase Mackay and Randall McLean,HWC offices, Washington, D.C., 2005
• Art MD 2004, juried by Stephen Bennett Phillips, Howard County Center for the Arts,
Ellicott City, Maryland, 2004
• Celebrating A Centennial, juried by David Tannous, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, Centennial Award, 2003
• Opposites: Exploring Polarity, The 5th Biennial Corcoran Alumni Hemicycle Exhibition,
juried by Andrea Pollan and Susan Eder, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001
• Works by Contemporary Maryland Artists, juried by Grimaldis, Linowitz, Moreland and Tenabe, Government House, Annapolis, Maryland, 2000
• Art & Technology: Digital Visions, curated by Anne Brown and Chris Foley, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia, 1998
• Neighbors: The Corcoran at the OAS, juried by Samuel C. Hoi and Ana Maria Escallón, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., 1998
• Assignment Earth, Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Second Place digital category, 1997
• Santa Fe Vignettes, Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May, 1997
• The Third Alumni Hemicycle Exhibition, juried by Jack Cowart, The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., 1997
• Prints: Washington ‘97, juried by Robert Blackburn, Jan Howard and Michael Platt, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997
• Photo '96, An Annual Regional Exhibition, juried by Deborah Willis, The Ellipse Arts Center,
Arlington, Virginia, Juror’s Choice Award, 1996
• Dog Days Show, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, juried by Kathleen Ewing, Washington, D.C., 1993
• Regional Trends, an exhibition of photography, juried by Kathleen Ewing, Rockville Arts Place,
Rockville, Maryland, 1992
• Impact of Photographs: a Survey of Contemporary photographers in the Mid- Atlantic Region, SPE Regional Photography Exhibition, Millersville University Library Gallery, Millersville,
Pennsylvania, November 1 - 23, 1992
• Artscape ‘91, Baltimore Scapes: Images of Baltimore; Physical, Mental, Cultural, curator: Dr. Schroeder Cherry, Maryland Institute College of Art - Thesis Gallery, Baltimore, Md., July 19 - August 11, 1991
• Artery '90, multi-media juried exhibition, juror: Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland, October 19 - November 17, 1990
• Introductions III - Photography and Large-Scale Sculpture, juror: Jack Rasmussen, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, Maryland, August 4 - 26, 1989
• Maryland's Best '88, state wide multi-media visual arts exhibition, juror: Ned Rifkin, Rockland Arts Center, Ellicott City, Maryland, November 6 - December 17, 1988
•Heartworks IV, a benefit for the new art examiner, curators: Jack Cowart and Wilhelm de Looper, Omni Georgetown Hotel, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1987
• Alternatives '86, juror: Robert Fichter, Siegfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, catalogue, February 24 - March 7, 1986
• The Garden Environment: Sculptural Setting, Setting for Sculpture, Audubon Naturalist Society juried exhibition, jurors: Franz Bader, David Furchgott, and James Van Sweden, Woodend, Chevy Chase, Maryland, April 10 - 30, 1985
• CitySpaces, Alexandria Sculpture Festival, curators: Franz Bader, Alice Denney and Pinkney Near, VVKR Architecture Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia, catalogue, September 9 - October 29, 1984
• E Street window display, Lansburgh Cultural Center, curator: Francoise Yohalem, D.C. slide registry artists, Washington, D.C., November 1 - December 3, 1984
•Alexandria Sculpture Festival 1983, jurors: David Tannous, Benjamin Forgey and Clair List, VVK&R Architecture Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia, April 2 - May 2, 1983
• Invited Artists 10th Anniversary Show, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., July 6 - August 20, 1982
• Outdoor Sculpture 1981, jurors: Joan Mondale and E.A. Carmean, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia, Honorable Mention, catalogue, May 11 - July 26, 1981
•The Art of Ceramics, jurors: Raylene Decatur and Ed Nash, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, catalogue, February 7 - March 8, 1981
• Bonnie B. Collier, Sculpture Exhibit, (with Robert Davis, and Phillip Jones, Paintings) Foundry Gallery, Washington. D.C., February 6 - March 3, 1979
• Gallery 10, 1974-1979, 5 Years of Exhibitions, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C., June 1 - 30, 1979
• 8 Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal, invitational, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, January 16 - February 16, 1978
• Craft Art, A Washington Exposition, Corcoran Dupont Center, jurors: Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Thomas, and Richard C. Lafean, Washington, D.C., catalogue, November 1 - 21, 1977
• Self Portraits, invitational, Intuitiveye Gallery, Washington, D.C., September 20 - October 16, 1976
• The 4th Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Nagoya, catalogue, May 14 - 19, 1976, Kanazawa, Japan, May 21 - 26, 1976, Tokyo and Osaka, May - July 1976
• 33rd International Competition of Contemporary Ceramics, Faenza, Italy, July 20 - October 5, 1975
• The Sydney International Exhibition of Photography, Sydney, Australia, September - December 1975
• Seven Sculptors, Inaugural Show, Washington Women’s Art Center, Washington, D.C., April 20-May 17, 1975
• 27 New Washington Women, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, May 21-July 1, 1975
•19th Area Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, juror: Jim Pilgrim, Washington, D.C., October 12-November 10, 1974
• Bonnie B. Collier, Sculpture Exhibit, (co-solo David Cardona, Paintings) Emerson Gallery, McLean, Virginia, October 1-31, 1974
• Satirical Crafts Depicting Social Injustices of Today, Hand of Man Gallery, Bedford Hills, New York, October 6-26, 1974
• Photo Media, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council, New York, New York, September 24, 1971-January 2, 1972
• Photo Forms, Exhibit A Gallery, Gallery of American Ceramics, Evanston, Illinois, May 7-27, 1972
• The George Washington University Student Art Exhibition, Marvin Center Gallery, Washington, D.C., First Place - Ceramics, Kreger Award - Honorable Mention Sculpture, March 31 - April 30, 1971
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Selected Published Photographs:
• Latitude: The Washington Women’s Arts Center, 1975-1987, exhibition catalogue, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., June 16 - Aug. 12, 2018, pg. 35
• The Magazine of Radford University, Summer 2017, pg. 94
• Back Cover Photograph, McLean Community Center, Program Guide, Winter/Spring 2007
• Artist Directory, Washington Project For The Arts, Washington, D.C. Fall 2009 - pg. 151; Fall 2012 - pg. 171; Fall 2014 - pg. 148
• Artist Directory, Washington Project For The Arts, Corcoran, Fall 2004 - pg. 245 / Fall 2005 - pg.197
• Santa Fe Workshops brochure, Photography & Digital Workshops 2000/2001
• Corcoran School of Art, Division of Continuing Education, Open Program Catalogue, pg. 17,
Spring 1998
• Cover Photograph, Revision, The Journal of Consciousness and Change, Spring, 1987
• The Washington Post, “Maryland Artists to Show their Best,” November 3, 1988, page Md3
• Cover Photograph, AGB Reports, Journal of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, March/April 1984
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Selected Collections:
• Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
• Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation, Westerville, Ohio
• George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• Jane Allen, Washington, D.C.
• H.I. Gates, Frederick, Maryland
• Rita & Robert Scott, New York, New York
• Leonard Kamsler, New York, New York
• Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Rockville, Maryland:
22401 Shiloh Church Road
Boyds, Md. 20841
bbcollier571@verizon.net
______________________________________
Education:
• George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Master of Fine Arts, 1971
• Radford College, Radford, Virginia, Bachelor of Science, 1966
• Rhode Island School of Design, Honors Seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, 1985
• Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Recipient, Kodak Educator’s Scholarship, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992
• Savannah College of Art and Design, Recipient, Art Educator’s Scholarship, Savannah, Georgia, 1994 ______________________________________
Experience:
• Art Instructor, Montgomery County Public Schools, 1968 -1995
• Member, Program Advisory Committee, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland, 1985 and 1986
• Art Instructor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 1975
• Art Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1971-74
____________________________________
Online Images:
• The National Museum of American History:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections
• Washington Project for the Arts: Art File Online:
https://www.wpadc.org/artists
• Maryland State Arts Council: Visual Artist Registry:
http://www.msac.org/artist-registry
• U.S. Department of State - Art in Embassies:
http://aieregistry.org
______________________________________
Selected Exhibitions:
• Home, jurors: Terence Nicholson and Erwin Timmers, Strathmore Mansion Gallery, North Bethesda, Maryland, Honorable Mention, January 11, 2020 – February 23, 2020
• Captured Light: Current Photographic Processes, juror: Nate Larson, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland, November 16 – December 21, 2019
• Latitude, The Washington Women’s Arts Center 1975-1987, juror: Françoise Yohalem, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., catalogue, June 16 - August 12, 2018
• 2018 Cumberland Valley Photographers Exhibition, juror: Michael Mendez, Museum of Fine Arts – Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland, February 4 - April 7, 2018
• 2017 Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers, juror: Frank Herrera, Museum of Fine Arts –Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland, January 29 - April 9, 2017
• Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, Post Memory: Photographs of a Certain Place and Time, Silver Spring, Maryland, January 21 – March 3, 2017
• National Juried Photography Exhibit, juror: Frank Van Riper, The Delaplaine Arts Center,
Frederick, Maryland, November 1-30, 2014
• Photo '08: juror: David Griffin, The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, Feb. 22 - April 12, 2008
• 5th Photographic Image Biennial, juror Mark Klett, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2007
• PhotoGenesis, jurors Stephen Bennett Phillips, Claudia Bohn-Spector, Charles Brock,
Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, 2006
• Photo 06: Photographs You Have Taken In The Last 75 Years, juror: Michelle Delaney, The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, 2006
• Hickok Warner Cole Architects Art Night 2005, co-curators: Erin Chase Mackay and Randall McLean,HWC offices, Washington, D.C., 2005
• Art MD 2004, juried by Stephen Bennett Phillips, Howard County Center for the Arts,
Ellicott City, Maryland, 2004
• Celebrating A Centennial, juried by David Tannous, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, Centennial Award, 2003
• Opposites: Exploring Polarity, The 5th Biennial Corcoran Alumni Hemicycle Exhibition,
juried by Andrea Pollan and Susan Eder, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001
• Works by Contemporary Maryland Artists, juried by Grimaldis, Linowitz, Moreland and Tenabe, Government House, Annapolis, Maryland, 2000
• Art & Technology: Digital Visions, curated by Anne Brown and Chris Foley, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia, 1998
• Neighbors: The Corcoran at the OAS, juried by Samuel C. Hoi and Ana Maria Escallón, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., 1998
• Assignment Earth, Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Second Place digital category, 1997
• Santa Fe Vignettes, Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May, 1997
• The Third Alumni Hemicycle Exhibition, juried by Jack Cowart, The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., 1997
• Prints: Washington ‘97, juried by Robert Blackburn, Jan Howard and Michael Platt, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997
• Photo '96, An Annual Regional Exhibition, juried by Deborah Willis, The Ellipse Arts Center,
Arlington, Virginia, Juror’s Choice Award, 1996
• Dog Days Show, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, juried by Kathleen Ewing, Washington, D.C., 1993
• Regional Trends, an exhibition of photography, juried by Kathleen Ewing, Rockville Arts Place,
Rockville, Maryland, 1992
• Impact of Photographs: a Survey of Contemporary photographers in the Mid- Atlantic Region, SPE Regional Photography Exhibition, Millersville University Library Gallery, Millersville,
Pennsylvania, November 1 - 23, 1992
• Artscape ‘91, Baltimore Scapes: Images of Baltimore; Physical, Mental, Cultural, curator: Dr. Schroeder Cherry, Maryland Institute College of Art - Thesis Gallery, Baltimore, Md., July 19 - August 11, 1991
• Artery '90, multi-media juried exhibition, juror: Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, Maryland, October 19 - November 17, 1990
• Introductions III - Photography and Large-Scale Sculpture, juror: Jack Rasmussen, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, Maryland, August 4 - 26, 1989
• Maryland's Best '88, state wide multi-media visual arts exhibition, juror: Ned Rifkin, Rockland Arts Center, Ellicott City, Maryland, November 6 - December 17, 1988
•Heartworks IV, a benefit for the new art examiner, curators: Jack Cowart and Wilhelm de Looper, Omni Georgetown Hotel, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1987
• Alternatives '86, juror: Robert Fichter, Siegfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, catalogue, February 24 - March 7, 1986
• The Garden Environment: Sculptural Setting, Setting for Sculpture, Audubon Naturalist Society juried exhibition, jurors: Franz Bader, David Furchgott, and James Van Sweden, Woodend, Chevy Chase, Maryland, April 10 - 30, 1985
• CitySpaces, Alexandria Sculpture Festival, curators: Franz Bader, Alice Denney and Pinkney Near, VVKR Architecture Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia, catalogue, September 9 - October 29, 1984
• E Street window display, Lansburgh Cultural Center, curator: Francoise Yohalem, D.C. slide registry artists, Washington, D.C., November 1 - December 3, 1984
•Alexandria Sculpture Festival 1983, jurors: David Tannous, Benjamin Forgey and Clair List, VVK&R Architecture Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia, April 2 - May 2, 1983
• Invited Artists 10th Anniversary Show, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., July 6 - August 20, 1982
• Outdoor Sculpture 1981, jurors: Joan Mondale and E.A. Carmean, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia, Honorable Mention, catalogue, May 11 - July 26, 1981
•The Art of Ceramics, jurors: Raylene Decatur and Ed Nash, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, catalogue, February 7 - March 8, 1981
• Bonnie B. Collier, Sculpture Exhibit, (with Robert Davis, and Phillip Jones, Paintings) Foundry Gallery, Washington. D.C., February 6 - March 3, 1979
• Gallery 10, 1974-1979, 5 Years of Exhibitions, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C., June 1 - 30, 1979
• 8 Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal, invitational, Hodson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, January 16 - February 16, 1978
• Craft Art, A Washington Exposition, Corcoran Dupont Center, jurors: Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Thomas, and Richard C. Lafean, Washington, D.C., catalogue, November 1 - 21, 1977
• Self Portraits, invitational, Intuitiveye Gallery, Washington, D.C., September 20 - October 16, 1976
• The 4th Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Nagoya, catalogue, May 14 - 19, 1976, Kanazawa, Japan, May 21 - 26, 1976, Tokyo and Osaka, May - July 1976
• 33rd International Competition of Contemporary Ceramics, Faenza, Italy, July 20 - October 5, 1975
• The Sydney International Exhibition of Photography, Sydney, Australia, September - December 1975
• Seven Sculptors, Inaugural Show, Washington Women’s Art Center, Washington, D.C., April 20-May 17, 1975
• 27 New Washington Women, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, May 21-July 1, 1975
•19th Area Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, juror: Jim Pilgrim, Washington, D.C., October 12-November 10, 1974
• Bonnie B. Collier, Sculpture Exhibit, (co-solo David Cardona, Paintings) Emerson Gallery, McLean, Virginia, October 1-31, 1974
• Satirical Crafts Depicting Social Injustices of Today, Hand of Man Gallery, Bedford Hills, New York, October 6-26, 1974
• Photo Media, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council, New York, New York, September 24, 1971-January 2, 1972
• Photo Forms, Exhibit A Gallery, Gallery of American Ceramics, Evanston, Illinois, May 7-27, 1972
• The George Washington University Student Art Exhibition, Marvin Center Gallery, Washington, D.C., First Place - Ceramics, Kreger Award - Honorable Mention Sculpture, March 31 - April 30, 1971
______________________________________
Selected Published Photographs:
• Latitude: The Washington Women’s Arts Center, 1975-1987, exhibition catalogue, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., June 16 - Aug. 12, 2018, pg. 35
• The Magazine of Radford University, Summer 2017, pg. 94
• Back Cover Photograph, McLean Community Center, Program Guide, Winter/Spring 2007
• Artist Directory, Washington Project For The Arts, Washington, D.C. Fall 2009 - pg. 151; Fall 2012 - pg. 171; Fall 2014 - pg. 148
• Artist Directory, Washington Project For The Arts, Corcoran, Fall 2004 - pg. 245 / Fall 2005 - pg.197
• Santa Fe Workshops brochure, Photography & Digital Workshops 2000/2001
• Corcoran School of Art, Division of Continuing Education, Open Program Catalogue, pg. 17,
Spring 1998
• Cover Photograph, Revision, The Journal of Consciousness and Change, Spring, 1987
• The Washington Post, “Maryland Artists to Show their Best,” November 3, 1988, page Md3
• Cover Photograph, AGB Reports, Journal of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, March/April 1984
_______________________________________
Selected Collections:
• Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
• Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation, Westerville, Ohio
• George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• Jane Allen, Washington, D.C.
• H.I. Gates, Frederick, Maryland
• Rita & Robert Scott, New York, New York
• Leonard Kamsler, New York, New York
• Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Rockville, Maryland: