BONNIE B. COLLIER
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- Résumé -​

BONNIE B. COLLIER
22600 Shiloh Church Road
Boyds, Md. 20841

[email protected]
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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
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Experience:
  • Art Instructor, Montgomery County Public Schools, 1968 -1995
  • Member, Program Advisory Committee, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, Md, 1985 and 1986
  • Art Instructor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 1975
  • Art Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1971-7
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Online Images:
  • The National Museum of American History:                                                     americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?edan_q=bonnie%20collier 
  • Maryland State Arts Council: Visual Artist Registry:                                                                          msac.org/directory/artists/bonnie-b-collier msac.org/directory/artists/bonnie-b-collier
  • U.S. Department of State - Art in Embassies:                                                              www.aieregistry.org/users-post-gallery/member/bbcinBoyds/                                           ​    
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Selected Exhibitions: 

  •  Essence: The Characteristics That Define Us, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, Va. July 3 - August 10, 2025
  • 2025 Cumberland Valley Photographers, juror Christopher Gianunzio,  Museum of Fine Arts, Washington County, Hagerstown, Md. April 5 – July 27, 2025
  • ​​Full Circle 2025 - juror Sharon Malley, Falls Church Gallery, Falls Church, Va. January 11 - February 23, 2025
  • Drawing for Art, The Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Md. April 20 - May 2, 2024
  • 10th Allegany National Photography Exhibition - juror Sarah Stolfa, The Saville & Schwab Galleries, Cumberland, Maryland, March 30 – April 20, 2024
  • 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition, Hill Center Galleries, Washington, D.C., juror Amy Cavanaugh, January 10 – May 4, 2024
  • 9th Annual Allegany National Photography Exhibition - juror Todd J. Tubutis, The Saville & Schwab Galleries, Cumberland, Maryland, April 1 – 22, 2023
  • Play: The 31st Annual Juried Exhibition, the Strathmore Mansion Gallery, North Bethesda, Md., juror:  Zoma Wallace, March 21 – April 29, 2023
  • FOCUS, National Juried Photography Exhibition, juror Hannah Altman, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland, November 5 – 27, 2022
  • 7th Annual Allegany National Photography Competition & Exhibition, juror Karen Irvine, The Saville & Schwab Galleries, Cumberland, Maryland, April 3 – 24, 2021
  • FOCUS, National Juried Photography Exhibition, juror  Regina DeLuise, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, Maryland, November 17  – 29, 2020. Virtual gallery link: https://prezi.com/p/zhjet6cacdkd/national-juried-photography-exhibition/New 
  • Photography II, juror Philip Brookman, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, online exhibition July 1 - August 1, 2020, physical exhibition - August 1 - October 7, 2020
  • 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, Black Rock 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, Kreeger 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
  • The New York Times, "Photography - Everyone Will React Differently," Section D, page 25, October 10, 1971
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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
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