CATHIE CRAWFORD
EDUCATION
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois Printmaking M.F.A. 1987
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Art Education B.A.E. 1972
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Printmaking B.F.A. 1971
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, GRANTS & INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 INT’L Paperworks 2023; Northwest Arts Center, Minot, North Dakota
(Anima Mundi II and Once Upon a Glacier...)
2023 38th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition;
Bradley University, Peoria, IL (Anima Mundi)
2023 Vivid; A Juried National Exhibition; d'Art Center Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia
-First Place Cash Award
2022 87th Annual SAGA Members Exhibition; Salmagundi Club, and
The Gallery at the MET Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
-Artist & Craftsman Materials Award (Convergence)
2022 Annual Fall Members Exhibition; American Color Print Society,
The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
-Michael Lasuchin Memorial Cash Award (Convergence)
2021 GALEX 55, National Juried Exhibition; Galesburg Civic Art Center,
Galesburg, IL
-Medallion Cash Award (Anima Mundi II)
2021 Illinois State Fair Professional Art Exhibition; Springfield, IL
-First Place Cash Award in Graphics (Anima Mundi)
2021 ImPRESSive; Monotype Guild of New England’s Juried Exhibition,
Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
-Honorable Mention Award
2021 CAC AT MCAC, Work from Artists at the Contemporary Art Center
of Peoria; Brandt Gallery, McLean County Arts, Bloomington, IL.
-Second Place Cash Award (Noumena)
2020 Miniprint Kazanlak 2020; Art Gallery Kazaniak, Bulgaria
2019 River Meets the Rails: CIAO (Central Illinois Artists’ Organization)
Members Exhibition; Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
-Best of Show Cash Award (Noumena)
2019 Monotype Guild of New England’s Juried Exhibition;
Rhode island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
-Honorable Mention Award (Inception II)
2019 Hot CIAO VI Exhibition; Studios on Sheridan, Peoria, IL
-Second Place Cash Award (Manzoku II)
2018 Stand Out Prints International Juried Exhibition;
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Juror: Crawford Alexander Mann III, Curator of Prints and Drawings
at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (Likeness of Being)
2018 GALEX 52, National Juried Exhibition; Galesburg Civic Art Center,
Galesburg, IL
-Kent Leasure Fine Print (Cash) Award (Pluvious VI)
2018 Society of American Graphic Artists
84thMembers Juried Print Exhibition;
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
-Selected for the permanent art collection of Syracuse University
(Likeness of Being)
2018 Galesburg Civic Art Center’s Members Exhibition; Galesburg, IL
-Works on Paper Cash Award (Spectrum)
2017 36th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition; Bradley University,
Peoria, IL (Dayenu)
2017 7th Annual “Figurative” Art Exhibition; Light Space & Time Online Gallery
(667 entries from 26 countries and 36 states)
-Special Merit Award (Lovely Legs)
2017 Landscape Art Exhibition; Light Space & Time Online Gallery
-Special Recognition Award (Resonant Reflection II)
2015 Society of American Graphic Artists' CENTENNIAL NATIONAL
EXHIBITION; The Art Students League of New York, NY, NY
-Speedball Art Products Materials $1000 Purchase Award
(Monsieur Blanc n’est pas blanc)
2014 New Prints 2014/Autumn; International Print Center New York,
New York, NY (Dayenu)
2014 A Dream or A Memory juried international exhibit; St Louis Artists’ Guild,
St Louis, MO (Dianoia II)
2013 GALEX 47, National Juried Exhibition; Galesburg Civic Art Center,
Galesburg, IL
-Kent Leasure Memorial Fine Print (cash) Award (Too Cute to Eat)
2013 SHY RABBIT Print International 4; SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts,
Pagosa Springs, CO (Resonant Refection II)
2012 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition; Bradbury Gallery,
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
-Chucki Bradbury Purchase Award (Resonant Reflection II)
2012 32nd Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana
-Merit Cash Award (Sab pan yu)
2012 Shy Rabbit’s Print International 3; on line exhibition,
Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts (Sab pan yu)
2012 Members & Friends Juried Art Exhibit; Galesburg Civic Art Center,
Galesburg, Illinois
-Works on Paper Cash Award (Lovely Legs)
2010 New Prints 2010/Spring; Selected by Philip Pearlstein;
International Print Center New York, NY (Sab pan yu)
2009 The Boston Printmakers’ 2009 North American Print Biennial;
Boston University, Boston, MA (Maassalehma mes cherries)
2007 New Prints 2007/Spring; International Print Center New York,
New York, NY
Juror: James Siena, New York Painter / Printmaker
(Monsieur Blanc n’est pas blanc)
2007 31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition; Bradley University;
Peoria, IL
Juror: Judith K. Brodsky, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey (Maassalehma mes cherries)
2006 26th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana
-Merit Cash Award (Maassalehma mes cherries)
2005 The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial;
Boston University, Boston, MA (L’entrée)
2001 28th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition; Bradley University;
Peoria, IL (L’entrée)
2000 Harlech Printmaking Open 2000; Theatr Ardudwy; Harlech, Wales, UK
(Maassalehma mes cherries)
1999 27th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition; Bradley University;
Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Warrington Colescott, Artist/Printmaker
-Cullum-Davis Library, Bradley University Purchase Award
(Whale of a Sunset)
1997 Hand Pulled Prints V; Stonemetal Press’ Fifth Annual International
Exhibition; San Antonio, TX
Juror: Ken Hale, Lithographer / Artist, Professor at the University of Texas
at Austin (Pool Play)
1997 The Boston Printmakers 50th Anniversary North American Print Exhibition;
Massachusetts College of Art; Bakalar Gallery; Boston Massachusetts
1996 20th Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition; Harper College;
Palatine, IL
Juror: Rosemarie Bernardi, Associate Professor of Art, University of Arizona
-Purchase Award (Le bon vivant)
1996 Artists Who Teach: A Juried Tri-State Invitational; Western Illinois University;
Macomb, IL
Juror: Michael Dunbar
-First Place Cash Award (Le bon vivant)
1996 Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show;
Peoria Civic Center; Peoria, IL
Juror: John Heintzman, Artist and Director of Galleries, Bradley University
-Best of Show (Festina Lente)
1995 Thinking -Non Representationally: A Juried Exhibition by Members of the
Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois; University Art Gallery; Western Illinois U,
Macomb, IL
Juror: Robert Lee Mejer, Professor and Chair, Department of Art,
Quincy University
-Merit Award (Sel Sans L’eau, Aladdin’s Tale)
1995 Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show;
Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
93 Jurors: Tyson Joye (1995), Susan Maakestad (1993), Richard Orton (1992)
&92 -Second Place 2-D Cash Award (Le bon vivant-1995),
(Aladdin’s Tale-1993),(Plane Magic-1992)
1994 Americas 2000: Works on Paper; Northwest Art Center; MSU, Minot, ND
1993 National Printmaking Exhibition ‘93; Trenton State College Art Gallery;
Trenton, N.J
Lycoming College; Pennsylvania College of Technology;
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Juror: Phillip Pearlstein, Artist/Painter
-Purchase Award (Pool Play)
1993 Gallery Ten’s Seventh Annual Regional Exhibition; Rockford, Illinois
Juror: Bruce Pepich, Director, Wustem Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
-Third Place Cash Award (Table Talk)
1993 24th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition: Bradley University;
Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Joseph Zirker, Artist/ Printmaker
-Friend of the Library, Bradley University Purchase Award
-Patron Purchase Award (Plane Magic)
1993 Seventeenth Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition; Augustana College
Juror: Nancy Polster, Chair, Department of Art and Design,
Iowa State University
-Honorable Mention Cash Award (Pool Play)
1992 The Pillars Society of the Heart of Illinois United Way Juried Art Exhibition;
Peoria, IL
Jurors: Robert Reedy and Michael Walsh
-First Place Purchase Award (Plane Magic)
1992 Members and Friends 27th Annual Regional Exhibition;
Galesburg Civic Art Center; IL
Juror: Patricia Hobbs, McDonough Art Council
-Second Place 2-D Cash Award (Pool Play)
1991 56th Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association;
Cooperstown, NY
Juror: Janet Fish, Painter, New York
-Merit Cash Award in Printmaking (In Pursuit of a Damselfish)
1991 Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show;
Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
Juror: Harlan Goudie, retired Chairman of the Knox College Art Department
-Best of Show (Pool Play)
1991 LAGRANGE NATIONAL XVI; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum;
LaGrange, Georgia
Juror: Peter Morrin, Director of Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, Kentucky
-Juror’s Merit Award (Healing Waters)
1991 Art in the Courthouse, Juried Art Exhibit; Peoria County Board; Peoria, IL
Juror: Ray George, Professor of Art, Illinois State University
-Purchase Award (In Pursuit of a Damselfish)
1991 Peoria Area Arts and Sciences Council Individual Artist Grant
(funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency)
Awarded $342 to explore the technique of single level viscosity printing
in relief printmaking to expand the color possibilities of my color reduction
woodcut prints.
1991 The Pillars Society of the Heart of Illinois United Way Juried Art Exhibit;
Peoria, IL
-Second Place Cash Award (Illinois Heartscape)
1990 Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, in Peoria, commissioned a 4 by 6 foot
color reduction woodcut print, (Healing Waters), for the Methodist Atrium
1989 Celebration of the Arts Juried Art Show; Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
Juror: Ken Holder, Professor of Art, Illinois State University
-First Place Cash Award (Aerial Prism)
1989 2D at r 100; Up Front Gallery; Bloomington, IL
Juror: Buzz Spector, Artist/Critic
-Merit Cash Award (Aqueous Black Hills)
1988 Harper College 10th Annual Illinois Print and Drawing Exhibition;
Palatine, Illinois
Juror: Roger Gustafson, Chairman of Art, Elgin Community College
-Kemper Group Purchase Award (Bereshit)
1988 40th North American Print Exhibition; Brockton Art Museum;
The Boston Printmakers, Boston, Massachusetts (Risorgimento)
1988 One Sensesational Juried Art Exhibit; Peoria Civic Center; Peoria, IL
Jurors: Bill Landwehr and Dr. Charles Meyer
-Third Place Cash Award (Flight to Lucaya)
1986 Peoria Art Guild Members Show; Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Charles Meyer, Chairman of Art, Bradley University
-Honorable Mention Cash Award (Caterpillar Sky)
1984 East Greenbush Central Schools Fine Arts Grant, East Greenbush, NY
Awarded $700 to produce a portfolio of Cibachrome color photographs
1982 Camera Portfolio Magazine’s First Photographic Invitational;
Redlands, California
-Honorable Mention Award (Color Xerox)
1981 Third Annual Photography Regional;
Rensselaer County Council for the Arts; Troy, NY
Juror: Nathan Lyons; Director of Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
-Honorable Mention Award (Color Xerox)
1980 Galex 14 Annual National Art Exhibition; Galesburg Civic Art Center;
Galesburg, IL
Juror: Christina Ramberg
-Midwest Photo Cash Award (Color Xerox)
1979 Columbus Art League’s Small Works Show; Battelle Institute;
Columbus, OH
Juror: Marcia R. Cohen, Professor of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
-Melodee Seigal Kornacker (cash) Award Drawing
(Peach & Green Pills)