Cathie Crawford - Artist / Relief Printmaker

Awards

 

                                                       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)

1. Portfolio of Most Recent Work
2. Awards
3. Artist Talk at Heartland Community College
1. What a Relief!
2. Artist Talk at Heartland Community College
3. Floating World Exhibition
4. Interview for Random Acts of Knowledge Podcast
5. 38th Bradley International
1. 38th Bradley International
2. Inland Art Review
6. PRINT PHILLY 2023
7. Reflections on Color Interview
8. The Gallery at the Met Store
9. 87th Annual SAGA Members Exhibition
10. Woodcut Galleries
1. Non-Objective
2. Small Prints (6"X12", 10"X8" and 6"x18")
3. Figurative
4. Underwater
5. Waterscapes
6. Water Gardens
7. Skyscapes
8. Aerial Views
11. Monoprints
1. About Monoprints
2. Monoprints
3. Small Monoprints
4. Mokulito Monoprints (lithography on wood)
5. Monoprint Monotypes & Strappo Winter 2016
12. Mokulitos
1. What is Mokulito
2. First Mokulito
3. The Making of Nascent, My Second Mokulito
4. Second Mokulito
13. My Process
1. My Process
2. Woodcut Printing Matrix and Runs for Kaibab
14. How I Print
1. In Progress Runs for Climate Climax
2. In Progress Runs for Convergence
3. New Small Print
4. In Progress Runs for Namaste
5. In Progress Runs for Once Upon A Glacier...
6. In progress runs for Anima Mundi
7. In Progress Runs for Summer Soleil
8. In Progress Runs for Shimmer
9. In Progress Runs for Argentsea
10. In Progress runs for Confluence
11. In progress runs for Noumena
12. In progress runs for Luna Sea
13. In progress runs for Spectrum
14. In progress runs for Homage to Hokusia
15. In progress runs for Breaking
16. In progress runs for Serendipity
17. In progresss runs for Serenity
18. In progress runs for Mystic
19. In progress runs for Samsara
20. In progress runs for Serenity II
21. In progress runs for Samsara II
22. In progress runs for Moontide
15. About the Artist
1. Biography
2. CV
3. Artist Statement
4. A Life in Print
5. Big Moments in Exotic Places
6. My Home Studio
16. Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair
1. Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair
2. Manneken Press at Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair
17. The California Printmaker Journal
1. The California Printmaker Journal
2. Confluence of Color Article
18. Journal of the Print World
19. Videos and Zoom Presentations
1. The Art of the Monoprint and Studio Tour
2. The Making of Nascent, My Second Mokulito
3. Confluence of Color Video
4. ZOOM Presentation for the Peoria Riverfront Museum
20. Recent Exhibitions, Periodicals & Reviews
1. Recent Exhibitions
2. Works on Paper 2022
3. The West Coast Print Fair
4. GALEX 55
5. Wild Life
6. Hand to Press
7. Confluence of Color Exhibition
8. Confluence of Color
9. American Color Print Society
10. Contemporary Landscape thru October 10th
11. Quad City Arts @The Airport Exhibition thru June
12. Quad City Arts Exhibition at the Airport
13. Luminosity at McLean County Art Center up through April
14. Peoria Art Guild Members Exhibition 2020
15. American Color Print Society's Spring Exhibition at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA
16. Boston Printmakers Exhibition in Cuba
17. Holiday Sale (take 10% off listed unframed price)
18. CONEXIONES/CONNECTIONS: Works by Members of The Boston Printmakers
19. 30th Small Prints International Exhibition at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
20. 2019 Small Prints International Artists at CPC in Chicago.
21. A Life in Print
22. Luminosity at the Peoria Public Library Gallery
23. Perception of Place at Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA.
24. Hot CIAO VI Exhibition
25. Monotype Guild of New England's 2019 juried members exhibtion
26. 2019 PRINT EXPLOSION: Exhibition & Symposium; Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham PA
27. Traditional Techniques: Contemporary Prints
28. River Meets the Rails, CIAO exhibition at the Galesburg Civic Art Center
29. Between the Lines Exhibition at San Francisco State University, Martin Wong Gallery
30. LUMINOSITY; one person exhibition at Decatur Area Arts Council
31. Sweet Earth/Bitter Earth; juried national exhibition of the Los Angeles Printmakers Society, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
32. ImMigration close up of Bereshit II & III (bottom two)
33. Immigration Project video
34. Small Prints International Show at the Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative
35. Small Prints International at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
36. Review of Monsieur Blanc woodcut in Piedmont Post 9/26
37. Stand Out Prints 2018 International Juried Exhibition; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
38. Slide show of Stand Out Prints Exhibition
39. 2018 Climate Action Exhibit in San Francisco
40. GALEX 52
41. 2018 Four Rivers Print Biennial Catalogue
42. My studio is featured on p. 84 of Show Me Your Print Shop edition of the journal on the MAPC website and Blurb.
43. Review of Star 82 2018 by Denise Hill on New Pages
44. 2018 Four Rivers Print Biennial
45. Star 82 Review Issue 6.2
46. Visual Voices:CIAO Group Exhibition
47. LUNACY: A Group Exhibition
48. LUNACY: A Group Exhibition
49. Emergence: The National Arts of Central Illinois
50. Emergence: The National Arts of Central Illinois
51. Bliss of Being: 30 years of woodcuts
52. Dog & Pony Art Gallery
53. Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibit; St Louis Artists' Guild
54. Landscape 2017 Art Exhibition
55. Art Space & Time Online Gallery
56. Monorpint Monotype & Strappo Winter 2016
57. Arts Plus Journal Star
58. One Person Exhibition at Bradley University
59. Artscope Magazine's Featured Exhibition: A 2016 State of Mind
60. The Boston Printmakers' A 2016 State of Mind Exhibition
61. 32nd Annual International Small Print Exhibition
21. Living Waters Exhibition
1. Artist Statement for "Living Waters" exhibition
2. Living Waters Exhibition at Foster Gallery
22. ImMigration Project
1. ImMigration A Collaborative Print Project of the Los Angeles Printmakers Society
2. ImMigration Print Project; a collaboration of the LA Printmakers
23. 9th International Print Exhibition
1. 9th International Print Exhibition
2. 9th International Print Exhibition in Albuquerque New Mexico
24. Paper West Exhibition
1. Paper West Exhibition
2. Summer Soleil
25. Other Links
1. International Print Center New York
2. Manneken Press
3. New York Satellite Print Fair
4. Society of American Graphic Artists
5. Boston Printmakers
6. Los Angeles Printmakers Society
7. California Society of Printmakers
8. Monotype Guild of New England
9. Monoprint and Monotype
10. American Color Print Society
11. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria
12. Playing Peoria
13. Schuster Art Consultancy
14. Galesburg Civic Art Center
15. Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair
16. Shop Amazon
17. Happy Mileurs blog
26. Contact