DONALD HAYES RUSSELL 5813 NEVADA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, DC 20015 202-213-6272 [email protected] [email protected]

EXPERIENCE

2014 - present University Curator, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA ● Directs university fine art collection, exhibitions, public art, artist residencies, donor relations, acquisitions, university partnerships ● Established campus mural program bringing professional artists to work with students

2011- present Research Faculty, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA ● Directs Provisions Research Center for Arts and Social Change in the School of Art, enriching creative research and learning across the University ● Leads Honors Seminar focused on research as art and social practice ● Established research residency program bringing US artists to utilize Washington as a platform for research and project development ● Established and edits Provisional Research Journal ● Serves on the School of Art Advisory Council

2000-present Executive Director, Co-Founder, Provisions Learning Project and Research Center for Art and Social Change, Washington, DC and George Mason University, Fairfax, VA ● Leads research, development and documentation of arts and social change through the library’s collection, online resources, residencies, exhibitions, public art and workshops ● Established collections policy for book, audio/visual and periodical collections covering thirty-three social change topics, called Meridians ● Co-founded, with Edgar Endress, Floating Lab Collective developing community engaged public art projects in Greater Washington, DC and internationally ● Initiated and implemented international research and public art projects in Recife (Brazil), Mostar (Bosnia), Medellin (Colombia) and Port of Spain (Trinidad) ● Researched post-conflict art and civil society practices in Bulgaria, Serbia, , Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia including extensive interviews with creative social entrepreneurs ● Initiated Knowledge Commons DC, a free school leveraging community knowledge in informal settings throughout Washington, DC

1 - Donald Russell: Résumé ● Served as host organization and programmer for The Creative Time Summit DC, Fall, 2016. ​ ● Collaboration with City as Living Laboratory and artist Mary Miss on NSF grant to develop art and urban sustainability projects, as well as co-organizing a summit of leading artists, ecologists, climate communicators, and city planners.

1992-1995 Executive Director, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ● Directed award-winning contemporary art exhibitions and public programs across all media ● Managed staff of twelve and a forty-five member board of directors ● Established Art 24/7, a community gallery in Congress Heights, DC ​ ​ ● Funding received: National Endowment for the Arts, Meyer Foundation, Knight Foundation, Warhol Foundation, Graham Fund, Washington Post Companies, Philip Morris (Altria), USWEST, DC Commision on the Arts and Humanities, as well producing fundraising events including annual gala art auctions

1986-present President & Co-Founder, Art Resources International, Washington, DC ● Research and consulting for philanthropies focused on contemporary arts, free expression, and digital human rights ● Cooperative research studies for National Endowment for the Arts resulting in books chronicling and enhancing NEA engagement with visual artists, including A Creative ​ Legacy and two editions of Money to Work: Grants for Visual Artists ​ ​ ● Supervised formation of an archive documenting 5,000+ NEA visual artist fellowship recipients in preparation for transfer to Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and publication of A Creative Legacy, Abrams. ​ ​ ● Curator and Project Manager for Art Links Baltimore, a themed miniature golf course ​ ​ designed by 18 regional sculptors, sited on the Inner Harbor in Baltimore for two years ● Strategic planning resulting in The Headlands Center for the Arts, an artists’ residency program located in a former Army base and missile site in the Marin Headlands ● Strategic planning team member with Alison Maddex and Camille Paglia for Museum of Sex (NYC) developing institutional vision, mission, program, financing and charitable structure ● Co-founder, Sea Change Residencies with Gaea Foundation, a program for artists and activists, Provincetown, MA ● Strategic advising: Gaea Foundation (DC), Media Democracy Fund (DC), Museum of Sex (New York), Cordish Companies (Baltimore), Goethe Institut (DC), National Association of Artists Organizations (DC), Leeway Foundation (Philadelphia), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1983-86 Director of Programs, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

2 - Donald Russell: Résumé ● Curator for exhibitions, residencies, media arts, public art projects and educational programs ● Founded Bookworks, a major retail outlet for contemporary artists’ books, multiples, ​ ​ audio/video recordings and magazines, open from 1982-1996 ● Established media arts production facility and screening program ● Established international artists’ residency program, including creation of The Jade ​ Garden, an apartment designed by artist David Ireland hosting artists-in-residence: Peter ​ Greenaway, Margaret Randall, Felipe Ehrenberg, Ulises Carrion, Terry Allen, Jaime Gordon, among others ● Editor, WPA Document, a large-scale publication documenting the first ten-years of ​ ​ Washington Project for the Arts ● Initiated Botswana, an artists’ speakeasy ● Commissioned Social Amnesia, a multimedia performance by Impossible Theater, ​ ​ Washington Project for the Arts and Brooklyn Academy of Music ● Produced Quarry, multimedia performance by Meredith Monk, Kennedy Center for the ​ ​ Performing Arts ● Venue Manager, New Music America Festival organized by District Curators

1981-83 Coordinator of Exhibitions & Artists’ Residencies, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ● Curated exhibitions, managed traveling exhibitions program and public programs ● Established artist-in-residence program

1980-83 Adjunct Faculty, Museum Studies Graduate Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY ● Led graduate seminars in collections management, curatorial practice, exhibition design and publications management ● Helped design one graduate-level museum studies curricula

Book Reviews Coordinator, Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Visual ​ ​ Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ● Wrote, assigned and edited book reviews on contemporary visual culture

1980 Summer Institute Coordinator, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ● Developed and managed thirty workshops by nationally acclaimed photographers, book artists, art critics and historians.

1979 Conference Coordinator, Options in Independent Art Publishing, Visual Studies Workshop, ​ ​ ​ ​ Rochester, NY ● Principal organizer and curator for the first international conference, exhibitions and book

3 - Donald Russell: Résumé fair featuring forty presentations on the field of artists’ books. Conference papers published in Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, Gibbs Smith ​ ​ Publishers

1976-79 Manager, Book Bus Project (now Writers and Books), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ● Toured throughout the Northeast with an NEA-funded mobile bookstore featuring independent press literature and artists’ books. Participated in and presented at numerous literary and arts festivals and special events ● Selected titles and produced mail-order catalogs and wholesale distribution systems serving small press and artist book publishers ● Developed strategic business plan for the Contemporary Artists’ Bookstore Network, a proposed chain of bookstores embedded in arts organizations and a book subscription program of university and public libraries

EDUCATION

2014-17 George Mason University School of Art, Fairfax, VA ● MFA, InterArts, 2017

1975-77 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ● Photography, with Nathan Lyons and Dave Heath ● Book arts, with Keith Smith, Conrad Gleber and Joan Lyons ● Library and collections management, with Robert Bretz ● Photographic history, with William Johnson and Alex Sweetman

1973-75 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI ● Film Studies, with David Bordwell and James Benning ● Art and Communication Arts

AWARDS

Herb White Award, District of Columbia Art Center, April, 2010 Gay Pride Award, for exhibition, Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, April, 1993 ​ ​

GRANTS

Gaea Foundation, Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CrossCurrents Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Quixote Foundation, Metabolic Studios, George Mason University Office of Student Scholarship,

4 - Donald Russell: Résumé Creative Activities, and Research, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Arts Council, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Washington Post Companies, Philip L. Graham Fund, Meyer Foundation, Knight Foundation, Glen Eagles Foundation, Philip Morris Companies, US WEST, Best Buy, Abell Foundation, Cordish Company

INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

2002 Commissioned Rohrer Studio to design 5,000 square foot build-out for Provisions Library in DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood, including gallery/event space, open offices, library stack room, reading rooms and gallery. Oversaw construction with HITT.

1996 Project Manager, ArtLinks Baltimore. Oversaw site plan and construction of 18 sculptural elements and for a miniature golf course on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

1986 Commissioned architect Wayne L. Good, FAIA to design AiA award-winning residential expansion/renovation, reviewed in and New York Times and featured in Wayne L. Good Architect: Tradition, Elegance, Repose. Served as general contractor. ​

SPEAKER

Mexican Cultural Institute (Washington, DC), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), Current Books (Richmond, VA), Duke University (Durham, NC), Center for Book Arts (NYC); Goethe Institut Washington; Furthermore, Inc. (DC); George Mason University (VA); Lead America Inaugural Summit (VA); Phillips Collection (DC); Flashpoint Gallery (DC); Torpedo Factory (VA); Amnesty International Arts Festival (MD); Policy Link (LA); Warhol Foundation Initiative (LA and CA); School of the (IL); California Institute of the Arts (CA); University of Maryland, College Park (MD); University of Minnesota, St. Paul (MN); Nathan Cummings Foundation (NYC); Smithsonian American Arts Museum (DC); La Napoule Art Foundation (France); Society for Photographic Education (CO) and (MD); Moore College of Art (PA); Transformer Gallery (DC); College Art Association (NYC)

GRANTS PANELIST

National Endowment for the Arts Artworks Panel; Walter & Elise Haas Fund; National ​ Endowment for the Arts Museum Program; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Public Art Policy Panel and the 5x5 Public Art Initiative; Arts Council of Fairfax; Blue Mountain Center Visual Arts Residency Program; Rhode Island Arts Council; Creative Communities Program, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region; Center on Age & Community, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Washington Sculptors Group; Lightwork, Syracuse University

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BOARD SERVICE

Elsewhere Ambassador (Greensboro, NC), Youth Outreach Services (Fairfax, VA); GMU School of Art Advisory Council (Fairfax, VA); Artists’ Coalition for Dupont Underground (Washington, DC); Knowledge Commons DC; 9/11 Arts Projects (Washington, DC); Street Scenes, Public Art Projects for DC; Artists in Context (Boston, MA); Healthy Living (Washington, DC); National Association of Artists’ Organizations (Washington, DC); Washington Project for the Arts; Art Attack International (Washington, DC)

PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES

The Case for Space, Provisional Research Journal, Volume I/4, Provisions Library, 2013 ​

Copyrights, Provisional Research Journal, Volume I/3, Provisions Library, 2013 ​

Republic, Provisional Research Journal, Volume I/2, Provisions Library, 2013 ​

Parks & Passages, Provisional Research Journal, Volume I/1, Provisions Library, 2013 ​

Provisions Library website, www.provisionslibrary.org, four iterations, 2003-2013

Aesthetic Justice, Lambent Foundation and Provisions Library, 2011 ​

Revisiting Histories, Lambent Foundation and Provisions Library, 2010 ​

Close Encounters: Acts of Social Imagination. Nathan Cummings Foundation and Provisions ​ Library, 2009

Editor in collaboration with John Feffer, Provisions Library Meridians, Provisions Library website, ​ ​ 2003

A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program, 1966-1995, Harry Abrams, 2001 ​

Art Links Baltimore, Maryland Art Place, 1996. ​

Wayne L. Good Architect: Tradition, Elegance, Repose, Images Publishing Group, 2004 ​

Burnt Whole: Artists Reflect on the Holocaust, Washington Project for the Arts, 1994 st ​ nd Money to Work: Grants for Visual Artists, 1 ​ and 2 ​ editions. Washington: Art Resources ​ ​ ​ International,1992

6 - Donald Russell: Résumé Visual Arts chapter for State of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, 1988 ​ ​

WPA Document, Washington Project for the Arts, 1986 ​

Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1985 ​

Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden Gate. Featuring commissioned projects by Mark ​ Klett, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Paul Metcalf and Miles DeCoster. University of New Mexico Press, 1989

Numerous book and exhibition reviews in Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​ ​

CURATORIAL RECORD Note: **Curatorial supervisor ***Traveling exhibition booking

2018 Police State Disco: New Media Works by Jonathan Monaghan. George Mason University ​

2017 States of Mind: Photographs of and North Korea by Carl De Keyzer***. Curated by Jack ​ Rasmussen, Director, American University Art Museum. George Mason University

Rashwan Abdelbaki: One Eye Open on Syria. George Mason University ​

Full Body: Sculpture by Doreen Garner, George Mason University ​

RED!!: Russian American XX1 Century Visions**, featuring Mark Kelner and Yevgeniy Fiks. ​ George Mason University

Evoking Place: Fifty Years of Landscapes from the Art Museum of the Americas**, in ​ conjunction with Professor Michele Greet’s students. George Mason University

2016

Natural Fact: Emilie Brzezinski, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA ​

Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist. George Mason University, Fairfax, ​ ​ ​ VA

2015 Ageless Chinese Art: A Virginia Scholar’s Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting. George Mason University Gallery, Fairfax, VA. Co-curated with Gao Qing, from the collection of Dr. Chi Wang. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA ​

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2014 Ceci n’est pas une T.V.** George Mason University Gallery, Fairfax, VA. Curated by James ​ ​ Huckenpahler featuring Julia Brown, Billy Colbert, Larry Cook, Dina Kelberman, Brandon Morse, Lucian Perkins, Siobhan Rigg, James Sham, Renee Stout.

Art as Research. Group exhibition featuring Provisions Library Research Residents: Greg ​ Bloom, Gareth Branwyn, Riah Buchanan, Katherine Chandler, Edgar Endress, Paul Farber, Katie Hargrave, Robby Herbst, James Huckenpahler, Pam Jordan, Nate Larson, Pedro Lasch, Jaimes Mayhew, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Susan Morgan, Heidi Neilson, Houng Ngo, Emmanuel Pratt, Ding Ren, Siobhan Rigg, Steve Rowell, Terry Scott, Tim Schwartz, Cassie Thornton.

5 x 5**. Public Temporary Public Sculpture Initiative. DC Commission on the Arts and ​ Humanities, Washington, DC. Served on selection panel for curators Shamim M. Monin (artists: ​ Diana Al-Hadid, Dan Colen, Brendan Fowler, Glenn Kaino, and Marianne Vitale); A. M. Weaver (artists: Donald E. Camp, Larry Cook, Isaac Diggs, Stan Squirewell and Michael Platt); Justine ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Topfer (artists: Marley Dawson, Abigail DeVille, Kota Ezawa, Sanaz Mazinani, Soda Jerk; Lance Fung (artists: Peter Hutchinson, Jennifer Wen Ma, Cameron Hockenson, Nora and Eliza ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Naranjo-Morse, Jonathan Fung); Stephanie Sherman (artists: Ali Momeni, Agustina Woodgate, ​ ​ ​ Mia Feuer, Jace Clayton, Dignidad Rebelde).

2013

Cordel Literature: Community Publishing in Brazil. Monroe Street Studios, Washington, DC ​

Copyrights Research Residency. Featuring artists Tim Schwartz, Greg Bloom, Anne Elizabeth ​ Moore and Nate Larson. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

2012

5 x 5**. Public Temporary Public Sculpture Initiative. Served on selection panel for curators ​ Steve Rowell (artists: KUNSTrePUBLIK, Lize Mogel, Office of Experiments, Charles ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Stankievech, Deborah Stratman & Steve Badgett), Laura Roulet (artists: Ben Ashworth, Floating ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Lab Collective, Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, Patrick McDonough, Wilmer Wilson IV, Amy Lipton ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (artists: Natalie Jeremijenko, Tattfoo Tan, Brandon Ballengée, Chrysanne Stathacos, Habitat ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ For Artists), Justine Topfer (artists: Monica Canilao, Jefferson Pinder, Rebar, Reko Rennie, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Clare Rojas), Richard Hollinshead (artists: Cath Campbell, Ben Jeans Houghton, Jo Ray, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Isabella Streffen, Wolfgang Weileder). DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, ​ ​ ​ Washington, DC.

Parks & Passages. Exhibition and public programs co-curated with Stephanie Sherman, ​ featuring Provisions’ research residents Edgar Endress, James Huckenpahler, Paul Farber and Pam Jordan. Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC

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Parks & Passages Research Residency. Featuring artists Edgar Endress, James Huckenpahler, ​ Paul Farber and Pam Jordan. Provisions Library, Washington, DC and Berlin, Germany

Republic Research Residency. Featuring artists, Katie Hargrave, Robbie Herbst, Siobhan Rigg ​ and Riah Buchanan. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Let’s Meet at the Bridge. Durational public art/performance featuring Nicolas Dumit Estevez. In ​ collaboration with Olivia Georgia and Abrašević/Abart, Mostar, Bosnia ​ ​

Mezz Gallery Series, Co-curator with Kristina Bilonick for twelve one-person exhibitions. ​ Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA

Chronic Freedom. Eight limited edition artists’ books by Scott Holmquist documenting the ​ back-to-the-land movement in Humboldt County, CA. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2011

Collective White House (Casa Blanda), MDE11, citywide public art project with Floating Lab ​ Collective. Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.

Aesthetic Justice** featuring Alyse Emdur • Rajkamal Kahlon • Carlos Motta & Josué Euceda • ​ Larissa Sansour. Curator, Niels Van Tomme. Provisions Library at Lambent Foundation, New York, NY. Symposium and catalogue.

2010

Revisiting Histories** featuring Sanford Biggers and Andrea Geyer & Simon J. Ortiz. Niels Van ​ Tomme, curator. Provisions Library at Lambent Foundation, New York, NY. Catalogue.

2009

It Is What It Is: Conversations About *** a public art project by Jeremy Deller on the National ​ Mall, as part of a national tour. In collaboration with Creative Time, New York.

Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination, co-curated with Niels Van Tomme, featuring ​ Allora & Calzadilla • Cory Arcangel • Mel Chin • Annabel Daou • Jeremy Deller • Floating Lab Collective • Daniel Heyman • Jenny Holzer • Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese • Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky • Trevor Paglen • Ester Partègas • Adrian Piper • Taryn Simon. Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY and Denison Museum, Granville, OH. Catalogue.

Res Publica and Usonia: Survey of the Floating Lab Collective ​ Cafritz Foundation Art Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD

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Imagine Peace: ** Public art project in collaboration with the Hirshhorn Museum and ​ Sculpture Garden. Curators, Welmoed Laanstra and Nora Halpern.

2008

BrushFire, national series of temporary public art projects on social issues featuring The State ​ ​ of Things and Main Street Meltdown by Ligorano/Reese (Denver, CO; St.Paul, MN; New York, ​ ​ ​ NY), Futurefarmers (Chicago, IL), The True Cost of Coal by Beehive Collective (national tour), ​ ​ ​ ​ and Scream at the Economy by Floating Lab Collective (Greater Washington, DC) ​ ​

Close Encounters 1: Facing the Future, exhibition of artists reflecting on social issues including ​ Cory Arcangel • Beehive Collective • Allora & Calzadilla • Enrique Chagoya • Mel Chin • Sam Durant • Floating Lab Collective • Futurefarmers • Leon Golub • Wayne Gonzales • Daniel Heyman • Jenny Holzer • Mildred Howard • Chris Jordan • Ligorano/Reese • Robyn O’Neill • Yoko Ono • Esther Partègas • Jefferson Pinder • Adrian Piper • Andrea Robbins/Max Becher • • Roger Shimomura • Taryn Simon • Nancy Spero • Jon Winet. American University Museum, Washington, DC

2007

For the Capitol**. Public art featuring projections by Jenny Holzer, from the Kennedy Center ​ across the Potomac River onto Roosevelt Island in collaboration with the Kennedy Center and National Park Service. Curators, Welmoed Laanstra and Nora Halpern.

Pas de Dirt**. Public dance performance featuring Liz Lerman in collaboration with the National ​ Building Museum. Curators, Welmoed Laanstra and Nora Halpern.

BIG PICTURE, exhibition featuring Barnstormers • Nina Berman • Iona Rozeal Brown • Sue ​ Coe • Brett Cook • Carmen Lomas Garza • Shilpa Gupta • Virginia Harris • Emily Jacir • Yun-Fei Ji • Rajkamal Kahlon • Shalini Kantayya • Lisa Kokin • Hung Liu • Susan Meiselas • Shirin Neshat • Meridel Rubenstein • Betye Saar • Roger Shimomura • Taryn Simon • Roxanne Swentzell • Kehinde Wiley. Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY

Intervene/Activate, featuring sculpture by Christian Benefiel • Janet Brome • Brent Crothers • ​ Pattie Porter Firestone • Breon Gilleran • Joanne Kent • Jessie Lehson • Marilee Schumann. Washington Sculptors Group, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park

2006

Body Languages, Mary Coble and Robert Flynt. American University Museum, Washington, DC ​

Dee Dee Does Utopia, collages by Deborah Faye Lawrence. Provisions Library, Washington, ​

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The Innocents***, photographs by Taryn Simon. Provisions Library, Washington, DC ​

2005 India Unbound, paintings by Rajkamal Kahlon. Provisions Library, Washington, DC ​

Change Methods, survey of hip-hop in the visual arts featuring Kehinde Wiley • Sanford Biggers ​ • Brett Cook • John Ahearn. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Comfort Women, paintings by Hung Liu. Provisions Library, Washington, DC ​

2004 Breaking the Surface, sculpture by Roxanne Swentzell. Provisions Library, Washington, DC ​

Erace-ing Art History (from the Visual Quotations series), paintings by Titus Kaphar ​ Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Hall of Mirrors, paintings and drawings by Brett Cook-Dizney. Provisions Library, Washington, ​ DC

Where We Come From in Palestine, photographs by Emily Jacir. Provisions Library, ​ Washington, DC

2003 Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, works by Alice Beasley • Virginia Harris • Kathleen Jesse • ​ Hung Liu • Shirin Neshat • Angel Ramires • Betye Saar • Joyce Scott • Shahzia Sikander • Tabitha Vevers • Juan Videla • Carrie Mae Weems. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Illegal Art***, survey of artists on copyright issues organized by Carrie McLaren and Stay Free ​ Magazine, including: David Byrne and Danielle Spencer • Packard Jennings • Bill Barminski • Ai Kijima • Andrew J. Epstein • Michael Hernandez de Luna • Dick Detzner • The Residents • Wally Wood • Aric Obrosey • Ray Beldner • Natalka Husar • Kembrew McLeod • Noel Tolentino • Diana Thorneycroft • Kieron Dwyer • Heidi Cody • Brian Boling • Tom Forsythe • Negativland • Eric Doeringer • Ashley Holt • Dyke Action Machine • Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Clare Rojas • Phil Patiris • Brian Springer • Todd Haynes • Bryan Boyce • Joe Gibbons • Paul Harvey Oswald • Brian Spinks, Eugene Mirman, and Bill Wasik • Naomi Uman • Michael Colton • D. Jean Hester • Craig Baldwin • Michal Levy • Keith Sanborn • Eric Fensler • Eileen Maxson. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

2002

Consequences of Empire, featuring Betye Saar • Judith Lowry • Penny Sisto. ​

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Hungry Heads, featuring Mildred Howard • Lisa Kokin • Meridel Rubenstein • Joyce Scott • Pat ​ Owoc • Melissa Zink. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

2001

Renegade Portraits, featuring Hung Liu • Judith Lowry • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith • Meridel ​ Rubenstein • Betye Saar • Penny Sisto • Renée Stout. Provisions Library, Washington, DC

1996

Art Links Baltimore, featuring 18 public art works designed as a fully functional miniature golf ​ course adjacent to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Featuring Joyce Scott • Kevin MacDonald • Art Attack • Linda Bills • David Chung • Ed Bisese • Theodore Adamstein • “Kall” Kallaugher, among others. Catalogue. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

1995

Talking Pictures***. Traveling exhibition organized by Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. ​ Originated at the International Center for Photography. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Science and the Artist's Book**. Exhibition of commissioned artists' books curated by Carol ​ Barton and Robin Moore in collaboration with the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, featuring works by Frances Butler • John Carrera and Sam Walker • Julie Chen • M.J. Connors • Joyce Cutler-Shaw • Steven C. Daiber • Laura Davidson • Timothy C. Ely • George Gessert • Susan kae Grant • Pattie Belle Hastings • Geoffrey Hendricks • Sjoerd Hofstra • David Horton • Edward Hutchins • Daniel E. Kelm • Scott L. McCarney • Judith Mohns and François Deschamps • Katherine Ng • JoAnna Poehlmann Sue Ann Robinson • Laurie Sieverts Snyder • Larry B. Thomas • M.L. Van Nice • Karen M. Wirth • John Wood • Philip Zimmermann. National Museum of American History and Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Superbia: Options Biennial, 1995**. Survey of emerging area artists, curated by Alison Maddex, ​ featuring John Antone • Laure Drogoul • Patricia Satterlee • David Mordini • Lee Payne • Elizabeth Turk • Victor Sparrow • Pierre Richard • Susan Korpi • Susan Clay • Michael Cantwell • Peter Brandon Lattu • Corinne Martin McMullen. Catalogue printed as a pullout in Washington City Paper. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

1994

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Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust** ​ Major international exhibition curated by Karen Holtzman, featuring Yael Bedarshi • Anna Bialobroda • Christian Boltanski • Michel Dector and Michel Dupuy • Dagmar Demming • Rolf Eisenburg • Steven Evans • Daniel Faust • Andrea Fisher • Gideon Gechtman • Aharon Gluska • Howard Halle • Ronald Jones • Anne Marie Jugnet • Anselm Kiefer • Astrid Klein • Vivienne Koorland • Shosh Kormosh • Guillermo Kuitca • Annette Lemieux • Olaf Metzel • Piotr Nathan • Moshe Ninio • Ellen Rothenberg • Katharina Sieverding • Susan Silas • Art Spiegelman • Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock • Mindy Weisel. Exhibition traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1995. Catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Komar and Melamid: The People's Choice: America's Most and Least Wanted Paintings*** ​ Traveling exhibition organized at the Alternative Museum, NYC. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Thrift Store Paintings***. Traveling exhibition of anonymous paintings organized by Jim Shaw. ​ Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

The American Warehouse. Installation by Michael Bramwell. Traveled to CEPA, Buffalo, NY. ​ Catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

ArtSites6. Collaborative exhibition with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Works by Christopher ​ French • Inga Frick • Richard Dana • Lawley Paisley-Jones • Eric Carter • Susan Eder • David Krueger • Austin Thomas. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Shooting Back from the Reservation: Photography by Native American Children** ​ Major traveling exhibition curated by Sammy Watso and Jim Hubbard. Traveled to Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Body Signs: Difference, Deviance, and Eugenics. Works by Joseph Grigely. Also exhibited at ​ White Columns, NYC. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Recent Works on Paper by Charma le Edmonds. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, ​ DC

1993

JNR: John Robinson**. Major survey exhibition of African-American realist painter, curated by ​ Grant Samuelsen. Catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Options 1993. Biennial survey of Mid-Atlantic artists, co-curated with Angela Adams. Featuring ​ Knottyhead • Don Cook • Sherwin Mark and Katherine Kendall • Angela Franklin • Donna

13 - Donald Russell: Résumé Coleman • Ken Ashton • Existence Research Project • Craig Pleasants • Mary Klein • Tony Sheeder. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

The Purple Gang: Recent Paintings by Wayne Edson Bryan. Catalogue. Washington Project for ​ the Arts, Washington, DC

Cinema Machines by Heidi Kumao. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Catfish Dreamin'***. Mobile sculpture by Alison Saar. Presented in collaboration with The ​ Contemporary in Baltimore and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS. Featuring Carlos Almaraz • Kenneth Banks • Kathe ​ Burkhart • Arnold Fern • Robert Flack • Judy Glantzman • Tony Greene • Oliver Herring • Jim Hodges • Cary Leibowitz • Loring McAlpin • Jaime Palacios • Brett Reichman • Angel Rodriguez-Diaz • Andres Serrano • Hugh Steers • Masami Teraoka • Anthony Viti • Brian Weil • David Wojnarowicz • Thomas Woodruff • Nahum Zenil. Also exhibited, Electric Blanket a a ​ ​ public projection project on the world-wide impact of AIDS organized by Visual AIDS. Received award from Gay Pride of Washington, DC. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

1992

The Shepherd Park Go-Go Bar Paintings by Fred Folsom. Washington Project for the Arts, ​ Washington, DC

Face to Face: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres** Curated by Marilyn Zeitlin. ​ Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Carroll Sockwell. Major survey of under-recognized African-American abstract artist. ​ Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Leaves, a Book Installation by Mary Lum. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

1987

Past Time. Media installations featuring Dorit Cypis • Vesna Miksic • Jan Peacock • Adrian ​ Piper. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Cheap Shots: Low to No Budget Video. New video art by Joan Braderman and Sherry Millner ​ Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

1986

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Michael Glier and Michael Platt. Featuring in situ drawing installations. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Cryptic Languages. Installations and video art by Henry Chotkowski • Juan Downey • • ​ Kay Hines Thomas Mullany • Peter Rose • Kay Rosen. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Larry Miller Retrospective**. Curated by Marilyn Zeitlin and originated by the Anderson Gallery, ​ Richmond, VA. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

John Wood: Recent Works. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Haim Steinbach: Recent Sculptures. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Distant Landscapes. Featuring David Krueger • John Hull • Steve Estrada ​ Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

The Finger Lakes Exhibition. Curated exhibition in collaboration with William Olander ​ Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

Independent View. Selection panel for independent film and video series for broadcast on ​ WETA, DC.

1985

Art in Washington and its Afro-American Presence, 1940-1970**. Major historical survey curated ​ by Keith Morrison, major catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Contemporary Russian Art Selections from the Norton Dodge Collection including Andrei Abramov • Eric Bulatov • Eduard Gorokovsky • Vitaly Koma & Alexander Melamid • Igor Makerevich • Nev Meshkov • Viktor Pivivarov • Mikhael Rojinsky • Sergei Sherstiuk • Victor Skersis • Leonid Sokov. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Quarry*** multimedia performance by Meredith Monk, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ​

Ellen MacDonald: Recent Paintings. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Barbara Sexton: Drawing Installation. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Ariane DuBois: Neon Installation. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

15 - Donald Russell: Résumé Family as Subject Matter. Video art component including works by Skip Sweeney • Ilene ​ Segalove • Deans Keppel • Ardele Lister. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

National Artists' Book Survey Exhibition. Group exhibition at DiverseWorks, Houston, TX ​

American Artists' Books In Print. Traveling exhibition in Madrid, Spain and Frankfurt, Germany. ​ Sponsored by the Information Agency

Esther Parada: U.S. Democracy Over Central America. Washington Project for the Arts, ​ Washington, DC

1984

The Magazine Stand. Featuring Richard Prince • Barbara Kruger • Sarah Charlesworth • Paul ​ Berger • Antonio Muntadas • Michael Reidy • Martha Rosler • Paper Tiger Television • Johanna Vogelsang. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Buzz Spector: Sculptural Bookworks. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

History as Content. Curated in collaboration with Helen Brunner. Works by Mark Clark • Tony ​ Cokes • James Duckworth • Ann Fessler • Stephen Carroll Foster • Davi Det Hompson • Kevin Kelley • Wayne Neild • Denise Ward-Brown • James Woodside. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Francesc Torres: Tough Limo***. , commissioned by Marilyn Zeitlin, Anderson ​ Gallery, Richmond, VA. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Zones 1...5**. Public art exhibition featuring Art Attack • Steven Cushner • Nancy Klotz • Judy Miller • Rodforce (Sherman Fleming) and curated by Holly Block. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Artists’ Call Against U.S.Intervention in Central America. Group exhibition and benefit. ​ Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Simon Gouverneur: Recent Paintings. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

The Czech Avant Garde and the Book**. Traveling survey exhibition and catalogue, curated by ​ Jaroslav Andel. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

Art in Washington and its Afro-American Presence, 1940-1970**. Major historical survey curated ​ by Keith Morrison, with catalogue. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

1983

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The Ritz Hotel Project**. Large scale exhibition of site-specific installations and performances in ​ an abandoned F Street hotel featuring 100 artists from NYC and 100 artist from DC. Produced with Colab, NYC as an extension of the Time Square Show.

Dog Dream Project. Site specific installation featuring Tom Ashcraft • Ed Bisese • Georgia Deal ​ • Carrie Meinberg. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Sas Colby and Nat Dean. Artist book exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, ​ DC

Molly Van Nice: The Daybooks of Maglia Fe. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Illegal America***. Group exhibition featuring • • John Giorno • ​ Gordon Matta Clark, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo and circulated by Franklin Furnace. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Content/Discontent. Featuring Joanne Kent • John Harn. Washington Project for the Arts, ​ Washington, DC

In/Out: Four Projects by Chilean Artists**. Featuring C.A.D.A. • Juan Downey • Eugenio Dittborn ​ • Alfredo Jaar. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Hollis Frampton: Adsumus, Absumus, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

Anne Turyn: Lessons and Notes. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

Biff Henrich: Recent Works. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

Mark Klett: Recent Works. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

1982

Alison Knowles: The Book of Bean, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

H. Terry Braunstein: Windows, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC ​

Russian Samizdat Art, 1960-1982** Vagrich Bakhchanyan • Nickolas Bokov • William Brui • Michael Chernyshov • Elisabeth Clark & Valentin Goroshko • Rimma Gerlovin & Valery Gerlovin • Michael Grobman • Iiija Kabakov • Gregory Kapelyan • Komar & Melamid • Alexander Kosolapov • V. Kovshin • Konstantin

17 - Donald Russell: Résumé Kuzminshy • Ogor Makarevich • Andrei Monastyrsky • Vsevolod Nekrasov • Lev Nessberg • Dmitri Progov • Lev Rubershtein • Leonid Sokov • The Toadstools • Victor Tupitsyn • Anatoly Ur • Nikiphor Zayats. Curated by Rimma & Valery Gerlovin. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Sculptural Bookworks featuring Carolyn Berry • Heidi Kyle • Stella Waitskin. Montgomery ​ College Gallery, Takoma Park, MD

Sound Seen**. Survey of kinetic and sound-generating sculpture curated by Olivia Georgia, ​ featuring Alvin Lucier • Dennis Oppenheim • Yoshi Wada • Joe Jones • Maryanne Amacher • Christian Marclay • Connie Beckley • Richard Lerman. In collaboration with New Music America. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

The Artist and the Magazine: 1900-1981. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

The Photographic Book: 1850-1950. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY ​

1981

Text/Picture: Notes Curated in collaboration with Helen Brunner. Works by Steven Cortright • Dennis O'Grady • Charles Stainback • Bonnie Gordon • May Stevens. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

1979

Options in Independent Art Publishing. Three-day conference featuring speakers, Clive Phillpot, ​ , Felipe Ehrenberg, Ulises Carrion, Stephen Foster, Dick Higgins, Peter Frank, Edit DeAk, Richard Minsky, Judith Hoffberg, Jacki Apple, Tom Ockerse, Ken Friedman, Conrad Gleber, Sheila DeBretteville, David Buchan, Herb Hosmer, Chuck Hagen. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

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