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, Kosovo, 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 video art 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, Andy Warhol 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