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Dadisi A. Curtis Jr.
(330) 605-0323
studiodadisi@gmail.com
studiodadisi.com
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Printmaking & Photography Studio Technician
November 2023 - Current
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
Print Fellow / Master Printer
May 2023 – October 2023
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
Art Studio Mentor
August, 2016 – May, 2018
Kent State University Residence Services, Kent, Ohio
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking May, 2022
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (expected graduation: May 2022)
MA in Printmaking & Sculpture May, 2021
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Bachelor of Fine Artis, Print Media & Photography
August, 2018
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
RESEARCH/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record, Printmaking and the Politics of Protest August, 2021 & January 2022
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Instructor of Record, Elements of Printmaking August, January 2022 Print
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Archive Research Assistant January, 2021
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Instructor of Record, Elements of Art August, 2020
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Research Assistant
June, 2017 – August, 2017
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
ArtistIntern
May, 2016 – June, 2016
The Hub Art Factory, Canton, Ohio
SOLO EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 Kent state stark William J. Pearl F. Lemmon Gallery Canton, OH. USA
2022 Eve Drewlow Gallery, MFA Thesis “Ultraviolet Monster” Iowa City, IA. USA
2021 Levitt Gallery “Havens Inquiry” Iowa City, IA. USA
2021 MA Gallery Show “Birth of A Monster” Iowa City, IA. USA.
2019 – The Hub Art Factory “Vices: Fallacies & Realities” Solo show Canton, OH. USA.
2018 – Kent State Crawford Gallery “Vices: Fallacies & Realities” Solo show Kent, OH. USA.
GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 – Opalka Gallery & Janet Turner Museum “Screen-print Biennial” Albany, NY. USA. & Chico, CA. USA
2024 – DayGlo Exhibit “How Does Your Garden Glo” Waterloo Arts, Cleveland OH. USA.
2024 – 2051 Third Space “Are You Comfy” San Francisco, CA. USA.
2024 – “Our People” The Arts Center, Fayetteville, NC USA.
2024 – “Visual Memoirs” Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY USA.
2023 – Maxon Mill “The Haunted Mill” The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA.
2023 – “In this Body, I Persevere: Group Exhibition” The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS USA.
2023 – Heuser Gallery “38th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition” Bradley University, Peoria, IL USA.
2022 – Opalka Gallery & Mirabo Press “2022 Screen Print Biennial” Group show Albany & Buffalo, NY. USA.
2022 Janet Turner Museum “ The Fierce Fierce Urgency of Now” Chico, Ca. USA
2021 Len G. Everett Gallery “New Works from Print Graduate Students at the University of Iowa“ Monmouth, IL. USA
2021 – Opalka Gallery “Object Permanence” Group show Albany, NY. USA.
2018 – Opalka Gallery “Screen-print Biennial” Albany, NY. USA.
2018 – Payto Gallery “Ultra Violet PotLuck” Kent, OH. USA.
2017 – Uumbaji Gallery “Blackness is” Kent, OH. USA. Kazar Powell
2017 & 2016 – Andrew Jackson House “Annual GAR Foundation Show” Akron , OH. USA.
2016 – CVA Main Gallery “Juried Student Annual Exhibition” Kent, OH. USA.
2016 – ASM International Headquarters “ASM Juried Art Exhibition” Novelty, OH. USA.
PRESENTATIONS
Women’s Leadership Symposium, “Framing Art & Protest”, Kent State University March 2017
HONORS & AWARDS
Len Everett Award for Excellence Fall, 2021
Virgina A. Myers Scholarship
Fall 2021
Elizabeth Catlett Scholarship
Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall, 2021
Iowa Arts Fellowship
Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Thomas D. Little Excellence in Printmaking
2018 First Place, 2017 Runner up
Dean’s List
Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall & Spring 2016,
Leadership Excellence Award by the Kent State Center for Student Involvement
Fall, 2014 & Spring 2015
School of Art Undergraduate Scholarship November, 2017
Awarded NACURH, INC. student of the month Fall, 2015
MEMBERSHIPS
President for student organization Epic / 2014 - 2015, 2022-2023 Southern graphics counsel, Black United Students, United Print Alliance, Iowa Print Group, Mid America Print Council