JOAN DIX BLAIR PRINTMAKING / WORKS ON PAPER
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Joan Dix Blair & Fiona Kennedy, Concord Art Center, Concord, MA
2022
Out of the Blue - ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Marking Time - Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA
2021
Oakle Etching - Oxbow Gallery Window, Easthampton, MA
Cyanotypes - Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
"Leaves"/ Prints 2016-20 - Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2019
Penelope's Girdle - Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
Plant Shadows - Leonardt Gallery, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
Blue Garden - Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2017
Joan Dix Blair - Color Prints, Knox Gallery, Monterey Library, Monterey, MA
Joan Dix Blair - Woodcut Constructions, Gallery at Penelope Wurr, Brattleboro, VT
The Salamander Parade Etchings -The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
Passage - Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
2015
Recent Prints - Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
2013
Meade and Blair, Landscapes - Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
2009
Pale Woodcuts - Tunnel City & Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2008
Imagined Space: Blair and Blackwell - Gallery at Zea Mays, Florence, MA
2002
Collages and Prints - The Milne Library, Williamstown, MA
1998
Collages and Prints - Artist Technical Services, Williamstown, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
California Society of Printmakers - 108th Annual, Piedmont, CA
Out of the Blue - ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Women's Printmaking Invitational 2022 - Kent State Univ, OH
Becket Art Center Invitational - Becket, MA
Black and White - Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA
2021
California Society of Printmakers - 107th Annual Exhibit Online
2020
Singular - Monotype Guild of NE, #Local Gallery, Easthampton, MA
California Society of Printmakers - 106th Annual, Piedmont, CA
September Group Show - The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
Riverworks - Hoosic River Watershed Association, Williamstown, MA
Group Show - The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2019
Recent Prints - Sanford Gallery, Zea Mays, Florence, MA
Traveling Exhibition of Southern Graphics Council 2019-21
Curator Jane Hammond
2018
The Print Effect 2018: Small Works/Big Impact - Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, NY,
Juror Lothar Osterburg, Master Printer/Artist
The Printed Image 7 -Biennial Graphics Exhibition,Sabatini Gallery, Topeka Library, KS
Juror Melanie Yazzi, Dept. of Printmaking, Univ. of CO
Gallery A3, Amherst, MA
Curator Emma Chubb, Smith College Museum of Art
Footprint International 2018 - Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Selected by Susan Tallman, Editor, Art in Print
2017
Passage - Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
Abstract Extraction - Northeastern University's Gallery 360, Boston, MA
The 38th Annual Paper in Particular - Columbia College, Columbia, MO
2016
Stand Out Prints - Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Selected by Elizabeth Wyckhoff, St. Louis Art Museum
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Biennial - The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Selected by Michael Oatman, RPI
California's Future? - Los Angeles Printmaking Society at Center for Arts Eagle Rock
The 37th Annual Paper in Particular - Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Selected by Takuji Hamanaka
2015
New York International Miniature Print Exhibition - Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC,
Selected by Sarah Suzuki, Curator or Prints, MoMA, NYC
Small Works - Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
Selected by Gregory Jecmen, Curator National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Double Bubble Print Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council International Annual Exhibition
Curated by Sarah Pike
Prints: CA, LA and Beyond - Part II - California Society of Printmakers
Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014
Print Facets - Five Centuries of Printmakers - The Curator Gallery-Chelsea, NYC
Curator Rebecca Michelman of Michelman Fine Arts, NY, NY
Stand Out Prints - The Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Selected by Susan Tallman, Editor, "Art in Print"
2012
Conscious Impressions, D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Selected by Julia Courtney, Curator of Prints
Print/Counter Print, Rose Contemporary Gallery, Portland, ME
Selected by Peregrine Press
2011
Prudent Prints - School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Print Exchange Group Show - Lorg Fine Art Printmakers Gallery, Galway, Ireland
Twelve Printmakers - Augusta Savage Gallery, U of MA, Amherst, MA
2010
Two-Way Mirror - Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
Echo - Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Half a World Away - Wharepuke Gallery, Kerikeri, New Zealand and
A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2009
IPCNY New Prints/2009/Summer - International Print Center NY, New York, NY
LAPS 20TH National Exhibition - Los Angeles Printmaker's Society, Los Angeles,
Touching Space - Flow - Sanford Gallery at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
2008
Fourteen Artists - Zea Mays Printmakers, Redmond Bennett Gallery, Dublin, NH
Footprint International - Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Zea Mays Printmakers - Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, MA
AWARDS
Fellowships- VA Ctr for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2010, 2013, 2016
Residency- Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, 2005
Residency- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Residency, 2004,2006
Elected - Washington DC Printmakers Gallery member, 2012-14
Elected - Zea Mays Printmaking Flat File, 2010 - 2020
COLLECTIONS
The Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, Williamstown MA
Southern Graphics Council Collectiion Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA
CATALOGS/REVIEWS
Review, Springfield MA Republican, Cori Urban, 8/2/22
Review- "Making Art Out of the Blue, by Sharon Smullin
The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA. 1/13/19
Catalog- "80 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region",
The Hyde Collection,Glens Falls, NY, curator Michael Oatman
Review, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Steve Pharrer, 1/19/17
Catalog- "First New York International Miniature Print Exhibition"
Manhattan Graphics Center, Miniature Prints, New York, NY
Catalog- "Print Facets, 5 Centuries of Printmakers," by Rebecca Michelman, 2014
The Curator Gallery-Chelsea, NY, NY
Portfolio- Double Bubble Print Portfolio, ed. 20, Curator Sarah Pike
Catalog- Los Angeles Printmakers Society 20th Annual Exhibit, 2009
Review- Village Voice, "Portraits" at IPCNY", Robert Schuster, 6/30/19
Article-The Green Print Studio in the USA by Liz Chalfin, 2009
Southern Graphics Council Conference, Chicago, IL; illustration by Blair.
JURIED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
California Society of Printmakers
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Concord Center for the Visual Arts
Los Angeles Printmaking Society
Mid America Print Council
Monotype Guild of New England
Southern Graphics Council International
The Boston Printmakers
GALLERY TALKS
2021 The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2019 Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
2019 Berkshire Botanical Garden, West Stockbridge, MA
2017 The Knox Gallery, Monterey Public Library, Monterey, MA
EDUCATION
B.A. University of Colorado, English Literature and Art History
Printmaking: Technical studies with established artists and master printers including:
Crown Point Press (Emily York); Wingate Studio (Peter Pettengill); Williams College; Skidmore College; Bennington College (Jim Lee); Women's Studio Workshop (Sue Oehme); Center Contemporary Printmaking (Marina Ancona, Sarah Amos); SUNY Albany, NY; School of Visual Arts, NY, NY (photography/Helen Levitt)
WORK EXPERIENCE
American Sculptor George Rickey, New Lebanon, NY - Personal assistant 1998-2001
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA - Development and Education Projects 1993-97
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA - Membership and Advancement, 1985-87