Michael Crouse

• Professor of Art - Emeritus Faculty
• Printmaking, Drawing & Design

education

• MFA University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Printmaking 1979
• BFA Atlanta College of Art, Printmaking and Painting 1977
• Diploma Kendall School of Design - Grand Rapids, Michigan, Fine Arts and Illustration 1970

additional information

Alabama Big Prints 2002 a statewide printmaking project funded with grant from theAlabama State Council On the Arts. Professor Scott Stephens, the University of Montevallo, was grant writer and project director. I served as a member of the project committee. A number of artists and printmakers were invited to produce a large-scale print at the University of Montevallo. I spent one week in July as an artist-in-residence printing a large-scale collagraph print. The opening exhibition for the prints produced for this project will be on view at the Montgomery Museum of Art beginning in January 2003. The exhibition will then travel for two years to other exhibition venues in Alabama.

creative works

My on-going series of lithographic and collagraph prints explore our ideas, concepts, and myths about the vernacular landscape/environment (rural,urban, and suburban)in both historical and contemporary contexts. Many of my images are American (Southeastern) urban and suburban landscapes, which have been shaped and altered by our automobile culture. More recent compositions employ several of the political and social tenets and pictorial conventions found in nineteenth-century American landscape painting. A recent series of prints document the suburban sprawl that is occurring in the formally rural cotton farming areas surrounding Huntsville, Alabama.