Katie Baldwin
Professor of Art - Printmaking
Biography
Katie Baldwin received a BA from the Evergreen State College (1994) and an MFA from the University of the Arts (2004). A Fulbright Scholar, in 2020-2021 she will conduct her project Modified Landscape at the International Print Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She has traveled internationally as an artist in residence to Scotland, Iceland, Nicaragua, Poland, Cuba, Mexico and Japan. She was one of seven international artists selected in 2004 to learn traditional Japanese woodblock printing (mokuhanga) from master carvers and printers at the Nagasawa Residency on Awaji Island, Japan. She returned to Japan in 2017 and 2019 for the Mi-Lab Advanced and Upper Advanced Residency in Kawaguchi.
She has been an artist in residence at The University of Hawaii Hilo, Vermont Studio Center and the Women's Studio Workshop. She is currently an artist in residence at Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been exhibited extensively, including ASP Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, The Print Center in Philadelphia, PA and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in Alabama. Her work can be found in numerous collections, such as the Library of Congress in Washington DC, The Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS and Yale University Library Special Collections in New Haven, CT. She has received grant funding through several organizations, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts and the College Book Arts Association.
She taught at Tyler School of Art, Moore College of Art and Design and the University of the Arts. She served as the Victor Hammer Fellow from 2011 - 2013 at Wells College. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville, where she teaches book arts and printmaking. Baldwin co-founded the wood+paper+box collaborative with Mariko Jesse and Yoonmi Nam in 2013 and the Shift-lab collective with Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, Macy Chadwick and Tricia Treacy in 2013.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- M.F.A., Book Arts and Printmaking, The University of the Arts, 2004
- B.A., Studio Art, The Evergreen State College, 1994
Honors & Awards
- Kala Honorary Artist In Residence Award, 2015
- Juror's Award, The University of Hartford Slipe Gallery, 2015
- Fellowship Award for Vermont Studio Center, 2011
- Juror's Award for Artistic Excellence at Pyramid Atlantic, 2010, awarded by R. L. Tillman
Exhibitions & Presentations
- Celebrating Our Own: Huntsville Women Artists, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 2015
- Then and Now: Ten Years of Residencies at the Center, New York Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2015
- There Are Two Stories Here, Solo Exhibition, Prescott College Art Gallery at Sam Hill Warehouse, Prescott, AZ, 2015
- Place As Story, CR Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2014
- "There Are Two Stories Here"; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, Curator: John Caperton, 2012
- "Asian Connection: Art in a Global Age"; Towson University, MD, Curator: J Susan Isaacs, PhD, 2011
- "Things Left Behind"; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, 2010
- "Throwing Our Things in the River Below"; The Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 2010
- "Alumni Travel Exhibition"; Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
- "Vernacular: Works on Paper"; 1622 Gallery and Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Expertise
- Japanese woodblock printing
- Book arts
Portfolio Gallery