CATHIE CRAWFORD
512 East High Point Road, Peoria, Illinois 61614
E-mail TEL (309)589 1034
EDUCATION
BradleyUniversity, Peoria, Illinois Printmaking M.F.A. 1987
The OhioStateUniversity, Columbus, Ohio Art Education B.A.E. 1972
The OhioStateUniversity, Columbus, Ohio Printmaking B.F.A. 1971
SELECTED AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, GRANTS, EXHIBITIONS (from over 300)
2012Delta National Small Prints Exhibition; ArkansasStateUniversity, Jonesboro, AR (January)
2011Swimming Upstream; Juried Print Exhibit; 44T Artspace, Denver, Colorado
2011Prints USA 2011;SpringfieldArt Museum, Springfield, Missouri
2011Art St. Louis XXVII, Juried Exhibition; Art Saint Louis, St Louis, Missouri
2011ThINK: Boston Printmakers Members Show; HuntsvilleMuseum of Art, HuntsvilleAL
and The Transportation Building, Boston, MA (continues to travel thru 2012)
2011 Drift: Art St Louis/St. Louis Artists’ Guild juried exhibition; St Louis,Missouri
2010New Prints 2010/Spring: Selected by Philip Pearlstein; International Print CenterNew York, NY
201030th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink; Fort Wayne, Indiana
201064 Arts National Juried Exhibition; BuchananCenter for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
2010GALEX 44 National Juried Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter, Galesburg, IL
2010ThINK: Boston Printmakers Members Show 2010; Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
and Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA (continues to travel thru 2012)
2010One Person Exhibition; BuchananCenter for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
2009The Boston Printmakers’ 2009 North American Print Biennial; BostonUniversity,Boston, MA
2009One Person Exhibition; Wenniger Gallery,Rockport, MA
2009 101 PRINTS: A Sale to Benefit the InternationalPrintCenter,New York, NY
2009 Field Report: Boston Printmakers Traveling Print Exhibition: Moss Thorns Gallery of Art;
FortHaysStateUniversity, Hays, Kansas; KelloggUniversityArtGallery;CaliforniaState
PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona, CA
2008One Person Exhibition; McCleanCountyArt, Bloomington, IL
2008Two Person Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; Galesburg, IL
2008Field Report: Boston Printmakers Traveling Print Exhibition;GordonCollege,Wenham, MA;
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2008Scrupulosity / juried printmaking exhibit; Contemporary Art Center of Peoria; Peoria, IL
2007New Prints 2007 / Spring; International Print CenterNew York, New York, NY
Juror: James Siena, New York Painter / Printmaker
200731st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition; BradleyUniversity; Peoria, Illinois
2007 Works of Art on Paper; Long BeachIsland Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
200626th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana
-Merit Cash Award
2006Made in Peoria Exhibition; Black Walnut Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006One Person Exhibition; ContemporaryArtCenter, Peoria, Illinois
2006 Animal Images; Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2006One Person Exhibition; WTVP, Peoria, Illinois
2006One Person Exhibition; First United MethodistChurch, Peoria, Illinois
2005The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial; BostonUniversity, Boston, MA
2004The Artist in the Studio, LakeviewMuseum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
2002Galerie Elia, Grenoble, France
200128th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition; BradleyUniversity; Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of Prints & Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago
2000Harlech Printmaking Open 2000; Theatr Ardudwy; Harlech, Wales, UK
2000Reflection de France; Rosenthal Gallery; Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
199927th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition; BradleyUniversity; Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Warrington Colescott, Artist/Printmaker
-Cullum-Davis Library, BradleyUniversity Purchase Award
1999Guest Artist, Jeddah Gallery of Fine Art; Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1999NATIONAL PRINTMAKING 1999; College of New Jersey; Ewing, New Jersey
Juror: Judith K Brodsky, Director of TheRutgersCenter for Innovative Print and Paper
1998WORLD PRINT SURVEY; TrumanStateUniversity; Kirksville, Missouri
1998PRINTWORK ‘98; Barrett House Galleries; Poughkeepsie, New York
Juror: Starr Figura, Assistant Curator, Dept of Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1998La Grange National XX Biennial; ChattahoocheeValleyArt Museum; LaGrange, Georgia
Juror: Siri J. Engberg, Assistant Curator at the WalkerArtCenter, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998GALEX 32 National Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; Galesburg, Illinois
Juror: Preston Jackson, Sculptor
1998PRINT TYPES; IndianHillsCommunity College; Ottumwa, Iowa
1997One Person Exhibition; MethodistMedicalCenter of Illinois; Peoria, IL
1997Hand Pulled Prints V; Stonemetal Press’ Fifth Annual International Exhibition; San Antonio, TX
Juror: Ken Hale, Lithographer / Artist, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
1997The Boston Printmakers 50th Anniversary North American Print Exhibition;
MassachusettsCollege of Art; Bakalar Gallery; BostonMassachusetts
Juror: Trudy Hansen, Curator of Prints, ZimmerliMuseum of RutgersUniversity
199762nd Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association; Cooperstown, NY
Juror: Alvaro A. Garcia, Sculptor
1997Janet Turner National Print Competition; CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico, California
1997American Print Survey; HighlandCommunity College; Highland, Kansas
1997Twenty First Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition; Augustana College; Rock Island, IL
1996La Grange National XIX Biennial; ChattahoocheeValleyArt Museum; LaGrange, GA
Juror: Keith Rasmussen, Executive Director of the ChattahoocheeValleyArt Museum
1996 Three Person Exhibition; ChelseaGallery; Cincinnati, Ohio
199620th Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition; HarperCollege; Palatine, IL
Juror: Rosemarie Bernardi, Associate Professor of Art, University of Arizona
-Purchase Award
1996 Artists Who Teach: A Juried Tri-State Invitational; WesternIllinoisUniversity; Macomb, IL Juror: Michael Dunbar
-First Place Cash Award
1996National Print Biennial Exhibition; SilvermineGuildArtsCenter; New Canaan, CT
Juror: Richard Solomon, President& Publisher of Pace Editions, New York City
1996Consortium Prints; MissouriWesternState College; St. Joseph, Missouri
1996PRINTWORKS ‘96; Barrett House Galleries; Poughkeepsie, New York
Juror: Marilyn Kushner, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the BrooklynMuseum, NY
1996Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show; Peoria Civic Center; Peoria, IL
Juror: John Heintzman, Artist and Director of Galleries, BradleyUniversity, Peoria, IL
-Best of Show
1996Art in the Woods ‘96; Corporate Woods Overland Park, KS
Juror: William Wiley
1996Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition; AugustannaCollegeArtGallery; Rock Island, IL
Juror: Lorraine Peltz
1996Print Types; Art Institute for the PermianBasin; Odessa, Texas
1995 Thinking Non-Representationally: A Juried Exhibition by Members of the Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois; UniversityArtGallery; Western Illinois U, Macomb, IL
-Merit Award
1995Midwestern Arts <------> Poland; Gallery of Contemporary Art; Olsztyn, Poland
1995Prints from the Bradley National; Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej; Olsztyn, Poland
1995 Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show; Peoria Civic Center; Peoria, IL
93 Jurors: Tyson Joye (1995), Susan Maakestad (1993), Richard Orton (1992)
92 -Second Place 2-D Cash Award
1995 The Printmakers’ Invitational; DavenportMuseum of Art; Davenport, Iowa
1995 One Person Exhibition; Peoria Art Guild; Peoria, Illinois
1995Two Person Exhibition; Gallery 10; Rockford, Illinois
1995Women Printmakers; WaldorfCollege; Forest City, Iowa
1994 Americas 2000: Works on Paper; NorthwestArtCenter; MSU,Minot, North Dakota
Juror: Margo Kren
1994 ARC National Print Show; ARC Gallery; Chicago, IL
Juror: David Jones, Director of Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
1994Women Printmakers: OneWestContemporaryArtCenter; Fort Collins, Colorado
1994Two Person Exhibition and Artist Talk; QuadCity Arts; Rock Island, Illinois
1994 Featured Artist; LakeviewMuseum of Arts and Science; Peoria, Illinois
1993One-Person Exhibition; IllinoisCentralCollege, East Peoria, IL
1993 National Printmaking Exhibition ‘93; TrentonState CollegeArtGallery; Trenton, N.J
LycomingCollege; PennsylvaniaCollege of Technology; Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Juror: Phillip Pearlstein, Artist / Painter
-Purchase Award
1993 24th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition: BradleyUniversity; Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Joseph Zirker, Artist/ Printmaker
-Friend of the Library, BradleyUniversity Purchase Award
-Patron Purchase Award
1993 Gallery Ten’s Seventh Annual Regional Exhibition; Rockford, Illinois
Juror: Bruce Pepich, Director, Wustem Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
-Third Place Cash Award
1993 Seventeenth Annual Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition; AugustanaCollege
Juror: Nancy Polster, Chair, Department of Art and Design, IowaStateUniversity
-Honorable Mention Cash Award
1993Florida Printmakers Society 6th Annual Print Exhibition;
The New WorldSchool of the Arts Gallery; Miami, Florida
Juror: Clare Romano, co-author of The Complete Printmaker
1993 Fit To Print; Printmaking Exhibition; GreenviewArtCenter; Chicago, IL
1993Two-Person Exhibition; SaintXavierUniversity, Chicago, IL
1993Quad-State Juried Exhibition; QuincyArtCenter; Quincy, IL
1993Three-Person Exhibition; EastBluffArtGallery; Peoria, IL
199311th Juried NSAL Midwest Print Show; LoyolaUniversity; Chicago, IL
Jurors: Judith Brodsky, Director of Innovative Printmaking, RutgersUniversity
James Butler, Professor of Art, IllinoisStateUniversity
1992National Art Competition; NortheastMissouriStateUniversity; Kirksville, Missouri
Juror: Thomas Lawson, Artist/Critic, California Institute of the Arts
1992 The Pillars Society of the Heart of Illinois United Way Juried Art Exhibition; Peoria, IL Jurors: Robert Reedy and Michael Walsh
-First Place Purchase Award
1992Survey of Woodcuts/Current Trends; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1992 16th HarperCollege National Print and Drawing Exhibition; Pallantine, IL
Juror: Oscar Jay Gillespie, Professor of Art, BradleyUniversity
1992 Members and Friends 27th Annual Regional Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; IL
Juror: Patricia Hobbs, McDonough Art Council
-Second Place 2-D Cash Award
199212th Annual National Print Exhibition; Artlink; Fort Wayne, IN
1992 One Person Exhibition; Studio One; Peoria, Illinois
1992One Person Exhibition; JolietJunior College; Joliet, IL
1992Two Person Exhibition; Northern Indianna Arts Association; Munster, Indiana
1991 56th Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association; Cooperstown, NY
Juror: Janet Fish, Painter, New York
-Merit Cash Award in Printmaking
1991 Artists’ Coalition of Central Illinois Annual Members Show; Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
Juror: Harlan Goudie, retired Chairman of the KnoxCollegeArtDepartment
-Best of Show
1991 LAGRANGE NATIONAL XVI; ChattahoocheeValleyArt Museum; LaGrange, Georgia
Juror: Peter Morrin, Director of SpeedMuseum of Art, Louisville, Kentucky
-Juror’s Merit Award
1991 23rd Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition; BradleyUniversity;
Juror: Frances Myers, Artist/Printmaker
1991Cimarron National Works On Paper Exhibition; OklahomaStateUniversity; Stillwater, OK
Juror: Warrington Colescott, Artist/Printmaker
1991 21st National Works on Paper Exhibition; MinotStateUniversity; Minot, ND
1991Visiting Artist and One Person Exhibition: QuincyCollege, Quincy, IL
1991Florida Printmakers Society 5th Annual Print Exhibition;
Thomas Center Gallery; Gainesville, Florida
Juror: William Walmsley, Artist/Printmaker
1991 The Pillars Society of the Heart of Illinois United Way Juried Art Exhibit; Peoria, IL
-Second Place Cash Award
1991 Art in the Courthouse, Juried Art Exhibit; PeoriaCounty Board; Peoria, IL
Juror: Ray George, Professor of Art, IllinoisStateUniversity
-Purchase Award
1991 Peoria Area Arts and Sciences Council Individual Artist Grant
(funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency)
Awarded $342 to explore the technique of single level viscosity printing in relief
Printmaking to expand the color possibilities of my color reduction woodcut prints.
1991 Fourteenth Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition and Exhibition;
MitchellMuseum; Mount Vernon, Illinois
Jurors: Lynn Kearney, Carole Myers, John Streetman
1991PRESSWORKS, Prints by Illinois Printmakers; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter;
Galesburg, IL
1990Florida Printmakers Society’s Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition; Longboat Key, FL
1990 Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, in Peoria, commissioned a four by six foot color reduction
woodcut print, (Healing Waters), for the Methodist Atrium building.
1990 14th HarperCollege National Print and Drawing Exhibition; Pallatine, IL
Juror: Frances Myers, Artist/Printmaker
1990The Printed Image; Graham Gorstman Gallery; Denton, Texas
1989 One Person Exhibition; SouthSuburbanCollege, South Holland, IL
1989Florida Printmakers Society’s Third Annual Juried Exhibition;
The FloridaCenter for Contemporary Art; Tampa, Florida
1989 Celebration of the Arts Juried Art Show; Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL
Juror: Ken Holder, Professor of Art, IllinoisStateUniversity
-First Place Cash Award
1989Galex 23; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; Galesburg, IL
Juror: William Struve, Director of The Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989Thirteenth Biennial Southern Illinois Artists’ Open Competition and Exhibition;
MitchellMuseum; Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Jurors: Rudy Pozatti, Tom Swopes, Susan Waller
1989Paper Show; CountrysideArtCenter; Arlington Heights, IL
Juror: Gwenda Jay Klein, Director of the GwendaJayGallery, Chicago
1989One Person Exhibition; MethodistMedicalCenter of Illinois; Peoria, IL
19892D at r 100; Up Front Gallery; Bloomington, IL
Juror: Buzz Spector, Artist/Critic
-Merit Cash Award
198840th North American Print Exhibition; BrocktonArt Museum; The Boston Printmakers,
Boston, Massachusetts
1988HarperCollege 10th Annual Illinois Print and Drawing Exhibition; Palatine, Illinois
Juror: Roger Gustafson, Chairman of Art, ElginCommunity College
-Kemper Group Purchase Award
1988One Person Exhibition; Phoenix Studios Gallery; Peoria Heights, IL
1988 One Sensesational Juried Art Exhibit; Peoria Civic Center; Peoria, IL
Jurors: Bill Landwehr and Dr. Charles Meyer
-Third Place Cash Award
1987Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition; OklahomaStateUniversity
Juror: Judith Goldman, Associate Curator, Advisor on Prints; WhitneyMuseum of American Art
1987 21st Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show; Corpus Christi, TX
1986Peoria Art Guild Members Show; Peoria, Illinois
Juror: Charles Meyer, Chairman of Art, BradleyUniversity
-Honorable Mention Cash Award
1984East Greenbush Central Schools Fine Arts Grant, East Greenbush, New York
Awarded $700 to produce a portfolio of CIBA chrome color photographs
1982Camera Portfolio Magazine’s First Photographic Invitational; Redlands, California
-Honorable Mention Award
1981The Cooperstown Art Association’s 46th Annual National Art Exhibition; Cooperstown, NY
Jurors: Isabel Bishop, Frank Eckmair, Carol Kinne, Harry Kramer
1981Third Annual Photography Regional; Rensselaer County Council for the Arts; Troy, NY
Juror: Nathan Lyons; Director of Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
-Honorable Mention Award
1980 Galex 14 Annual National Art Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; Galesburg, IL
Juror: Christina Ramberg
-Midwest Photo Cash Award
1980One Person Exhibition; Galesburg Civic ArtCenter; Galesburg, Illinois
1979 Columbus Art League’s Small Works Show; Battelle Institute; Columbus, Ohio
Juror: Marcia R. Cohen, Professor of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
-Melodee Seigal Kornacker (cash) Award
GALLERYREPRESENTATION
Peter Bartlow Gallery / Galesburg Civic ArtCenter / GraficaFineArtGallery22 W. Ontario St. / 114 E. Main St. / 7884 Big Bend Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois / Galesburg, Illinois / Webster Groves, Missouri
Componere Gallery / McCleanCountyArt Association
6509 Delmar Blvd. / 601 North East Street
St. Louis, Missouri / Bloomington, Illinois
COLLECTIONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
International Print CenterNew York, New York, NY
LakeviewMuseum of Arts and Science, Peoria, Illinois
Safeya Binzagr Darat (museum), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey
The Cullom-Davis Library, BradleyUniversity, Peoria, Illinois
WilliamRaineyHarperCollege, Palatine, Illinois
IllinoisCentralCollege, East Peoria, Illinois
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Teacher’s Insurance & Annuity Association, New York, New York
Kemper Group, Long Grove, IL
MethodistMedicalCenter of Illinois, Peoria, IL
The Heart of Illinois United Way, Peoria, IL
PeoriaCountyCourthouse, Peoria, IL
Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
CILCORP, Peoria, IL
Customer Development Corporation, Peoria, IL
Price Waterhouse, Peoria, IL
The Admiral Company, Galesburg, IL
Coleman Chemical & Oil, Peoria, IL
Coleman Chemical & Oil, Shanahan, IL
Dominick’s Finer Foods, Chicago, IL
Lincoln Offices, Champaign, IL
Norwest Banks, Quad Cities, IL
HRH Prince Abdullah Saud Mohammed, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Private Collections in the USA, Denmark, France, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, UAE (Dubai) & the UK (England)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Boston Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmakers and Southern Graphics Council
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