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Henry Isaacs

   
 

 
 
 
 

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Vitae

Education
1982
Slade School of Fine Art , University College, London , H.Dip.F.A, Printmaking
1973
Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A. Painting
1969
Boston University, Summer School
1969
The Putney School.
 
Teaching
2004-2005
Woodstock Union High School, Woodstock, VT, art teacher
1997-1999
Dartmouth Medical School, Edward E. Koop Institute, Adjunct Instructor in Anatomical Drawing,
1983-1991
Massachusetts College of Art, Professor of Painting and Printmaking, Coordinator of Printmaking Department
1990
Massachusetts College of Ar, Painting and Drawing, Bucine, Tuscany, Summer Porgram
1986
Massachusetts College of Art, Coordinator and Senior Advisor, MFA Program in Painting and Printmaking
1983-1984
Massachusetts College of Art, Director of Exhibitions Program
1983-1991
Provincia d'Arezzo, Programme del Arte (Painting Instructor, Arezzo, Italy
1984-1991
Instituto Superior del Arte, Havana, Cuba. Visiting Artist, Lecturer
1982-1983
Harrow College of Art. Middlesex, England: Lecturer (Tutor in Printmaking and Drawing
1981-1983
Richmond Adult College. Richmond, Surrey, England: Lecturer (Senior Tutor in Painting
1981-1983
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London: Instructor in Drawing, Life Rooms, Adjunct
1971-1974
Rhode Island School of Design: Technician, Textile Design Department
 
Special Projects
2005
Lecturer, Snowshoe Institute, West Virgini
1995
Research coordinator "Art and Culture of 19th Century South Carolina", Charleston, SC
1989-1991
Curator/coordinator, Seen from Paradise: Art from the Terezin Concentration Camp", held in 1991, it was a cycle of exhibitions, performances, and publications
1988
Director, Surviving Visions: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki Exhibition, symposium, catalogue, and educational outreach centered on the relation of artists to social concern
1985
Curator/Coordinator, Unforgettable Fire: Drawings from Hiroshima Exhibition, symposium and educational outreach. This was centered on the first U.S. showing of 100 drawings by survivors from the collection of the Hiroshima Peace Foundation, and held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima
1985-1989
Co-organizer, Graduate Student Exchange: Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba and the Massachusetts College of Art. Conceived and organized the first exchange of students between Cuba and the United State
1984
Curator, "The Art of Jacob Lawrence", Major exhibition of Lawrence's prints and drawings. Symposium on #99cc99 artists of the thirties and forties
1984
Curator (in collaboration with Oxfam America), "Guatemala, A Photographic Portrait" Recent photographs of the condition of peasants in the war torn countryside of Guatemala
 
Public and Private Collections (selected)
American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
Bass Shoe Company, Inc., Lewiston, ME
Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
The Beacon Companies, Boston, MA
Challenger Corporation International, Houston, TX
Charleston Public Schools, Charleston, WV
Clorox Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Commerce Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brookline, MA
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, NH
Delta Dental Insurance, CA
DiTrapano & Jackson, Charleston, WV
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
First Empire Federal, Charleston, WV
Fletcher-Allen Medical Center, Burlington, VT
Great American Ski Company, ME, NH, VT, CO
DLA Piper (Boston), Boston, MA
Hyatt Hotels, Chicago, IL
Inn at Loretto, Sante Fe, NM
ITT Sheraton Hotels, Washington, DC
Kay Castro Chaney Love & Wise, Charleston, WV
Menorah Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Oliver Carr Company, Washington, DC
Omni Georgetown Hotel, Washington, DC
Petroleum Products Inc., Charleston, WV
Renaissance Washington Conference Center,
Washington, DC
Resource Systems Group, White River Jct., VT
SAS Institute, Raleigh, NC
Sharon Hospital, Sharon, CT
Texaco Corporation, New York, NY
University of California, Davis, CA
UNUM Insurance Group, Portland, ME
U.S. Bank, Sacramento, CA
U.S. Department of State, Overseas Embassies
USSA Insurance Company, Seattle, WA
Vermont Employee Credit Union, Montpelier, VT
Westin Hotels, Seattle, WA., and Denver, CO
 
Grants & Awards
1998
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
1996
National Park Service Residency, Yosemite National Park
1996
Vermont Council on the Arts
1988
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
1988
The Boston Globe Foundation
1988

Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities and Public Policy
1987
The Hitachi Foundation
1987
Filene Foundation
1986
Outstanding Performance Award, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1985
Distinguished Service Award, Massachusetts College of Art
1982
Stowell's Trophy Exhibition for Outstanding Postgraduates, Royal Academy of Art, London
1981
Royal Society of Painters and Engravers, London

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