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Dorothy McCray
Printmaker/Painter BA – State University of Iowa 1937 MA – State University of Iowa 1939 MFA – California College of Arts and Crafts 1955 DHL (Honorary) –
Western New Mexico University 2001
Post Graduate Studies1939-41: University of Iowa
1956: California College of Arts and Crafts 1964: University of Florence, Italy – Summer Studies 1966: Tyler School of Art, Temple University – Summer Studies; printmaking in Italy, with Ernest Freed Otis Art Institute 1970: Extensive Independent European Travel and Study 1948-1981: Associate Professor of Art, Western New Mexico University 1992: Governor’s
Award for excellence and Achievement in the Arts
Listed in: Who’s Who in American Art
Who’s Who in America Who’s Who among American Women
Artist Statement for Dorothy McCray To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. Wm. Blake, Auguries of Innocence Art is the spirit of life. Art is an imitation of reality. Art is the expression of the astonishment of moment by moment experience of being. All of life is a creative act, the act of organizing and manipulating experienced phenomena to form a meaningful whole. The visual arts are one manifestation of this need of man for the integration attained through the creative process. The evolution of my artwork involves a leap into the unknown. It consists of elements of play, discovery and awe. I am intrigued by the multiplicity of sensation, visual and conceptual, which one experiences through life. My concern is to organize and reinterpret these experiences so that my work will be evocative of memories and enrichment of meaning for others. |