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BILL FISHER

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2008:: Demonstration/Lecture, Ghosts!, The American Print Alliance Print Dialogue Days, SCAD/ATL, Atlanta, GA; Panelist, Inscribing Meaning,The Georgia College Museum, Milledgeville, GA; Panelist, The State of Contemporary Printmaking, Moderator Kristin Casaletto, The ASU Printmaking Symposium, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA; Workshop, CMYK Split Channel Serigraphy, The ASU Printmaking Symposium, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA; Workshop, Paper-making, Bookarts, and Printmaking Symposium, Albany Museum, Albany, GA; Workshop, Color Serigraphy, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, The Hammonds House, Atlanta, GA; Chair, Department of Art, Georgia College & State University
2007:: Panelist, Visual Art That Is Written, Chair: Scotland Stout, SECAC Annual Conference, Charleston, WV; Co-organizer, Baldwin State Prison/GCSU Collaborative Exhibition, Milledgeville, GA; Promotion to Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Art, Georgia College & State University; Juror, Spotlight on the Arts, Tattnall Academy, Macon, GA; Project Participant, Ohio University Alumni Portfolio Exchange.
2006:: SERITYPES: A Genetic Screening Project, a 24-hour collaborative, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.; Project Participant, SGC Members Portfolio Exchange.; Project Participant, Ohio University Alumni Portfolio Exchange.; Juror, USpain 06, Colegio San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
2005:: Panelist, Race: Enter Personal Politics, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia.; Panelist, Street Smart Graphics, with Robbie Conal and the artist/activist collaborative THINK AGAIN (David Attyah and S.A. Bachman). Moderator: Judy Brody, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Washington, DC.; Project Participant, SGC Members Portfolio Exchange.; Project Participant, Florida Printmakers Invitational portfolio exchange, curated by Lise Drost, University of Miami.
2004:: Appointment as Under Secretary of Southern Cultural Hegemony and Rural Visual Authority, US Department of Art & Technology.; Project Participant, 3.21 invitational portfolio exchange, curated by Kathryn Maxwell.; Project Participant, Domestic Policy invitational portfolio exchange, curated by Beth Grabowski.
2003:: Re-Present, a 24-hour collaborative, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.; Project Participant, SHOCK&AWE portfolio exchange, curated by Tim Dooley, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.; Project Participant, Two Countries Separated by a Common Language invitational portfolio exchange, curated by Justin Diggle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002:: Visiting Artist in Residence, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia.; Exhibition Organizer, Pressed and Pulled X, GC&SU, Milledgeville, Georgia.; Lecture/Demonstration, American Print Alliance Dialogue Day, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia; Guest Artist, Scrambled Eggs portfolio exchange, curated by UGA Faculty, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
2001:: Visiting Artist in Residence, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.; Visiting Artist in Residence, Arts and Letters Festival, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia.
2000:: Chief Printer and Manager of Operation, Deckled Edge Press, Boca Raton, Florida.; Lecture/Demonstration, SGC Annual Conference, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.; Project Participant, Homeostatic portfolio exchange, curated by Bradlee Shanks, University of South Florida.; Visiting Artist, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.
1999:: Chief Printer and Manager of Operations, Deckled Edge Press, Boca Raton, Florida.; Panel Organizer/Moderator, Toward a "Meaningful" Education, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Tempe, Arizona.; Chairman, Florida State University Visiting Artist Committee.; Co-Director, Florida State University BFA program.; Juror: Valdosta State University Annual Student Competition, Valdosta, Georgia.; Executive Board Member, Member at Large, Southern Graphics Council.
1998:: Lecturer, University of Windsor, Windsor, CANADA.; Visiting Artist, Windsor Printmakers Forum, Windsor, CANADA.; Visiting Artist, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.; Visiting Artist, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia.; Juror: 13th Annual Florida National Juried Exhibition, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida. Co-juror with Sarah Bates.; Juror: Points of the Compass, The School of Visual Arts and Dance 25th Anniversary, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida. Co-juror with FSU faculty.; Panel Organizer/Moderator, Kynic, Cynic, or Smart-Ass: The Art of Militant Cheekiness. Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Athens, Ohio.; Lecture/Demonstration, SGC Annual Conference, Athens, Ohio.; Executive Board Member, Member at Large, Southern Graphics Council.; Chairman, Florida State University Visiting Artist Committee.; Project Participant,Exchange, Travel, Distance, US-Czech portfolio exchange. Curated by Anita Jung, Ohio University, and Eva Vlasakova, CZECH REPUBLIC.; Project Participant, Windsor Printmakers Forum Portfolio, CANADA.
1996-99:: Visiting Artist Committee, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.; Art Students League Faculty Representative, Florida State University. Revived defunct undergraduate students' organization.; Board Member, Oglesby Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida.
1997-99:: Master of Fine Arts Committee, Florida State University.
1997:: Juror: Unfair 8, Downunder Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida; Juror: Art in Low Places, Oglesby Union, Tallahassee, Florida.; Development Committee Member, FSU Art Camp, Florida State University.; Curator, FSU Faculty/Graduate portfolio exchange, CONSPIRATORIA. Mixed-media multiples exchange.; Project Co-curator, 1st Annual Art for the Heart Exhibition and Silent Auction. Handmade artists' valentines to benefit The Refuge House Battered Women's Shelter, Warehouse Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida.; Project Participant,TOYS portfolio exchange, curated by Madeleine Barkey.; Project Participant, Omens and Revelations portfolio exchange, curated by Krista Harberson.; Lecture, Florida State University. "Graduate School: Fact or Friction," discussion for BFA candidates.; Lecture/Demonstration, Florida State University. Intaglio and lithography history and techniques, Honors Seminar.
1996:: Visiting Artist's Lecture, Florida State University.; Lecture, Florida State University. Japanese woodblock printmaking for Dr. D. Wong.; Head Printer, Ohio University. Organized and led five-person team for editioning of intaglio work by visiting artist Pam Longobardi.; Printer, Florida State University. Assisted and collaborated with visiting artist Kabuya Bowens in monoprinting workshop.; Printer, Ohio University. Assisted sculptor John Roth in Lithographic and serigraphic editioning of his work for gallery and museum collections.
1995:: Printer, Ohio University. Participated in editioning work for visiting artist Sergio Soave. Projects involved monotype, lithography, and serigraphy.; Printer, Ohio University. Personal assistant to OU printmaking professor Robert Lazuka in lithographic editioning for his Ohio University Research Commission exhibition and intercollegiate portfolio exchange.; Technical Assistant, Ohio University. Provided OU sculpture professor Duane McDiarmid with intaglio work for New York public sculpture -- a device for dispensing blankets to the homeless.; Project Assistant, Ohio University. Participated in the development of an OU computerized website for the World Wide Web.; Exhibition Coordinator, Rio Grande University. In conjunction with Professor James Allen of Rio Grande, organized a full OU faculty and graduate print exhibition, Victims of the Press, Greer Museum, Rio Grande, Ohio.; Exhibition Coordinator, Ohio University. In cooperation with fellow OU graduate printmakers, assisted in organizing and curating the traveling exhibition Prints: Work by Six Graduate Printmakers.; Exhibition Coordinator, Spinning Wheels. Co-organized and curated three-person show. Albert's Cafe, Athens, Ohio.; Curator, Ohio University. Organized portfolio exchange, PARADOXYMORON, between beginning serigraphy students and graduate printmakers.
1994:: Printer, Ohio University. As personal assistant to Master Printer Jack Lemon of Landfall Press, aided in printing for visiting artist Luis Jiminez. Projects included lithographic and intaglio editions.
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