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BILL FISHER

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2012:: Presenter, Civisthetics: Codifying an Aesthetic of Civic Engagement, the Twenty-Ninth Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference, Orlando, FL
2011:: Juror: SWGA College Invitational, work from ASU and VSU, Albany, GA; Project Participant, East/West,invitational portfolio exchange curated by Brian Kelly, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Curator, President's Hall Art Exhibition: Zola Delburn, Parks Hall, GCSU; Co-Curator, Wallworks: Contemporary Pictorial Wallpapers from the International Print Center of New York, MoFA, GCSU; Co-author, Civisthetics: Codifying an Aesthetic of Civic Engagement, panel presentation accepted for the Twenty-Ninth Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference, 2012, Orlando, FL; Co-Curator, Juror, Baldwin County High School/Home School Eco-Arts Exhibition, in collaboration with the School of Education, GCSU; Fine Art print editioning Master Printer for GCSU visiting artists Mark Dion and Basia Irland; Fine Art print editioning assistance for GCSU visiting artist Jonathan Brilliant; Screenprint workshop, Montessori of Macon, GCSU; Workshop and lecture on woodblock, silkscreen and lithographic printmaking, Emmaus House senior citizens event, Atlanta, GA; GCSU Bobcat sculptures, surface treatments in collaboration with GC students and faculty
2010:: Publication, The Art of the Impression: Lino-Cut, afterword for The Cartoons of Flannery O'Connor at Georgia College; Publication, American Artist, Drawing supplement, detail from "Paean"; Public Lecture, New Work, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Curator, President's Hall Student Exhibition, Parks Hall, GCSU; Juror: Creative Expressions Art Show and Competition, collaboration with the Dept of Music Therapy, GCSU, Milledgeville, GA; Curator, Color in the Gaps: Madness, Pride and Brilliance, ArtFix Gallery, GCSU; Panel Organizer and Moderator, Color in the Gaps: Mental Health Care and the Arts, ArtFix Gallery, GCSU; Screenprint workshops, GCSU/Early College and GCSU/YES Program, special-needs/at-risk students; Montessori of Macon Culture Day printmaking event; Co-authored STEM Grant proposal, Discovering STEM in Art, GCSU; Fine Art print editioning Master Printer for GCSU visiting artists Dan McCleary, Aaron Wilson and Tim Dooley, Sue Coe, Van Garrett; Posthumous Fine Art print editioning begun for Flannery O¹Connor; GCSU Bobcat sculptures, authored community surface design contest
2009:: Author/Program Director, Art, Politics, and Agitprop in the Czech Republic, study abroad program slated for 2010 focusing on Prague, Kuks, Hradec Kralov and the Velvet Revolution; Featured Artist, Killing the Buddha; Featured Artist, Tusculum Review; Project Participant, Natural History: Critical Condition, invitational portfolio exchange curated by Sydney Cross.; Juror: 8th Annual Juried Art Show and Competition, Arts Clayton Gallery, Jonesboro, Georgia.; Publication, How to Hold Your Mouth Right, Graphic Impressions: The Journal of the Southern Graphics Council; Demonstration/Lecture, Printmaking and Multiples, Midway Elementary Career Day, Milledgeville, GA; Paper Presentation, Get Out! Artist Residencies, Retreats, Internships and Educational Opportunities and Professional Development for Artists (presentation on GCSU Visiting Artists and Scholars Program, Grad Student Initiative, Practicum and Internships), University of West Georgia; Co-curator, President's Hall Student Exhibition, Parks Hall, GCSU; Co-curator, Alumni and Friends Exhibition, MoFA, GCSU; Co-curator, the Rover Costumes and Masks exhibition, collaboration with Dept. of Theatre, MoFA, GCSU; Presentation, Our Role in Environmental (In)justice, in collaboration with the University and the Environmental Justice Symposium, GCSU; Screenprint workshops, Joffrey Summer Ballet Camp, GCSU/Early College and GCSU/YES Program, special-needs/at-risk students; Relief printmaking workshop, Creative Expressions Studios and Galleries, Milledgeville adults with special needs
2008:: Workshop, Camo-serigraphy, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Regional Arts Training Workshop, Athens, GA.; Demonstration/Lecture, Ghosts!, The American Print Alliance Print Dialogue Days, SCAD/ATL, Atlanta, GA; Publication, Gateavisa #183, pg. 32, Norway; 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; Demonstration/Lecture, Prints: Form and Intent, Prints from the Permanent Collection, Blackbridge Galleries, GCSU, Milledgeville, GA; Workshop, Paper-making, Bookarts, and Printmaking Symposium, Albany Museum, Albany, GA; Workshop, Color Serigraphy, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, The Hammonds House, Atlanta, GA; No Hate Page as Website of the Weekend, Counterpunch.org; Image page featured on "Out of Site," Cabinet Magazine; Appointment as 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.; Semper Fi featured on The Nation; No Hate Page as Site of the Week, Cursor.org
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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