Elizabeth Dove, Assistant Professor

Teaching Philosophy

As both an artist and a teacher, I prefer to take an interdisciplinary approach that attempts to match the concerns of content to materials and process. As an instructor I begin with tradition as the foundation, but continue to seek out innovative processes and ideas (such as digital and non-toxic applications) in an effort to bridge the gap between traditional media and emerging technologies. Within each course I also try to expand upon the common assumption that artmaking is purely an idiosyncratic, individual pursuit by designing projects that require group collaboration; these projects might be integrated into the curriculum through peer-review critique sessions, or studio assignments of cooperative 'passed' printmaking plates or combined group drawings. I hope to lead students to the point where they can begin to freely choose media and materials based upon the intrinsic qualities of these processes; and how these qualities can support their ideas, their artistic concerns, and their content.

Selected Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Focus: Printmaking/Non-toxic Printmaking Research; Photography; Drawing; Book Arts; Mixed Media.

Solo Exhibitions:

2005
“Mother Tongue”. (prints, mixed media), Spokane Falls College, Spokane, Washington.
2004
“Mother Tongue”, (prints, mixed media), Indianapolis Art Center, Indiana.
“Tide”, (prints), Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon.
“Elizabeth Dove”, (prints, mixed media), Talley Gallery, Bemidji State University,
Bemidji, Minnesota.
2003
“Elizabeth Dove: Thinking in Time” (prints, mixed media), Memorial Union Gallery,
NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota.
2002
“Five Years” (prints, mixed media), Southwest Missouri State University,
Springfield, Missouri.
2001
“Mapping Time” (prints, mixed media), Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
2000
“Sacred Circles” (print installation), Lincoln Land College/University of Illinois,
Springfield, Illinois.
“Elizabeth Dove” (prints), Tyler School of Art Printmaking Gallery,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1999
“Elizabeth Dove: Passing Time” (installation, prints), SNAP Gallery, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada.
“Elizabeth Dove” (site-specific sculptural installation, mixed media, prints),
Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont.

Group Exhibitions

2004
“Multiple Perspectives”, (prints) Macalester College Art Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota.
“Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary Printmaking”, (print installation), Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.
2003
“Text and the Body”, (prints, installation), Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, Alaska.
“Re-Imaging the Multiple”, (prints), Pabellon de Mixtos de la Ciudadela of Pamplona, Spain.
“Under Pressure”, (prints), Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia.
“Multiple Perspectives”, (prints) Jewett Art Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
“Prints U.S.A.”, (prints), Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri.
“The Book, Print and Time”, (prints), Kathrin Cawein Gallery of Art, Pacific University,
Forest Grove, Oregon.
“Women’s Work”, Southern Graphics Council, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
2002
“Process and Print: A Survey of Contemporary American Printmakers”, (prints),
Yo Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire.
“Re-Imaging the Multiple”, (prints), Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland.
“Standing Room Only”, (prints), Keyano Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
“Concept to Object”, (mixed media), Anne Arundel College, Arnold, Maryland.
“DPI”, (prints), Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly University, Pomona, California.
“International Women’s Portfolio”, (prints), Print Gumbo, Southern Graphics Council,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2001
“Factory Direct”, (mixed media), Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York.
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“Push the Envelope II”, (mail art) Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri.
“National Small Works”, (prints), Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Northwest Print Council: Selection”,(prints), Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR.
2000
“Los Angeles Printmaking Society Biennial”, (prints), Laband Art Gallery. “Alberta/Japan Exchange” (prints), Printsaurus, Parthenon TAMA, Tokyo, Japan.
“Bangor to Bangor” (prints), Bangor Heritage Center, Northern Ireland.
“Print is Print” (prints), Aberdeen City Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.
“12th National Drawing and Print Competition” (prints), Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Print is Print”, (prints), Warren Wilson College Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina.
“Balance” (prints), 1550 Quigley Gallery, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.
“Virtue” (prints), College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Visiting Artist and Workshop Events

2005
Spokane Falls College, Spokane, Washington.
2003
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.
P.E.A.R.S. Workshop, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota.
Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshops at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.
2002
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
2001
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
California State University, Fresno, California.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
2000
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Pyramid Atlantic; Center for Printmaking, Papermaking, and the Art of the Book, Riverdale, Maryland.
1999
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska.
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri.
Independence College, Independence, Kansas.
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.

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