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Henry Dean

Foundation studies professor

Education

  • M.F.A., painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.A., fine arts, geography, University of St. Andrews

Credentials

  • Coordinator SCAD Drawing Minor, 2017–present
    Professor, foundation studies, 1999–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Sabbatical Award: Savannah College of Art and Design, Isle of Skye, Scotland, June 2014
  • Artist residency: Deep Creek, Colo., sponsored by Arizona State University (Tempe location), with the Telluride Institute. Telluride, Colo., July-August 2011
  • Artist in Residence sponsored by The Low Country Institute, Spring Island, GA, 2004
  • Guest critic: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, “Open House” Skowhegan, Maine, 2004
  • Artist in residence sponsored by Daniel Tucker, Norwood, Colo., 2000
  • New Jersey New Arts in Education Award co-recipient with Bret Harte Elementary School, Cherry Hill, N.J., 1999

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions

  • Open House, HAZA, group exhibition, Savannah, Ga. 2018
  • Making Waves: A Collective Perspective on the Pollution of Our Waterways, group exhibition, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah, Ga., 2018
  • Drawn to Macon, group exhibition, Macon Arts Alliance, Macon, Ga., 2018
  • Margins, solo exhibition, Sulfur Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2018
  • Crescent Sun. August 21st. 5:55 video capture (real time): Path of totality passes over site-specific installation of two panels situated on the verge of a back road outside town, Elloree, S.C., 2017
  • Tilt. Site-specific installation. Harbor Creek, April –July, near Spring Island and Callawassie Island, Okatie, S.C., 2017
  • Longleaf Regenerated, group exhibition, 11th Longleaf Biennial Conference: “Growing a Legacy: A Working Forest for the Long Run,” Savannah, Ga., 2016
  • Inner Sound: SLUICE, solo exhibition, Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center, Port Royal, S.C., 2015
  • = C r e e k s +F o l d s = From the Low Country to the Isle of Skye, solo exhibition, Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2015
  • Sluice, site-specific installation on the Chechessee River, sponsored by the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center, Port Royal, S.C., 2015
  • WET & DRY, solo exhibition, Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2012
  • Diverse Works, group exhibition, DeSoto Row Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2012
  • Atlas of the San Miguel, group exhibition, Depot Gallery, Telluride, Colo., 2011
  • Artists for Haiti, group show, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2010
  • Georgia Green: Eco-Artists of the Peach State, group exhibition, Georgia College and State University Art Museum, Milledgeville, Ga., 2008
  • Seeing Sounds, collaborative sculpture installation and performance work by CFAC (Creative Force Artists Collective), S.P.A.C.E Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2008

Publications

  • “Applicability of Sketching Within Integrative Teaching and Learning Methodologies,” Foundations NOW, ThinkTank “Future Forward,” Integrative: Teaching International. Nov. 1, 2012.
  • “Trifold: History Trail,” creative director, author, co-editor (with David Kaminsky), Spring Island, S.C., April 2011

Presentations

  • “Swimming in the Current,” Spring Island Land Trust, Spring Island, S.C., 2017
  • “Sluice,” Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center, Port Royal, S.C., 2015
  • “Art of the Twenty-Teens: Environment & Processes,” SCAD, Savannah, Ga., 2015
  • “The Art of the Working Sketch,” ONSTREAM 2011, 2011 FATE Biennial Conference, St. Louis, 2011
  • “Curriculum Ideation Forum,” May 1 lecture, SCAD, Savannah, Ga., 2010
  • “Uncertainty and Practice in Painting,” Art First lecture series, SCAD, Savannah, Ga., 2008
  • “Wetlands Celebration,” Oatland Island Education Center, Savannah, Ga., 2002