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Dan Welden


As the original pioneer of alternative printmaking since 1970, Dan Welden has been in the forefront of ‘health and safety’ in the arts.  As co-author of ‘PRINTMAKING IN THE SUN’ and director of Hampton Editions, Ltd., his 50 plus years of collaboration include artists such as Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, and Dan Flavin.  He has received international recognition through his residencies in China, Belgium, Cuba, Peru New Zealand, Australia, and other countries.


With 102 solo exhibitions to date, including the paramount exhibitor at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and travels to 54 countries on all seven continents, he was awarded a ‘lifetime achievement award’ from A/E Foundation in New York; a title of Professor Emeritus from Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cusco, Peru and most recently a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant.

Resume 2024

Painter/ Printmaker/ Educator/ Author/ Innovator of safer art practices

Owner/Director, Hampton Editions, Ltd.


EXHIBITIONS  

102 Solo exhibitions in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, 

Japan, Peru, and Switzerland. Over 700 group exhibitions worldwide.


TEACHING  

2009-1999:  Director/Teacher.  “Dan Welden International”  Summer program offering disciplines in printmaking, painting, photography, book arts, mixed media in Florence, Italy. (1999-2009) Additiional locations include Mykonos, Greece (2005); Corsica, France (2004); Lima, Peru (2000,2006), Cuzco, Peru, 2017; Auckland, New Zealand (1992, 2000, 2024), Sydney, Australia (1992)

1988-1986: Assistant Professor of Art, Central CT State University, New Britain, CT

1985-1977: Assistant Professor of Art, SUNY Stony Brook, NY

1987-2005: Adjunct Associate Professor, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY


RESIDENCIES

2022 The Great Camp, Racquet Lake, New York (paid expenses)

2022 Making Art Safely, Santa Fe, New Mexico (paid expenses) 

2017: Escuela de Beas Artes, Cusco, Peru

2016: Atelier Tress, Lima, Peru, 2014, 2013 

2016: Haystack Mountain, Deer Isle, Maine, “New Works” (Paid expenses)

2016,2015: Nantucket Artists Association, Nantucket, MA (Paid expenses)

2014,13,11: Guanlan International Printmaking Base, Guanlan, China (Paid all expenses)

2011: California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA ($10,000 honorarium)

2000-1999: Minimaku Arts, Amata Community, South Australia( $2000 honorarium)

1993:  QE II Arts Council Grant, Dunedin, New Zealand (Paid expenses plus $6000 honorarium)

1992: Australia Printmaking Workshop, Sydney, Australia

1986-87: Central CT State University, New Britain, CT (Paid $29000 salary)

1985: NEA Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA (paid expenses)

1984, 1981, 1979: Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium (paid expenses)


CONTRACT/COLLABORATIVE WORKS

Current-1971: Hampton Editions Ltd., Collaborations with Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Dan Flavin, Kurt Vonnegut, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Jane Freilicher, Lynda Benglis, Roy Nicholson, Jack Youngerman, John Alexander, Kiki Smith, and many others.

1972: Universal Limited Art Editions, Stone Lithographer for Tatyana Grosman. Printed for Dine, Johns, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Steinberg


AUTHOR/PRODUCER

2001: Co-Author with Pauline Muir, "Printmaking in the Sun", pub. Watson Guptill

2005: Producer, Film “Printmaking in the Sun”


EDUCATION

Academie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich, Germany:  MFA (equivalency), 1969-1971 

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY:  M.A., B.A., Art Education, 1967, 1964

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

More than 250 universities, art schools, television and radio programs, galleries, museums and community groups in 45 US states.  International venues include 53 countries worldwide on 6 continents

Keynote Speaker, Art Teachers Associations; Pennsylvania, 2007; New York 2000; Ling Shui China, 2013: Guanlan China, 2014

INVITATIONS/GRANTS

2022 Making Art Safely, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2019 Pollock Krasner Grant Award $30,000

2017 Awarded Professor Emeritus, Escuela De Beas Artes, Cusco, Peru

2015  Lifetime Achievement Grant $3500 A/E Foundation, New York, NY

2004: Vogelstein Foundation, $7500 Film Grant "Printmaking in the Sun"

2008-1993: Harvey Littleton Studio, Spruce Pine, NC

1993: Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant for 3 month International Residency, Dunedin, New Zealand

1992: Guest Lecturer, National Art Educators Convention, Auckland, New Zealand

1991-1990: Non-Toxic Printmaking, Sydney, Australia

1982: SUNY Research Foundation Travel Grant to Dokumenta, Kassel, Germany

1981-1980: New York State Council on the Arts, Exhibition and Booklet grants, Long Island Printmakers Society. 

1984, 1981, 1979: The Ministry of Dutch Culture Grant for Master Lithographer, Kasterlee, Belgium

1977: Etching and engraving with Arnold Rottem, Atelier Nord,  Oslo, Norway

1976: Asa Wright Nature Center, Nature Drawing Assistant with Don R. Eckelberry, Trinidad, B.W.I.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & AFFILIATIONS

2016-2024 President, Inspiration Plus Foundation, 501 C-3 Arts and Science Educational Organization.  

1989-1988: President, Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)

1988-1977: President, Founder, Long Island Printmakers Society, (LIPS)

1984,1982: Master Printer, portfolio projects, Kilchess Press, Canon Beach, OR 

1982-1980: Southampton Hospital Portfolio project

1979: Highest Individual Print Award, Society of American Graphic Artists 57th National Exhibition 


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York

RIT, Rochester, New York

Kutztown, University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Kiki Smith, Catskill, New York

Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

Alice Baber Memorial, Greater Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN

Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR

President and Mrs. John Marburger, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

Rijkscentrum Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium

Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany

Columbia Savings and Loan Association, Beverly Hills, CA

Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA

Chase Manhattan Bank

Diosecesan School, Auckland, New Zealand

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

Pfizer Inc., NY

Latham and Watkins, NY

University of Alabama, Gallery of Art, Birmingham, AL

Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

The Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO

Lynch Press, Taos, NM

Wheaton College, Taunton, MA

Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA

Amity Art Foundation, Darien, CT

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Forester Gallery, Oamaru, New Zealand

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Guanlan International Printmaking Base, Guanlan, China

California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA

San Francisco Academy of Art University

Terry Wall, Southampton, New York

Copyright © Dan Welden - All Rights Reserved. -- Daniel Welden 1649 Millstone Road Sag Harbor, NY 11963 US​A. Phone: (631)725-3990. ​Fax: (631) 771-3100. Dan's email for personal correspondence: dan@solarplate.com

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