Education
1975 MFA, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Conn.
1973 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Maryland
Career experience
Presently Tenured Professor, Printmaking/Painting/Foundation/Community art
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri (since 1976)
Director, Chameleon Arts and Youth Development. Kansas City Mo. (since 2000)
1998
Education consultant, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Christian Boltanski Exhibition So Far Kansas City, Missouri
Educational Facilitator, Kansas City School for the Blind, Kaw Valley Center, Paseo Academy for The Performing and Visual Arts,
Sumner Academy of Art and Science, Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas
1997-98
Faculty, Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
Lecturer of Art, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Books
2020
Learning Journal, Thoughts on arts and education Chameleon Press
2019
Whiteout, graphic zine published by Stubborn Mule press
Whiteout, a series of short stories published by Spartan Press
2018
Preaching to the Choir: Thoughts on Contemporary Printmaking, Dog Alley Stubborn Mule Press
2018
Shared Visions: Thoughts and Experiences in Social Practice
Consistent Divergencies: the Studio and Community Art of Hugh Merrill 1969
2016
Nomadic: rover by days singing those gangplank songs of the ambler
Series of works acquired by museums and study collections, 2020
Bradley University Peoria Ill/ torso etching series
University of Tennessee Knoxville Facts of Fictions etchings
University of Northern Illinois, Facts of Fictions
Rockford University, Dark Woods series
Kemper Museum of Art Kansas City Streams series
Mulvane Art Museum Topeka Kansas Streams series
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph Missouri Phantom stage series
Selected exhibitions, community arts projects, and professional development
2020
Hugh Merrill Making and Collaboration with Jeannette Powers Leedy Art Center Kansas City
Merrill drawings and monoprints Ace’ Projecto Buenos Aries Argentina (Postponed)
Winterreise art on line winters journey works https://winterreise.online/art
2019
Douro Print Biennial Douro Museum Douro Portugal
Drawings, Portland State University
2018
Cultural Legacy Leedy Art Center KCMO
2017
Spring Exhibition “Vortex” Todd Weiner Gallery
Roeland Park Skate Board Park Commission, Inventory of American Sculpture Smithsonian American Art Museum
Guanlaun Printmaking Biennial
Splitgraphics Print Biennial Split Croatia
2016
Men in Aprons Portland Museum of Art
Flow: The Tide Comes in Print portfolio Southern Graphics Council Conference Portland
Language of Color: The Grump Meter with various inner city agencies and schools
Zine Publication with Trans gender students Kansas City Art Institute
Gang Plank Poetry and Drawings by Hugh Merrill 39th Street Press
2015
Winterreise Todd Weiner Gallery Kansas City MO.
Ghost Kansaas City Artist Coalition
Ghosts Kansas City Artists Coalition Kansas City MO.
Douro Printmaking Biennial Douro Portugal
Grump Meter Exhibition Surrel’s Artists residency Boise Idaho
2014
Hands Up Don’t Shoot Artist Response 14th Street Community gallery, Alliance Of Black Art Galleries, Freida L. Wheaton Curator, St Louis
Resident Artist Guanlan Original Print Base Shenzhen China June July
Curator 10 American Print Artists Guanlan Original Print Base Shenzhen China
Butterfly Effect Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Jan-July Kansas City Mo.
2013
Made in China Todd Weiner Gallery Kansas City Mo.
Artworker community art city wide project George A. Spiva Center for the Arts Joplin Missouri
2012
Guanlan Print Base residency August to October
Object Subject photo community arts project Guanlan china
Camera Dance Book Published by Chameleon press and lulu.com August 2012
Krakow Print Triennial Krakow Poland
22 PMR Máximo Ramos International Award for Graphic Arts Centro Torrente Ballester C/ Concepción Arenal, s/n 15402 Ferrol – A Coruña Spain
“6” Bienal Internacional de Gravura – Douro 2012”
CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DE ALIJÓ PORTUGAL.
2011
Portrait of Self Book Published by Chameleon Press and lulu.com
Divergent Consistencies 2, Downtown Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.
Plunder the Influence: An Examination of Visual Manifestations (and sources) of Influence, www.adrianeherman.typepad.com/plunder_the_influence/
Invitational; Spacium Tempus International exhibition of contemporary
Printmaking 2011: Korea, China, Canada, USA exhibition begins at the Guanlan Original Printmaking studio Shenzhen China November 2010
Community and Lonleness: Paragraph Gallery Kansas City Invitational july 2010
5th Bienal Internacional Gravura Douro 2010 BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE GRAVURA DO DOURO / AV. TEIXEIRA DE SOUSA, PORTUGAL September 2010
Further: Artist from Printmaking At the Edge Invitational ongoing 2010
Mano/Mundo/Corazón: Artists Interpret La Lotería Center for Books and paper Columbia College Chicago Il. September 2010
2011 Divergent Consistencies II drawings Central Library KCMO
Plunder the Influence on line exhibition created by Adriane Herman
Birds Leedy Voulkos march and april 2011
Power structures leedy voulkos june 2011
America now and here may 2011 Statue of Liberty American Family and community photo project and My American Zine LVAC may 2011
Leedy Voulkos art Center Spacium Tempus international print exhibit june july 2011
spectrum print exhibition Spiva Art Center Joplin Missouri may 2011
Power Structures drawings and prints of American monuments june-August 2011
Between Me and Thee Jewish Museum Kansas City and Rockhurst University Green Lease gallery july-october
Twist and Shout leedy voulkos art center art from twister trash for the Spiva Art center Joplin Missouri Aug. 2011 kcmo
Roamare Bearden panel discussion nelson nov 5 2011 kathy CArro?
Alicia Canddi self portrait project The Self-Portraits Project is a Alicia Candiani´s original idea and ´ace’s exciting venture! This five years (2006-2011) collaborative international project explores the form in which many artists decide to represent themselves Today, the project involves 11 nationalities, 6 countries, 8 sessions hosted by major artistic institutions, 5 languages and more than 90 pieces, in which worldwide artists have been working with digital media and various printmaking techniques as well as hand interventions and folded papers. the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca (1st Session:September/06) and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca Campus (2nd Session: October/06) both in Spain. In June 2007 the 3rd Session took place in Buenos Aires city at Proyecto´ace. The Fourth Session was at Grafikens Hus in Mariefred, Sweden in October/November 2007 while the Fifth Session took place in Atelier Presse Papier, Trois Rivieres, Canada in September 2008. The Sixth Session was hosted by the Atelier Livre and the 23 Cidade de Porto Alegre Art Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil during July 2009 and the 7th Session was developed at MTG Gallery in collaboration with University of Alaska in Anchorage, Alaska during October 2010.
East West Print portfolio
“Printmaking at the Edge” Galería Políglota. Proyecto´ace. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010
5th Bienal Internacional Gravura Douro, Teixeira De Sousa, Portugal.
Community and Loneliness, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
Further: Artists from Printmaking at the Edge, (ongoing international traveling exhibition).
Mano/Mundo/Corazón: Artists Interpret La Lotería, Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book & Paper Arts.
Spacium Tempus: International exhibition of contemporary Printmaking 2011, Guanlan Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China (international traveling exhibition).
2009
Divergent Consistencies 40 years of the studio and community art work of HughMerrill
2008
Second International Print Biennial Bejing China and Seoul Korean, Canada, USA
Ecoscape, drawings Leedy Volkus Art Center KCMO
“Printmaking at the Edge” Malone Gallery, Troy University,
Gift Project Office of Homeless Liaison Kansas City Kansas dye cut graphics for the Willa Gill Homeless Resource Center
Curator Print Lovers at 30 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Kansas city Mo.
2007
Falun Print Triennial Darlanas Museum Falun Sweden
Further Artists from Printmaking at the Edge various International locations including Photography Museum Seoul Korea
“Printmaking at the Edge” Brevard College Gallery, NC, Oct
“Printmaking at the Edge” Hamni Photography Museum, Seoul Korea, Dec
“Printmaking at the Edge” RJ Reynolds Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, Dec
"Falun Print Triennial" Dalarna Art Gallery, Sweden, Aug
“Printmaking at the Edge” Hornan Gallery, Falun, Sweden Aug
“Printmaking at the Edge” Silicon Graphics Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Printmaking at the Edge” Gallerie Wollab, Vienna Austria, July-October
“Printmaking at the Edge” Galleria Harmonia, Jyvaskyla, Finland, Nov-Jan
“Printmaking at the Edge” Grafikos Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania, Feb
“Printmaking at the Edge” Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2007
Wish-Flush Falun Print Triennial, Dalarnas Museum Falun Sweden (installation)
Lucky Dragon Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
31@ Unit 5: Unit 5 Gallery, Kansas City Mo Teaching Award Exhibition
2006
Language and Touch Large Drawings by Hugh Merrill Morgan Gallery Kansas City MO
Print at the Edge, Cardiff Gallery Cardiff Wales UK
Pools of Belief Colorado college/Future Self Colorado Springs Co.
2005
“Further” Salem Fine Arts Center, North Gallery, Winston-Salem NC, Nov
I would rather be drawing Morgan Gallery southern Graphics Council Conference
Pools of Belief, Polish National Museum Poznan Poland
Touch and Language, Morgan Gallery Kansas City MO
Hugh Merrill Drawings and community art Dury University Springfield MO
Chameleon 10th Anniversary Exhibition Kansas City MO
Thieves Thugs and Liars Print exhibit Southern graphics Council Washington DC
2004
Group Exhibition Morgan Gallery Kansas City MO
Group Exhibition Foresight Gallery Kansas City MO
“Truth” installation Mid America Print Council Lincoln Nebraska
Rolling Wave: sculptures for Granada Park, Roeland Park KS 2004
2003
Health Department commission, Columbia Missouri
Drawings and Community Art Print Installation Manchester Craftsman’s Guild Pittsburgh PA
75th Honolulu Print Exhibit, Honolulu Hawaii
Pandora’s Box, Epic Center, Columbia College, Chicago Ill
Magic Mats, SLOP Art, COCA St. Louis MO
Multiple Perspectives, Southern Graphics Council Conference Exhibition Boston Mass.
Faculty Exhibition Block Art Space Kansas City MO
25th Anniversary exhibition Purdue University
For Sydney Printwork Gallery Chicago IlI
Skate: a metaphysical park, bronze sculptures and text plaques public commission Roeland Park Kansas
2002
Printology 1990-2000 Prints by Wycross Press, Wiregrass MuseumDothan Alabama
Persistent Prints, Butters Gallery Portland OR
Weber State University Ogden Utah Small Paintings, Invitational
Morgan Gallery Prints, Kansas City MO
Boston Printmakers 2000: Print Competition
American Print Alliance: On Off Or Over the Edge 2001
3 ring Circus Leedy Voulkos Art Center KCMO
Gallery B. New York, New York
Art of Memory, public arts commission for the Sanford-Kempton Health Facility Columbia Missouri
2001
Bradley International 2000, Bradley University Peoria Il
Midlands Invitational 2000: Joslyn Museum, Omaha Neb
Fast and Fugitive, print installation Goddard Gallery, Sedalia MO
Reconciliation Project Dublin Ireland Academy of Art
Is, mix media paintings Leedy Voulkos Gallery Kansas City MO
Facts of Fictions Prints by Hugh Merrill Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Florida
2000
Fast and Fugitive, print installation Goddard Gallery, Daum Museum Sedalia Mo.
1999
Blue Print Portraits, Buena Vista University, Iowa
Fast and Fugitive University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
1998
Martin Buber's Cat, solo exhibition of mixed media and collage works, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Prints III, an Invitational of American Artists, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
1997
Vitreographs from Harvey Littleton Studio, Portland Art Museum, and Hickory Museum, North Carolina (group)
Our City/Ourselves, Portrait of a Community, As a visiting artist, I worked in collaboration with Christian Boltanski and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design to conceptualize and implement a city wide archiving project.
Portrait of Self, community archiving art work, As a visiting artist to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, I conceived and implemented a project in which inner city youths-at-risk created visual archives. The archives were shown as a community/conceptual artwork at the museum.
Shadow Plays, collaborative theater and dance work, Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Springfield MO
Facts of Fictions, sequential prints, Western Sydney University, Australia (solo)
1996
Facts of Fictions, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1996
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta Canada (solo)
Life Cycles installation, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Calif. (invitational)
Life Cycles Installation, Indianapolis Art League
Life Cycles Installation, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacgadoces, Texas
1995
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta Canada (solo)
Art form Academe', Central Exchange, Kansas City, Mo. (invitational)
Print Masters, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (group)
Transparent Motives, New Orleans Museum of Art (group)
25th Invitational Print and Drawing, Bradley University,
Peoria Ill., (competition)
National Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, (invitational)
La Jeune Gravure Contemporaire, 25 American Print Artist, Paris (invitational)
Printmaking 1995, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
1994
Life Cycles installation, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Calif. (invitational)
Life Cycles Installation, Indianapolis Art League
Life Cycles Installation, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacgadoces, Texaz
1993
Big Print, University of Dallas, Irvine, Texas (invitational)
Print mural, Edmonton Arts Festival, University of Alberta, Canada (invitational)
Palace of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland (invitational) facts of fictions
Rosa Luxemberg Suite, Navy Pier Exhibition, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, (solo)
Ink Visions, Evanston Art Center, Ill. (invitational)
Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Penn. (invitational)
Critical Impressions, Contemporary Print Arts and the Engagements of the Socio/Political, Florida State University (traveling group exhibition)
Pulling Together, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Baltimore (invitational)
Los Angeles Print Society National Competition
Facts of Fictions, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington (solo)
1992
Rosa Luxemburg Suite, Art Expo 1992, Lakeside Gallery, Chicago
Dada Invitational, Alpha Gallery, Denver (2-person exhibit)
60 Square Inches, Purdue University, Indiana (juried)
Twelfth National University of Dallas Print Invitational, Dallas
1991
Wallenberg Suite, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Fellowship, Hugh Merrill and Steve Murakishi, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, SGCI conference Kansas City, Missouri
Cranbrook Collects, New Acquisitions, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (group)
Art Expo 1991, Lakeside Gallery, Chicago
1990
Wallenberg Suite, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (solo)
Los Angeles Print Society 1990, Los Angeles (national competition)
1989
Art from Academe’, Central Exchange, Kansas City, Mo. (competition)
Dead Serious, Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa (solo installation)
1988
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (group)
Prints and Hidden Drawings, Printworks Gallery, Chicago (solo) Art Across America: Artists and Their Students (traveling invitational)
Works from Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN (group)
1987
Hugh Merrill New Works, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri. (Invitational)
Hugh Merrill Drawings and Prints, Smith College, North Hampton, Mass. (solo)
1986
Missouri Printmakers/Educators, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri (invitational)
Hugh Merrill Prints, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo. (solo)
Prints, Pratt Graphics Arts Center, Katonah, New York (invitational)
Kansas City Artists, Nippon House, New York, New York (invitational)
1984
Hugh Merrill, Prints, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo. (solo)
1982
Works on Paper, Mid-America Arts Council traveling exhibition (invitational)
Prints Published by Squadron Press, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (group)
1981
Multiples, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo. (invitational)
Hugh Merrill, Drawings, Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri (solo)
1980
Hugh Merrill, Drawings and Prints, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (solo)
Pages Plus, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo. (invitational)
Philadelphia Print Club (traveling invitational exhibition)
Community Art Project and large scale installations
2008
Gift Project Office of Homeless Liaison Kansas City Kansas dye cut graphics for the Willa Gill Homeless Resource Center
Curator Print Lovers at 30 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Kansas city Mo.
2007
Wish-Flush Falun Print Triennial, Dalarnas Museum Falun Sweden (installation)
2006
Pools of Belief Colorado college/Future Self Colorado Springs Co.
2005
Pools of Belief National Museum Poznan Poland Image Conference Berlin Germany
2004
Rolling Wave; sculptures for Granada Park, Roeland Park KS 2004
2002-2003
Art of Memory, public arts commission for the Sanford-Kempton Health Facility Columbia Missouri
2001
Reconciliation Project Dublin Ireland Academy of Art
2000
Fast and Fugitive, print installation Goddard Gallery, Daum Museum Sedalia MO
Fast and Fugitive print installation University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
1997
Our City/Ourselves, Portrait of a Community, As a visiting artist, I worked in collaboration with Christian Boltanski and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design to conceptualize and implement a city wide archiving project.
Portrait of Self, community archiving art work, As a visiting artist to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, I conceived and implemented a project in which inner city youths-at-risk created visual archives. The archives were shown as a community/conceptual artwork at the museum.
1996
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta Canada (solo)
Life Cycles installation, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Calif. (invitational)
Life Cycles Installation, Indianapolis Art League
Life Cycles Installation, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacgadoces, Texas
2003
Portrait of Self Missouri Arts Council Residency Columbia Missouri
Future Self, video projections on public buildings, Colorado Springs CO
Art Source Presenter Eagle Rock School, Estes Park Colorado
Portrait of Self community arts Project Manchester Craftsman’s Guild Pittsburgh PA. June
Creativity and Aesthetic Response Manchester Craftsman Guild Pittsburgh PA. August
2002
Mayan Rain, San Lucas Guatemala, Video Photo project
2001
Eye Spy, Seeing is Believing, Synergy Gallery Child Development Unit University of Kansas Medical Center KCMO
Power of Myth, Chameleon Inc. Youth Development Project
Transformational Journey, Nairobi Kenya, Sisters of Charity Mission Sculpture Project
2000
Portrait of Self, Collaboration with La Strada Del’ Arte
Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Paseo High School Kansas City Art Institute
1999
Portrait of Self, Millennium Voices Holly Wood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
Art and Trouble: Art and Community, panel discussion, presenting paper Community Art as Criterion, College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, California
1998
APT: Archiving Prospecting Territory, Through Accessible Arts Inc., Kansas School for the Blind, Missouri Juvenile Justice System, and collaborating with artist Bruce McIntosh, implemented APT with incarcerated youths, abused children and blind students.
1997-98
Our City/Ourselves, Portrait of a Community, As a visiting artist, I worked in collaboration with Christian Boltanski and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design to conceptualize and implement a city wide archiving project.
1997
Shadow Plays, shadow puppet theater and dance performance; Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
1996-98
Portrait of Self, community archiving art work, As a visiting artist to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, I conceived and implemented a project in which inner city youths-at-risk created visual archives over a year. The archives were shown as a community/conceptual artwork at the museum.
1985-98
High school collaborative print exchange portfolios, Sumner Academy, Kansas City Kan.; Spring High School, Spring, Texas
1995
Vital Passages, Art and Death, Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Nova Huta Rising, mobile, Works Festival, City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Collections
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City
Albrecht-Kemper Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Daum Museum Sedalia Mo.
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa
Experimental First National Bank of Boston
Franklin Furnace, New York City
Hallmark, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Harvard Law School, Boston Mass
Harvard Museums, Boston Mass.
International Business Machines
McNay Fine Arts Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minn.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles
Purdue University Art Museum
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Neb.
Silvermine Artist’s Guild, Silvermine, Conn.
Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Missouri
Spenser Museum Lawrence Ks.
Squadron Press, Kansas City, Missouri
Texaco, New York City
University of Dallas, Texas
University of Mississippi
Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Yale Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven, Conn.
Yellow Freight, Kansas City, Missouri
Professional Experience
2003
Workshop FutureSelf Colorado Springs, Colorado
Art Source, POS workshop Eagle Rock School Estes Park CO
Manchester Crafts Guild, Creativity and Aesthetic Response workshop and community arts project June to Nov
Juror Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition
2002
1%for the Arts Health Department Boone County Columbia MO
Missouri Arts Council Visiting Arts Grant, Hickman High School Columbia Mo.
2001
Keynote Address Florida State Educators Association, Ft. Lauderdale Fla.
Consultant Artist to the Bi-State Development Agency St. Louis MO
Panel discussion, Lawrence Lithography/ Belger Art Center on print publication Kansas City MO
Border Crossing Panel Discussion Southern Graphics Council University of Texas Austin
Crossing Boundaries: Limits of Limitlessness performance, lecture Portland State University
2000
Paper presentation New Media Southern Graphics Council Conference
University of Miami
President of the Kansas City Jewish Museum Foundation
Juror Clemson International print and drawing exhibit
1999
Paper presentation, Community Art as Criterion, College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, California
Vice President Programming, The Museum Without Walls of the Kansas City Jewish Museum Federation
1998
Juvenile Justice System Grant for Portrait of Self, Accessible Arts
Faculty, Missouri Fine Arts Academy
Faculty, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina
Visiting artist, Harvey Littleton Studio, North Carolina
Program Director, The Museum Without Walls of the Kansas City Jewish Museum Federation
Educational Consultant, Christian Boltanski exhibition, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
Visiting artist, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Drawing In a Post Modern World panel participant, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Athens Ohio
Printmakers Forum: Current Trends, panel moderator, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City Missouri
Program director, Dante’s Inferno, Theatrical Adaptation of Robert Pinsky’s Translation Hosted by Jewish Museum
Curator 60th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, Museum Without Walls Kansas City MO
1997
Panel, 25th Southern Graphics Conference, Tampa Florida
1996
Paper Presentation, “Infinite Image, Education in an Expanded Field,” Southern Graphics Conference, University of West Virginia
Juror, 1996 Pacific States National Print Exhibition, Hilo Hawaii
1995
Creativity workshop, Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga Tennesse
Master Artist Educator Award and Workshop, Kansas State University, Manhattan Kansas
Juror, 25th Bradley International Print and Drawing Competition, Bradley University, Peoria Ill
Curator, Vital Passages, Art and Death, Works Festival Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Panelist, “Vital Passages,” Works Festival, Edmonton Alberta Canada
Benzinger Wine Label design, Sonoma County, California
1994
Panelist, “Why Alternatives,” Alternatives print symposium, University of South Dakota, Vermilion
Judge, Scholastic Art Awards, High School Kansas City, Missouri
Panelist, “Big Print,” Mid-America College Art Association Conference, St. Louis
Respondent to Dr. Edwin Friedman, “Maus; A World Gone Mad,” University of Missouri, Kansas City/Museum Without Walls, Kansas City, Missouri
High School Workshops, Sumner Academy, Kansas City Kansas
Curator, Kristlenacht, Prints by Erwin Eisch, Community Christian Church, Kansas City, Missouri
Dialogue/Performance, Rosa Luxemberg/Frida Kahlo, with Donna Blue Lachman, Museum Without Walls, Kansas City, Missouri
1993
Panelist, Southern Graphics Council Conference, “Empowerment”
1992-94
President, Southern Graphics Council
Panelist, Southern Graphics Council Conference, “Educating the Next Generation of Print Artists”
Panelist, College Art Alliance conference, Chicago, presented paper: “Staking Claim, Print and Post modernism”
1991
Co-chair, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Presenter, panel discussion, “Post Print,” Southern Graphics Council Conference, Kansas City, Missouri
1990
Published edition, Wycross Press, Auburn, Alabama
1989
Moderator, Panel discussion, Artist as Noise Maker, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Published edition, Luminous Editions, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
1986-92
Art Partners, High School Workshops, Kansas City, Missouri
1985
Commissioned to produce edition for the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Co-curator, Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, Karl Oskar Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1984
Co-curator, Lester Johnson Exhibition, Kemper Gallery
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1981
Hand Hollow Fellowship, Yaddo Society, New York
1980-82
Advisory committee member, Print Society, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
1978-83
Helped found Squadron Press in Kansas City, a fine arts printing press. The press produced prints for a variety of artists across the country. The press put together seven exhibitions of its published works including one at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and an exhibit sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
Published Articles, Catalogues, Books
2001.Allen, Lynne and McGibbon, Phyliss. The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection, Rockport Publishers, 1997. ISBN1564963713.
2001.Calloway, Rebekah. Biographical profile, Divergent Consistencies, exhibition documents, 2009.
2000.Erskine, Eleanor. Interview, Art of Memory, exhibition catalog, Sanford-Kimpton Health Facility, 2004. Print.
2001.Farber, Janet L. Midlands Invitational 2000: Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2000: p8, 40-41. Print.
1999.Lustfeldt, Heather. "Teaching Art and Making Art for the Real World." Review, March 2000: p8-9. Print
2002.Manchester Craftsmen's Guild. Twenty Year Commemorative Exhibition, exhibition catalog, 2007: p10. Print.
2003.McKenna, George L. Introduction, Prints by Hugh Merrill, exhibition catalog, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, 1984-1985.
1992.Noyce, Richard. Printmaking at the Edge, A&C Black London, April 2006: p106-107. ISBN-0713667842.
Nugent, Bob L. Imagery: Art for Wine, Wine Appreciation Guild, 2006: p162-163. ISBN-1891267922.
Pronko, Michael. "Art, the Artist and Politics." Forum Magazine, 17.2 (1992): p1, 3
Skorwider, Max. Interview, Pools of Belief, exhibition catalog, 2007.
2002
McKenna, George L. Introduction, Prints by Hugh Merrill, exhibition catalog, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, 1984-1985.
2003
Skorwider, Max. Interview, Pools of Belief, exhibition catalog, 2007.
2004
Falun Triennial2007, exhibition catalog, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, 2007: p138-143.
2005
http://review-magazine.org/2008/09/04/inkubator-press-opens-friday/
2006
Tributaries, Southern Graphics Council conference book, The Kansas City Art Institute, 1991. Print.
2007
Points, Plots, and Ploys, Southern Graphics Council conference book, Kansas City, MO, 2007: p18. Print. http://sgc.kcai.edu/ http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Nelson_Atkins_Museum.html
2003
Drawing Outside the Box, Sara Agnew Columbia Tribune Columbia Missouri
Art’s Healing Power Sana Syed Missourian Columbia Missouri
2002
March of Isms Speck Magazine, Kansas City Mo. vol #1
Prints &politics: Boundaries or Connections? Vol.9 #1
2000
Community Art, Review Magazine No. 3 Kansas City, Missouri
Infinite Image Contemporary impressions Vol.4 #2
“Charting the Dialogue, Printmaking in America,”
Free speech: Audience Not Included, Review April NO.6
Printmaking Today, London England
Community Art, Review Magazine No. 3 Kansas City, Missouri
1997
Portrait of Self workbook, published by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Infinite Image, Contemporary Impressions Vol. 4 #2
“Charting the Dialogue, Printmaking in America,” Printmaking Today, London England
“Is there life after Art School?” Printmaking Today, London England
1995
“Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers,” Printmaking Today, London, England
Vital Passages Curatorial Statement, 10th Annual Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1994
“Memory,” Koffee Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
“Observation, Memory and Delay,” 25th Bradley International Catalogue Curators Statement
Pacific States International Curators Catalogue Statement, Hawaii
“Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers” Newsprint, Artists Proof, Southern Graphics Council Conference newsletters
1993
Post Print, Staking Claim: Contemporary Impressions Vol. 1 #1
1992
“Post Print,” Journal of the Print World,
“Staking Claim,” Mid-American Print Council Journal, Fall 1992
“The Need and Function of Craft Organizations in an Interdisciplinary Environment,” Journal Of The Print World, Spring 1992
1990
“The Future of Print,” Print Consortium Artist Proof, 1990
2001
Exploring Life’s Possibilities Rebekah Merrill
ReviewNov.2001 vol.4 no.1
Eye Spy Synergy Gallery Institute for Child Development
University of Kansas Medical Center, Exhibition essay and
Catalogue Anne Clemens
Millennium Voices, Catalogue, Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood Florida essay Heather Lustfeldt Curatorial
Assistant H&R Block Art Space
Print Exhibition Issue Centerlines, Art and Culture
Center Hollywood, Florida Vol.3 No. 4
2000
Midlands Invitational 2000, Catalogue Janet L. Faber, Joslyn Art Museum
Hugh Merrill Interview Centerlines Hollywood Art and Culture Center Hollywood Florida Vol. 3 No. 3
1998
Art Papers; Hugh Merrill: Martin Buber’s Cat, Dennis Raverty, summer 1998
Auschwitz Sky photo essay, New Letters Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 4, New Inferno Poems from Hell
New American Painting No. 17 Open Studio Press, Martin Buber’s Cat
An Artist finds the nearer to death, the closer to art, Elizabeth Kirsch Kansas city Star Friday Feb. 20 1998
Best In Printmaking An International Collection, Lynn Allen, Phyllis McGibbons
“Hugh Merrill Prints Politics and Perception,” Jama Akers Kansas City Home Design magazine, March 1998
1996
“Creativity As Content,” Jim Leedy,” Printmaking Today, vol. 5 no. 4
1994
25th Bradley International Journal of The Print World, Summer
“Vitreography,” Emily Gaul, American Artist ,Sept. 1994
“Coming to Terms with ‘Time’,” Michael Farling, Santa Barbara News-Press, Jan. 21 1994
“On View Indianapolis,” Leah Stoddard, New Art Examiner Nov. 1994
1993
"Post Print/Staking Claim," American Print Alliance Journal
“Critical Impressions Is Impressive,” Mark Hinson, Tallahassee Democrat, Jan. 15 ,1993
“A life etched in history,” Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
“These aren’t regular books, Bookworks, Nelson Atkins Museum,” Liz Seaton, Kansas City Star, April 29 1992
“The Need and Function of Craft Organizations in an
Interdisciplinary Environment,” Journal Of The Print World,
Spring 1992
“Introductions 1992,” Stanley Cuba, Denver Post Icon, Feb. 1992
The Density Quotient Pat Leddy Art Week, San Jose California, Feb. 18 vol. 24, no. 4
“Art, The Artist and Politics,” Michael Pronko, Forum magazine Kansas City Artist Coalition Feb. vol. 17 no.
1991
“Gallery Scene, The Wallenberg Suite,” David McCracken Chicago Tribune, Feb. 1.
“Wallenberg Story Inspires Artist to Produce Print Series,” Rick Hellman, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Mar. 15,
“Announcing The Wycross Press,” Tom Dewey, Journal of The Print World, Vol. 14 No. 2, Spring
“Printmaker Pursues Metamorphosis of Ideas,” Laura Caruso, Kansas City Star, Mar. 31
1990
“The Future of Print,” Print Consortium Artist Proof
1989
“Printmaking Artist Teaches in Q-C,” Linda Cook, Quad-City Times, July 24
1985
“Urban spaces,” Donald Hoffman, Kansas City Star
1984
“Hugh Merrill, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,” New Art Examiner, Dec. 1984
Visiting Lecturer
2009 Fort Hays State University
2008 Portland State University Oregon
2006 University of Nebraska Lincoln
2005 Brookhaven Community College
2004 Portland State University Oregon
2003 University of Hawaii Honolulu
Colorado Springs College Colorado Springs Co
Manchester Crafts Guild Pittsburgh PA
Art Source Eagle Rock School Estes Park Co.
2002
2001 National College of Art and Design Dublin Ireland
Portland State University Portland Or.
New World School Miami Florida
University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin
2000 State Fair Community College Sedalia Mo.
University of Miami Florida
Clemson University South Carolina
Portland State University Portland Oregon
Hollywood Art and Culture Center Hollywood Florida
1999 Western Sydney University, Sydney Australia
1998 Penland School, North Carolina
Missouri Fine Arts Academy, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield
1997 Missouri Fine Arts Academy Southwest Missouri State University Springfield Missouri
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
University of Oregon, Eugene
Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon.
Portland State University, Portland Oregon
1996 University of Hawaii Hilo
University of Hawaii, Manoa
1995 Bradley University, Peoria Ill.
Brighton University, England
Loughbrough University, Middlesex, England
Camberwell University, London,
Heron School of Art, Indianapolis
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Association of Visual Artists, Chattanooga, Tenn.
1994 Penland School, North Carolina
Stephen F. Austin College, Nacgadoces, Texas
University of Arizona, Tucson
1993 Jaegallonian University, Krakow Poland
Academy of Fine Arts Krakow Poland
North Harris college Houston
Rice University, Houston
Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta Canada
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
1992 Penland School, Asheville, North Carolina
University of Colorado, Boulder
University Of Florida, Gainesville
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash.
University of Washington, Seattle
1990 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1989 Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa
New World School, Miami
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas
1988 Penland School, Asheville, North Carolina
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas
University of Dallas, Texas
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1987 State Fair College, Sedalia, Missouri
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Detroit Center for Creative Studies
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
1986 Chicago Art Institute
1981 University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1980 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
Grants
20014- 2007 Faculty Development Grants
2013 National Endowment to the Arts grant for ArtWorker Joplin Missouri Spiva Center for the Arts
2005 New York Friendship Society Grant
2001 Faculty Development Grant Kansas City Art Institute
2000 Faculty Development Grant Kansas City Art Institute
1999 Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
1998 Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
Missouri Juvenile Justice System Grant, Archiving Prospecting Territory, through Accessible Arts Inc.
Kansas State Arts Commission Grant, Archiving Regional Communities, through Accessible Arts Inc.
1997 Catalysis 2 grant for Portrait of Self Mid America Art Alliance
Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
1995 Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
1994 Faculty Development Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
1993 Alpha Kappa Delta Foundation Grant
1992 National Endowment for the Arts-Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Grant
1988-89 Melon grants
1983-84 Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art faculty grant
Melon grant
1980 Yaddo Society, Hand Hollow Fellowship
1974 Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Published Articles, Catalogues, Books
(Laura Spencer Interview KCUR
Marie Vesquez Boyd Interview KKFI
2 Pod Cast Dandy Lion Riot with Jeannette Powers
2020 Learning journal thoughts on arts and education Chameleon Press
2019 Whiteout graphic zine published by Stubborn Mule press
Whiteout a series of short stories published by Spartan Press
2018 Preaching to the Choir: Thoughts on Contemporary Printmaking.
Dog Alley Stubborn Mule Press,
2018 Shared Visions: Thoughts and Experiences in Social Practice
2018 Consistent Divergencies: the Studio and Community Art of Hugh Merrill 1969-
2016 Nomadic: rover by days singing those gangplank songs of the ambler
(Needs updating 2016-2002)
2008 Allen, Lynne and McGibbon, Phyliss. The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection, Rockport Publishers, 1997. ISBN1564963713.
2002 Calloway, Rebekah. Biographical profile, Divergent Consistencies, exhibition documents, 2009.
2001 Erskine, Eleanor. Interview, Art of Memory, exhibition catalog, Sanford-Kimpton Health Facility, 2004. Print.
2003 Farber, Janet L. Midlands Invitational 2000: Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2000: p8, 40-41. Print.
2001 Lustfeldt, Heather. "Teaching Art and Making Art for the Real World." Review, March 2000: p8-9. Print
2003 Manchester Craftsmen's Guild. Twenty Year Commemorative Exhibition, exhibition catalog, 2007: p10. Print.
2004 McKenna, George L. Introduction, Prints by Hugh Merrill, exhibition catalog, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, 1984 - 1985.
1994.Noyce, Richard. Printmaking at the Edge, A&C Black London, April 2006: p106-107. ISBN-0713667842.
Nugent, Bob L. Imagery: Art for Wine, Wine Appreciation Guild, 2006: p162-163. ISBN-1891267922.
Pronko, Michael. "Art, the Artist and Politics." Forum Magazine, 17.2 (1992): p1, 3.
Skorwider, Max. Interview, Pools of Belief, exhibition catalog, 2007.
2009.^ McKenna, George L. Introduction, Prints by Hugh Merrill, exhibition catalog, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO and Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, 1984-1985.
2010.^ Skorwider, Max. Interview, Pools of Belief, exhibition catalog, 2007.
2011.^ Falun Triennial2007, exhibition catalog, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, 2007: p138-143.
2012.^ http://review-magazine.org/2008/09/04/inkubator-press-opens-friday/
2013.^ Tributaries, Southern Graphics Council conference book, The Kansas City Art Institute, 1991. Print.
2014.^ Points, Plots, and Ploys, Southern Graphics Council conference book, Kansas City, MO, 2007: p18. Print. http://sgc.kcai.edu/
^ http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Nelson_Atkins_Museum.html
2003
Drawing Outside the Box, Sara Agnew Columbia Tribune Columbia Missouri
Art’s Healing Power Sana Syed Missourian Columbia Missouri
2004
March of Isms Speck Magazine, Kansas City Mo. vol #1
Prints &politics: Boundaries or Connections? Vol.9 #1
2000
Community Art, Review Magazine No. 3 Kansas City, Missouri
Infinite Image Contemporary impressions Vol.4 #2
2002.“Charting the Dialogue, Printmaking in America,”
Free speech: Audience Not Included, Review April NO.6
Printmaking Today, London England
Community Art, Review Magazine No. 3 Kansas City, Missouri
1997 Portrait of Self workbook, published by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
1996 Infinite Image, Contemporary Impressions Vol. 4 #2
“Charting the Dialogue, Printmaking in America,” Printmaking Today, London England
“Is there life after Art School?” Printmaking Today, London England
1995 “Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers,” Printmaking Today, London, England
Vital Passages Curatorial Statement, 10th Annual Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1994 “Memory,” Koffee Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri
“Observation, Memory and Delay,” 25th Bradley International Catalogue Curators Statement
Pacific States International Curators Catalogue Statement, Hawaii
“Educating the Next Generation of Printmakers” Newsprint, Artists Proof, Southern Graphics Council Conference newsletters
1993 Post Print, Staking Claim: Contemporary Impressions Vol. 1 #1
1992 “Post Print,” Journal of the Print World,
“Staking Claim,” Mid-American Print Council Journal, Fall 1992
“The Need and Function of Craft Organizations in an Interdisciplinary Environment,” Journal Of The Print World, Spring 1992
1990 “The Future of Print,” Print Consortium Artist Proof, 1990
2001 Exploring Life’s Possibilities Rebekah Merrill
ReviewNov.2001 vol.4 no.1
Eye Spy Synergy Gallery Institute for Child Development
University of Kansas Medical Center, Exhibition essay and
Catalogue Anne Clemens
Millennium Voices, Catalogue, Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood Florida essay Heather Lustfeldt Curatorial
Assistant H&R Block Art Space
Print Exhibition Issue Centerlines, Art and Culture
Center Hollywood, Florida Vol.3 No. 4
2000 Midlands Invitational 2000, Catalogue Janet L. Faber,
Joslyn Art Museum
Hugh Merrill Interview Centerlines Hollywood Art and
Culture Center Hollywood Florida Vol. 3 No. 3
1998 Art Papers; Hugh Merrill: Martin Buber’s Cat, Dennis Raverty, summer 1998
Auschwitz Sky photo essay, New Letters Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 4, New Inferno Poems from Hell
New American Painting No. 17 Open Studio Press, Martin Buber’s Cat
An Artist finds the nearer to death, the closer to art, Elizabeth Kirsch Kansas city Star Friday Feb. 20 1998
Best In Printmaking An International Collection, Lynn Allen, Phyllis McGibbons
“Hugh Merrill Prints Politics and Perception,” Jama Akers Kansas City Home Design magazine, March 1998
1996 “Creativity As Content,” Jim Leedy,” Printmaking Today, vol. 5 no. 4
1994 25th Bradley International Journal of The Print World, Summer
“Vitreography,” Emily Gaul, American Artist ,Sept. 1994
“Coming to Terms with ‘Time’,” Michael Farling, Santa Barbara News-Press, Jan. 21 1994
“On View Indianapolis,” Leah Stoddard, New Art Examiner Nov. 1994
1993 "Post Print/Staking Claim," American Print Alliance Journal
“Critical Impressions Is Impressive,” Mark Hinson, Tallahassee Democrat, Jan. 15 ,1993
“A life etched in history,” Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
“These aren’t regular books, Bookworks, Nelson Atkins Museum,” Liz Seaton, Kansas City Star, April 29 1992
“The Need and Function of Craft Organizations in an
Interdisciplinary Environment,” Journal Of The Print World,
Spring 1992
“Introductions 1992,” Stanley Cuba, Denver Post Icon, Feb. 1992
The Density Quotient Pat Leddy Art Week, San Jose California, Feb. 18 vol. 24, no. 4
“Art, The Artist and Politics,” Michael Pronko, Forum magazine Kansas City Artist Coalition Feb. vol. 17 no.
1991 “Gallery Scene, The Wallenberg Suite,” David McCracken Chicago Tribune, Feb. 1. 1991
“Wallenberg Story Inspires Artist to Produce Print Series,” Rick Hellman, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Mar. 15, 1991
“Announcing The Wycross Press,” Tom Dewey, Journal of The Print World, Vol. 14 No. 2, Spring 1991
“Printmaker Pursues Metamorphosis of Ideas,” Laura Caruso, Kansas City Star, Mar. 31 1991
1990 “The Future of Print,” Print Consortium Artist Proof, 1990
1989 “Printmaking Artist Teaches in Q-C,” Linda Cook, Quad-City Times, July 24 1989
1985 “Urban spaces,” Donald Hoffman, Kansas City Star 1985
1984 “Hugh Merrill, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,” New Art Examiner, Dec. 1984
Collections
Muvane Art Museum Topeka Kansas
Douro Museum Portugal
Beach Museum Kansas State University
Guanlan Museum of Contemporary Printmaking, Guanlan China
Pauland Lulu Hillard Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Layfette
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City cc
Albrecht-Kemper Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Daum Museum Sedalia Mo.
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa
Elveheim Museum Madison Wisconsin
National Museum Poznan Poland
Harvard Law School, Boston Mass
Harvard Museums, Boston Mass.
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minn.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, Rochester, NY
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Neb.
Smithsonian Wahsington DC Inventory American Sculpture
Springfield Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Missouri
Spenser Museum Lawrence Ks.
Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Yale Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven, Conn.
Zuckerman Museum Louisiana
Bradley University Peoria Ill/ torso etching series
University of Tennessee Knoxville Facts of Fictions etchings
University of Northern Illinois, Facts of Fictions
Rockford University, Dark Woods series