Douglas Ritter

DOUGLAS RITTER PO 1374, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 02667. 508.349.0976

EDUCATION

M.F.A. 1987, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

B.F.A. 1983, Philadelphia College of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Painting/Drawing

Temple University in Rome, Italy, 1981-1982

GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

1998 Maryland State Arts Council Grant in 2-Dimensional Media

1990 Mid-Atlantic/National Endowment for the Arts
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland

1989 SECCA-R.J. Reynolds Fellowship
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

1989 MAP Critics Residency Program, Studio Artist. Curated by Carter Ratcliff, Visiting Critic Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland

School 33 Art Center, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland Juried studio program, June 1988 – November 1989

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, Massachusetts Juried residency program for artists and writers, 1987-88

EMPLOYMENT

Cape Cod Community College
Instructor in Drawing, Design, and Painting 2002-present

Museum School of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (accredidation through the Cape Cod Community College)
Instructor, 2 Dimensional Design, Drawing, and Painting, 2002-2004

Graphic Design
Self Employed. Print and digital media services concentrated within regional arts and non-profit organizations. www.projectarts.org

Castle Hill Center for the Arts
Summers 2007, 2008 Painting Seminar “Armature and Activity- Processes in Painting” www.castlehill.org

James R.Bakker Antiques, Inc.
Website design and maintainance, fine arts archiving, handling, and shippment, organisation of auctions 2004 – 2007. www.bakkerart.com

NEED Environmental Educational Center, Truro, Massachusetts
Environmental Educator
Instructor within program for Barnstable County Students, teaching regionaly specific geolological, natural and cultural history. February 2005- June 2005

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Publication and Web Design, engineering, design and maintainance of www.paam.org June 2001-present

Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Gallery Assistant
June 2001- January 2003
Gallery Management, installation of artworks and maintanance of gallery, website and database management, advertisement design, event coordinator.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Visual Arts Program Coordinator
September 1997 – September 2000
Administration of residency program for emerging visual artists. Secretary of the Visual Arts Program Committee. Administration of all aspects of annual jurying processes, visiting artist program, exhibitions, and public events. Oversight of studios, gallery, and work facilities. General consultant and advisor to the Visual Arts Fellows.

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Winter Session Instructor, Sophomore level painting course: “Color within Painting”
Graduate Level Independent Study
January – February 2000
Incorporated traditional color theory precepts into a material and process based fine arts course. Provided advisement and direction within graduate level independent study.

Provincetown Design Group/ Provincetown.com
November 2001- April 2001
Screen design and php programming. Comping and websites. Training buisness clients in php website management .

Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
Instructor, Foundations, Painting, and Continuing Studies Departments :
2-Dimensional Design, Color Theory, Basic Drawing, Pastel, Aqueous Media, Directed Studies in Painting Taught 67 credit hours from September 1993- May 1997
Designed and implemented courses for BFA students in design, drawing, painting, and color theory. Portfolio review and advisement for the admissions department.

University of Maryland, College Park
Spring 1997 Arts Academy Portfolio Development Course
Development course for prospective BFA applicants – application advisement and portfolio development

Prince George’s Community College, Landover, Maryland
Lecturer, Arts 101, Introductory Level Art Appreciation. 2 Dimensional Design January 1994 – June 1996
Adjunct faculty. Arts 101. January – May 1990

Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD Instructor, Drawing, Painting, Aqeuous Media 1993-1995

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Professor, Foundations Department, Drawing, Color Theory, September 1991-June 1992

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

June 2007, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts August 2002 -Teichman Gallery, Brewster, Massachusetts September 1999 -Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts September 1990 – Elon College, Burlington, North Carolina February 1990 – School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland

March 1988 – Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Our Roots: FAWC Takes Wing
July 2012
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Juried Exhibition,, Provincetown Art Association and Museum January 2009
Jurist- Adrian Tio, Dean of Arts, Massachusetts College of Art

Self Portrait Cape Cod
January 2008
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts

Working Artists
February 2006
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Abstract Elements
September 2004
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts Curated by Angela Koester, Associate Curator

Provincetown Painters
February 2002
Acme Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Deep 6 – Six Provincetown Artists
July 1999
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Critical Discoveries
July 1998
Artists Museum, Washington, DC
Curated by Ken Oda, Publisher of Koan Arts Magazine

Context
October 1996
St. Mary’s College, Boyden Gallery, St.Mary’s, Maryland Curated by David Emerick, Gallery Director

Seriously Surreal
November 1996 – Juried group exhibition Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD Andrea Pollen, Curator

Corcoran School of Art Faculty at Arts 901
October 1995 – Quadrangle Development Corporation, Washington, DC Juried by Jack Cowart, Chief Curator, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Painting 90: Mid-Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship Exhibition
April 1992 – Delaware State College, Dover, Delaware
September 1991 – Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
January 1991 – Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Southeast 7 Exhibition
February 1991
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Certification in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Curriculum
Completion of training curriculum in DRSB by Dr. Betty Edwards. Publication of artists work in the definitive last edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,

Board of Trustees, Zanmité, 2007- present
Zanmité is a 501 (c) 3 organization, providing cultural exchange, educational and economic development. Centered on the visual and performing arts and community development within Matenwa, Haiti, and outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts. www.artmatenwa.org

Board of Trustees, The South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association and Social Union,
2008-present. Member of Board of small historic 501 (c) 3 organization, whose efforts center on the restoration of an historic 1890’s fisherman’s school and community based programming.

Visual Arts Program Committee, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
1997- Present
FAWC is a 501 (c) 3 organization. The Visual Arts Committee administrates the selection of ten Visual Arts Fellows from an international pool of applicants. The committee is responsible for the administration of a month winter residency program for emerging artists and writers. www.fawc.org

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Youth Education Program
Guest Lecturer within PAAM’s community outreach program. 2007
-Understanding Abstraction- lecture on types of abstraction- and the relationship between abstraction and representation.
– Light, Color, and the Visual Apparatus- seminar for students of Nauset Regional High School

Organizational Committee, The C-Scape Mapping Project, 1998 – 2000
Committee to establish and administrate community-based residency program for artists and writers within the Cape Cod National Seashore www,projectarts.org/c-scape.html

Visiting Artist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland October-December 1996
lectures, demonstrations and critiques. Senior Review Panelist. Department of Fine Arts

Jurist- National Scholastic Achievement Awards 1996 Regional jurist in Painting for high school level honorarium.

Faculty Representative to the Student Government, Corcoran School of Art
1995-96 advisement and support of Student’s concerns within the Student Government Council.

Corcoran Arts Mentorship Program, 1994-1997
volunteer mentorship program for at-risk youth in Washington, DC. Visual Arts Community Outreach Program (VACOP)

Organizational Committee,1992 Savannah River Arts Festival,
City of Savannah, Georgia
volunteer committee responsible for organizing annual Arts Festival- juried exhibition of regional Artists, public activities, and supporting services.

COLLECTIONS

De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Massachusetts The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts Haines Textiles, Winston Salem, N.C.