Lucinda Bliss
Lucinda Bliss is an American artist, writer, and educator born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1965. She earned a BA in Art History from Skidmore College in 1988 and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College in 1999. She is currently the Dean of the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver. Previously, she was Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and before that Dean of Graduate Studies at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has taught at Union Institute & University in Montpelier, Vermont, Colby College, the Maine College of Art, the University of Southern Maine, and with the Crit Lab, among others.
Bliss’s artwork has been shown in many galleries and museums, including the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Bates College Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Brattleboro Museum, and more. She has received several grants, such as support from the Kindling Fund for Tracking the Border, and two Maine Arts Commission grants, plus artist residencies at Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hewnoaks, Shotpouch Creek, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Vermont Studio Center.
In addition to her visual art, Bliss co-authored the limited-edition chapbook Anatomy of Desire: the Daughter/Mother Sessions with her mother, poet Alison Hawthorne Deming. Her essay “The Invisible Yoke” appeared in the Marchxness online publication celebrating music and writing.
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