Deborah Dancy

**Deborah Dancy**, nyɛla bɛ ni lahi booni so **Deborah Muirhead** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1949), ka o nyɛ African-American artisi. O tuma shɛŋa nyɛla anfooninima yaabu. Yuuni 1981, o daa pili shikuru wuhibu University of Connecticut, Storrs, ka daa wuhi peentibu yuun pihitanaanu ka daa naan yi che tuma yuuni 2017. O di pina kamani John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant, ni YADDO fellowship.

## O piligu mini shikuru baŋsim
Dancy nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1949 tiŋa yuli booni Bessemer, Alabama. bɛ daa dɔɣi o mi niŋ African American zuliya ni. Dancy daa deei ka o BFA shɛhira gbaŋ Illinois Wesleyan University yuuni 1973, n-ti pahi "MS in printmaking" ni "MFA" din jendi peentibu ka o daa deei di gba Illinois State University yuuni 1976 mini yuuni 1979, zaŋ doli taba.

## Public collections

*Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
*Baltimore Museum of Art
*Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala.
*Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
*Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C.
*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
*Detroit Institute of Arts
*Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa 
*Fine Art Museum, Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C.
*Fine Arts Museum, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
*Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
*Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn.
*Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo.
*Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
*Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala.
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
*Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn.
*Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.
*Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.
*United States Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon

## Pina mini paɣibu

*Women's Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant
*Banff Creative Residency Program Grant
*University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Outstanding Faculty Award
* The University of Connecticut Chancellor’s Research Fellowship
*American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship
* Nexus Press Artist Book Project Residency Award
* Visual Studies Press Artist in Residency Award
*Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee
*John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
*New England Foundation for the Arts Regional National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
*Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee
* Juror's Merit Award, New American Talent: Laguna Gloria Museum
* Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant
*Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellow
*YADDO Fellowship
* Connecticut Book Award Illustration Nominee - “The Freedom Business”

## Maŋmaŋa lahabali
*Armstrong, Kathleen, et al. “Children's Literature Reviews: 2008 Poetry Notables.” Language Arts, vol. 86, no. 6, 2009, pp.&nbsp;468–472. JSTOR
*“Book Design, Digital Imaging and Photography.” *Clarellen*, Clarellen and Cary Graphic Arts Press, New York, 2001
*Danza, Emmie. “Deborah Dancy, Chasing the Light.” *Gallery Artist Deborah Dancy Reviewed on The Drawing Center Column, "Annotations."*, The Drawing Center, 27 June 2013
*Edwards, Jeff. “‘It’s a Constant Struggle to Keep the ‘Thingness’ at Bay’: An Interview with Deborah Dancy.” *Artpulse*, 2015
*“Front Matter.” *African American Review*, vol. 41, no. 3, 2007 
* “Flatfile Collection, Queen Bea.” Artspace New Haven. 2016
*King, Leslie. “Gumbo Ya Ya : Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists.” *Hathi Trust Digital Library*, Midmarch Arts Press, 1995
*McNALLY, OWEN. “Painter Muirhead peers through a history, darkly.” *Courant.com*, Hartford Courant, 13 Sept. 2018
*Mercer, Valerie J., et al. “Examining Identities.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 86, no. 1/4, 2012, pp.&nbsp;66–87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43492326.
*Mobilio, Albert. “The Bookness of Not-Books: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books,” *The Paris Review*, 22 Jun 2017
*Nelson, Marilyn. “The Freedom Business (Ca. 1790).” *Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom*, edited by James Brewer Stewart. by James O. Horton, University of Massachusetts Press, 2010, pp.&nbsp;257–258. *JSTOR*, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vk4gq.16.
*Perosino, Bruno. “Marking 35 Years: The Work of Deborah Dancy.” *The William Benton Museum of Art*, 18 Jul 2017
*Raynor, Vivian. “Spirit in the Wood/Paint.” *The New York Times*, Sunday, 26 Feb 1989
*Raynor, Vivian, “Stamford Museum.” *The New York Times*, Sunday: 2 May 1989
*Robert, Kiener. “In Works with a Visceral, Spontaneous Feel, Deborah Dancy Explores the Amorphous Zone between Abstraction and Representation.” *New England Home Magazine*,
*Robin Kahn. *ROBIN KAHN*, 1 Jan 1970.
*Rosoff, Patricia. “Small Vistas, The 10-Year Show at 100 Pearl.” *Hartford Advocate*, 15 Jul 2004.
*Zimmer, William. “ART; A Glimpse of Contemporary Taste.” *The New York Times*, The New York Times, 25 Feb 1996.
*Zimmer, William. “Connecticut Biennial.” *The New York Times*, 14 Apr 1991.

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