Clifton Meador, Spring 2007 Ettinger Book Artist Series

Clifton Meador is a book artist, photographer, and educator. He has produced over 30 artist’s books, many of which combine his writing, photography, and design.  He is known especially for his use of offset printing. Before joining the faculty at the Center for Book & Paper Arts in 2005, Meador was, since 1994, a professor of art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he was awarded a six-month Fulbright fellowship to work with advanced students and produce photographs in the Republic of Georgia. He has received many other awards and fellowships, including two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books and grants from the New York Council for the Arts, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and numerous other state and local agencies. He was an Artist-in-Residence at the Glasgow School of Art in the spring of 1999 and has twice been a resident artist at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Meador was also director of the celebrated Nexus Press in Atlanta from 1985 to 1988. He has exhibited widely and his work is held in collections all over the world.

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