BETSY DAMOS
betsydamos@betsydamos.com
www.betsydamos.com

Education:
MFA-Syracuse University, BS-University of Massachusetts
One-person and Two-person Exhibitions:

iSight, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, 2014

Two-Person Show, Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2009

Betsy Damos, gallery plan b, Washington, DC, 2007

Glory, outdoor sculpture @ Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2002

Monopoly, outdoor sculpture @ Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2000

Betsy Damos: New Work, works on paper, Robert Brown Gallery, DC, 1999

Drawing on a Decade, one-person show, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, 1998

Betsy Damos, one-person show, Maryland College of Art & Design, curator, Karen Jelenfy, 1997

Non-traditional-Mar-ri-age, DCAC, curated two-person exhibit, 1996

Theme Park, outdoor sculpture, Robert Brown Gallery, 1994

Forged Futures, installation, School 33, Baltimore, MD, juror, Petah Coyne, 1992

Two-person exhibit, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992

Greater Reston Art Center, VA, two-person exhibit, juror, Komei Wachi, 1992

Arnold and Porter, DC, one person exhibit, curator, Sarah Tanguy, 1991

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Hill Center Regional Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC, 2015

Rehoboth Art League, juried show, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2015

Group Shows, Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2010-2014

Red, The Pink Line Project, DC, 2008

Personal Geometry, McLean Project for the Arts, VA, curator, Nancy Sausser, 2008

Earth in the Balance, The Union of Concerned Scientists, DC, 2008

Deja vu, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, 2006

Idiomatic, Artscape, The Gallery at CCBC, Catonsville, MD, 2006

Remembering the Present, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, 2001

Remembering the Present, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, invited, 2000

Artscape, Baltimore, MD, curator, Doreen Bolger and Terrie Sultan, jurors, 1999

It's Sculpture, Glory @ The National Public Radio building, DC, curator, Sarah Tanguy, 1999

22 Dollhouses: A View from Washington To Baltimore, UMBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1998

A Place For Everything In Its Place, public art installation, DCCAH, Wash. DC, 1997

All Media, Arlington Arts Center, curator, Bonnie Clearwater, MCA, North Miami, FL, 1997

Convergence IX International Art Festival, outdoor sculpture, Providence, RI, 1996

Intranatura, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Olga Viso, curator, 1996

Artscape, outdoor sculpture, Baltimore, MD, Sarah Tanguy, curator, 1995

20+ Chairs, invited, Washington Project for the Arts, 1995

Nature View, Anne Arundel Community College, juror, Lee Fleming, 1994

Across Borders/Sin Fronteras, Art Museum of the Americas, Jack Cowart, curator, 1994

Touch: Beyond the Visual, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA, AAC, 1993

Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, juror, Terrie Sulton, 1993

Sculpture Now, Washington Square, DC, juror, Jeremy Strick, 1992

New Abstraction, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 1992

Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, juror, Marilyn Zeitlin, 1992

Drawing on Excellence, The Art Barn, juror, Mark Leithauser, 1992

Artscape, Baltimore, MD, juror, Lowery Stokes Sims, 1991

Options, Washington Project for the Arts, DC, curators: Jock Reynolds, Alan Prokop, 1990

Offsite Insight, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA 1989

Changing Chambers, International Sculpture Center, DC, 1989

Selected Reviews:

"Around Town", Bill Dunlap, WETA Television, 2008

"Art and Artists Proliferating Throughout the Inner City As Recent Open Studio Events Attest", Anthony Harvey, The InTowner, 2005

"Remembering the Present", Elaine A. King, Sculpture Magazine, photo, Jan./Feb. 2001

"Sculpture Hits the Streets of the City", Joanna Shaw-Eagle, The Washington Times, 1999

"Sculptor Betsy Damos, interviewed by Karen Jelenfy", Washington Review, photos, 1998

"Creating Big Impact on a Small Scale", John Dorsey, The Sun, Baltimore, photo, 1998

"When Art Meets Craft: A Mutual Understanding", Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post, 1996

"Earth Tones", Mike Giuliano, City Paper, March 1996

"Creative Seating Plans", Jura Koncius, Cover Story, Washington Home, The Washington Post; June 8, 1995.

"Betsy Damos at Robert Brown", Mary McCoy, The Washington Post, photo, 1994

"Touch: Beyond the Visual", Linda Thern-Smith, The New Art Examiner, photo, 1994

MAP Critic's Residency Program, essay, David Carrier, 1991

Selected Activities and Honors:

Art-O-Matic, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Steering Committee, 1999, 2002)

Board of Directors, Washington Project for the Arts (Chair, Program Committee) 1992-1996

Grant Panelist for: DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Craft and Organization Grant-In-Aid Programs), Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (Sculpture Program)

Art Auctions: WPS, WPA/Corcoran, Arlington Art Center, GRACE, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, School 33 Art Center, Human Rights Campaign, AIDS Delaware

Grant recipient, DCCAH, Mid Atlantic Foundation, VA Commission for the Arts

Consultant, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1987-1990

Author, "Glossary", in An Industrious Art: Innovation in Pattern and Print at The Fabric Workshop, (W.W.Norton, 1991)

Proprietor, designer, Damos Textile Design, Washington, DC and Alexandria, VA

Co-authored chapter, "Textile Printing" in Screenprinting, Saff, Sacilotto (Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1979)

Faculty (tenured) Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, 1970-1979

Proprietor, designer, Damos, New York, NY

Textile Designer, various companies, New York, NY