Bio:
Associate Professor of Art and Design, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University, Washington, DC
MFA, (Printmaking) George Washington University; BA, (Double Major, Art and Politics), Mount Holyoke College

Ms. McAleer-Keeler's work is in such collections as the Smithsonian's American Art and National Portrait Gallery Library, Library of Congress, Rare Book Reading Room, Special Collections, National Museum of Women In the Arts, George Washington University, Stafford Hospital Center, Stafford, VA, St. Mary's College, MD, GWU Gelman Library, George Mason University, Fenwick Library and the Southern Graphics Council Archives. Her work has been selected for individual, group, and juried exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her personal studio is part of the LibertyTown Arts Workshop in Fredericksburg, VA. Kerry’s work appears in The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts and 500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2 by Lark Books publication. She has taught printmaking and book arts at the Corcoran (now the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University) since 1998.

CV:
KERRY MCALEER-KEELER
Email: kmcaleerkeeler@gmail.com
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STUDIO
LibertyTown Arts Workshop, 916 Liberty St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401

EDUCATION         

1999        MFA, George Washington University, Washington, DC

1993        BA, Studio Arts/Politics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Currently  Associate Professor of Printmaking and Book Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC

2014-16 MA, Art and the Book Program Head and Associate Professor, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC

2009-2014  MA, Art and the Book Program Head and Associate Professor (2014), Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC

1998-2009 Adjunct Faculty Member, Printmaking, The Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC

2008 Adjunct Faculty Member, Germanna Community College, Art Department, Fredericksburg, VA

2008 Letterpress Instructor, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD

2004-2005 Adjunct Faculty Member, Printmaking and Design, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

1998-2003 Adjunct Faculty Member, Printmaking and Design, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Spring 2002 Adjunct Faculty Member, 2-Dimensional Design, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
•American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

•Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer in the Education Department of the National Gallery of Art, Private Collection, Washington, DC

•Diderot Gallery, Chateau Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France

•George Mason University, Fenwick Library, Special Collections, Fairfax, VA

•George Washington University, Gelman Library Special Collections (print and book) and Brady Gallery Collection, Washington, DC

•Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, FL

•Keenesaw University, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Southern Graphics Archives,
Kennesaw, GA

•LA Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, CA

•Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, DC

•National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

•Stafford Hospital Center, Stafford, VA

•St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s, MD

•University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library, Berkeley, CA

•Vanderbilt University, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Nashville, TN

*University of Washington, Special Collections Library, WA

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT COLLECTIONS
2019
The Sketchbook Project: Luck, Love and Daydreaming, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY

2018

(Un)Necessary Duplicates, Mid Atlantic Print Council Portfolio

•University of Montana

Uncovering White Privilege: A Primer, Liminal Press

•Bainbridge Museum of Art

*George Washington University, Gelman Special Collections

*Duke University, Davis M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library

*University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library

•University of California, Santa Barbara Library

*Penn State, Special Collections/Rare Book and Manuscript Library

•Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library

2016

Folium, College Book Art Association Print Portfolio Exchange

•University of Arizona, Fine Arts Library

•Stanford University, Green Library, Special Collections

•University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections

•University of Florida, Smathers Library, Special Collections

•University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections

•Yale University, Haas Art Library, Artist Book Collection

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2020
Sea Change, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC, Nov./Jan. 2020-21

Emerald Print Exchange, Emerald Art Center, Springfield OR, Nov. 2020

International 2020 MiniPrint Exchange, Qu.bi Gallery, Corso Fogazzaro 21 - 36100 Vicenza (VI), Italy Nov. 2020

Election Year/ Members Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD, Nov. 2020

Mail Art Print Exhibition, Qu.bi Gallery, Corso Fogazzaro 21 - 36100 Vicenza (VI), Italy – ItalyVilla Caldogno in Caldogno (VI), Oct. 2020

Art For Action, Silent Auction for Support of Qasim Rashid for Congress, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, Sept. 2020

Patron’s Exhibition and Benefit Auction, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, May 2020

Juried SGCI Paper Boats Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Conference Exhibition on hold because of Covid-19. To be displayed instead at the SG Gallery, Venice Italy in Fall of 2021), Mar. 2020

2019

10 by 10, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD, Nov. 2019

Orange, National Juried Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, Oct. 2019

Grab Bag Project, Invitational Show, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, Sept. 2019

Protest in Print (Big Ink) Exhibition, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design/GW, Washington, DC,
Mar. 2019

The Book As Place: Visions of a Built Environment, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, Jan. 2019

2018       
Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 102, GWU, Dec. 2018

(Un) Necessary Duplicates, Vol. 7., Mid Atlantic Print Council, University of Montana, Sept. 2018

(Un) Necessary Duplicates, Vol. 7., Lincoln Calling, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 2018

Artist Choice Regional Juried Exhibit, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, (Honorable Mention “Life’s Rhythms”) Fredericksburg, VA, Aug. 2018

Methodical, Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD, Jun. 2018

Annual Patrons Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA, May 2018

2017       
Designer Bookbinding Show, The Abby Studio, Marblehead, MA, Nov. 2017

Corcoran School Past and Present, Science and Engineering Hall, George Washington University, Washington DC, Nov. 2017

Utopia/Dystopia: Inspiration and the Artists Book, Laramie County Library, Cheyenne, WY, Jun. 2017

Annual Patrons Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA, May 2017

Art for Aleppo, Postcard Exhibit, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon NY, Apr. 2017

2016       
Posted Notice, Selections of Printed Poster Ephemeral, College Book Art Conference, Vanderbilt University, Jan. 2016

Divisions, Connections and Intersections: Fact and Fiction in Family Histories, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC, Oct. 2016

Women Artists/Artists Books Pop-up Exhibit, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, DC, Oct. 2016

Metropolis & Invisible Cities Exhibition, Invisible Cities Book Collaboration Project Participant, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 2016

Legacy of the Corcoran, Kunsthaus Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Nov. 2016

Books of Life: Resilience and the Written Word 1933 to Today, George Washington University, Gelman Library, Dec. 2016

2015       
Artist’s Selections, Juror Gallery, LibertyTown Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA, Mar. 2015

Paper Window, Artists Book Selections from the George Washington University, Gelman Library, Special Collections, Brady Gallery, Washington, DC, Feb. 2015

FOREVER: The Corcoran 30th Annual Print Portfolio, Hemphill Gallery, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC, May 2015

2014       
Artist Book Selections in Response to the Picturing Mary Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Dec. 2014

2013       
Bound and Unbound II, National Juried Altered Book Exhibition, University of South Dakota, University Libraries, Vermillion, SD, Aug. 2013

Exhibition of Retrospective Work, Fabrica La Aurora, San Miguel del Allende, Mexico, Jul. 2013

Recipes for Disaster, 27th Annual Corcoran Print Portfolio Exhibition 2013, Galerie Lareuse, Washington, DC, Feb., 2013

PRINT:mka, The 2013 SGC International Conference Juried Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mar. 2013

Annual Patron’s Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, May 2013

2012       
Modern and Contemporary Art Since 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Permanent Collection,
Washington, DC
Mutanabbi Street Print Coalition Exhibition, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Gallery 31, Washington DC

Relax: Art and the Book Portfolio Exhibition, The Fridge, Washington, DC

Attention: Annual Corcoran Print Portfolio Exhibition, 2012, Chaos on F, Washington, DC

Annual Patrons Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

Navigating Currents, The 2012 SGC International Conference Juried Exhibition, New Orleans, LA

2011       
The Book As Art Invitational Exhibition, St. John’s College, Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Muttanabbi Street Broadsides Traveling Exhibition, Jaffe Center for the Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL

Curated Exhibition of Artists’ Books from the Corcoran Library Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tyler Gallery, Washington, DC

Annual Patrons Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA

LibertyTown Juried Favorite Works, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

2010       
Beyond Text: Contemporary Artists Books International Exhibition, Montgomery College, King Street Gallery, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center on Takoma Park/ Silver Spring Campus, MD

Paper Stew: A Juried Exhibit of Paper, Book & Prints, Zigzag Crafts Gallery, The Plains, VA

Transformer Juried Exhibition and Auction, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC

Corcoran College of Art & Design Faculty Show, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Gallery 31, Washington, DC

Annual Patrons Show, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

Bird in Hand Juried Exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

Take Your Dream and Cut It In Half, Corcoran 2010 Print Portfolio, Civilian Arts Project, Washington, DC

2009      
Gettysburg Festival Invitational Book Exhibition, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

Oil and Water, Corcoran 2009 Print Portfolio, Plan B Gallery, Washington, DC

Pandora’s Box, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA

2008       
The Book As Art, Traveling show of National Museum of Women in the Arts, Boston College, Boston, MA

Turning the Page, Book Art Exhibition, VisArts at Rockville, MD

Selections from the Corcoran 2008 Print Portfolio, University of Mary Washington, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

You Won’t Believe Your Eyes: The 23rd Annual Corcoran Print Portfolio, Civilian Art Project, Washington, DC

Annual Juried Winter Exhibit, Jan./Feb., The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC

Annual Patrons Show, LiberyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

2007       
Annual Juried Summer Exhibit, Jun./July The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC

The Book As Art Exhibition, 20th Anniversary Show, National Museum of Women In the Arts, Washington, DC

Story Time, Corcoran 2007 Print Portfolio, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC

December Group Show, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

2006       
Thinking Voodoo, Corcoran 2006 Print Portfolio, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC

2005       
November Group Show, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA

Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC

Power In Print, Amity Arts Foundation Exchange Portfolio, Capital Hilton, Southern Graphics Conference, Washington, DC

Twenty Years of the Corcoran Print Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC

20/20 Vision, Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio, District Fine Arts, Washington, DC

Winter Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

Invitational Show, Union Printmakers, Washington, DC

2004       
LibertyTown Arts Workshop Group Exhibition, Fredericksburg, VA

Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Washington, DC

Blues, Annual Corcoran Printmaking Portfolio, District Fine Arts, Washington, DC

Featured Artist/January ‘04, Ste. Felix Gallery, Occoquan, VA

2003       
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Washington, DC

Do’s and Don’ts, Gallery K (at Dupont Circle), Annual Corcoran Printmaking Portfolio, Washington, DC

1 and 2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2015       

Artist’s Selections: Work by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Juror Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

2008       

In Flight; Prints by Peter Frederick and Kerry McAleer-Keeler, LibertyTown Arts Workshop
Fredericksburg, VA

2006       
Invitational Show, Natural Rhythm: Works by Lana Lambert and Kerry McAleer-Keeler, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA

Boxed In: Works by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, University of Mary Washington, solo exhibition, Fredericksburg, VA

2004       

An Artful Journey; Current works by Kerry McAleer-Keeler and Ruth Loving, Art First Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

The Ties That Bind, New Work by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, The Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA

2002       

Eklectic, Paintings and Works on Paper by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, Bistro 309, Fredericksburg, VA

New Beginnings: Paintings and Works on Paper by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, Art First Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

2001       

The Road Less Traveled, 2-person exhibition, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC

1999       

Spoken Impressions, 2-person print and book exhibition, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC

In Print: Books and Prints by Kerry McAleer-Keeler, solo exhibition, The Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA


RESIDENCIES
2019
Chateau D’ Orquevaux International Artists and Writers Residency, Orquevaux, France, Dec. 2019 (Finished in Dec. (8 works created) 1 donated to Diderot Gallery, Orquevaux, France for grant completion.)
Rosa di Tufo/Artists and Writers Residency, Tufo, Italy, May 2019
2018
Freehold Taos Residency Center 2018 Summer Artists in Residence recipient, Taos, NM, Jul. 2018
2015
Arquetopia International Artists-In-Residence Program, Puebla, MX, in the research area of Pre-Columbian and Baroque Printmaking Techniques, August 2015
2013
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Pitman Study Away Program, Artists In Residency Program, San Miguel, Mexico, Jul. 2013

ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES & CONFERENCES
2020       
Panel Member, Art For Action Facebook Live Discussion on “Why Art Matters”, Qasim Rashid Fundraiser, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, September 2020
2019       
Seminar Panel Member, “Radical Making: Creative Engagement and Special Collections”,
Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries/A division of the America Library Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 19, 2019
2018       
Book Arts Demonstrator, Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, Hyattsville, MD, Mar. 2018
Seminar Panel Member and Moderator, “Social Implications of Building a Book Arts
Community”, College Book Art Association 2018 Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2018
2017       
Invited guest speaker for Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s “Paper, Print and Book Gathering”, Nov. 2017
Visiting Class Book Arts Demonstrator, Photo Book Course, Instructor Todd R. Forsgren, GWU, Nov. 2017
Visiting Class Speaker, GWU, Intro to Anthropology, Dr. Erica Wortham’s class, “What Is an Artist Book?” Sept. 2017
2016       
Panel Member, Embassy of Chile, Panel discussion on “Artists Books: Art, Politics and Process”, Nov. 2016
Invited Speaker, Artisans and Artists’, Book Lovers and Type Geeks Night at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Book, Representing GWU Print and Book Courses and College Book Art Association, Oct. 2016
Visiting Class Speaker, GWU, Intro to Anthropology, Dr. Erica Wortham’s class, “The Language of Books,” Sept. 2016
2015       
Guest Speaker, Maryland Art Association, Rockville, MD, lecture on artists’ books and personal work to association membership, Nov. 2015
2014       
Demonstrator, Re-imagining Photographic Imagery through the Silk Organza Collagraph, Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, Silver Spring, MD, Nov. 2014
2013       
Guest Speaker, “The Language of Books”, La Biblioteca, Teatro Santa Ana, The Pitman Study Away Program, Artists In Residency Program, Jul. 2013
Visiting Artist, University of MD, Baltimore County, Print and Book Arts Classes, Sept. 2013 2012       
Visiting Artist and Workshop Instructor, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, Feb. 2012
2010
Visiting Artist and Guest Speaker, Art Department, Mount Holyoke College, MA, Oct. 2010
2008       
Visiting Guest Artist, Fredericksburg Academy, Fredericksburg, VA, Mar. 2008
2007       
The Book As Art, Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women In the Arts, Invited guest speaker for exhibition opening day. Washington, DC
Selected to provide children’s artist workshop on cyanotype printing for the Belmont Museum, Fredericksburg VA
2005  
Panel Moderator, Coalition of the Willing, Southern Graphics Council Conference,
Washington, DC


GRANTS & AWARDS
•GW Enhanced Travel Grant 2019 Recipient
•Chateau D’ Orquevaux International Artists and Writers Residency, Denis Diderot A-I-R Grant •GW Faculty: Sp 2017, Fa 2016 Corcoran Faculty Development Award Recipient
•Corcoran Faculty: Sp 2014 and Sp 2013 Faculty Development Award Recipient

PUBLICATIONS
•Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Winter Ed. 2019, Featured Artist, p. 58-61
•Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Spring/Summer Ed. 2018, Artwork Presented,
p. 236-238
•500 Handmade Books, Vol. 2, Lark Books, Sept. 2013 “For the Birds” displayed in book,
page 138
•The Vandercook 100: Celebrating 100 Artisans and 100 Years of Letterpress Printing on the Vandercook Proof Press, Heather Mitchell, Just Vandy Publisher, 2012, pp. 58-59, Corcoran Book Arts program highlighted.
•Everything Is Paint, Scott Ligon, Watson-Guptill, Random House Publishing, 2011, letterpress image “Hope”, page 243
•The Book As Art, Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women In the Arts, Krystyna Wasserman, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2007 pp. 23, 118 & 119 (Image also on back cover.)

JUROR SERVICE
•Juror, Oct. 2020 Fredericksburg Center for the Arts, Memories: People, Places, Structures Exhibition, Fredericksburg, VA
•Selection Panel Member, Public Sculpture Project 2019-20, Fredericksburg City,
Fredericksburg, VA
•Juror, 2019-20 Fredericksburg Center for the Arts Member Gallery Exhibitions, Fredericksburg, VA
•Judge, The Annual Arts in The Middle Juried Fine Arts Show, Urbanna, VA, June 2017
•Juror, For the Record: Artistically Historic D.C. Exhibition, Historical Society of Washington, DC, March 2015
•Juror, Different Perspectives, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, VA, March 2015
•Juror, Pulp, LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, February 2015

AFFILIATIONS

College Book Art Association (Steering Committee)

Southern Graphics Council International (Member)

Mid Atlantic Print Council (Member)

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD (Member)

LibertyTown Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA (Member and Studio Resident)

Mount Holyoke College Alumni Group (VA), South Hadley, MA (Member)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (Member)

National Museum of Women In the Arts, Washington, DC (Member)

Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (Member)