Resume

Selected Collections: Institutions

  • National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra
  • State Library of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Print Club of Albany, Albany, New York
  • Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
  • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas
  • Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • University of Delaware, Newark
  • Denver Print Club, Denver, Colorado
  • Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado
  • Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
  • The New York Public Library Print Collection
  • University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  • Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
  • Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
  • Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square, Philadelphia
  • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
  • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
  • California Polytechnic State University
  • Rivera Library, University of California, Riverside
  • People's Republic of China, Embassy Library, Washington
  • Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Columbia University, New York City
  • Georgetown University Library Print Collection
  • University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
  • Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge
  • Huntington Library, San Marino, California
  • University of Illinois, Chicago
  • International Federation of Metal Workers, Zurich
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City
  • University of Kentucky, Lexington
  • James Michener Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Papyrus Institute, Cairo, Egypt
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
  • San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
  • National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • University of Vermont, Burlington
  • University of Washington, Seattle

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Selected Fellowships and Grants

2007-2008

Visiting Scholar Program/Fellowship, Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center.

2004

International Artists Residency, Grand Central Arts Center/Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, California

1998

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Conference and Study Center,
Bellagio, Italy

1993

Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation, National Fine Art Grant Award, Printmaking

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

0 Project / Solos 2007
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
October 2 - November 17, 2007

International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N.Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
2005

Grand Central Art Center
Santa Ana, California

 
2003

The Arts Club of Washington
February 7 - March 3, 2003
Curator - Dr. Eric Denker, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
March 7, 2003 - April 13, 2003
Wilmington, Delaware
Wm. Floyd
May 7, 2003 - June 17, 2003
16 East 77 St., New York, New York

 
2002

Target Gallery
Alexandria, Virginia
Artist of the Year Show

Art Space
September 28, 2002 - November 16, 2002
Raleigh, North Carolina
1999

American Pop Culture Gallery
Nashville, Tennessee

 
1997

The Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio (cat.)

Saginaw Valley State University Art Gallery
University Center, Michigan
1995

Time Gallery
1407 N. Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

Martin Sumers Graphics
57th Street at 5th Avenue, New York, New York

 
1992

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, Michigan

Jane Haslem Gallery
Washington, DC
1991

Target Gallery
Alexandria, Virginia

 
1987

University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

 
1985

National Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC

 
1983

Encounter Gallery
Geneva, Switzerland
l Hotel Nova Park, Zurich, Switzerland

 
1982

The London Gallery
Washington, DC

 
1980

Arte Multiple
Buenos Aires, Argentina

 
1979

Martin Sumers Graphics
57th Street at 5th Avenue, New York, New York

 

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

eMotion: An Exhibition of Orthopedics in Art
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco (cat.)

 
2007

Society of American Graphic Artists 74th Members Show
The Old Print Shop, New York, NY 10016
July 9 - August 17, 2007

 
2006

2006 National Juried Competition, Works of Art on Paper
Juror, Carter E. Foster, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences

Society of American Graphic Artists Members' Exhibition.
Hollar Society Gallery, Prague, The Czech Republic

The New Landscape: Alternative Approaches
Danforth Museumof Art
Framingham Massachusetts
Curator: Katherine French, Museum Director

The Society of Wood Engravers 68th Annual Exhibition
Oxford, England;
The SWE prize for an outstanding engraving from overseas
[Download PDF Catalog]

Africa
The Target Gallery
Alexandria,Virginia
Juror: Martha Jackson-Jarvis

  
2005

The Bird Show: Artist Invitational
Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California
Juror: Julie Perlin-Lee

90th Anniversary Show
Society of American Graphic Artists
New York, New York

Invitational Relief Print Show
Universityof Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

  
2004

100 Artists See Satan
Grand Central Art Center
Cal State Fullerton
Santa Ana, California

 
2002

Hand-pulled: The Contemporary Print
Target Gallery
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Juror - Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Museum of American Art

 
2001

Fetish, Elegant Objects of Seductive Obsession
Gallery Flux
San Francisco, CA

Springfield Art Museum, Prints USA (cat.)
Juror - Daniel Piersol, Curator of Prints and Drawings, New Orleans Museum of Art
2000

Curator’s Choice The Arts Club of Washington, DC
Works by Seven Washington printmakers
Selected by Dr. Eric Denker, Curator of Prints and Drawings
Corcoran Gallery of Arts

Society of American Graphic Artists 68th Members Show
Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC

Printwork 2K - National Juried Printmaking Exhibition
Barrett Center
Poughkeepsie, NY
Juror - Marilyn Symmes, Curator of Drawings and Prints, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, NYC

23rd National Print Bienneial 2000
Juror’s Commendation
SilvermineGuild Rrts Center
New Canaan, CT
Juror - Antonio Franscon

Mid-Atlantic Small Print Exhibition
Juror’s Commendation
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Washington, DC
Juror - Stephen B. Phillips, Associate Curator, The Phillips Collection

Prints Washington 2000
Numark Gallery
Washington, DC
Juror - Katherine Blood, Curator for Fine Prints, Library of Congress
1999

Prints USA (cat.), Springfield Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Juror - David W. Kiehl, Curator of Prints

43rd National Print Exhibition (cat.),
Hunterdon Museum of Art
Juror - Starr Figura, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Prints
National Juried Traveling Exhibition - Mid-Atlantic Small Print Exhibition
American Print Alliance
Juror - Eric Denker, Curator of Prints and Drawings,
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC		  
1997

Arts Council of Fairfax
First Prize
Juror - Susan Fisher Sterling, Curator of Modern Art,
National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Boston Printmakers Members’ Show
Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

Prints Washington ’97 (cat.)
The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Juror - Jan Howard, Associate Curator of Prints, Baltimore Museum of Art

 Boston Printmakers 50th Anniversary North American Print Exhibition (cat.)
Juror’s Commendation
Juror - Trudy Hansen, Curator of Prints, Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University
1996

Contemporary North American Wood Engravers
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington

 
1995

The Print Club of Albany's 19th National Print Exhibition
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York

American Self Portraits in Prints, Traveling Show
Courtesy Jane Haslem Gallery
Indiana Art Museum, Carlton College Art Museum, Calvin College Art Museum
1994

Women Printmakers: 18th Century to Present Day (cat.)
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

 
1993

Boston Printmakers 44th North American Print Exhibition (cat.)
Juror - Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints, New York Public Library

Los Angeles Printmaking Society 12th National Exhibition
Juror - Henry T. Hopkins, Chairman, UCLA Dept. of Art
(catalogue featuring analysis of Covey's work)
1990

Women Artists ’90
Merit Award
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California

 
1989

Prints: Washington
The Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
Juror - Alan Fern, Director, National Portrait Gallery

Thirty-Third National Print Exhibition (cat.)
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jerse
1984

Boston Printmakers 36th National Exhibition (cat.)
Brockton Art Museum/Fuller Memorial
Brockton, Massachusetts
Juror- Clifford S. Ackley, Associate Curator of Prints; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Manhattan National Juried Print Show (Cat.)
Purchase Award
Juror - Antonio Frasconi
1981

Boston Printmakers 33rd National Exhibition (cat.)
Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Juror - Jane Farmer
Curator - Smithsonian Institution

 
1980

Man and Beast: The Washington Print Club Eighth Biennial Members’ Exhibition (cat.)
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
Jurors - Alan Fern, Director for Special Collections at the Library of Congress Janet Flint, Curator of Prints and Drawings of the National Collection

Eastern U.S. Fourth Annual Print Exhibition
Charlotte Printmakers Society
Charlotte, North Carolina
Juror - Richard Field
Curator - Yale University Art Gallery

More Solo Exhibitions

Selected Commissions

  • The New York Times Book Review
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • International Federation of Metal Workers
  • The World and I
  • General Electric Astro Space
  • Library Journal
  • The Washington Post Book World
  • National Institute of Science
  • Republican Senatorial Committee
  • Georgetown University
  • Metro Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau
  • Environment Magazine
 

Selected Books, Illustrated

Porte, Barbara Ann, Beauty and the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001 (14 illustrations)
Starred review - KIRKUS 9/15/01

Porte, Barbara Ann, Hearsay: Strange Tales from the Middle Kingdom
Greenwillow Books, A Division of William Morrow and Co., New York, 1997 (15 illustrations)

Constant, Samuel Victor, Peking Street Peddlers
Bird & Bull Press, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1993 (25 illustrations)

Glang, Gabriele, Stark Naked on a Cold Irish Morning
SCOP Publications, Inc., College Park, MD, 1990 (6 illustrations)

Goldberg, Barbara, Berta Broadfoot and Pepin the Short
Porcupine Quill, Ontario, Canada, 1986 (11 illustrations)

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Selected Bibliography

Who's Who in American Art, R.R. Bowker

Brett, Simon, ed. An Engraver's Globe: Wood Engravings World-wide in the Twenty-first Century, 84-86. London; Primrose Hill Press, 2000

Endgrain - Contemporary Wood Engraving in North America, Barbarian Press, Canada, 1994

Mackenzie, Eric L., Rosemary Feit Covey: The Prints 1970-1990, 1991
Reviewed: Choice Magazine 1992, The Washington Post, 1992

"Rosemary Covey's Graphic Response to Emotions", American Artist, July 1986, pp. 50-54, 91-93

Marriott, Michel. "White South African's Art Reflects Conflict", The Washington Post, March 1985

Blansfield, Karen Charmaine. "Rosemary Feit Covey: Portrait of a Modern Wood Engraver", Iris, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1986, pp. 10-14, Metrosphere, Denver, Colorado, 1986-1987, pp. 54-57

PACE, Piedmont Airlines, August 1985, pp. 7-10

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Selected Awards

1998

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy

1997

First Prize, Fairfax Annual Open Show, Juror: Susan Sterling, Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

1993

Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation, National Fine Art Grant Award, Printmaking

1992

Torpedo Factory Artist's Award, Juror: Elizabeth Chew, Assistant Curator, Phillips Collection, Washington

1990

Torpedo Factory Artist's Award, Juror: Richard Murray, Curator, National Museum of American Art

1978

Awarded one-person show by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke Fine Arts Centre, Virginia

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Selected Lectures

Guangzhu Art Academy, China

Xiamen University, China

International Monetary Fund

University of Wyoming

Interlochen Center for the Arts

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Susquehanna University

National Collection of Fine Arts

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Education

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Department of Architecture/Fine Art

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Professional Affiliations

Society of Wood Engravers, Great Britain
Wood Engraving Network, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Boston Printmakers, Boston, Massachusetts
Society of American Graphic Artists, New York

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