SELECTED COLLECTIONS: INSTITUTIONS

Rosemary Feit Covey’s work is housed in more than forty museum and library collections worldwide, including the original collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the New York Public Library Print Collection, the National Museum of American History, Harvard University, and the Papyrus Institute in Cairo, Egypt. In 2012, over five hundred of her prints were acquired for the permanent collection of Georgetown University Library, Special Collections. This collection encompasses the entire graphic oeuvre of her work from 1967 to 2010.

  • University of Illinois, Chicago, II

  • International Federation of Metal Workers, Zurich, Switzerland

  • University of Iowa, Iowa City. IA

  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • James Michener Museum of Art, PA

  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • The New York Public Library Print Collection, NY

  • University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

  • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

  • Ohio University, Athens, OH

  • Penn State University, University Park, PA

  • Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA

  • Princeton University: Special Collections, Princeton, NJ

  • Papyrus Institute, Cairo, Egypt

  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  • San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

  • National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

  • Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN

  • University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

  • Asian Development Bank

  • Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, Washington

  • Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia

  • State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  • Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

  • Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

  • Brown University, Providence, RI

  • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

  • California Polytechnic State University, CA

  • Rivera Library, University of California, Riverside, CA

  • People’s Republic of China, Embassy Library, WA

  • Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, OH

  • Columbia University, New York City. NY

  • Cornell University Art Museum, Ithaca, NY

  • Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX

  • Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  • University of Delaware, Newark, DE

  • Denver Public Library, Denver, CO

  • Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI

  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

  • Georgetown University: Booth Family Center for Special Collections (556 Works), Washington, DC

  • American University: Corcoran Legacy Collections, Washington, DC

  • University of Georgia, Athens, GA

  • Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge

  • Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Rosemary Feit Covey is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (Bellagio, Italy), an Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation National Fine Art Grant Award in printmaking, and a fellowship to Georgetown University Medical Center as the 2007–2008 Artist-in-Residence.

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

2021 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijarvi, Finland (cancelled due to Covid)

2016 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijarvi, Finland 

2015 Blue Mountain Center, Residency, Blue Mountain, New York 

2013 Skopelos Foundation, Residency, Skopelos, Greece 

2012 Spiro Arts, Residency, Park City, Utah 

2004 International Artist’s Residency, Grand Central Arts Center/Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, California

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO

2022 Morton Fine Art, Descartes Died in the Snow, 52 O NW, Washington, DC (cat.) Reviewed Washington Post. 

2018 Wesley Theological Seminary: Henry Luce Center for Arts and Religion, Red Handed Installation, Washington, DC 

2017 Morton Fine Art, The Planet is a Delicate Thing, Washington, DC. Reviewed Washington Post.  

2015 Morton Fine Art, Self Conscious, 1781 Florida Ave. NW, Washington, DC.

2014 Evergreen Museum, Crossing the Line a Retrospective, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 

2014 Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC 

2013 Morton Fine Art, The Death of the Fine Art Print, Washington, DC. Reviewed Washington Post. 

2011 Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC 

2010 The Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA 

2009 Joan Hisoaka Healing Arts Gallery. Washington DC. 

2007 International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Illinois 

2007 Brayham Contemporary Art, Toronto,Canada 

2007 Arlington Arts Center, Sculpture on the Grounds, Arlington, Virginia 

2005 Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California 

2003 The Arts Club of Washington Curator; Dr. Eric Denker, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art 

2003 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware 

2003 Wm. Floyd, 16 East 77 St., New York, New York 

2002 Art Space, Raleigh, North Carolina 

1997 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (cat.)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: GROUP

2022 Portsmouth Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, Art on the Environment

2021 See.Me, Brooklyn, New York, Nature/Nurture, Honorable mention

2020 Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, Virginia, Shift, Juror Henry Thaggert 

2018 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, American 20th-Century Printed Self Portraits

2018 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Art, Biology, Conservation and Darwin

2018 Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center Museum, Portsmouth, VA, In Print

2017 Culture Summit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Red Handed Installation

2017 Dupont Underground, Washington, DC, Science and Art Symposium. Ten Pillars

2016 Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC, Handmade.’ Made by Hand

2016 National Art Space, Trinidad, Cuba, Human Beings What Unifies Us

2011 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, The American Association for the History of Medicine: Five Centuries of Medicine and Art

2011 University of Maryland, University College, Adelphi, MD, Mind Body and Spirit (cat.)

2009 Smith College, Northampton, MA Field Report: Works by Members of The Boston Print Club

2009 The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA, eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Odhopedics in Art

2007 Long Beach Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper Juror Carter E. Foster, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum

2007 Hollar Society Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, Exhibition Society of American Graphic Arts

2006 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, The New Landscape, Curator, Katherine French, Museum Director

2006 Oxford University, Oxford, England,The Society of Wood Engravers Annual Exhibition, Awarded the SWE prize for Outstanding Engraving from Overseas

2004 Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, 100 Artists, See Satan Review: Juxtapoz Magazine, San Francisco, CA

COLLABORATIVE WORK

2019 The 0 Project, Starting in 2007 as a forum for the voiceless and an artistic catalyst at large social justice venues, The 0 Project has expanded. It is flexible art, freely loaned, continuing on a vital and varied trajectory, open to many interpretations and uses. Collaborations have included, the “Abductor” a large scale installation at Burning Man, Street Life Circus, Tomb Memorial a rock group from the Netherlands and many more. The 0 Project has its own music, clothing and projections. First exhibited as a building wrap 15ft. by 300ft. at Arlington Art Center in Arlington Virginia, it has wrapped buildings in Reno Nevada and Toronto Canada, been projected in nightclubs in Mumbai, India, wrapped industrial elevators and acted as stage scenery for multiple performances. Most recently it acted as a catalyst for a political forum.

2019 Hammer Theatre, San Jose, CA, Duende — A Concert of Dark Sounds. Duende is an exploration of the Latina identity through a re imagination of Spanish folk songs and art work. 

2019 The Art League, Alexandria, VA, Beyond Printmaking with Anagh Banerjree: An exploration of pushing boundaries in printmaking, while exploring complex themes of cultural identity and history.

2019 Morton Fine Art, Washington DC. Debut Wings, music created for the artwork of Rosemary Feit Covey by world renowned percussionist Joseph Connell, three pieces on motion activated sound tracks.

2019 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC, Women’s History Month “Celebrating Champions of Peace and Nonviolence.

2018 The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, Arcturus Theater Company, Play and the Old Tune by Samuel Beckett, stage sets and masks, The 0 Project.

2018 Hammer Theatre, San Jose, CA, Canales Project in conjunction with the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs. Featured art in conjunction with mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov and composer Molly Joyce.

2017 The Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA Art in Common Spaces, The 0 Project wrapping interior of industrial elevator, juror: Holly Koons McCollough, Executive Director, Arlington Arts Center. 

2017 Theatre on the Run, Arlington, VA, Migration, Collaboration with Jane Franklin Dance. 

2008 Studio Theatre, Washington, DC, Eternal Return, Smith Farm Center and Bosma Dance. Collaboration with professional dancers and cancer survivors.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2022 Torpedo Factory WIn-Win Problem Solving Group. Composed of selected artists, city staff and community members to discuss problems in the art center. 

2010 -2014 Co-founder with Dr. Pam Creasy, chief city archeologist, of Morrison House Presents- a cultural discussion series. A collaboration with the Kimpton Hotel Group, Invited, promoted and hosted speakers, alternating artists with historians, Alexandria, VA

2013  Member of the “Art on the Waterfront” subcommittee of the Public Art Committee who drafted the initial Art Walk proposal for waterfront redevelopment in Alexandria, 2008-2012.  In 2013 City Council passed the Waterfront Small Area Plan which included the Art Plan. 

2011 Board position, representing artists on city appointed board for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA 

2009 President of the Artists Association, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA. 2009-2010. Introduced partnerships with Art Outlet, The Kimpton Hotel Group 

SELECTED BOOKS: ILLUSTRATED 

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

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

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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

  • Andrews, Paul W, PhD, JD (McMaster University), Covey, Rosemary Feit, Hollon, Steven D, PhD (Vanderbilt University) .“Artists Provide A Much Needed Alternative To The Disorder Of Depression’’, SciArt Magazine, Volume 33, 2018. 

  • Lehman, Jason. “ Mysterious Glory: The Expansive Visual Poems of Rosemary Feit Covey”, CODAworx Magazine, cover story, July, 2018. 

  • Giordano, James (editor). Maldynia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain, chapter by Rosemary Feit Covey, “Maldynic Pain in Image and Experience, Engraving Meaning through Subtraction”, CRC Press, 2011, pp.123-132. 

  • Charnov, Diane. “Rosemary Feit Covey and Nancy Blume: Nature-The Artist’s Muse”, James Renwick Quarterly, Winter 2018, pp. 9-11. 

  • Ponemone, Scott. “Rosemary Feit Covey: A Printmakers Journey”, Baltimore Museum of Art Newsletter, Fall 2014, pp. 32-38. 

  • Campello, Lennox F. Artists of Washington, DC, “Rosemary Feit Covey” pp 60-61, Schifffer Publishing Ltd. 2011,pp. 60-61 

  • Jenkins Mark. Review, “Humanity’s collective guilt: A Hellish Experience” The Washington Post, Sunday June 30 2013. 

  • Davis, Tammi. Article, “Booster Shots,” Los Angeles Times, July 2008. 

  • Public Radio International, Studio 360, Radio Interview “Patient and Portraitist,” June 2008. 

  • Mahoney, J.W. “To a Different Drum,” Art in America, May 2008, pp. 95-97. 

  • Weinberg, Lauren. Review, “Internal Medicine,” Time Out Chicago, January 2008. 

  • Ramanathan, Lavanya. “Screaming for Attention,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2007. 

  • Prues, Angela. “Voicing Ideas: The 0 Project,” The Big Picture Magazine, January 2008, pp. 22-23. 

  • Ember, R. Lois. “A Massive Canvas,” Chemical and Engineering News, November 2007, pp. 32-35. 

  • Snosnoski, Karen.” Sense of Tumor,” Washington City Paper, October 6, 2006, pp. 54. 

  • Welch, David. “38 Lemon,” CR, Cancer Research Magazine, Spring 2007, pp. 64. 

  • Miller, Shauna. “Grave Concerns,” Washington City Paper, February 2003, pp. 31-32. 

  • Brett, Simon (editor). An Engraver’s Globe: Wood Engravings World-wide in the Twenty-first Century, 

  • “Rosemary Feit Covey”,London; Primrose Hill Press, 2000.pp.80-84.

SELECTED LECTURES

  • Guangzhu Art Academy, China

  • Xiamen University, China

  • International Monetary Fund

  • University of Wyoming

  • National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Interlochen Center for the Arts

  • Susquehanna University

  • National Collection of Fine Arts

EDUCATION

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 

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