Dan Curry
I grew up in the St. Louis area during the 50’s and 60’s, was drafted into the army in 1970 and met my wife, Donna in Philadelphia in 1971. Donna noticed my casual interest in art and her encouragement was important in my decision to pursue training first at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) and later at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1973-77.
When you visit my web-site (www.dan-curry.com) my exhibition history shows frequent and on-going regional involvement and also national and international presence while being recognized by education administrators in the Job Corps program and my professional colleagues who have included me in shows in the Cairo Opera House Contemporary Art Gallery in Egypt, US Capitol and the UN buildings in New York and South Africa. My exhibit in the US Capitol in 1997 was sponsored by a US Senator and accompanied by his nomination for the National Medal of Arts for my programming in Job Corps.
Since 1998 I have been active as a roster artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA). In 2020 the PCA selected me for their continuing education application by enrolling me in the University of the Arts in Philadelphia so that I could obtain their teaching artist certification. My residencies expanded in 2020 when I developed the idea of doing outdoor class sessions to explore the plein air style in a workshop/class setting. In 2022 I provided three residencies in PA both indoors and outdoors and an exhibit featuring the products of this art was exhibited at the Sullivan county Library in November and December of 2022.
When you visit my web-site (www.dan-curry.com) my exhibition history shows frequent and on-going regional involvement and also national and international presence while being recognized by education administrators in the Job Corps program and my professional colleagues who have included me in shows in the Cairo Opera House Contemporary Art Gallery in Egypt, US Capitol and the UN buildings in New York and South Africa. My exhibit in the US Capitol in 1997 was sponsored by a US Senator and accompanied by his nomination for the National Medal of Arts for my programming in Job Corps.
Since 1998 I have been active as a roster artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA). In 2020 the PCA selected me for their continuing education application by enrolling me in the University of the Arts in Philadelphia so that I could obtain their teaching artist certification. My residencies expanded in 2020 when I developed the idea of doing outdoor class sessions to explore the plein air style in a workshop/class setting. In 2022 I provided three residencies in PA both indoors and outdoors and an exhibit featuring the products of this art was exhibited at the Sullivan county Library in November and December of 2022.
