Rosemary Feit Covey (born July 17, 1954) is an American printmaker, whose work focuses on

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and ...

. She was born in

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, immigrated to the United States in 1962, and studied at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

and the

Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a Private university, private art school, art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of t ...

, and with the master wood engraver and illustrator Barry Moser. She currently resides in

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, and has a studio at the

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Works

Her work deals with the themes of

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and the effects of illness. She has worked primarily in the medium of wood engraving since 1982. In 2007, she was commissioned by blogger David Welch, who was suffering from a brain tumor, to create a series of works depicting his treatment. In 2007-2008, she worked as a fellow at Georgetown University Hospital exploring her interest in these subjects. In November 2007, a large retrospective of her science-related work was displayed at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. She created The 0 Project, a large scale interactive installation that debuted at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, VA in October, 2007. The 0 Project also includes public participation in the forms of dance, music and related artworks. She is represented in permanent collections in the Print Club of Albany, Boston Athenaeum,

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, the

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, the New York Public Library Print Collection, the National Museum of American History, Georgetown University, and the Papyrus Institute in

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. She is represented in the Washington, D.C., area by Morton Fine Art. In 1998 she received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy. In 2004, she was invited to spend two months at the Grand Central in Santa Ana, California as the International Artist in Residence. In 2014, the Evergreen Museum,

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, mounted
Crossing the Line: The Art of Rosemary Feit Covey
" a retrospective exhibition of her prints, paintings, and installations.

References

External links

*http://www.rosemaryfeitcovey.com *http://www.the0project.com
Rosemary Feit Covey Collection at Georgetown University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Covey, Rosemary Cornell University alumni South African emigrants to the United States People from Alexandria, Virginia 1954 births Living people American women printmakers Maryland Institute College of Art alumni American wood engravers Artists from Washington, D.C. Artists from Virginia American printmakers South African printmakers People from Johannesburg Women engravers 21st-century American women