Lucinda Bliss is an American artist, writer, and educator, born in Hartford, CT in 1965.

Education

Bliss earned a

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

(B.A.) from

Skidmore College Skidmore College is a Private school, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. Approximately 2,700 students are enrolled at Skidmore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Scien ...

in Art History in 1988 and a

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admi ...

(M.F.A.) in Visual Art from

Vermont College Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level college affiliated with California Institute of the Arts. It offers Master's degrees in a low-residency format. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award wi ...

in 1999.

Career

Bliss currently serves as the Dean of the College of Arts & Media at the

University of Colorado Denver The University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) is a Public university, public research university located in downtown Denver, Colorado. It is part of the University of Colorado system. Established in 1912 as an extension of the University of C ...

. She served as the Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation's oldest art schools, and the only publicly funded independent art sch ...

. She was previously

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of Graduate Studies at the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) in

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. Bliss’ teaching positions have included

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of Liberal Studies in the undergraduate program of the

Union Institute & University Union Institute & University (UI&U) was a private online university that was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It also operated satellite campuses in Florida and California. In early 2023, it began to experience severe financial challenge ...

in Montpelier, VT, Assistant Professor at

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, United States. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner ...

, and teaching at the

Maine College of Art Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is a Private college, private art school in Portland, Maine. Founded in 1882, Maine College of Art & Design is the oldest arts educational institution in Maine. Roughly 32% of MECA&D students are from Maine. ...

, the

University of Southern Maine The University of Southern Maine (USM) is a public university with campuses in Gorham and Portland, Maine, United States. It is the southernmost university in the University of Maine System. It was founded as two separate state universities, Go ...

, and with the Crit Lab. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at

Lamont Gallery The Lamont Gallery is a non-profit art gallery located on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States. It primarily showcases visiting exhibitions of local, national and international acclaimed artists, along wit ...

on the campus of

Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...

, the

Ogunquit Museum of American Art The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) is an art museum located in Ogunquit, Maine. The Museum officially opened in 1953 and was founded by Lost Generation artist Henry Strater. Situated near Perkins Cove, the Museum and its three acres of s ...

Bates College Museum of Art The Bates College Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of, and maintained by, Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The museum's collection consists of works of art that showcase Maine as well as art from around the world, with a foc ...

Tucson Museum of Art Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson metropolitan ...

, the Brattleboro Museum, Aucocisco Gallery, Whitney Art Works, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,

Boston Center for the Arts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a ...

, Common Street Arts, The Ross Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Gallery 312 in Chicago, Illinois. Bliss has been awarded numerous grants including support from the Kindling Fund for her project “Tracking the Border,” two Maine Arts Commission grants, and residencies at

Ucross Foundation The Ucross Foundation, located in Ucross, Wyoming, is a nonprofit organization that operates a retreat for visual artists, writers, composers, and choreographers working in all creative disciplines. History Founded in 1981 by Raymond Plank, U ...

, the

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at ...

, Hewnoaks, Shotpouch Creek,

Anderson Ranch Arts Center Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit arts organization and art gallery founded in 1966 and located in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The center hosts an artist residency program, summer arts workshops and a January workshop intensive. About ...

, and the

Vermont Studio Center The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) is a non-profit arts organization located in the town of Johnson, Vermont. It conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the United States, with a significant population of international artis ...

. In addition to her work as a visual artist, Bliss also co-authored the limited edition chapbook ''Anatomy of Desire: the Daughter/Mother Sessions'' (

Kore Press Kore Press is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 1993 and located in Tucson, Arizona. The press publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by women, transgender or gender non-conforming women. Kore Press's output includes boo ...

) with her mother, the poet and essayist

Alison Hawthorne Deming Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946 Hartford, Connecticut) is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of A ...

.Margaret Regan (March 02, 2000
"Deconstructing Desire: Lucinda Bliss And Alison Deming Confront The Dichotomy Of Mother As Lover."
''Tucson Weekly''. Retrieved 2013-06-15. Her essay, “The Invisible Yoke” was part of the Marchxness online publication-competition for lovers of music and writing.

References

External links

Publisher ''Kore Press''
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Lucinda Bliss's website
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“an artist explores the physical–and conceptual–boundaries of farms,” Chelsea Holden Baker

“Precarious Alliance,” ''Arterrain'', issue 31, Terrain.org

“Lucinda Bliss Defines a Border Broadly in Tracking the Border," ''Portland Press Herald'', Daniel Kany
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Cut Me Up Issue 6: Object Lessons
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“Exhibition Focuses on Artist’s Navigation Maine-Canada Border, Waterville Creates
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