Daniel S. Biehl

curriculum vitae

4212 Clark Avenue
Great Falls, MT 59405
dsbiehl@yahoo.com
home ph. (406)727-6177
cell ph. (406)788-2607

Education

BFA 1979, University of Cincinnati (Printmaking)


Professional Experience:

June 2006 – May 2007
Interim Curator of Art
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
Permanent Collection: more than 300 works of art Involved with ten exhibitions, one catalogue, art auction fundraiser

1999 – Present
Adjunct Professor of Art – Printmaking
University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana
Currently instruct six to eight students one semester per academic year. Non-toxic processes of relief and intaglio printmaking are emphasized including the use of photopolymer film and lithography via polyester plates. Other duties include maintenance of print studio and supplies; development of curriculum, syllabi and assessment; assisting students in preparation of work for and installation of student exhibition; presenter in artist lecture series. Instructor of record.

2004
Juror
Great Falls Educational Foundation Art Scholarships
Great Falls Public Schools, Great Falls, Montana

2002 Short Term Artist in Residence
C.M. Russell High School, Great Falls, Montana
Taught intensive non-toxic aluminum etching workshops, artist’s slide presentation

2001
Artist
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
Contracted with the Museum to develop Educational Resource Room activities including textural puzzle for people with visual impairments and modular ‘Build a Steen’ pieces composed of sanded and varnished tree branch sections.

1998 – 2006
Framer
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, and individual artists; Great Falls, Montana
Annually providing inexpensive framing or otherwise preparing artwork for presentation; also provided independent framing service for local artists.

1998
Presenting Artist
Art Beyond Boundaries Visual Arts Showcase, Chadron, Nebraska

1996 – Present
Primary caregiver to daughter with multiple disabilities
Domestic and medical venues
Duties encompass daily responsibility for and supervision of all aspects of physiological, cognitive and emotional development and maintenance; ongoing consultation with medical, therapeutic and educational professionals in formulating strategies for optimized short and long term quality of life outcomes.

1995
Participating Artist
The Caravan Project
Traveling exhibition of fourteen artists and their installations presented and performed in seventeen rural Montana venues over a period of six weeks. For this exhibition, a 1952 ‘teardrop’ trailer was disassembled and rebuilt as a sphinx, then traveled throughout the state with the tour.

1996
Design/builder
Community Food Co-op, Bozeman, Montana
Contracted to research, design and construct soundproofing structures for refrigeration compressors in busy work area.

1994
Visiting Artist
Anderson School, Bozeman, Montana
Instructed elementary students in producing individual wind-powered sculptures.

1989
Set designer/builder
Shawn Womack Dance Projects, Cincinnati, Ohio
Designed and built two sets of accordioning wave forms and stationary sets for The Edge of the Card dance performance.

1986 - 1990
Artist Assistant to Nam June Paik
Mark Patsfall Graphics, Inc. and Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Constructing and installing video sculptures from modified wooden television cabinets, aluminum angle and diverse media. Performed gallery and museum installations in New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C., USA; Antwerp, Belgium and West Berlin, W. Germany among other locations.

1983-85
Mail-order shipster
Daniel Smith, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Picking, packing and shipping customer orders of fine art materials and supplies. Duties demanded precision and efficiency in servicing orders, high standards of care in handling and knowledge of working characteristics of fine art papers and supplies.

1979 – Present
Self-employed artist
Involved in every aspect of creating, presenting, documenting, marketing and shipping artwork; some degree of participation in arts communities of Cincinnati, Santa Fe, Seattle, Olympia and Montana at different times. Areas of endeavor include drawing, lithographic and intaglio printmaking, slate and soft stone carving, woodworking (in hand-carved sculpture, machine-made functional forms or in combination) and metalworking. Studio with all these capabilities is currently maintained five blocks from PGSMOA. Experimentation and innovation with processes and materials is ongoing. Also self employed as called upon by businesses or individuals for inventive projects of various descriptions; some of the above entries represent opportunities for unique inventive and creative projects appropriate to this niche.

I was directly involved in most or all aspects of mounting the following exhibitions
during my year as interim Curator of Art at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art:

John Armstrong: Remembering Influences, June – August 2006
Robert Pierce Butler: Fortunes of a Wild Land, June – October 2006
Joseph Scheer, Night Wings: Moths in Sight and Sound, June - November 2006
The Art of Healing: Clinic Cancer Care Exhibition, November – December 2006
Craig Edwards: Equivalence November - December 2006
Monte Dolack: Visions of Myth, Magic and Mystery, December 2006 – March 2007
Robert Royhl: The Montana Years, December 2006 – March 2007
Richard Swanson: Expanding Thoughts, December 2006 – March 2007
Melissa Stewart: Montana Portraits, January – March 2007
Art Auction Preview Exhibition, January 2007
Royce Fulp: Visions of Humanity, February - March, 2007
By Design: Fast, Functional and Fun!, April - July, 2007




Daniel S. Biehl

Artist's Resume


Selected Exhibitions


2007

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT

Caravan Collaboration: Alone/Together, Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Jesse Wilbur Gallery, Bozeman, MT

Urban Art Project, parking garage window installation collaboration with Julia Becker, Great Falls Municipal Parking Garage, Great Falls, MT

2006

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT

Urban Art Project, parking garage window installation, Great Falls Municipal Parking Garage, Great Falls, MT

Caravan Project Print Portfolio Exhibit, Brunswick Art Center, Missoula, MT

Moments of Truth, Boulder Hot Springs, Boulder, MT (solo)

The Art of Healing, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

2005

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT

Illustrations of Botanicals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Galerie Trinitas, Great Falls, MT

Spirit of Place, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT

2004

4th Minnesota National Print Biennial, K.E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Americas 2000: Paper Works Competition, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND (Award)

32nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Art Museum of Missoula Missoula, MT

Handcrafted: An Expression of American Tradition, High Plains Heritage Center, Great Falls, MT (Best in Show)

2003

Daniel Biehl: Prints, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT (solo)

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT

Handcrafted, High Plains Heritage Center, Great Falls, MT (Best in Show)

2002

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT

Pea Green Boat Art Show, Missoula Public Library, Missoula, MT

2001

Contemporary Baskets, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

University of Great Falls Art Faculty Exhibit, UGF Campus Library, Great Falls, MT and Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT

Mother and Child, Galerie Trinitas, Great Falls, MT

29th Annual Art Auction, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT

Yellowstone Art Museum Small Works Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

2000

The First Ground Zero Millennial, University of Great Falls Fine Arts Gallery, Great Falls, MT

Men’s Art Works 2000, Galerie Trinitas, Great Falls, MT

Prints from the University of Great Falls Nontoxic Printmaking Workshop, Great Falls Public Library, Great Falls, MT

Yellowstone Art Museum Small Works Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

1999 Acme Invitational, Acme Gallery, Wichita, KS

1998

Vessels for the Journey, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

Art Beyond Boundaries Visual Arts Showcase, 1998 ABB Conference, Chadron, NE

26th Annual Art Auction, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT

1997

ANA 26, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT (Honorable Mention)

1996Scrolls and Traces (two person show), Normand T. Dahl Gallery, Great Falls, MT

Is that You? Is That Me? Contemporary Masking, 1996-97 Children’s Exhibition Series, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK

The Chair as Art, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT

ANA 25, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

Sweet Pea Parade, Bozeman, MT (Best Business Float)

1995

The Caravan Project, a traveling exhibition of fourteen artists touring seventeen rural Montana communities over six weeks with mobile sculptures and installations

1994Vessels, Vehicles and Dwellings (two person show), Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT

1993

Sweet Pea Juried Show, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT (Honorable Mention)

1992 Procreative Collaborations (two person show), Exit Gallery, Bozeman, MT

Artleap, Bozeman United Artists, Bozeman, MT

Meadowlark Art Review ’92, Helena Civic Center, Helena, MT

Coffee and Tea Show, Leaf and Bean Coffee Shop, Bozeman, MT

1990

Christmas Show, Pass Gallery, Bozeman, MT

Artist Generated Dolls, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

1989 A Fossil Record (solo show), WCET Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Figurative Exhibition, Closson’s Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Dolls by Artists, Cincinnati Artists’ Group Effort (CAGE) Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1986 Cincinnati Printmakers, Cincinnati Commerce Center, Cincinnati, OH

1985 Pacific States Print and Drawing Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI

1984

A Little Chubasco (two person show), Frasca Gallery, Olympia, WA

1983

Daniel Annual: Recent Works by Employees of Daniel Smith, Inc., Arthead Gallery, Seattle, WA

1979

A Gathering: BFA Thesis Show, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1978

Pretentious and Unpretentious: Art for the Elite and for the Masses, CAGE Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Renaissance ’78, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY



Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of Cincinnati – BFA 1979 (Printmaking)

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

The University of Great Falls, Great Falls, MT



Grants and Awards

1995

To support The Caravan Project: National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Project Grant; U.S. West Foundation Grant; Montana Arts Council, Grants to Organizations



Professional Experience


May 2006-May 2007

Interim Curator of Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

Designer, trifold fliers for Urban Art Project, Great Falls, MT

Co-Juror, The Art of Healing exhibition, Great Falls Clinic Cancer Care and Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

1999-07

Adjunct Professor of Printmaking, University of Great Falls Art Department, Great Falls, MT

2004

Juror, Great Falls Educational Foundation Scholarships

2002 Short-term Artist in Residence, C.M. Russell High School, Great Falls, MT

2001

Developed Educational Resource Room activities, including resources for people with vision impairments, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

1998-2006

Framing or otherwise preparing for presentation Great Falls Very Special Arts Montana artwork; also performed independent framing service for local artists

1995

Member of The Caravan Project, an exhibition of fourteen artists traveling to17 rural Montana communities over a period of six weeks

1994

Visiting Artist, Anderson School, Bozeman, MT

1989

Set Design for Shawn Womack Dance Projects production, The Edge of the Card, at The Dance Hall, Cincinnati, OH

1986-90

Artist Assistant to Nam June Paik, constructing and installing video sculptures. Installations in New York, Seattle and Washington, DC, USA; Antwerp, Belgium, and West Berlin, West Germany

1983-85

Mail-order shipster of artist’s materials and supplies, Daniel Smith, Inc.

1983

Assistant Printer, The Cincinnati Portfolio, Masterpiece Press, Cincinnati, OH

1979

Guest Artist, Prasada Press, Cincinnati, OH

1978

Assistant Printer, edition of prints by Frank Herman at University of Cincinnati facilities

Collections

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Bell Art Program, Cincinnati, OH
Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati, OH
University of Cincinnati School of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Jo Anne Dillenberg, Sarasota, FL
Dr. Ronald Davis, Bozeman, MT
Museo Internacional de Electrographia, Cuenca, Spain
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC
Ingeborg Patterson, Cincinnati, OH
Rosalind Hudgens, Missoula, MT
Central Montana Surgery Center, Great Falls, MT
Howard and Marjorie Feldman, Roseburg,OR

Travels

USA, Canada, Mexico, Western Europe, West Africa, Hungary, Thailand and Malaysia


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