Sunday, April 04, 2004

Dorothy Simpson Krause

Dorothy Simpson Krause is a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books. She is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art where she founded the Computer Arts Center, and a member of Digital Atelier, an artist collaborative, with Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia and a consultant for manufacturers and distributors of products which may be used by fine artists.

In July 1997, Krause organized “Digital Atelier: A printmaking studio for the 21st century” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was an artist-in-residence there for 21 days. For that work she and her colleagues received a Smithsonian Technology in the Arts Award. That same year, she worked with a group of curators to help them envision the potential of digital printmaking in “Media for a New Millennium”, a work-tank/ think-shop organized by the Vinalhaven Graphic Arts Foundation. In June 2001, with Digital Atelier, Krause demonstrated digital printmaking techniques at the opening of the Brooklyn Museum of Art 27th Print National, Digital: Printmaking Now.

Krause is co-author, with Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, of Digital Art Studio: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials.  It is being published by Watson-Guptill (August 2004 release) and can be preordered from Amazon at http://www.DigitalAtelier.com

Krause work can be seen at http://www.DotKrause.com.