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BIO
Mark Millstein is an artist and designer living in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is a Professor in the Design Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he teaches Digital Media and special projects in video, interactive media, digital photography and printmaking.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Mark received his BFA in video and photography from the Atlanta College of Art in 1982 and an MFA in interrelated media from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1986.
Mark worked as an animator and interactive media designer in Atlanta and Boston prior to returning to academia full-time. Before coming to UMass Dartmouth, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Atlanta College of Art and Massachusetts College of Art.
Mark has received numerous research and creative grants, has been a reviewer for texts on digital imaging, and has curated several exhibitions highlighting digital and hybrid processes in art and design. These include a UMass faculty show at the statehouse in Boston during the first Cyberarts Festival in 1999; Digital
Insight at the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA in 2001; and Hybrid Prints: Redefining Printmaking, at UMass Dartmouth in 2003, co-curated with professors Janine Wong and Marc St. Pierre.
for more info, contact Mark directly:
mmillstein@umassd.edu
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recent news & other highlights:
Spring, 2011
The Narrows Center for the Arts, DRIFT, with Alison Wells and K. Lenore Siner, May 27 - June 18
2010
Judith Klein Gallery 2nd Anniversary Exhibition, New Bedford... The invitational group exhibit includes two of Mark's sailforms as well as works by several UMass Dartmouth CVPA faculty...
Mark's work was selected for Boston HarborArts Large Scale Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Boston Harbor Shipyard in East Boston. The work will be installed for as long as two years. Mark is now working with the HarborArts crew to develop an international version of a similar concept. More on that soon...
2009
Mark's work was included in the 2009 National Juried
Exhibition at Berkeley,
California's Arts & Crafts Cooperative Inc., the oldest arts
and crafts cooperative west of the Mississippi.
IMark completed an installation for the main lobby of SMAST, UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science and Technology waterfront campus in the south end of New Bedford.
2008 & earlier
Mark's work in Top 40, at LACDA, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Mark's work was included in the First Alternative Process Digital Printing Exhibitionand in Rochester, NY, at BookSmart Studio's Kunstler Gallery.
Mark's artwork has been included in several SIGGRAPH Art Galleries, most recently SIGGRAPH
2006 in Boston, and in prior years 2005, 2003, 2000 and 1995. Mark is included in the 2006 text Art
of the Digital Age edited by Bruce Wands, Thames and Hudson, publisher.
In 2003, at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Arts and Industry, Mark was a finalist in a kite design exhibition. Jurors were graphic designers Milton Glaser, Judy Kirpich and Anne Willoughby. In the same year, during the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mark won the Kahlil Gibran award from the Copley Society of Boston for his work in the show Manifest 2003.
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