Biography
Education 1974 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
1972 B.S. in Art Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008 National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
2007 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Inventory, A Reaction to the Collection, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Witherspoon Gallery, Princeton, NJ
2004 Philadelphia International Airport Exhibitions Program, Terminal F, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Boland Hall Gallery, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Richard Stockton College Art Gallery, Pomona, NJ
1995 Bayard Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
1991 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
1989 Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1982 Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
1979 Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1977 Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA
1976 Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA
1975 University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
1975 LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
2007 Then and Now, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 Finding A Form, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia
2006 Dream World, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Finders Keepers, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Out of Line, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Artists Choose Artists, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Field Notes, Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2005 A Juried Exhibition-in-Print, New American Painting #63, juror Alex Baker
2004 Several Steps Removed, Philadelphia Print Collaborative, Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Masters and Mavericks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 A Juried Exhibition-in-Print , New American Painting #51, juror Carl Belz
2003 Landscape, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Fl
2003 Circle Show, The Philadelphia Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Faculty Exhibition, Charles Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003 North of the Border, Art in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Value and Presence , List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2003 Drawing as Drawing , Drawing in Painting , Olmsted Gallery, Penn State Harrisburg Campus, Middletown, PA
2002 Gallery Artists Group Exhibition , Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Summer Group Exhibition , Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Printmaking: A Collaborative Process Featuring Works by Joan Curran and Emily Brown , Welcoming
Art Gallery, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2001 Small Print Show, Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Faculty Exhibition, Undergraduate Fine Arts Program, Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2001 Altered Egos, Borofsky Gallery, Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Cheryl Harper
2001 Community Gardens , Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2001 A Juried Exhibition-in-Print , New American Painting #33, juror Beth Venn
2000 Cecil/Curran/Grothusen/Peterson/Stone, Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Biennial 1998, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1997 Trees, Arts in the Academy, National Academy of the Sciences, Washington, DC
1997 Drawing, Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Return to Beauty , Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
1995 A Grand Affair: Art Initiative = s Benefit Exhibition , 420 W Broadway, New York; juried by Michael Walls
1995 Tyler School of Art Faculty Exhibition , Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1995 Meet the Neighbors , Paley Gallery, Philadelphia College of Textile and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Summer in the City , Laurie W and Irvin J Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Three Visions of Landscape , F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Summer Invitational , Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Fifty-second Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, PA; juried by Alice Yang
1992 Landscapes, F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Twenty-third Juried Exhibition , Allentown Art Museum, PA. juried by Cheryl Brutvan
1991 Biennial '91, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; juried by Lucy Lippard
1990 The Icon and the Spiritual , Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
1990 Twenty-five Years of Collecting Fine Art, the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1989 Shrines and Icons, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Forty-ninth Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, PA; juried by Terrie Francis Sultan
1989 Biennial '89, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; juried by John Perreault
1989 Open Ateliers, Gallery at the Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; juried by Ned Rifkin
1988 Twenty-first Juried Exhibition , Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa; juried by Monique Beudert
1987 Art Against Aids, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Forty-sixth Annual Juried Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA; juried by Gracie Mansion
1986 Nature Morte: The Museum Considers the Still Life, Northern Alleghenies Museum, Loretto, PA
1986 New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; juried by Richard Anuskiewiecz
1986 Biennia l Exhibition: New Jersey Artists , The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; juried by Susan Delahunty and Douglas G. Schultz Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
2001-Present Lecturer, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1997-2001 Adjunct Associate Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
1994-1995 Instructor, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1982-1986 Assistant Professor, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
1978-1982 Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1978 Artist-in-Residence, Artist-in-the-Schools Program (National Endowment for the Arts), North Attleboro, MA
1977-1978 Lecturer, New England College, Henniker, NH
1974-1977 Assistant Professor, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Townsend Wolfe
Astra Zeneca Corporation
McGraw Hill
First USA Bank, Wilmington, DE
Sheraton Resort Hotel, Bal Harbour, FL
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Sterling Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA
Albany State Legislature, Albany, NY
Summy-Birchard Music Corporation, Princeton, NJ
LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, Lamar Dodd Museum, LaGrange, GA
Grants and Awards
2006 Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
2004 Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Business/Arts Partnership Award – Small/Mid Sized Business, LaColombe & The Print Center, Arts and Business Council
2002 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Curator of IMPRINT, a public art project with The Print Center, funded by Pew Charitable Trusts: $181,516 grant
2001 Individual Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
2001 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Finalist, Works on Paper
1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Finalist, Painting
1992 Residency in painting, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1987 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant in Painting
1985 Residency in painting, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1985 Tobeleah Wechler Award, 44th Annual Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Arts Center
1981 Faculty Research Grant (painting), Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1979 Faculty Research Grant (painting), Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Guest Artist/Lectures
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The University of Pennsylvania
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Wagner Free Institute of Science
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Albright College, Reading, PA
Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
West Georgia College, Carrollton, GA
Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA
Women In The Arts, William Penn Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Juror, Fleisher Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Curator, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, IMPRINT with The Print Center, Pew Charitable Trusts: $181,516 grant
Juror, 'Women in the Arts' , Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Juror, Sedgwick Cultural Center Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Curator, 'Philadelphia Artists', Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
Co-organizer, The LaGrange National Exhibition, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Professional Activities
Board of Governors, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Peer Panelist, Visual Arts, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund 2006
Ware, Katherine, “Museum of Chain-link Treasures: Paintings and Drawings by Joan Wadleigh Curran”, in “Inventory” Exhibition Catalog, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 2006
Rosenthal, James, “Cycles”, InLiquid, May 23, 2007
Newhall, Edith, “Fine Works, Obscure Narrative”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, May 25, 2007
Rosof, Libby, “Blue Chip Special at Tower”, Artblog, Sunday April 15, 2007
Newhall, Edith, “Beauty Amid Blight”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, February 17, 2006
Sozanski, Edward, “Challenge Show Explores Creative Paths”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday., Nov. 4, 2005
Fallon, Roberta and Rossof, Libby, “Out of Line”, Artblog, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005
Sozanski, Edward, "Boldly Showing Persistence of Nature", Philadelphia Inquirer , Weekend Section, Friday, May 2, 2003
Fallon, Roberta, A Sketches @ , Philadelphia Weekly , April 9, 2003
Sozanski, Edward, "Values of Drawing", Philadelphia Inquirer, Weekend Section, Friday, Feb. 7, 2003
Donohue , Victoria, "Value and Presence Exhibition Review", Philadelphia Inquirer , Sunday. Feb. 2, 2003
Francis, Anna, "Exhibit Curator Calls for A Return to Beauty", Art Matters , December/January 1995
Wadsworth , Susan, "Joan Wadleigh Curran: The Persistence of Nature", Art New England , February/March 1992
Sozanski, Edward J., "The Shrines and Icons of Three Artists", The Philadelphia Inquirer , December 14, 1989
Sozanski, Edward, J., "Craft Aesthetic Dominates NJ Artist's Work", The Philadelphia Inquirer , PA, July 17, 1986
Watkins, Eileen, "Arts Annual: A Spectacle", The Newark Star Ledger , April 12, 1985
Donohue , Victoria, "Exhibit Supports Regional Painters" , The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 1985
Watkins, Eileen, "Fifth New Jersey Artists Biennial Opens", The Newark Star Ledger, April 12, 1985
Donohue , Victoria, "Glass and Furniture on Exhibition", The Philadelphia Inquirer , October 26, 1984
Doan-Johnson, Susan, "The Best-Collected from New Jersey's Artists for Museum's Biennial Show", The Sunday Times: The Magazine, November 13, 1983
Watkins, Eileen, "Hunterdon Exhibit Reflects Strong Personal Statements", The Newark Star Ledger , August 28, 1983