Bio
Rosie Thompson
Rosie’s varied media works take the form of large scale site-specific installations, smaller more intimate constructions, and drawing/collage dealing with the spatial realm that gives way to the sculptural shamanistic forms.
Rosie has exhibited in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington, DC, Texas, Berne Switzerland, and New York City. Her traveling exhibitions have been in Europe and the USA. Her lectures and workshops have been in Europe and the USA. Her lectures have been in the USA, Tokyo, Japan, Aarau, Switzerland, and Mexico City, Mexico. Her works is represented by SOHO 20 Gallery, NYC., and FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Rosie’s grants and fellowships include North Carolina Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts Project Grants and Visual Artist Fellowship Grants, Pittsburgh Foundation, A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund Visiting Artist Grant, Lily Endowment Grant, Colorado Springs, and Kansas Arts Council Visiting Artist Grants.
Among the publications that include Rosie’s works are: This Way Day Break Comes, A. Cheatham and M. C. Powell; Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Virginia Watson Jones; The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, Dialogue: Arts in the Midwest, Artspeak, New Art Examiner, Arts Journal, Washington Review, International Sculpture, and numerous catalogues.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2002
Fulbright Fellowship to travel & study in China & Tibet
2000
NCCU Education Grant for “Conserve A Legacy” Teacher Workshops
1994
Special Project Grant, NC Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
1993
Lilly Endowment Grant, Colorado Springs, CO
1992
North Carolina Central University Educational Study Grant, Seattle, WA
1989-90
Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, NC Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
1989
Pittsburgh Foundation Grant from A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund
Visiting Artist grant/Collaborative Installation, Pittsburgh School for the Creative and Performing Arts
1986
Visiting Artist Grant, Kansas Arts Council
1975-78
Teaching Fellowship, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
EXPERIENCE
Present -2003
Professor Emeritus, NCCU Art Department, Durham, NC
2020-1983
Curatorial and Administrative, , NCCU Art Department, Durham, NC
2003-1983
Art Professor, NCCU Art Department, Durham, NC
2015
Professor Emeritus, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
2012-1996
International Studies: India, Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Tibet, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, UK, Thailand Spain, Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, Turkish Isles, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Costa Rica, Lebanon, France, Viet Nam, Cambodia
Panelist: “Word/Forms” Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2012-1983
Curatorial and Administrative: Curatorial and coordination work for placing art in public spaces, funded by State Arts Councils, Corporations, and City Organizations
Grants Selection Panelist, Artist Panelist, Moderator and Curator at Art Conferences in USA
2012-1975
Lectures and Workshops at the Art Centers, Universities, an Schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, New Orleans, Louisiana, New York, Kansas, Florida, Cleveland, Ohio, Lexington, KY, Tokyo, Japan, Berne, Switzerland
Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 1983-2003
Director, NCCU Visual Artists Archive File, 1990-1995
2002-1993
Lectures: Art Faculty International Series, NC Central University, Durham, NC
1992
Panelist: Southern Women Artists, Kentucky Foundation for Women in the Arts
1991
Lecture: “Multiculturalism vs. The Mainstream in American Sculpture”, Tri-State Sculptors Conference, UNC-Asheville, NC
Lecture: “Pluralism in Contemporary American Art”, Tokyo, Japan
Panelist: National Caucus for Women in the Arts, “Revising the View, Southern Women Artists”, Washington, DC
1976
10 Country Collaboration, Time/Space Works
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012
SOHO20 Artists, catalogue, USA
2010
SOHO20 Artists, catalogue, USA
The Herald-Sun, “Area Artists cut teeth under Hartley at ECU”, Blue Greenberg, March 9, 2010, Durham, NC
2008
SOHO20 Artists, catalogue, USA
2005
Winston-Salem Journal, “Connections” at T.A.G.,T. Patterson, NC
Washington City Paper, Gallery Review, “The Cutting Edge” at Gallery 10, Ltd., May 1994, Washington, DC
1993
The Village Voice, Voices Choices – Art, August 10, 1993, NYC
1991 Lexington Herald Leader, Visual Arts: NC Artist Brings “Crime to Transy, David Minton,” October 6, 1991, Lexington, KY
1990
Artspeak, Happy Combinations in SOHO, Review: E.C. Lipton, May 1, 1990, New York, NY
Dialogue: Arts in the Midwest, “Ritual, Rites, Relics, C.A.G.E”, Cincinnati, June 1-22, Review: Robert Brasier, September/October 1990, p.26, Columbus, OH
Winston-Salem Journal, Diverse Uneven Show Has Standouts, Review: Tom Patterson, pp., H4-H5, August 12, 1990, Winston-Salem, NC
1989
ArtSpeak, Group Shows Have Direction With Variety: Ward-Nasse Gallery Review, Meredith Hall, May 16, 1989, New York, NY
Durham Morning Herald, Box Art Rekindles 60’s Debate, Constructions: Rosie Thompson, Arts Center, Blue Greenberg, March 13, 1989
1988
Influence-The Arts in Baltimore, Spiritually in the Modern Vacuum, Review: Mark Reeve, October/November 1998, pp., 10-12, Baltimore, MD
The Sun, Rosie Thompson’s 3-Sisters Installation at School 33 Art Center, John Dorsey, September 21, 1988, p., 3C, Baltimore, MD
1987
ArtSpeak, Ward-Nasse Gallery Review, J. Taylor Basker, October 1, 1987, p., 15, New York, NY
New Art Examiner, Reviews, Virginia, 1708 East Main Gallery, Jane Coco, April 1987, p., 46
1986
Art Journal, April 1986, pp., 5-7, Sculpture In North Carolina, Jon Meyer
New Art Examiner, Reviews, Washington, DC, “Rituals, Rites, Relics”, Foundry Gallery, Patrick Frank, March 1986, Vol., 13, No. 7, p., 54, Patrick Frank
Arts Journal, “A Polychotomous Microcosm of Contemporary Sculpture”, December 1986, pp., 10-11, Jon Meyer
1985
Contemporary American Women Sculptors, An Illustrated Bio-Bibliographical Directory, Virginia Watson Jones, Oryz Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1985
This Way Daybreak Comes: “Women’s Values and the Future”, M.C. Powell and Annie Cheatham, Chapters- Women and Art; Personal Relationships; Autonomy and Connectedness; Women and the Planet, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, PA, 1985
Washington Review, Rosie Thompson, Gallery 10 Ltd., November 27-December 22, 1985, Mary McCoy, Vol., X, No. 5, Washington, DC
International Sculpture, DC Events, Vol., 4, No. 6, November/December 198
Miami Herald, “Gathering Evidence” September 21, 1985, Miami, FL
Texas Fine Arts 1984 Annual National Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin TX, (Catalogue)
1983
Arts Journal, Rosie Thompson, “Celebrates Life”, p., 9, November 1983
1980
Paper: Group Exhibition of Changing Uses and Concepts, Gallery 10 Ltd., January 1980, Washington, DC, (Catalogue)
1979
Artscope, Featured Artist, Spring 1979
Southern Exposure, “Women Artists in the South, Southeastern Women’s Caucus for Art”, Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, LA (Catalogue