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Professor James Bailey
RESEARCH / Critical Supporting Documentation

Highlights

  • Chaired panel at national Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) printmaking conference. SGCI SGCI is the largest printmaking organization in North America, it's not necessarily the largest in the world. SGCI's annual conference draws artists from the United States, Canada, and parts of Central and South America and Europe, showcasing its broad reach.
  • Chaired panel at national Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance (RMPA) conference.  RMPA represents the 10 western Rocky Mountain states.
  • Curated 2 exhibitions.
  • Work included in Catalog at Hilliard Art Museum.
  • Work included in 2 films.
  • Work included in 13 exhibitions.

National & International Panels / Local Lecture & National Jurying

This was a nationally competitive application that was selected by the organizing conference committee.  I Chaired panel at national Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) printmaking conference.SGCI SGCI is the largest printmaking organization in North America. SGCI's annual conference draws artists from the United States, Canada, and parts of Central and South America and Europe, showcasing its broad reach. (Other panelists were Susan Goldman, Lily Press, MD; Marwin Begaye, OK (last minute substitute for Judith Baumann due to illness)
This was a nationally competitive application that was selected by the organizing conference committee.  I Chaired panel at Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance (RMPA) conference.  RMPA represents the 10 western Rocky Mountain states. Other panelist were Judith Baumann, Crows Shadow; Paul Mullowney, Mullowney Printing Company.
Was invited as a juror for the Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residency Program.  I was one of 4 jurors who considered works of art, writing, music from national artists/writers/muscians.

Catalogs

 Regional & Local Exhibitions 

National Publications 

  1. TAKING COYOTE BACK, Missoulian, Saturday, March 29, 2025. Interviewed for article on visiting artist Duane Slick working with Matrix press.
  2. “Joe Feddersen: Earth, water, Sky” Catalog, MAC, Spokane, WA
  3. Featured on Speedball Arts Linkedin page for our project with Duane Slick
  4. SO IT STARTS AGAIN, Missoulian, Monday, May 12, 2025.  Interviewed for article on James Todd.
  5. Portfolios: Lloyd Menard, Printmaking Legacy Project, by Susan Goldman. Appeared in documentary.
  6. “Printmaker Returns”, Missoulian, Sunday, November 3, 2025 (Front page)
  7. Marias Press 20 Years, Catalog, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
  8.  “$55 Private. Room In A Safe Quiet Neighborhood” film by Lauren Norby, Work used in film.
  9. Work used in film “Somewhere in Montana”
  10. Intense details, technique and jokes color Missoula artist’s work, Missoulian, August 3, 2023; Interviewed for article on Tyler Krawoski
  11. “Joe Feddersen: Earth, water, Sky” Catalog, MAC, Spokane, WA
  12. Maake magazine, April, 2023
  13. Focus on the Matrix, Missoulian, April 14, 2023
  14. Visiting artist inspires students to look beyond the mundane, Kaimen, February 3, 2023 (Brian Kelly)
  15. Visiting artist merges abstraction and activism at UM press, Missoulian, October, 2022, (Ka’ila Farrell-Smith)
  16. Corky Clairmont: Making prints starts on site, Missoulian, 2022
  17. UM visiting artist links art to the history of Indigenous lands, Kaimen, April 21, 2022
  18. Navajo printmaker visits UM to make bird and pattern-laden art, Missoulian, March 7, 2022
  19. Visiting Artist share his Indigenous printmaking with UM students, Kaimen, March, 2022
  20. Featured on pine I copper I lime podcast. (over 42,000 followers)
  21. Kentler Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY; New Republican Agenda print used for Brochure on Richard Mock, July, 2021
  22. Neal Ambrose-Smith’s omnivorous way of making art, Missoulian, October, 2021
  23. Interviewed for Missoulian, Aug 3, 2023 “Intense details, technique and jokes color Missoula artist’s work”
  24. ​SO, IT STARTS AGAIN, Missoulian, Monday, May 12, 2025.  Interviewed for article on James Todd.
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Curatorial Projects /Matrix Press: 20 Years of Collaboration exhibition-3 yr project & Contemporary Indigenous Voices exhibition.

Matrix Press: 20 Years of Collaboration:
  • ​This was a three-year long project.  Wherein I curated an exhibition comprised of 80+ prints. 
  • Additionally combed through 1000’s of photos and put together over 200 images of artists working for multiple monitor displays in the gallery.
  •  Put together an educational component comprised of working plates, tools and photos for a series of displays in an adjacent gallery space. 
  •  Full 60 page color catalog accompanied the exhibition-see publications.
Contemporary Indigenous Voices Exhibition
  • Wrote proposal and curated exhibition featuring 40 works by seven contemporary nationally recognized native artists.
  • This exhibition was written up in the Missoulian
  •  Was planned to coincide with Indigenous People’s day.

National Lectures / Workshops / Residencies / Jurying / Events presented

4 Regional/Local Lectures & Workshops

Publications/interviews