Curlee Raven Holton

Curlee Raven Holton is a printmaker and educator from Mississippi. He received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Fine Arts in drawing and printmaking and an MFA with honors from Kent State University, OH.

Since 1991, Holton has taught printmaking and African American art history at Lafayette College, Easton, PA. He is the founding and current director of Lafayette's Experimental Printmaking Institute and, concurrently, the director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Holton’s work has been exhibited at Taller de Artes Plásticas Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, among other institutions. His work is in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.  
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1951

Mississippi

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

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