Studio. December 3, 2018
“All we are, all we see, is nature. Things grow. Or are made. Maybe by a human being, maybe by a bird or a bee. We make objects of all sizes, buildings, art. Then they get old, sometimes are torn down, even made to disappear, by water, wind, war, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or fire. Or they fall down from their own weight, or are pushed over, stepped on, shot at, blown up, smashed. Yet, the pure material remains. The materials are reused down through the ages. Architecture and painting and sculpture are made from these raw and recycled materials. An artist's eye and hand moves over the materials while at the beach, or visiting an Italian city, or in the studio, remembers them as they used to be and rearranges them: the broken buildings, the stones, the tiles, the pigments. In my work I'm re-imagining the past, making it present.”
—Hermine Ford
CHRONOLOGY
1939 Born, New York, NY.
1976 Grant Recipient, CAPS Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, NY.
1977-1983 Instructor, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
1981 Instructor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1983 Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1984 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Visiting Artist, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art.
1985 Acting Director, Mount Royal Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1986-2010 Artist in Residence, Mount Royal College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1991 Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, VT.
1992 Visiting Artist, New York Studio School, New York, NY.
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1999 Acting Director, Mount Royal Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Visiting Artist, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
2002 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Rome, ITALY.
2007 Visiting Lecturer, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY.
2011 Commission, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
2018 Elected Member, National Academy of Design, New York, NY.
EDUCATION
1962 B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH.
1960-1961 Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT.
Ms. Ford currently lives and works in New York City and Nova Scotia.