Dean Dass received his B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa, where he studied art, philosophy and anthropology, and his M.F.A. from The Tyler School of Art at Temple University. For 35 years, Dass taught studio art at the University of Virginia (1985-2020), receiving the All-University Teaching Award in 2003, for which he was nominated by students.

Dass’s works have been exhibited and collected by important institutions nationally and internationally. Among others, these include the Brooklyn Museum, where he has been invited to participate in three National Print Invitational Exhibitions, and the international triennial exhibition, Graphica Creativa, Jyväskylä, where he was the recipient of a Juror’s Prize. His works have been included in important juried and invitational exhibitions at museums in Poland, Brazil, England, Finland, the Netherlands, and Egypt, as well as in many university and private galleries in the US and abroad. He was the recipient of the State of Pennsylvania Arts Council Individual Fellowship, the State of Virginia Commission for the Arts Printmaking Prize, the State of Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Individual Fellowship, and multiple research grants and fellowships from the University of Virginia.

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