Dru Anderson - Artist
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Education
MFA Emphasis in Painting, Installation, Graduate With Honors, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
Course Completion Certified Program in Teaching and Learning, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
BA Studio Art Emphasis in Painting, Graduate With Honors, Mills College, CA 2011
Experience
Instructor, Individual and Group Instructions, Studio and Home, Bay Area, CA 2014 til Present
Instructor, Introduction to Visual Thinking, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
Guest Artist Speaker, Mills College, CA 2013
Guest Artist Lecturer, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
Lead Artist AirQuest Location Based Video Game Project, Social Apps Lab at CITRUS - UC Berkeley, CA 2011-2012
Instructor, Introduction to Visual Thinking, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley, CA 2012
Graduate Student Ambassador For The Arts, UC Berkeley, CA 2012
Instructor, Community Art Workshops Using Recycled Materials, Berkeley, CA 2012
ASMC Senator For The Arts, Mills College, CA 2010/2011
Founder/President Studio Art Collective, Mills College, CA 2009-2011
Lead Artist/Designer Pow Wow Apparel and Promotional Materials, Mills College, CA 2009-2010
Lead Artist/Designer The Womanist Front and Rear Magazine Jacket, Mills College, CA 2009-2010
Inner-City Kids Artist Connection, Local Children’s Art Projects, Long Island, NY 1980-1981
Muralist/Community Art, Long Island, NY 1980
Instructor, Pattern Making, Draping, Design, Accessory and Construction, Varied Venues, CA & NY 1982-until
Awards
Patron Artist Award, Alabama 2017
Headlands Graduate Fellow Award, UC Berkeley, CA 2013/14
The Harry Ford Lord Award, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
The Calder Hayes/Tevis Jacobs/BAM Council Founders Award, UC Berkeley, CA 2013
Graduate Division Block Award, UC Berkeley, CA 2011
MOCA Artist of the Year Award, Mills College, CA 2011
Ralph Du Casse Endowed Scholarship, Mills College, CA 2011
Harriett Wolffers Scholarship, Mills College, CA 2010/11
Osher Resumers Endowed Scholarship, Mills College, CA 2009/10
Soroptimist Women’s Opportunity Award, San Leandro, CA 2010
Fellowships
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UC Berkeley, CA 2012
Residencies
Patron Artist Residency, Alabama 2017
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2014
Exhibitions
"Corona Dreams" Private Exhibition Patron Led, Oakland, CA 2020....
"Invincible California" Worth Ryder Gallery Art Alumni Exhibition/Fundraiser, Berkeley, CA 2020
A.L.P. Patron Arts Private Exhibition/Fundraiser, Alabama 2019
Patron Art Exhibition, Alabama 2017/2018
Richmond Art Center 80th Anniversary: "Making Our Mark" Sept.10-Nov. 19, 2016
On the Rise, Group Exibition, Oakland, CA 2016
Rap It Up, Group Exibition, San Jose, CA 2015
Inmigrantes, Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2015
Graduate Fellows Exhibition-Collective Disturbances, Headlands Sausalito, CA 2014
Pictures, Featuring, Pro Arts Solo Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2014
Paint It Black, Studio 110 Projects Group Exhibition, Sausalito, CA 2014
The Space Installation, Group Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2014
Art On The Lake, Group Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2014
Dreamscape, Group Exhibition Underground Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2014
Collective Disturbances, Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellows Group Exhibition, Sausalito, CA 2014
Pro Arts Gallery, Group Exhibition by Peers, Oakland, CA 2014
The Joyce Gordon Gallery, Holiday Group Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2013/2014
Art for Social Justice, Group Exhibition, Oakland, CA 2013
Sign of The Times, Group Exhibition, Marin, CA 2013
MFA NOW, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2013
43 rd Annual M.F.A. Exhibition, (BAM) Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 2013
Tallahassee International, Florida State Museum of Fine Art, Group Exhibition – Tallahassee, FL 2012
Introductions, Worth Ryder Gallery, Group Exhibition - Berkeley, CA 2012
MFA NOW, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2012
Artist’s Dozen, Mills College Art Museum, Group Exhibition – Oakland, CA 2011
The Collection, Group Exhibition - Hayward, CA 2010
Free Fallin', Group Exhibition - Oakland, CA 2009
WE, Group Exhibition – Long Beach, CA 2008