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William Willis
Drawing & Painting
  William
Willis was born in Sheffield, Alabama and received
his BA and MFA from the University of South Florida,
Tampa. After teaching at the University of Maryland,
College Park, Mr. Willis went on to join the
Fine Arts faculty at the Corcoran College
of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., where he
has taught painting since 1985. Mr. Willis's work
has been shown in selected solo exhibitions at
the Howard-Scott/M-13 Gallery in Manhattan,
the Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery in Washington
DC, the Baumgartner Galleries in Washington, DC,
the Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery in New York,
the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and
the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York, NY. HIs
work has also appeared in group exhibitions at
the Corcoran Museum of Art and Signal 66 Gallery,
both in Washington, DC, and the Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut in
addition to Maryland Arts Place in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Mr. Willis has received awards from the President's
Fellowship Commission, the Vermont Studio Center
as well as grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
in New York, the Award-in the Visual Arts SECCA,
Winston-Salem, NC, and the National Endowment for
the Arts
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