Discipline: Visual Art

Daniel Burke

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Erie, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1973
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Daniel Burke attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for several years and served in the U.S. Army for three years. He received his bachelor’s degree from Mercyhurst College and his master’s from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Burke has won awards in 28 national and international shows, such as the Bellinger Memorial Award at the Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art. He has been honored with three Memorial Awards at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Chautauqua Art Association Award, Mainstreams’ Award of excellence. He was awarded a Mid-Atlantic Arts Council grant for works on paper and was four times a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, most recently in 2008. To date, Burke has had 30 one-person shows across New England, the Midwest, and the southern U.S. The artist’s paintings, drawings, and installations are in the permanent collections of numerous corporations and individuals. He has been affiliated with the Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists’ Association since its inception in 1975, serving as its co-executive chairman until 1990. A member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, he has participated in their Carnegie Museum of Art Annual Exhibitions since 1988. He is a professor of art and research fellow at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA.

Studios

Adams

Daniel Burke worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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