Randy Bolton is known for his innovative work as a print artist and teacher. Bolton received a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas and a M.F.A. from the Ohio State University. Bolton has taught in a number of teaching positions across the country including four years as a visiting artist in printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1989-2002, Bolton was professor of art and printmaking area coordinator at the University of Delaware. From 2002-2016, Bolton was the head of the Print Media Department and an artist in residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bolton currently lives and maintains his full-time studio practice in Fayetteville, TX. Bolton’s work has been widely exhibited in hundreds of one-person and group shows since 1982 throughout the U.S., and in Europe and Asia. His prints are in many museum and corporate collections including the Akron Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, Fidelity Investments in Detroit, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Art Matters (NYC). He has completed artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Evergreen House in Baltimore, MD, the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and the Frans Masereel Center (Kasterlee, Belgium).
Randy Bolton
Studios
Eastman
Randy Bolton worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…