Discipline: Visual Art

William Schaaf

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Gainesville, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969, 1972, 1973
More: www.williamschaaf.com
William Schaaf has a B.F.A. from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, both in painting and printmaking. Academically, he has served many roles; professor, lecturer, workshop facilitator, visiting artist at more than 25 different institutions, including Southern Illinois University, Penn State University, York University in Toronto, Wayne State University in Detroit, Princeton University, Universities of Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin, S. Florida, Miami, and others. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell (three times), the Ossabaw Island Project (twice), and the Virginia Center for the Arts. He has twice been awarded Individual Artist's Grants from the State of Florida. He was an Alternate in Painting for the American Academy in Rome and he worked with Christo's Surrounded Island Project in Miami.

Studios

Star

William Schaaf worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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