Bill Botzow
bill@scrollover.org

EDUCATION:
Princeton University, BA, magna cum laude in Art History, 1968.
Atelier Geitlinger, Munich, Germany, 1967.

SELECTED INSTALLATIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES:
High Swing, for In Situ, Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO, 1998.
Between Trust and Homes, community installation for In Situ, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 1998.
Rollover, collaborative installations and theater performances with Meg Cottam and Kevin Bubriski, No. BIAS, North Bennington, VT, Mobius, Boston, MA, Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT, 1998.
The Fight for Upright, installation for Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington, VT, 1998.
Pine Needle Pelt, performed sculptural installation with Ruth Botzow, Meg Cottam, for Post Pastoral, Hopkins Center Plaza, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1998.
Dormancy, collaborative installations/performances with Meg Cottam and Kevin Bubriski, Berkshire Artisans Annex Gallery, England Brothers Department Store, Pittsfield, MA, 1998.
Digital Portrait Booth, installation/performance with Tony Carruthers and Frank Peseckis for Vermont Arts Council Inaugural Arts Conference, Montpelier, Vermont, 1998.
Movement Map, workshop and installation with Meg Cottam for Paran Creek Festival, Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington, VT, 1998.
Semper Hay, with Knox Cummin for Hay Art and Spirit of Place, Huntington, VT, 1998.
Gorge, with physicist/mathematician Frank Peseckis, for 5points art + science + mathematics, , 1997.
Wedge, installation for On the Land, Carlisle, MA, 1997.
Gigapede, installation for Common Ground, Acton, MA, 1997.
Creature, installation for Eleventh Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition by Environmental Arts. Inc., Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA, 1997.
To and From the Continental Divide through the Great Floods of '93 along the Allegheny, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Platte and South Platte Rivers, a drawing odyssey, Flynn Theatre Gallery, Burlington, VT, 1997.
r o l l , performance with Meg Cottam, Savage Art Center, North Bennington, VT, 1997.
Hoosic Circle, installation with Ruth Botzow for Riverworks 6, Hoosic River Watershed Association public event, Williamstown, MA.
Forked Oak, installation for Burlington County College Sculpture Garden, Pemberton, NJ, 1997.
Process, collaborative web project with physicist/mathematician Frank Peseckis, for 5points art + science + mathematics, , 1996.
William Botzow - Paintings, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY, 1996.
Personal Nature, solo exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing and installations, Beside Myself Gallery, Manchester, VT, 1996.
Cascade of Gravity, A Parade in a Landscape, collaborative installation and performance with Meg Cottam Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington, VT, 1996.
Red Column, installation for Blithewold Outdoor Sculpture Expo, Bristol, RI, , 1996.
River Sounding, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1996.
Tree, installation, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, 1995.
Shift, installation with Tony Carruthers, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1995.
Skirted Rock, installation with Ruth Botzow for Spirit of Place, outdoor sculpture invitational, Huntington, VT, 1995.
The Artist as Native, group exhibition curated by Alan Gussow, Middlebury College Art Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greenburg, PA; Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1993-95.
Bill Botzow, 26 Paintings, 1982-1994, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY, 1994.
Current, installation and collaborative performances, with Meg Cottam, Michelle Distel, and Jay Knapp, No.B.I.A.S., North Bennington, VT, 1994.
Locust Grove, artist-in-residence and installation, Art/Omi, Ghent, NY, 1994.
A Little Bit of Wiggle Could be Great!, installation and collaboration with Tony Carruthers and Frank Peseckis, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, NY, 1994.
Regional Selections, group exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, 1994.
Sculpture Under the Sky, group exhibition, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1994.
Art for Cows, group exhibition, Pownal School, Pownal, VT, Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT, 1994.
Guest Performer, Image Lab, by Lisa Nelson and co., Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1994
Guest Performer, Object and Sound: Automation of Accidental Gestures, by Jonathan Bepler and Sue Rees, No.B.I.A.S., North Bennington, VT, 1994.
1993 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 1993.
Ascension, installation for, The Hudson Arts Project, Hudson, NY, 1992.
Spillway, installations with Tony Carruthers, Carol Field and Frank Peseckis, No. B.I.A.S., North Bennington, VT, 1992.
Drawing from the Hudson River Watershed, collaborative project with Carol Field, exhibited, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY, Colburn Gallery, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, 1992.
Current Markers, installation in Hoosic River for Riverwork 1, Hoosic River Watershed Association public event, Williamstown, MA, 1992.
Performance and Set for Tempography, by Christina Svane, Twining Gallery, NY, NY, 1991.
Projects for the Holden-Leonard Mill, site installations, Bennington, VT, 1990.
Paintings - Works on Paper, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY, 1990.
Performance, and Set for House of Corn, by Christina Svane, Pownal, VT, 1990.
Projects for the Holden-Leonard Mill, site installations, Bennington, VT, 1990.
Berkshire Art Association Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1989
Twenty Year Drawing Retrospective, solo exhibition, Ars Nova, North Adams, MA, 1988. William Botzow, Neo Persona Gallery, New York, NY, 1987.
William Botzow, Twenty Year Retrospective, Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY, 1987.
Romanticism and Classicism, Queens Community College, Bayside, NY, 1987.
Guest Artist, A Folly for Lake Paran, by Christina Svane and Tony Carruthers, North Bennington, VT, 1987.
37th Art of the Northeast USA, group exhibition, Silvermine Gallery, New Caanen, CT, 1986. Cochise Fine Arts, Bisbee, AZ, 1980, 1983 solo exhibitions.
Three Expressionist Visions, Vermont Council on the Arts Traveling Exhibition, toured Vermont, 1984.
Galerie Issa en Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, solo exhibition, 1983.
Eight Bisbee Artists--Works on Paper, group exhibition curated by the Utah Arts Council and the Arizona Commission for the Arts, (toured Utah, Arizona and Nevada) 1981-1983.
Bisbee in Santa Fe, Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1980.
Bisbee Biennial, Cochise Fine Arts, Bisbee, AZ, 1980.
Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 1980.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, solo exhibition 1979.
Institute Francais d'Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, solo exhibition, 1979.
University of Idaho Gallery, Moscow, ID, solo exhibition, 1974.
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, solo exhibition, 1974.
Christian Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, solo exhibition, 1970.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, solo exhibition, 1969.

SOME PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES:
Board of Directors, River Watch Network, Montpelier,VT, 1997-.

Board of Directors, National Assembly of State Art Associations, Washington, DC, 1996-99.
Chair, Communications Committee, 1998-99
Planning and Budget Committee, 1998-99
Development Committee, 1998-99
Nominating Committee, 1997
Board of Trustees, The Carving Studio, West Rutland, VT, 1996-.
Art in State Buildings Coordinator, Vermont Arts Council, 1996-.
Board of Directors, Art /Omi, New York, NY, 1994-.
Co-Chair, Vermont Watershed Arts Group, Montpelier, VT, 1996-97.
Board of Trustees, Vermont Council on the Arts, 1988-95,
Chair, Executive Director Search Committee, 1996.
Long Range Plan Advisor, 1996
Chairman of the Board, 1993-95.
Chair, Policy and Planning Committee , 1990-93.
Artists Advisory Committee, 1987-88.
Artist in Schools:
Plastic--Nature, Pownal Elementary School, Pownal, MA, 1999,
Recycling Figures, Monument Elementary School, Bennington, VT, 1999,
Watershed Project, Florida Elementary School, Florida, MA, 1993.
Board of Trustees, New England Foundation for the Arts, 1994-95.
Artists Advisory Committee for New England Artists' Trust, 1992-94.
Board of Directors, New Work of Vermont, 1992-94.
Project Coordinator, Art for Cows, Pownal, VT, 1994.
Panelist, Environmental Art, Artists Talk on Art, New York, NY, 1995.
Panelist, Artists, Places and Spirituality, Albany Institute of History and Art, February 27, 1994.
Project Coordinator, Riverwork 2, Williamstown, MA, 1993.
Panelist, Art and the Marketplace, Princeton University, 1988.
Board of Directors, Cochise Fine Arts, Bisbee, AZ, Chairman, Exhibition Committee, 1978-80.
President, Green Mountain Arts Collaborative, Bennington, VT, 1976-77.
Guest lecturer, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 1974.
Drawing Instructor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1969-70.
Director, East 116th St. Tutoring Center, NY, NY, 1968-70.

CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Allentown Medical Associates, Allentown, PA
AMOCO Corporate Collection, Denver, CO.
Art/Omi, Ghent, NY
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Berkshire Telephone Company, Kinderhook, NY.
Christian Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Cochise Fine Arts, Bisbee, AZ.
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Northern Berkshire Mental Health Association, North Adams, MA.
Pepsi Co. Collection, Harrison, NY
Pondside Press, Rhinebeck, NY



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