Donald Camp
Encyclopedia
Donald E. Camp is an American
artist
, photographer, and professor
of photography
at Ursinus College
in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
. Camp holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts
and an Master of Fine Arts
from Tyler School of Art
in Philadelphia. Camp is notable for his portrait
s that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face, particularly those of African American
men. Camp’s unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. He has adapted these processes to use photosensitized casein and earth pigments, essentially dust, to produce his photographs. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Donald Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, photographer, and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
at Ursinus College
Ursinus College
Ursinus College is a liberal arts college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.-History:1867Members of the German Reformed Church begin plans to establish a college where "young men could be liberally educated under the benign influence of Christianity." These founders were hoping to...
in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Collegeville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia on the Perkiomen Creek. Collegeville was incorporated in 1896. It is the seat of Ursinus College, opened in 1869...
. Camp holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
and an Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
from Tyler School of Art
Tyler School of Art
The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
in Philadelphia. Camp is notable for his portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
s that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face, particularly those of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
men. Camp’s unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. He has adapted these processes to use photosensitized casein and earth pigments, essentially dust, to produce his photographs. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...
and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Donald Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Solo exhibitions
- 2008-09 Dust Shaped Hearts - New Orleans, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
- 2007 Dust Shaped Hearts, Coleman Center for the Arts, York, AL
- 2006 Dust Shaped Hearts, Gallery 339Gallery 339Gallery 339 is a photographic art gallery located in Philadelphia, USA. The gallery promotes the work of distinguished and emerging photographers from around the world...
, Philadelphia, PA - 2004-05 Dust Shaped Hearts, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
- 2000 What do you Want, It’s Only a Question, Haverford Station, Haverford, PA (produced as part of Points of Departure: Art on the Line by the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA)
- 1998 Dust Shaped Hearts, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts Revisited, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts, Bedford-Stuyvesant Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, NY
- 1997 Dust Shaped Hearts, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
- 1996 Dust Shaped Hearts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
- 1995 Dust Shaped Hearts, Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA
- 1994 Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
- 1994 The William Penn FoundationWilliam Penn FoundationThe William Penn Foundation is a grant-making foundation established in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by businessman Otto Haas and his wife Phoebe....
, Philadelphia, PA - 1993 Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
- 1993 Manchester Craft Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1992 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1990 Gallery One, Western Maryland University, MD
- 1990 Dust Shaped Hearts, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Temple University Center City Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Emerging to Established: Twenty-Five Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 2008 When Photography and Printmaking Collide, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 2005 The Chemistry of Color, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
- 2004 Screenings/Public & Private, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
- 2004 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
- 2001 5th Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Puck Building, Soho, NY
- 2001 Time Lapse, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2000 Absence of Color, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia PA
- 2000 COLOR: NBFAE 2000, Chicago, IL
- 2000 Fourth Annual National Black Fine Arts Show, Puck Bldg, New York, NY
- 1999 New Spirits: Contemporary Artists From Philadelphia, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
- 1999 Wall To Wall Nudes, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1999 3rd Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Soho, NY
- 1999 Portraiture: Not By Definition, Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
- 1998 2nd National Black Fine Art Show, SoHo, NY
- 1998 Beyond Color, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Faith Through the Eyes of Child and Man, University of the Arts, Wagman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Celebration ‘97, Philadelphia Museum of Art Dining Room, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 Just Jazz, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
- 1996 Philadelphia Selections 2, Levy Gallery for the Arts, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
- 1996 Million Man March, Del Pryor Gallery, Detroit, MI
- 1996 Photo Works, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Just Jazz, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 Just Jazz, Dining Room of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
- 1995 Photo Sensitive, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1995 Beyond Stereotypes, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
- 1995 Blacks in the Arts Gallery at the BCC, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
- 1994 Face to Face / Bridges and Boundaries, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA
- 1994 Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta, GA
- 1993 The Alternative Eye, Photo Art for the 90’s, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
- 1993 Encounters of Different Worlds, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- 1993 Ester Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 1993 Politics of Image, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
- 1992 First in the Heart is the Dream, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
- 1992 Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta, GA
- 1992 Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA
- 1991 SPE Mid-Atlantic Exhibition, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- 1991 Hard Choices - Just Rewards II, Pennsylvania State Arts Fellowship Exhibition; Johnstown Art Museum, Blair Art Museum, University of Pittsburgh, Everhart Museum, Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania, Westminster College, The University of the Arts
- 1991 Transpired Realities, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 30 Frames, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 Alternative Museum, New York, NY
- 1991 JBLB Museum, Dallas, TX
- 1990 Art Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1990 Selections of African-American Works From the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1989 Works from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1986-89 Philadelphia Photographers International, Tianjin, China; Bahia, Brazil
- 1983 Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1982 58th International Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
- 1982 Black Photographers, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Grants
- Honickman Foundation Grant, 2008
- Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship for painting (1 of 90 nominees in the nation), 1997
- Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, Photography Award Winner in 1996
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995
- National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship in 1995 - Pew Fellowships in the ArtsPew Fellowships in the ArtsThe Pew Fellowships in the Arts is an organization established by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1991 which awards grants to Philadelphia-area artists. The grants provide artists with an economic freedom that presents the opportunity to focus on their individual practices over a considerable period...
in 1995 - Pennsylvania Visual Arts Fellow in 1995
- Advisory Board of the Creative Artist Network in 1995
- Pew Charitable Trust: Fellowship in the Arts Discipline Winner in 1994
- Pew Regional Visiting Artists Fellowship for the American Academy in Rome in 1994
- Pew/ American Academy in Rome fellowship in 1993
- Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1993
- Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1991
- American Artist Oral History Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
in 1991