Curlee Raven Holton

Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) is an American painter, printmaker, academic, author and at present the director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Biography

Holton received his BFA from Cleveland State University and his MFA with honors from Kent State University. From 1989 until 1991 he had a Fellowship with Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in New York City. From 1991 until his retirement from the Lafayette College in 2017 he taught printmaking and African American Art History there. While at Lafayette he founded the Experimental Printmaking Institute.

As a painter and printmaker Holton's work has been the subject of over thirty one man exhibitions, including the Noyes Museum of Art, the Cleveland institute of Art, and the Teaching Museum at Lehigh University. In 1999 he had a two person show with Faith Ringgold at the Williams Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2004 he co-authored a book with Ringgold on her work titled "Faith Ringgold a View From the Studio.