User:Nmsart/sandbox/Deborah Boardman

Deborah Boardman (1958-2016) was an artist and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. She was primarily a painter who also created drawings, videos, performances, installations and artists books. Her creative work extended to writing and social activism as well. She taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1997-2015.

Boardman was the recipient of grants from DCASE, the Illinois Arts Council, Indiana Humanities Council, SAIC Faculty Enrichment Grant and

Exhibitions
2015 Experimental Sound Studio Audio Gallery, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On, Chicago, Illinios. This exhibition included an installation with paintings, sculpture and sound work, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On.

20XX University of Nebraska, Rocket Run, Celebration of the Living Who Remember the Dead,

Social Activism
Boardman was a founding member of The Rhizome Alliance, which connects artists, chefs, urban farmers and cultural organizations in Chicago, Illinois, and New Dehli, India. The organization inspires new approaches to growing, preparing and celebrating food in collaborative ways in the urban environment.

Video
Double Ecstasy, 2012

Collections
Boardman's work is in the public collection of the Chicago Cultural Center. Her artists books are in collections of Bibliothecha Alexandria Egypt, Newberry Library's Wing Collection, Harvard University's Houghton Library, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Queens and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Public Library Rare Books Collection, Otis Art Institute Artists Book Collection, Western Michigan University Waldo Library Rare Books Collection.