Artist: John Eric Riis | Location: Atlanta, GA
Neoclassic Female Tapestry
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John Eric Riis
Atlanta, GA
Education:
1967 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il
1969 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1970 Fulbright Grant, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
Selected Awards, Grants and Scholarships:
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1977
A.I.A. Award for Contributions of Art in Architecture, 1978
Special Award, Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary, 2001
Honorary Award, 10th International Triennial of Tapestry, Lotz, Poland, 2001
Master of the Medium Award in Fibers, Renwick Alliance, Washington DC, 2011
United States Artists Windgate Fellow, December, 2011
Selected Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
American Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT