Clifton Meador
Clifton Meador
Director, Book and Paper Arts
Office: 1104 S. Wabash, Rm. 212
Email: cmeador@colum.edu
Phone: 312-344-6633
Education
MFA, Purchase College, 1991. Art of the Book
BFA, Rhode Island School of School of Design, 1980. Photography
About
Clifton Meador is a photographer, writer, and designer who makes books. His recent books explore history and place through narrative and experimental design. He is the director of the Interdisciplinary Arts MFA in Book & Paper, at Columbia College Chicago.
Before coming to Columbia College Chicago in 2005, he was a professor of design at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he co-founded an interdisciplinary design-photography MFA program, the Visual Research Laboratory. He has worked at several artists’ book production facilities and was the director of Nexus Press 1984-88. He has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships, most notably as the two-times recipient of a NYFA fellowship (1995 and 1999), and as a 2003 Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia. His work is in many major collections of book art, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. Mr. Meador holds an M.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase in the Art of the Book, and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography.
Editioned Artists’ Books
A Short Letter to My Friends Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1980
Landforms Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1980
Moments of Right Livelihood Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1981
Similes Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador 1981
Great Men of the Modern Age Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador at Open Studio 1982
Cut Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador at Open Studio 1983
Doom Barrytown, New York: Space Heater Multiples 1984
Pressure Vessel Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador 1985
New Doors Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1985
Stampland Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
Rising, Converging Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
You Were Traveling Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
(G)reenes(s) Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1988
Up Cog Bridge Hope Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1988
Mighty Fortress Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1989
Anecdote of the Jar Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1989
Sea Change Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Massive Infection Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Testland Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Foxtrot Oscar Lima Lima Yankee Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1991
Toy Soldiers Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1993
The Absent King Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
Alabama Railroad Mansion Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
A.A.A.R.P. Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
Long Walk Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Negative Books/Positive Produce Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Nutritional Disease Throw Rugs Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Long Slow March Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1996
Natyurmort Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1997
Memory Lapse Atlanta, Georgia: Nexus Press 1999
Kem Dreams While Russia Sleeps Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1999
Nicht Drain Glasgow, UK: Clifton Meador at the Glasgow School of Art 1999
(Whisky) Defense Atlanta, Georgia: Nexus Press 2001
Crossing the Oxus Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 2001
The Nameless Dead New Haven, Connecticut: PABA Publications 2004
Tourist/Refugee New York: College Art Association 2005 (published as an insert in Art Journal)
Kardanakhi Tataroba Chicago: Clifton Meador at Epicenter 2006
Bad Chicago: Clifton Meador at Epicenter 2006
Avalanche Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 2007
Kora Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 2007
Grants and Fellowships
New York Regional Initiative Grant Funded by New York State Council for the Arts 1993
NYFA Fellowship. Funded by New York Foundation for the Arts 1995
United University Professionals Development Grant: Travel to Russia. SUNY?New Paltz 1998
NYFA Fellowship Funded by New York Foundation for the Art s1999
United University Professionals Development Grant: SUNY?New Paltz 2000
Art Libraries Society of North America, LoPresti Publication Award for Memory Lapse 2000
Fulbright Fellowship to the Republic of Georgia 2003-2004
Rubin Foundation Grant 2007
Research and Creative Project Grants SUNY New Paltz 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
Faculty Research Grant Columbia College Chicago 2006
Fieldwork
Moscow, Russia 1995
Karelia and White Sea in Russia 1997
Karelia and White Sea in Russia 1998
Uzbekistan 2000
Republic of Georgia 2002
Republic of Georgia 2003-4
Republic of Georgia 2005
Western China/Eastern Tibet 2006
Western China/Eastern Tibet 2007 (scheduled)
Residencies
Clayton State Community College, Clayton, Georgia;
Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia;
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York;
Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland;
Center for Editions, Purchase, New York;
Alfred University Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, New York
Collections
Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Artists Book Collection, New York Public Library
Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Library of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Professional Experience
Pressman, J.B. Richards Printing, Atlanta, Georgia 1981-1982
Pressman, Open Studio, Rhinebeck, New York 1982-1983
Assistant Director, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1984-1985
Director, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1985-1988
Adjunct Lecturer, Purchase College, Purchase, New York 1990-1994
Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York 1992-1994
Instructor, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York 1992-1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 1994-1995
Assistant Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 1995-2001
Artist in Residence, Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland Spring, 1999
Associate Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 2001-2005
Associate Chair Art Department, State University of New York at New Paltz 2004–2005
Editor, Journal of Artists’ Books 2006-onward
Visiting Artist/Lectures (selected)
Artists Book Distribution Mass. College of Art Artists Book Conference, April, 1985
Offset printing Rhode Island School of Design, April, 1985
Artists Books from Nexus Press Clayton State College, Clayton Georgia, March, 1987
Visiting Artist Series Skidmore College, New York, March, 1996
Visiting Critic First Year Graduate Graphic Design Yale University, New Haven, CT May 1996
Visiting Artist Series Purchase College, New York, March, 1998
Visiting Artist Alfred College, Alfred New York, November, 1998
Visiting Artist University at Buffalo, New York, November, 1998
Visiting Artist Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, January, 1999
Imagemaker’s Presentation Society for Photographic Education, Northeastern Regional Conference, November 1999
Visiting Artist Presentation, Visual Studies Workshop, July, 2000
Solovetski Monastery, Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz, New York December 2000
Visiting Artist School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2003
Nameless Dead, Photo Arts Collective, New Haven, Connecticut, September, 2004
The Small Pond, Panelist, CAA conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2005
Visiting Artist University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois October, 2005
Visiting Artist Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland Oregon March, 2006
Visiting Artist Reed College, Portland Oregon March, 2006
Keynote Speaker, Pyramid Atlantic Biennial Conference, Silver Springs, Maryland, November, 2006
Panelist, Symposium, Mallarmé and the Artists' Book, Scripps College, California, January, 2007
Service to the Field/Consultation (selected)
Site visitor for the National Endowment for the Arts 1987
Site visitor for the National Endowment for the Arts 1988
Production and printing for Rebecca Lown’s Procrustes’ Bed, an artists book 1990
Production and printing for Margot Lovejoy’s Labyrinth, an artists book 1990
Production and printing for Antonio Frasconi’s Los Desaparecidos, an offset edition of a woodcut book 1991
Production for Rebecca Lown’s Inner Dictates, an artists book published by Nexus Press 1992
Design and production for Margot Lovejoy’s Paradoxical Mutations, an artists book 1993
Design and production for Margot Lovejoy’s The Book of Plagues, an artists book 1993
Film production for Bill Burke’s Minefields, an artists book published by Nexus Press 1993
Grant award panel member, New York Foundation for the Arts-Printmaking & Artists Books 1993
Exhibition signage for Historic Hudson Valley 1994
Design and Layout for bomb magazine, Winter 1999
Design and Layout for Arts Now Conference identity materials 2001-2002
Catalog Design and Layout for In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum 2002
Design, Layout, and production for Portrait of Korea, Korea Society 2003
Organizations
Artists Advisory Board member, New York Foundation for the Arts 2001–2004
Advisory Board member, Journal of Artists' Books 2005–onward
College Art Organization
College Book Arts Educators, Board of Directors
Director, Book and Paper Arts
Office: 1104 S. Wabash, Rm. 212
Email: cmeador@colum.edu
Phone: 312-344-6633
Education
MFA, Purchase College, 1991. Art of the Book
BFA, Rhode Island School of School of Design, 1980. Photography
About
Clifton Meador is a photographer, writer, and designer who makes books. His recent books explore history and place through narrative and experimental design. He is the director of the Interdisciplinary Arts MFA in Book & Paper, at Columbia College Chicago.
Before coming to Columbia College Chicago in 2005, he was a professor of design at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he co-founded an interdisciplinary design-photography MFA program, the Visual Research Laboratory. He has worked at several artists’ book production facilities and was the director of Nexus Press 1984-88. He has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships, most notably as the two-times recipient of a NYFA fellowship (1995 and 1999), and as a 2003 Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia. His work is in many major collections of book art, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. Mr. Meador holds an M.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase in the Art of the Book, and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography.
Editioned Artists’ Books
A Short Letter to My Friends Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1980
Landforms Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1980
Moments of Right Livelihood Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1981
Similes Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador 1981
Great Men of the Modern Age Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador at Open Studio 1982
Cut Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador at Open Studio 1983
Doom Barrytown, New York: Space Heater Multiples 1984
Pressure Vessel Rhinebeck, New York: Clifton Meador 1985
New Doors Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1985
Stampland Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
Rising, Converging Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
You Were Traveling Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1988
(G)reenes(s) Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1988
Up Cog Bridge Hope Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1988
Mighty Fortress Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1989
Anecdote of the Jar Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1989
Sea Change Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Massive Infection Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Testland Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1990
Foxtrot Oscar Lima Lima Yankee Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1991
Toy Soldiers Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1993
The Absent King Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
Alabama Railroad Mansion Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
A.A.A.R.P. Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1994
Long Walk Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Negative Books/Positive Produce Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Nutritional Disease Throw Rugs Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1995
Long Slow March Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1996
Natyurmort Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 1997
Memory Lapse Atlanta, Georgia: Nexus Press 1999
Kem Dreams While Russia Sleeps Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 1999
Nicht Drain Glasgow, UK: Clifton Meador at the Glasgow School of Art 1999
(Whisky) Defense Atlanta, Georgia: Nexus Press 2001
Crossing the Oxus Atlanta, Georgia: Clifton Meador at Nexus Press 2001
The Nameless Dead New Haven, Connecticut: PABA Publications 2004
Tourist/Refugee New York: College Art Association 2005 (published as an insert in Art Journal)
Kardanakhi Tataroba Chicago: Clifton Meador at Epicenter 2006
Bad Chicago: Clifton Meador at Epicenter 2006
Avalanche Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 2007
Kora Purchase, New York: Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions 2007
Grants and Fellowships
New York Regional Initiative Grant Funded by New York State Council for the Arts 1993
NYFA Fellowship. Funded by New York Foundation for the Arts 1995
United University Professionals Development Grant: Travel to Russia. SUNY?New Paltz 1998
NYFA Fellowship Funded by New York Foundation for the Art s1999
United University Professionals Development Grant: SUNY?New Paltz 2000
Art Libraries Society of North America, LoPresti Publication Award for Memory Lapse 2000
Fulbright Fellowship to the Republic of Georgia 2003-2004
Rubin Foundation Grant 2007
Research and Creative Project Grants SUNY New Paltz 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
Faculty Research Grant Columbia College Chicago 2006
Fieldwork
Moscow, Russia 1995
Karelia and White Sea in Russia 1997
Karelia and White Sea in Russia 1998
Uzbekistan 2000
Republic of Georgia 2002
Republic of Georgia 2003-4
Republic of Georgia 2005
Western China/Eastern Tibet 2006
Western China/Eastern Tibet 2007 (scheduled)
Residencies
Clayton State Community College, Clayton, Georgia;
Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia;
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York;
Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland;
Center for Editions, Purchase, New York;
Alfred University Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, New York
Collections
Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Artists Book Collection, New York Public Library
Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Library of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Professional Experience
Pressman, J.B. Richards Printing, Atlanta, Georgia 1981-1982
Pressman, Open Studio, Rhinebeck, New York 1982-1983
Assistant Director, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1984-1985
Director, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1985-1988
Adjunct Lecturer, Purchase College, Purchase, New York 1990-1994
Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York 1992-1994
Instructor, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York 1992-1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 1994-1995
Assistant Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 1995-2001
Artist in Residence, Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland Spring, 1999
Associate Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz Graphic Design 2001-2005
Associate Chair Art Department, State University of New York at New Paltz 2004–2005
Editor, Journal of Artists’ Books 2006-onward
Visiting Artist/Lectures (selected)
Artists Book Distribution Mass. College of Art Artists Book Conference, April, 1985
Offset printing Rhode Island School of Design, April, 1985
Artists Books from Nexus Press Clayton State College, Clayton Georgia, March, 1987
Visiting Artist Series Skidmore College, New York, March, 1996
Visiting Critic First Year Graduate Graphic Design Yale University, New Haven, CT May 1996
Visiting Artist Series Purchase College, New York, March, 1998
Visiting Artist Alfred College, Alfred New York, November, 1998
Visiting Artist University at Buffalo, New York, November, 1998
Visiting Artist Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, January, 1999
Imagemaker’s Presentation Society for Photographic Education, Northeastern Regional Conference, November 1999
Visiting Artist Presentation, Visual Studies Workshop, July, 2000
Solovetski Monastery, Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz, New York December 2000
Visiting Artist School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2003
Nameless Dead, Photo Arts Collective, New Haven, Connecticut, September, 2004
The Small Pond, Panelist, CAA conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2005
Visiting Artist University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois October, 2005
Visiting Artist Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland Oregon March, 2006
Visiting Artist Reed College, Portland Oregon March, 2006
Keynote Speaker, Pyramid Atlantic Biennial Conference, Silver Springs, Maryland, November, 2006
Panelist, Symposium, Mallarmé and the Artists' Book, Scripps College, California, January, 2007
Service to the Field/Consultation (selected)
Site visitor for the National Endowment for the Arts 1987
Site visitor for the National Endowment for the Arts 1988
Production and printing for Rebecca Lown’s Procrustes’ Bed, an artists book 1990
Production and printing for Margot Lovejoy’s Labyrinth, an artists book 1990
Production and printing for Antonio Frasconi’s Los Desaparecidos, an offset edition of a woodcut book 1991
Production for Rebecca Lown’s Inner Dictates, an artists book published by Nexus Press 1992
Design and production for Margot Lovejoy’s Paradoxical Mutations, an artists book 1993
Design and production for Margot Lovejoy’s The Book of Plagues, an artists book 1993
Film production for Bill Burke’s Minefields, an artists book published by Nexus Press 1993
Grant award panel member, New York Foundation for the Arts-Printmaking & Artists Books 1993
Exhibition signage for Historic Hudson Valley 1994
Design and Layout for bomb magazine, Winter 1999
Design and Layout for Arts Now Conference identity materials 2001-2002
Catalog Design and Layout for In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum 2002
Design, Layout, and production for Portrait of Korea, Korea Society 2003
Organizations
Artists Advisory Board member, New York Foundation for the Arts 2001–2004
Advisory Board member, Journal of Artists' Books 2005–onward
College Art Organization
College Book Arts Educators, Board of Directors