
Robert Franzini
Faculty Profile
View All Faculty ProfilesFranzini, Robert, Professor of Art and Design Chair, Department of Art and Design
Program/Dept: Art and Design
Degrees, Licensures and Certifications: M.F.A The University of Iowa
Research Interests: Professional Activity:
- Participation in over two hundred exhibitions,
including solo, two-person, and small and large group
- Displaying
work in international,
national and regional exhibits; venues include: Kingman Foundation Gallery (Ecuador), Warsaw Art Academy (Poland), South
Australian School of Art, Kanagawa
Prefectural Gallery (Japan), Hanoi
Fine Arts Association (Viet Nam), The
National Academy of Design (NY), Prince
Street Gallery (NY), The Cincinnati Art
Museum (OH), Chrysler Museum
(VA), Huntington Museum (WVA), St. Louis Art Museum (MO), Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences
(IN), J.B. Speed Museum (KY), Headley Whitney Museum (KY), Appalshop (KY)
- Book
Cover Art: Upheaval, by Chris
Holbrook, University Press of Kentucky, Erotica, Poems by Bea Opengart, Owl Creek
Press (WA)
- Kentucky Lithographic Limestone: An
Example of Identifying, Collecting, and Printing from Local Stone, Interdisciplinary Collaboration
with Dr. Steve Reid, Geologist, Conference Presentation, Mid-America Print
Council Conference
- Ongoing
creative production and exhibition of artwork in intaglio, lithographic, relief and monotype printmaking and drawing
Honors and Awards:
- Inclusion
of art work in permanent collections including: Cabo Frio Print Collection (Brazil), Hanoi Academy of Art (Viet Nam), Honolulu Academy of Arts (HI), Cincinnati
Art Museum (OH), Portland Art Museum
(OR), Muscarelle Museum of Art (VA), University of Kentucky Art Museum (KY), Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
Collection (KY)
- Resident
Fellow, Yaddo Artist Colony, Saratoga
Springs, NY.
- Morehead
State University Distinguished Creative
Production Award