VITAE

Vitae Contents

EDUCATION

1979

MFA, Printmaking/Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology,

College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester, NY

Graduate Assistantship in Printmaking

1977

B.S. ed. Art Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA,

KAPPA DELTA PI, Honors in Art Education

EMPLOYMENT

2008 - Distinguished Professor of Art, Messiah College, Grantham, PA (2nd appointment)

2003 - 2008 Distinguished Professor of Art, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1993 - 2002 Professor of Art, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Courses taught at Messiah: Photography I-III, Drawing II-III, Ancient Art History, Modern Art History, Intaglio and Relief Printmaking, Screen Printing, Lithography, Art Foundations, Senior Exhibition, Senior Seminar, Graphic Design, Three Ancient Civilizations, Drawing Studio, Printmaking Studio, Calligraphy Studio, various upper level Independent Study courses

1992 - 2000 Director, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1987 - 1992 Associate Professor of Art, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1985 - 1988 Director, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1982 - 1986 Assistant Professor of Art, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1980 - 1982 Chair, Department of Art, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

Courses taught at Roberts Wesleyan: Drawing II, Printmaking I-III, Photography, Ancient Art History, Modern Art History, Art Appreciation, Graphic Design, Crafts

1979 - 1980 Instructor of Art, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

GRANTS AWARDED

2008

Artist Fellowship, Center for the Education of the Imagination: funding to attend the retreat Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better for The Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Landisburg, PA

2006

Messiah College Faculty Scholarship Grant for a one-month residency at the Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, October/November 2006

2005

Messiah College Teaching Enhancement Grant, Study of Non-Toxic Lithography (Pronto Plates) with Scott Kolbo, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, July 2004

2002

Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. House and studio provided for one month in an artist colony on the extreme NW coast of Ireland, August 1-30, 2002 (paintings/ collage)

2002

|Messiah College Faculty Scholarship Grant support for travel / new work at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland

1999

Messiah College Scholarship Grant for continuing work on box constructions and collage

1996-97

Faculty Scholarship Grant, for continued work on the exhibition, Devocion del Pueblo. One of four grants for further research and conservation of folk art from Guatemala.

1995-96

Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Teaching, Collaboration with Dr. Linda Parkyn, Study of religious folk carving in Guatemala, curating the exhibition: Devocion del Pueblo

1993

Faculty Scholarship Grant, Collaborative project in Hand Papermaking with Christine Forsythe, producing the suite, The Pilgrimage Monotypes.

1992

Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Teaching, Seminar Participant, AIA Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture, Prague, Budapest, Vienna (Study of Religious Architecture)

1989

Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Teaching, Support of continuing projects in Box Construction.

1987

Pew Foundation Curriculum Grant, Study of Ancient Art in Greece

1985

Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Teaching, Support of new works on paper

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/WORKSHOPS

2008

Artist Residency, Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland (May/ June 2008)

2007

Workshop Leader, The Interdisciplinary Photogram: As Poetry, Drama, Dance ,and Design, for The Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Artist’s Retreat: Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better. Landisburg, PA

2006

Artist Residency, Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland (October/ November 2006)

2005

Visiting Professor, Gordon College Orvieto Program, Convento San Ludovico, Orvieto, Italy, teaching the four week course, Collage/ Box Construction, May/June 2005

2003

Workshop Participant, Solar Plate Printmaking, Gordon College, Wenham, MA with Katherine Brimberry, director of Flatbed Press, Austin, TX

2001

Workshop Leader, Collage/ Assemblage Techniques, The Glen Workshop, Crossing: Art in the Borderlands, St. John’s College, Sante Fe, NM. Organized by IMAGE: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

Workshop Leader , Non -Toxic Printmaking Techniques II, CIVA SEEN Conference, University of Dallas, Irving Texas

1999

Workshop Leader , Non -Toxic Printmaking Techniques, CIVA 20/20 Conference, Concordia College-Wisconsin, Mequon, WI

1998

Workshop Leader: "Press-less" Printmaking Techniques, The Glen Workshops, Colorado Springs, Colorado organized by IMAGE: A Journal of the Arts and Religion This workshop, conducted in collaboration with Christine Forsythe, was the founding event for integrating art workshops with IMAGE conferences.

Workshop Participant, Non-Toxic Intaglio Workshop, Canadian School for Non-Toxic Printmaking, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. Study with Keith Howard and Friedhard Kiekeben on a Curriculum Grant funded by Messiah College

1989

Workshop Leader: Monotypes, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PANELS, LECTURES

2003

Visiting Senior Critic / Lecturer : Collages, Boxes & Mixed Media, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Individual critiques of work by senior artists and architecture majors.

2001

Curator’s Roundtable Panel, The People of Devotion: Santos as Sculptural Catechism, Devocion del Pueblo Exhibition, (with C. Forsythe, D. Parkyn) The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York City, NY

1998

Conference Speaker, The Artist as Pilgrim in an Age of Images Jubilee 1998, Coalition for Christian Outreach, Pittsburgh, PA (with Christine Forsythe)

1997

Panel Moderator, Artists and Faith, 1997 CIVA Conference: The City, Art and Faith, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Panelists: Calvin Seerveld, Janine Langan, Makoto Fujimura, Maria Gabankova

Panel Presentation, Mid Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies MACLAS, Annapolis, MD Where Have All the Santos Gone,? with Dr. David Parkyn and Christine Forsythe

1996

Arts Lectureship Speaker, Evangel College, Springfield, MO

1995

Seminar Participant, Intermedia Collaboration, CIVA Conference, Berkeley, CA

1993

Conference Organizer, Past and Present, Biennial Conference of Christians in the Visual Arts,

Robert Hughes, keynote speaker

1989

Seminar Participant, Voices from the East Carnegie Mellon University Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

1988

Seminar Leader, CIVA: American Artists Bringing Faith to Art 8th International Conference of Christian Arts Europe, De Bron, The Netherlands

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS/ MISCELLANEOUS

2007-8

Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 8th ed. (biography listed)

2005

CIVA SILVER, Portfolio of original prints by 25 artists, published to celebrate 25 years of the organization Christians in the Visual Arts, Edward Knippers, organizer. (Etching, Variation on Triple Gong, 2005)

2005 -

Member, IAM, International Arts Movement, New York City, NY

2005 - Member, Southern Graphics Council

1999

CIVA CODEX V, Organizer/ Artist: One of 13 artist-printmakers donating a limited edition of 50 original prints, organized into a portfolio that is sold to raise money for Christians in Visual Arts. The portfolio has been included in the permanent collections of: Biola University, Dort College, Gordon College, Billy Graham Center Museum, Houghton College, Messiah College, Roberts Wesleyan College, Taylor University, Union University, and the University of Dallas.

1996-present

Member, College Art Association

1991-93

President, Christians in the Visual Arts

1983-2000

Board member, Christians in Visual Art

1985- present

Marquis Who’s Who in American Art (biography listed)

PROFESSIONAL STUDY/ TRAVEL

2008

Ireland: Neolithic architecture, archeological excavations at Belderig, Medieval Architecture, Graphic Studios Dublin, contemporary art, based in Ballycastle, County Mayo

2007

Spain/ France: Museums and architecture in Barcelona, especially works by Gaudi. Neolithic and medieval architecture of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, based in Floure, near Carcassone

2006

Ireland: Neolithic architecture, Medieval Architecture, Illuminated manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, contemporary art, based in Ballycastle, County Mayo

2005

Italy/ France: Orvieto, Florence, Venice, Milan, Paris, churches and museums, civic architecture

2004

France: Dordogne Region, Font de Gaume, Lascaux II, Museums in Paris

2003

France: Dordogne Region, gardens and chateau, Galleries of Paris

2002

Ireland: Neolithic architecture, Medieval Architecture, Illuminated manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, contemporary art, based in Ballycastle, County Mayo

France: Medieval architecture of the southwest, Paleolithic cave art, Paris

2001-2002

Italy: Hill towns of Umbria, based in Orvieto, museums, churches, art of ancient Etruria and Rome

2002

Italy: Umbria and Tuscany , Italian art and architecture from the Medieval period through the Renaissance, trips from Orvieto; Florence.

2000

France: Paris, Paleolithic cave art/ architecture of the Dordogne region

1998

Sabbatical Leave: France and Switzerland. Study of the Sacred Arts Movement in French art with CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts)

1995-97

Guatemala, Study of religious folk art (3 trips)

1994

England, Neolithic art, Gothic art, museums in London

1992

Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, post-conference seminar on religious art and architecture with the AIA (American Institute of Architects)

1990-91

Sabbatical Leave: Holland, Belgium, W. Germany, Italy, France, museums

1989

France, Belgium, Holland, museums

1988

England, museums in London

1987

Greece, Crete, Aegean Isles, ancient art on site, museums

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006

(as subject) American Artists in Rural Ireland: The Ballinglen Experience, catalog of the exhibition at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA p. 24

2006

(as subject) It was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, (2nd ed.) Ned Bustard, ed. Essay by Karen Mulder, box construction The Long Night illustrated across 4 pages

2005

(as subject) The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, edited by Wayne Roosa, Eerdmans Publishers, catalog of the exhibition held at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York City pp. 70-71, 170, 171.

(as subject) Faith and Vision: 25 Years of Christians in Visual Arts, Square Halo Press, pp. 159-60, 176-7, 185, 191

2004

(as author) Heading Toward Santiago: The Photographic Pilgrimages of David Herwaldt

IMAGE: The Journal of the Arts and Religion, #40, pp.77-87

(as subject) Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue, edited by Ena Giurescu Heller

Four page reproduction and discussion of work in the chapter, Why Art Needs Religion, Why Religion Needs the Arts, by Marcus Burke, pp. 154-157

2001

(as co-curator) Devoción del Pueblo: Religious Folk Art of Guatemala, Catalog of the exhibition held at the Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY, Essay by David Parkyn, Photographs by Donald Forsythe/ Socolow Photography/ David Parkyn, exhibit curated by D. Parkyn, L, Parkyn, C. Forsythe, D. Forsythe (40 pages, full color)

2000

ANNO DOMINI: Jesus Through the Centuries, Exploring the Heart of Two Millennia, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada) The Cosmic Christ and Modern Thought, Essays by David Goa, Karen Mulder, p.14, 15 (small catalog), p.30-35 ( full catalog)

The Word As Art: Contemporary Renderings, catalog of the exhibition, Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York City. Essays by Ena Heller, Marcus Burke, Biblical Meditations: Albinus Elskus, Donald Forsythe, Bruce Herman, Warren Brown Prindle, p.4-6, 18-19.

1998

Journal Article, The Reconstructive Art of Donald Forsythe, by John Skillen, IMAGE: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Number 18, 1998

BOOK COVERS:

2007 The Living Voice of the Gospels, Frances J. Moloney. Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., Cover Illustration: Burning Lights, 2002 (collage)

2005 Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation, Michael J. Gorman , ed. Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., Cover Illustration: Fiery Furnace, 1994. (gouache monotype)

2004 No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins, Carl B. Smith II, Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., Cover Illustration: The Long Night 1989 box construction

COMMISSIONED PROJECTS

1996

Design of Eight Stained Glass Windows, Mission Hills Baptist Church, Littleton, CO, fabrication by Watkins Stained Glass, Littleton, CO. All of the windows in the worship center of this Amega church@ outside Denver. Windows based on themes of Discipleship, Fellowship, Stewardship, and Evangelism.

1992

Design of Six Stained Glass Windows, Molly Morgan Memorial, The Night Windows, Cathedral Church of St. Stephen, Harrisburg, PA, fabrication by E. Salter and Sons, Harrisburg, PA. Six small windows high above the choir in the nave project light from twelve beveled crystal insets placed throughout a map of the Susquehanna region. Rainbow Ahalos@ from the window land on the heads of participants at the Eucharist.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

American Bible Society, New York, NY

Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Philadelphia, PA

Auburn Arts Association, Auburn, AL

Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, Ingersol, Philadelphia, PA

Ballinglen Archive, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland

The Bank of New York, Wilmington, DE

Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Baltimore, MD

Commerce Bank, Camp Hill, PA

Coopers and Lybrand, Philadelphia, PA

Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA

Evangel College, Springfield, MO

First Presbyterian Church, Fort Wayne, IN

The Franklin Mint, Philadelphia, PA

Garden State Park, Cherry Hill, NJ

Gordon College, Wenham, MA

Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL

Howard, Lawson & Company, Philadelphia, PA

Illinois Bell, Chicago, IL

Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago, IL

Kraft Dairy Group, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Messiah College, Grantham, PA

North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC

Owen, Jane. New Harmony Indiana

Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, Philadelphia, PA

Prudential Insurance Co., Chicago, IL

Rhoads & Sinon, Harrisburg, PA

Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Rosenbluth Travel, Philadelphia, PA

Smith Kline Beecham, Philadelphia, PA

Smith-Garrett Architects, Charlottesville, VA

The Cathedral Church of St. Stephen, Harrisburg, PA

Visa International Print Society, Fresno, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: (AS ARTIST)

2008

HANDPRINT IDENTITY PROJECT: Ten artists and ten poets collaborate, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA (travelling)

2007-8

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: DRAWN FROM THE SEA: The Ballinglen Prints

Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

2006

THE ART OF BALLINGLEN FELLOWS, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (collage: The Oracle at Evening 2002-6)

SEEING GOD, Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington , D.C. in association with Washington Printmakers (collage: Companion, 1981-2004)

2005

THE NEXT GENERATION: CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS OF FAITH, Museum of Biblical Art, New York City, NY (mixed media painting, Turf Painting / Ireland )

ART OF THE STATE: PENNSYLVANIA 2005, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (etching from the Calder Sketchbook Portfolio )

MESSIAH COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA (6 new etchings from the Calder Sketchbook Portfolio)

SPIRIT’S FIRE, a web exhibition organized by the Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts, at ECVA.org/exhibitions/spirits_fire/artists/forsythe

CIVA 20/20, (traveling) Asbury College, Wilmore, KY

2004

IMAGIO, Marxhausen Gallery, Concordia College, Seward Nebraska, (4 monotype collages)

IMAGES FROM NORTH MAYO, Courthouse Gallery, Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland (winter/spring show, Eternal Hope, mixed media painting from the archive)

2003

IMAGES FROM NORTH MAYO, Courthouse Gallery, Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland (summer show, mixed media painting from the archive)

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: Time Uncertain: Box Constructions 1986-2003, The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA

2003

IRISH CONNECTIONS: THE ART OF BALLINGLEN FELLOWS, Community Arts Center Gallery, Wallingford, PA (3 paintings)

2002

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: New Works in Collage, Union University, Jackson, TN

2001

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: The Long Night, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire (box constructions)

WATERMARK 2001, WORKS ON PAPER (Juried, national), Southeastern College, Whiteville, NC (monotype collage)

CIVA CODEX V, University of Dallas, Irving, TX (photo-etching)

OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT: a web exhibition of the Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts, located at www.ecva.org (Upcoming)

2000

ANNO DOMINI: Jesus Through the Centuries, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada (mixed media painting

ART OF THE STATE: PENNSYLVANIA, 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, State Museum of

Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA ( works on paper, sculpture)

ABSTRACTION: THE POWER OF MEMORY, Sweetwater Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA (traveling through 2003) 2 collages

THE WORD AS ART: CONTEMPORARY RENDERINGS, The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY (12 box constructions)

TRIPTYCHALS, a web exhibition located at http://www.civa.org/gallery/civa_seen/forsythe.html (box construction)

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND THE VISUAL ARTS, a web exhibition located at http://www.ecva.org

* SPIRIT, HAND, VISION, First Presbyterian Gallery/ with Arts United of NE Indiana, Fort Wayne, IN (paintings) Purchase Award

ONE PERSON FACULTY EXHIBITION: NEW WORK IN MIXED MEDIA,, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA (collage, mixed media paintings, box constructions )

1999

CIVA JURIED NATIONAL BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, (painting)

Concordia College-Wisconsin, Mequon, WI

*ART OF THE STATE: PENNSYLVANIA 1999, (painting) State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Second Prize, Works on Paper

DETAILS, Messiah College Art Faculty Exhibition, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA (mixed media paintings)

CIVA SEEN, a web exhibition located at http://www.civa.org/gallery/civa_seen99/dforsythe.html (painting)

1998

THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS, Visions Gallery, Albany NY (box construction)

1997

PILGRIMAGE, Two-person exhibition with C. Forsythe, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA (monotypes)

A TIME TO HEAL, Visions Gallery, Albany NY (box construction)

ART AND RELIGION, D_SHI Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA (Monotypes)

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER (Monotypes/ artist-made paper) Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA

1996

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION, Drawings/ Monotypes/ Collages, Evangel College, Springfield, MO

SACRED ARTS 1996, Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL (collage)

1995 REFLECTIONS OF FAITH, Five-person invitational (Monotypes), Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI

MIRROR OF CREATION, Selected Works From the Permanent Collection, (Collage) Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, Il

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION, Box Constructions/ Works on Paper, Gordon College, Gloucester, MA

PILGRIMAGE, Two-person exhibition with C. Forsythe, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

REMAINFESTING THE SACRED, (Monotype Collages) Bode Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

*ART OF THE STATE: PENNSYLVANIA 95, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA First prize in Sculpture

*67TH INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA Third Prize in Mixed Media

1994 PILGRIMAGE, Two-person exhibit with C. Forsythe, (handmade paper and monotype) Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, Il

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION, Monotypes and Manuscripts, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

SEARCHING FOR THE HIDDEN, Queens College, Cambridge, England (traveling)

PILGRIMAGE, (Two-person exhibit) Visions Gallery, Albany, NY

CHILD BELOVED,(JURIED NATIONAL) Visions Gallery, Albany, NY

1993

MESSIAH COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

CIVA JURIED EXHIBITION, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

SACRED ARTS XIV, Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL

1992

POINTS OF VIEW, D_SHI Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA (box construction triptych)

ASSEMBLAGE, D_SHI Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA (box construction)

1990

*SACRED ARTS XII, Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL. Best of Show

*ART OF THE STATE: State Museum of Pennsylvania Juried Exhibition, Harrisburg, PA Artworks Award

1989

*NEW AMERICAN TALENT 1989, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX Honorable Mention

PERSPECTIVES FROM PENNSYLVANIA, Carnegie Mellon University Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

*CIVA JURIED EXHIBITION 1989, Biola University, La Mirada, CA. Best of Show (mixed media painting)

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: Paintings, Monotypes, Constructions, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1988

CHRISTIAN IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Albany Inst. of History and Art, Albany, NY

1987

MESSIAH COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

** SACRED ARTS IX, Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL, Purchase award

THE PAINTED DRAWING: THE DRAWING PAINTED, (3-person) Kipp Gallery, Indiana, PA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITION, With C. Forsythe, Houghton College, Houghton, NY

1986

LANGUAGE/VISIONS AND VOICES, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

PENNSYLVANIA ARTISTS ON PAPER III, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Phil., PA

44TH ANNUAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

VISIONS OF THE WORD, Shoemaker Gallery, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA

1985

SHELTER, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC

*SACRED ARTS SEVEN, Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL

PENNSYLVANIA ARTIST'S INVITATIONAL, State College, PA

CIVA JURIED EXHIBITION, Wheaton College, Wheaton IL

THE NEW DRAWINGS, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

*6TH ALABAMA WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION, Auburn, ALA

CHRISTIAN ART INVITATIONAL, Koenig Gallery, Seward, NEB

1984

THE TACTILE VISION, William Penn Museum, Harrisburg, PA

PENNSYLVANIA ARTISTS ON PAPER, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

PENNSYLVANIA ARTIST/EDUCATOR, William Penn Museum, Harrisburg, PA

** 5TH ALABAMA WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION, Auburn, AL, Purchase Awards

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION (Drawings), Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD

*TRI-STATE JURIED ART EXHIBITION, The Gallery, York, PA, Third Prize

CIVA NATIONAL, Institute For Religion and Democracy, Washington, DC

MESSIAH COLLEGE FACULTY EXHIBITION, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Grantham, PA

1983

THREE PERSON EXHIBITION, D_SHI Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA

MESSIAH COLLEGE FACULTY EXHIBITION, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Grantham, PA

CIVA JURIED EXHIBITION, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION (Drawings), Metro Arts, Harrisburg, PA

INVITATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, Kipp Gallery, Indiana, PA

LITURGICAL ART INVITATIONAL, Monroe Community College, Monroe, MI

1982

6TH NORTH CAROLINA PRINT AND DRAWING SOCIETY EXHIBITION, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION: PRINTS, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1981

NATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION 1981, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA

ILLUSION AND REALITY, Gallery 101, River Falls, WI

RUBBER STAMP INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY

LAGRANGE NATIONAL VI, CVAA Gallery, LaGrange, GA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITION: Loren Baker Sculpture, Donald Forsythe, Prints, Keating Library, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, N

KANSAS 6TH NATIONAL SMALL PAINTING, DRAWING, AND PRIN

EXHIBITION, Davis Hall Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, KS

1980

TEN YEARS OF R.I.T. PRINTMAKING, College Alumni Union Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

SEEING IS BELIEVING, Ward Gallery, Rochester, NY

1980

*VISA INTERNATIONAL PRINT SOCIETY EXHIBITION, Art Space Gallery, Fresno, CA (purchase Award)

LAGRANGE NATIONAL V, CVAA Gallery, LaGrange, GA

PURDUE NATIONAL SMALL PRINT EXHIBITION, Creative arts Center, Purdue University, LaFayette, IN

EXHIBITIONS AS GALLERY DIRECTOR OR CURATOR

1999

MAKOTO FUJIMURA: July Hour, recent Nihonga paintings, including the large installation July Hour. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

ALBERT PEDULLA/ GALLERY INSTALLATION: Springbed of the Universe. A pendulum-driven drawing machine; a model of the universe started by fireworks (big bang) drew arcs on the gallery walls which contained gum bichromate photographic images. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

HANDMADE FOR A NEW MILLENIUM: A National Craft Invitational, Featured work by thirteen nationally known craftspersons in artist’s books, basketry, ceramics, glass, paper, quilts, weaving, and wood. Statements by the artists address the reality of making finely crafted objects of beauty at the turn of a new century. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1998

THE ARTIST AS COLLECTOR, Twelve nationally known artists exhibit several works from their personal collections, along with an example of their own artwork. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

ALONG THE KING’S HIGHWAY: Photographs by Sam Fentress and David Herwaldt. Sam Fentress’ documentary photographs of roadside religious devotion, paired with David Herwaldt’s series of photos from a walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1997

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY INVITATIONAL III, Drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints, mixed media works, and computer-generated images by nine artist/educators from central PA. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND: Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper by Tobi Kahn, Works curated from the artist’s studio in New York to complement the large national traveling exhibition. Presented in collaboration with The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College. D. Forsythe/ Organizer, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

SONGS OF ASCENT: Sculpture by Loren Baker/ Works on Paper by Sandra Bowden, Two artists who integrate religious texts and poetic approaches to works in two dimensions (Bowden) and three-dimensions (Baker) Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

URBAN INITIATIVES: A Collaborative Exhibition on Diversity, Painted Self Portraits by children from a variety of Harrisburg schools, formed into a “Diversity Quilt,” and an installation piece made from over 10,000 donated family snapshots which formed a funnel cloud that projected out of the gallery and up into the atrium. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1996

SEQUENCE: NEW YORK / NEW JERSEY, Photographs by George Segal, One of the first exhibits of photographs by this master of modern sculpture. Specially curated from an exhibition prepared by Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, CA, in cooperation with the artist. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1996

DEVOCIÓN DEL PUEBLO, FOLK ART OF GUATEMALA, An exhibition of 56 santo sculptures, accompanied by statements from the artists who made the work. Collected on two expeditions to find the work and interview the santeros. Jointly curated with D. Parkyn, L. Parkyn, C. Forsythe. D. Forsythe exhibition organizer and registrar. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1995

A VISION OF PASSAGE: Drawings and Paintings by Ben Frank Moss III, Small graphite drawings and colorful paintings abstracted from landscape motifs by this artist from New Hampshire.

THE CLOUDS OF UNKNOWING: Caroline Stone, “Paintings” of colored linen fibers on handmade paper which suggest clouds as harbingers of more than weather. Paper created at the Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York , NY by the artist. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1994

JOHN HERTZLER AND EUI SUK OH: Sculpture. Large scale carved wooden forms by Hertzler, an artist from Central PA, paired with simplified figurative pieces in unglazed red stoneware by Oh, a visiting artist from Korea. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

DRAWINGS/ INSTALLATIONS BY DAN CALLIS, Work in a variety of media that documents the interaction between this Southern California artist and members of the developmentally disabled community. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1993

MIXED MEDIA: GUY CHASE AND ROBERT EUSTACE, Conceptual “ghosts” by Chase of art historical images painted in textured white paint on slide screens, and altarpiece constructions by Eustace created from found industrial materials. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

AMERICAN FOLK ART from the collection of Morehead State University, Kentucky, Thirty five pieces in a variety of media by some of the best known “primitive” artists from the South. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1991

22 x 30" WORKS ON PAPER: Christians in Visual Arts, A national traveling exhibition curated by D. Forsythe for CIVA, opens at the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA, traveling through 1993

1987

CONTEMPORARY CRAFT OBJECTS FROM THE SWAN GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Works in glass, ceramics, fibers and wood, selected from the inventory of this prominent gallery . Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

EDWARD O’BRIEN; DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS, Large scale charcoal value drawings and oil paintings of carefully observed children’s toys, by this realist artist from the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1988

THE INTAGLIO PRINT: 20TH CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS, A second loan show from the holdings of the Dolan / Maxwell gallery, featuring works by Miro, Hayter, Hecht, Porter, Stella, Sorman, and many others. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1986

THE SACRED IMAGE, Artists Loren Baker, Guy Chase, Robert Eustace, Sheila Keefe, Joel Sheesley, and Jeff Thompson exhibit pieces which integrate art and the Christian faith. Travels to Greenville College, Greenville, Il and Marketplace “86 in Chicago, IL. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1986

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUGLAS GILBERT, Photographs from three bodies of work by this artist from New England. Formal portraits of historic architecture, images from the book, Flannery O’Connor, Images of Her World, and works which depict nature overcoming man-made structures. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

ROBERT SCHMITZ: CERAMICS, New forms featuring original crystalline glazes by this master of modern ceramics and professor at The School for American Craftsmen, Rochester, NY. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

RICHARD W. BOCK: SCULPTOR TO THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, original drawings, plaster studies, and sculpture by this pioneer of early 20th C architectural ornament. On loan from the Bock Museum, Greenville, IL. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1985

QUILTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTIONS: IN THE AMISH TRADITION, Important quilts from several prominent Lancaster county collections, principally featuring pieces made before 1920. Several of the most famous and often published works from the history of quilting were included. Curated with C. Forsythe for Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

WORKS ON PAPER FROM PHILADELPHIA’S DOLAN/ MAXWELL GALLERY, Drawings, paintings, prints and mixed media works selected from the historic and contemporary departments at this major gallery. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Donald Forsythe is a Distinguished Professor of art at Messiah College, located in Grantham, PA, where he has taught art history, printmaking, photography and drawing for 30 years.

He has actively created new artwork for exhibitions, volunteered tirelessly with the creation of CIVA, lectured broadly, and curated the college art gallery for many years.

For more detailed information, go to the vitae sections listed at left.