Julio Valdez

EDUCATION

1994- 1995- Printmaking with Robert Blackburn and Kathy Caraccio, New York City.

1986-1988 - Fine Arts/Illustration, Altos de Chavon School of Design, Dominican Republic.

Affiliated with Parsons School of Design, New York City.

1984-1986 - National School of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2000 - Present Teaching Artist and Lecturer, The Museum for African Art, NYC

2000 - Present Lecturer, Writing through the Arts Program, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY.

1995 – Present Teaching Artist, The Studio in a School Association, New York City.

1997 Instructor in Printmaking, Extended Studies Department, The Cooper Union, New York.

1990 –1993 Full Time Instructor, The Altos de Chavon School of Design, Parsons School of Design affiliate in The Dominican Republic.

1989-90 Painting Instructor, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

 

Selected recent workshops and seminars:

2003 - Present Non-toxic Printmaking, Julio Valdez Studio, NYC

2003 Silk Aquatint Printmaking, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Silk Aquatint Printmaking, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC.

2002-03 The Painterly Collage, Eight (8) workshops, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NYC.

Visual Arts and Literacy (VAL) Program, a three (3) Parts Seminar designed for

the Art Teachers of District 2 in Lower Manhattan, NYC Board of Education.

2001 Linking Visual Arts and Literature, Seminars, Districts 2, 30, NYC Board of Education.

2000 The Art of Drawing, The Morgan Library, NYC.

1998 Non-acid Printmaking, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC.

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Member, Educational Advisory Board, El Museo del Barrio, NYC.

Member, Board of Directors, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC.

Member, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT.

 

COLLECTIONS

- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.

- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA.

- Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ.

- Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA.

- Musee Grimaldi, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France.

- Instituto de Artes Gráficas Oaxaqueña (IAGO), Oaxaca, Mexico.

- Casa de las Americas, Habana, Cuba.

- Ministry of Culture, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

- Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

- The Altos de Chavon Cultural Center Foundation, New York.

- The Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA.

- Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

- Banco del Café, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

- Omar Rayo Museum, Roldanillo, Colombia.

- The Robert Blackburn Print Collection, New York.

- Kathy Coraccio Print Collection, New York.

- E. Leon Jimenes Companies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

- Hotel Lina, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

- Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Private Collections in the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Savador, Panama, and the Dominican Republic.