Drury CV 09.rtf - Rhode Island School of Design

FRITZ DRURY
Curriculum Vitae
Office
Illustration Department
Rhode Island School of Design
2 College St. Providence RI 02903
401-454-6241
fdrury@risd.edu
Home 29 1/2 Morton St. #4B
New York, NY 10014
917-834-4159
Studio 135 Plymouth St. #702
Brooklyn NY 11210
Education
Academic
Experience
Yale University, Master of Fine Arts 1981.
Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts Distinction in Art History, 1977.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1976.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1975-76.
Rhode Island School of Design
July 2008- present Department Head, Illustration Department
Partnered Research Working Group: participated in developing procedure for academic
interface with corporate projects. Wrote poi9stion papers on the relevance of the Fine Arts
to partnered research. Participated in day-long “Target Salon”: brainstorming with
representatives of the Target Corporation on opportunities and parameters for partnered
research.
Worked with Illustration Faculty, RISD Media + Partners and representatives of the Hasbro
Corporation to establish a curriculum in 3-D modeling and character design.
Worked with principals of the MIT Gambits Lab, funded by the government of Singapore, to
establish internships in game design innovation at MIT for spring semester ’09. Five
RISD Illustration students are currently participating.
Conceived and co-developed “Electric Book”, a team-taught Illustration course offering for
spring ’10, re-envisioning traditional storybook structure in a touch screen electronic
format.
Opened dialog on a formalized shared curriculum in animation with the Department of Film
Animation and Video.
Scheduled 104 courses for 255 department majors and 35 faculty.
Oversaw departmental budget of $1.2 million.
Member of departmental search committee, author of job description for Assistant Professor
June 2003-present. Professor, Illustration Department
Chair, Faculty Steering Committee. Moderated the college-wide Faculty Meeting and oversaw
the organization of the agenda. As “Voice of the Faculty”, met regularly with the President,
Provost, Trustees and Vice President for Finance. In 2007, initiated and negotiated
revision of the committee structure to improve communication with administration,
establishing three subcommittees meeting regularly with specific members of the
administration. Negotiated new status including teaching release for the Committee Chair.
Initiated and moderated three Faculty congresses, day-long forums for exchange of ideas
on the school’s mission and shared goals.
Recipient of the 2005 John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Chair, Illustration Curriculum Committee, involved in focusing and extending the
departmental offerings and overarching mission. Helped to develop and realize the
department’s Online Illustrated Catalog, a first at RISD, which details every course offered
with extended written descriptions, examples of student work, affinities with other courses
and connections to potential career tracks.
Developed and co-taught Virtual Reality Design for Science, a collaborative course with
Brown University Department of Computer Science. Eight RISD students and eight Brown
students work on visualization designs for aspects of the aerodynamics of bat flight and
arterial blood flow for the “CAVE” virtual reality facility at Brown, 2002-2008.
Advisor to Daniel Keefe on the development of “Drawing on Air” haptic virtual reality
drawing interface, 2006.
Lectured at the 2004 Winter Conference on Brain Research: Natural Media and Artistic
Process in Scientific Visualization (within the group presentation: Applying Lessons of
Visual Art to the study of the Brain).
Advisor to user study by Daniel Acevedo and Cullen Jackson on the design of visualization
icons in relation to perceptual psychology, March-May 2003.
Developed and taught Senior Painting Seminar with the goal of familiarizing Illustration
students interest in Fine Arts with issues of 20th century and contemporary critical art
theory.
Taught courses in painting, drawing and Artistic Anatomy, with field trips to the Brown
Evolutionary Biology Lab for direct anatomical study.
Organized and juried the department’s Yale/Norfolk Summer Scholarship nominations,
working with the department’s nominees to develop their fine art portfolios.
Jan. 2000 - Dec 2002
Department Head, Illustration Department
Working with a gift from a RISD trustee, expanded and re-designed the department’s gallery,
classroom space, studio furniture, hallway exhibition space, student homespace and
departmental signage in order to improve department morale and learning conditions.
Conceived, wrote and edited Illustration News, bi-weekly departmental newsletter.
Served as a member of the committee to establish RISD’s Digital Media Department. Wrote
much of the proposal and presented it to the Faculty Meeting.
Participated in discussion group on RISD/Brown collaboration, leading to the development
of Virtual Reality Design for Science
Chaired the search for an Illustration Associate Professor with digital specialization.
1996-2003 Associate Professor, Depts. of Illustration and Foundation Studies. Courses included Foundation
Drawing; Illustration Drawing I & II; Illustration Painting I & II;. Narrative Concepts; Figure and
Ground; Issues in contemporary Figuration;
1981-1996 Adjunct Professor, Depts. of Illustration and Painting. Courses included Figure Painting; Illustration
Drawing I & II; Illustration Painting I & II;. Narrative Concepts; Figure and Ground; Figure
Composition.
1991 Short-term Visiting Critic, RISD European Honors Program, Rome.
Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk CT, Visiting Critic, 1999, 2007.
Williams College, Williamstown MA, Visiting Lecturer, April 2002
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Visiting Lecturer, November 1999.
Yale University, Visiting Critic, Class of Sam Messer, 1998
Crossroads School, Santa Monica CA, Chief Instructor, RISD Summer Program in Drawing and
Illustration June-July 1999.
RISD Summer Session, Instructor in Drawing. Pre-college Program, 1982, '83.
Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, CT. Visiting Lecturer, 1986, '87, '88.

Published Work
Awards
Drawing: Structure and Vision, with Joanne Stryker, Pearson/Prentice Hall 2008. Textbook
for introductory college-level drawing.
Visualization Criticism, with Kosara et al., Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, May-
June 2008.
Using Visual Design Expertise to Characterize the Effectiveness of 2D Scientific
Visualization Methods, with Acevedo et al, Poster at IEEE Visualization 2005.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2005.
Applying the Lessons of Visual Art to the Study of the Brain: abstract for presentation at
Winter Conference on Brain Research, January 2004, with Laidlaw et al.
Designer-critiqued Comparison Of 2D Vector Visualization Methods: A pilot study. In
SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications. IEEE, 2003. with Cullen Jackson,et al.
Illustrations for Satisfaction, by Kim Cattrall and Mark Levinson, Warner Books, NYC, 2002
Interactive Exercises for A World of Art, by Henry Sayre, Prentice Hall, 2002
IEEE Best Poster Award, Using Visual Design Expertise to Characterize the Effectiveness of
2D Scientific Visualization Methods, 2005, with Acevedo et al.
Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, 1987.
Greenshields Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80.
N.B.Saltonstall Fellowship to Skowhegan, 1976
RISD Faculty Development Grant, 1993. Study of Lascaux and other prehistoric sites in
France.
RISD Faculty Development Grant, 1989. Creation of anatomical casts for use in teaching.
Exhibitions
Two Person Show, Red Ef Gallery, Wurtsboro New York July 2009
New Paintings, Project Room, The Painting Center, NYC October 2002
177th Annual Invitational, National Academy of Design, NYC May 2002
Two Person Show, with Elinore Hollinshead, Lenore Grey Gallery, May 1999.
Review in Providence Journal by Bill Van Siclen, June 3, 1999.
Solo Show, AAA Gallery, NYC, November 1998.
Review in Art in America July 1999, by Nancy Grimes.
Solo Show, "Bedtime Stories", Nancy Moore Gallery, NYC, May, 1997.
Summer Group Show, Nancy Moore Gallery, NYC, July-August, 1996.
Solo Show, Black and Greenberg Gallery, NYC, April 1995.
Solo Show, "Nature", 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC, October 1993.
Review in Art in America, June 1994, by Eleanor Heartney.
Invitational Exhibition, The Painting Center, NYC, September 1993.
The Painting Group, 45 Vandam Gallery, NYC, April 1992.
Faith in Paint, Image One Gallery, NYC, December 1990.
New Romanticism, Jagendorf-Bacchi Gallery, NYC, April 1989.
Drawings, group show, Twining Gallery, NYC, March 1989.
Recent Paintings, solo show, Christodora House, NYC, December 1989.
Stanford in New York, Charles Cowles Gallery Annex, NYC, September 1987.
"24 x 24". group show, Ruth Siegel Gallery, NYC, December 1986.
RISD Faculty Biennials, 1983-09, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition Annuals, 1985, '87.
Commissioned

Portraits
Mr.Frederick Lippitt, Trustee Fellow, Brown University.
Mr.Robert Reichley, Chairman Emeritus Ursinus College.
Dr. Sheila Blumstein, Interim President of Brown University
Mr. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, President, Ayala Corp., Manila, Philippines.
Dr. Frank Newman, President Emeritus, University of Rhode Island.
Mr. Lloyd E. Worner, President Emeritus, Colorado College