ANDERSON,
RONALD TRENT, artist, educator; b. Madison, Wis., October
10, l938. s.Delmar LeRoy and Violet A.; m. Barbara Groffman,
June 9, 1962 (dec. 2006); 1 child, Brett Erland. BS in
Art Edn., U. Wis., 1961, MS in Art, 1962, MFA, 1963. tchr.
Waupun (Wis.) High Sch., 1961, tchg. asst. rural art program
U. Wis., Madison, 1961-63; tchr. Bloom Twp. High Sch.,
Chgo. Heights, Illinois., 1963-67; asst. prof. art edn.
Nova Scotia Coll. of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
1967-69; tchr. Springfield (Mass.) Pub. Sch., 1969-2000.
Solo exhbns. include Arts Unlimited Gallery, Milw.,1965,
Bradley Gallery, Milw.,1967, Burnett Gallery, Amherst,
Mass., 2005, retrospective U.Wis.-Madison, 2006, retrospective
Westfield (Mass.) Coll.,2007; group shows include Smithsonian
Instn., Washington, 1962, Ill. State Mus., Springfield,
1965, 1967, Nat. Design Ctr., Chgo, 1967, Dalhousie U.,
(N.S., Can.) 1967, Montreal Mus. Fine Arts., 1968, Boston
Symphony Hall, 1992, Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs,
1998, Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea,
Florence, Italy, 2005, numerous others; author: Pleasure
of Discovery, 2008. Represented in permanent collections
at U. Wis., Madison, Dalhousie U, Westfield (Mass.) Coll.,
Walter J. Kohler, Jr. family. work reproduced in Prize-Winning
Watercolors, Books I and II, 1963, 1964, The Art Of Written
Forms, 1969; Recipient Beacon award for excellence in edn.
Springfield (Mass.) Sch. Com., 1992, 25 awards for painting
and printmaking in juried art exhbns. U.S. and Can., Mass.
Art Educator of Yr. award Mass. Art Edn. Assn., 1999, Sch.
of Edn. Alumni Achievement Award U. Wis.-Madison., 2001;
fellow Tchr.-Artist Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art
Found., 1998. Mem: NEA, Salmagundi Club (Rita Duis Meml.
award and The Gene Magazzini Meml. award traditional oil
2003, Joseph DiMare award 2005, Elizabeth K. Ellis Artists'
Fellowship Award 2006, Gwynne Lennon Prize 2007, Margery
Soroka Meml. award 2008); Phi Delta Kappa, Nat. Art Edn.
Assn, Internat. Platform Assn. (First Prize for Graphics
Exhbn. 1995, Best of Show award 2001), Lutheran. Avocations:
studying the arts and humanities, foreign travel, bicycling,
photography, fishing. Home: 9 Autumn Ln, Amherst MA 01002-3316
