• Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. H.Dip.F.A. (Printmaking) 1982

    Rhode Island School of Design. B.F.A. (Painting) 1973

    Boston University. Summer Session 1969

    The Putney School. Graduated 1969

  • Islesford Painting Workshops with Ashley Bryan, 2009 - 2016

    Woodstock Union High School, Woodstock, VT, art teacher, 2004-2005

    Dartmouth Medical School, C. Everett Koop Institute, Adjunct Instructor in Anatomical Drawing 1997-1999

    Massachusetts College of Art:

    1983-1991 Professor of Painting and Printmaking, Coordinator of Printmaking Department

    1990 Summer Program in Painting and Drawing, Bucine, Tuscany

    1986-1988 Coordinator and Senior Advisor, MFA Program in Painting and Printmaking

    1983-1984 Director of Exhibitions Program

    Instituto Superior del Arte, Havana, Cuba. Visitng Artist, Lecturer. 1984-1991.

    Harrow College of Art. Middlesex, England: Lecturer (Tutor in Printmaking and Drawing, 1982-1983

    Richmond Adult College, Richmond, Surrey, England: Lecturer

    Senior Tutor in Painting 1981-1983

    Slade School of Fine Art, University College London: Instructor in Drawing, Life Rooms, (Adjunct) 1981-1983, Assistant, Printmaking Department 1983.

    1972-1975 Rhode Island School of Design: Instructor, Summer Sessions, Painting and Printmaking.

    1971-1975 Rhode Island School of Design: Technician, Textile Design Department

  • 2005, Lecturer, Snowshoe Institute, West Virginia

    1995 Research coordinator "Art and Culture of 19th Century South Carolina", Charleston, SC

    1988-1991 Curator/coordinator, Seen from Paradise: Art from the Terezin Concentration Camp" A cycle of exhibitions, performances, and publications held in 1991.

    1988 Director, Surviving Visions: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki Exhibition, symposium, catalogue, and educational outreach centered on the relation of artists to social concern.

    1985 Curator/Coordinator, Unforgettable Fire: Drawings from Hiroshima Exhibition, symposium, educational outreach. This was centered on the first U.S. showing of 100 drawings by survivors from the collection of the Hiroshima Peace Foundation, and held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

    1985-1989 Co-organizer, Graduate Student Exchange: Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba and the Massachusetts College of Art. Conceived and organized the first exchange of students between Cuba and the United States since 1959.

    1984 Curator, "The Art of Jacob Lawrence" Major exhibition of Lawrence's prints and drawings. Symposium on #0099ff artists of the thirties and forties.

    1984 Curator (in collaboration with Oxfam America), "Guatemala, A Photographic Portrait" Recent photographs of the condition of peasants in the war torn countryside of Guatemala.

  • 1998 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

    1996 National Park Service Residency, Yosemite National Park

    1996 Vermont Council on the Arts

    1988 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

    1988 The Boston Globe Foundation

    1988 Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities and Public Policy

    1987 The Hitachi Foundation

    1987 Filene Foundation

    1986 Outstanding Performance Award, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

    1985 Distinguished Service Award, Massachusetts College of Art

    1982 Stowell's Trophy Exhibition for Outstanding Postgraduates, Royal Academy of Art, London

    1981 Royal Society of Painters and Engravers, London

About Henry Isaacs

Ricker Pond, Groton, Vermont
oil on canvas 30x40"