Artist Biography

Dorothy McCray – Printmaker/Painter

BA – State University of Iowa 1937

MA – State University of Iowa 1939

MFA – California College of Arts and Crafts 1955

DHL (Honorary) – Western New Mexico University 2001

Post Graduate Studies

1939-41: University of Iowa

1956: California College of Arts and Crafts

1964: University of Florence, Italy – Summer Studies

1966ä Tyler School of Art, Temple University – Summer Studies; printmaking in Italy, with Ernest Freed Otis Art Institute

1970: Extensive Independent European Travel and Study

1948-1981: Associate Professor of Art, Western New Mexico University

1992: Governorπs Award for excellence and Achievement in the Arts

Listed in:

Whoπs Who in American Art

Whoπs Who in America

Whoπs Who among American Women

Currently owner of the ≥Atelier McCray on Broadway≤ studio and art gallery in downtown Silver City

Artist Statement for Dorothy McCray

≥To see a World in a grain of sand,

And a Heaven in a wild flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,

And Eternity in an hour.≤

Wm. Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Art is the spirit of life. Art is an imitation of reality. Art is the expression of the astonishment of moment by moment experience of being.

All of life is a creative act, the act of organizing and manipulating experienced phenomena to form a meaningful whole. The visual arts are one manifestation of this need of man for the integration attained through the creative process.

The evolution of my artwork involves a leap into the unknown. It consists of elements of play, discovery and awe.

I am intrigued by the multiplicity of sensation, visual and conceptual, which one experiences through life. My concern is to organize and reinterpret these experiences so that my work will be evocative of memories and enrichment of meaning for others.