Sandra Dyas

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  Sandra Dyas

  Lecturer in Art

  
  

Biographical Sketch

 Sandra Louise Dyas is a visual artist and published author living in Iowa City. Sandra received her MFA in Intermedia: Performance Art and Video from the University of Iowa in 1998. She is a Lecturer in Art at Cornell College, where she teaches photography, drawing, video and performance art. 

Link to Curriculum Vitae

2022 Vita Sandra Dyas

Bio & Websites

• www.sandydyas.com 
  
• Homegrown Stories
• 2022 Sandra L. Dyas BIO
• VIMEO - Selected Experimental Videos
• • Moving Poems -- New video work selected for http://movingpoems.com/2016/08/river-etude-by-sandra-louise-dyas/
  • The SWAP - Online Photo Project - Interview
  • Picture This - Sandy Dyas Blog
  • www.sandydyas.com 
  • Iowa City Song Project
  • Grant Wood Symposium - Collaboration with Esther Baker-Tarpaga 2014
  • Performance at Grant Wood Symposium 2014
  • Jason Levi Smith - experimental video of a collaborative photo shoot this spring 2014 with Dave Moore
  • The IOWA REVIEW Fall 2014 Cover Photograph
  • The Daily Palette - University of Iowa

Recent Exhibitions

• "Earthly Beauty", 2 person show in Forsberg Riverside Galleries, The Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA, Sept. 2021 - Feb. 2022
• "Truth & Beauty" solo show in Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA. Oct. 14- Nov. 23, 2019. Nov. 8th Reception 
• Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Lecture: Contemporary Portraiture
• "Earthly Beauty", exhibition in Luce Gallery, Cornell College with Susan Coleman. Homecoming 2018 show.
• "Lost in the Midwest: Photographs & Video" Dubuque Museum of Art solo show May 26 - September 9, 2018
• "Truth & Beauty" solo show at Hudson River Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa 2018
• Project Art, Solo Show, University Hospitals, Iowa City, IA 2017
• Englert at 100: Sandra Louise Dyas Photographs, 2013
• "my eyes are not shut"  Solo Exhibition at Wriston Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. 2014
• Lecture and Reception for Exhibition of Photography & Video at Writston Galleries, Appleton, WI, Lawrence University

Online Work - Invitations to Participate

• Someone I Know - Curated Portraits 
• Sean Preciado Genell, The Daily Palette, University of Iowa 
• Caroline Louise, near Andrew, Iowa 2013, The Daily Palette, University of Iowa 
• Homegrown Stories, On-line experimental video & sound project
• Jason Levi Smith - experimental documentary on Iowa City Photographers 2014

Courses Taught

Photo Imaging

Beginning Photography

Advanced Photography

Experimental Drawing

Intermedia (Performance Art & Video)

Interviews with Sandra L. Dyas

• Pivo - Interview for the Prague Summer Program
• Interview with Sandra Dyas / WQPT Quad Cities / Down to the River
• Interview with Sandra Dyas & Susan Coleman, Earthly Beauty @ The Waterloo Center for the Arts 2022-23

Dublin, Ireland Workshop

• Professor LeAnn Erickson of Temple University invited me to teach a two part workshop on photography to her students this summer in Dublin. It was a summer course on Travel Writing and students used digital cameras and blogging to share their writings.

Publications

• Down to the River; Portraits of Iowa Musicians , published by the University of Iowa Press 2007
• my eyes are not shut , self-published book on blurb.com
• Lost in the Midwest - self-published book on blurb.com

Grants & Awards

• -Artist in Residence w/Scholarship, Craigardan Residency, Keene, NY (August 2022)

• Recipient of Iowa Arts Council American Rescue Grant 2021

• -Iowa Arts & Culture Recovery Program Grant, Iowa Arts Council

• Recipient of Iowa Arts Council Project Grant 2018
• Finalist (alternate candidate) Fulbright in Sofia, Bulgaria 2018
• Purchase Award, Dubuque Museum of Art 5th Biennial, Juror: Jane Milosch, 2015
• Finalist, Iowa Arts Council, Women in Agriculture Art Competition 2015
• 1st Place Award, Dubuque Museum of Art 4th Biennial, Juror: James Welu
• -Honorable Mention, Rural Impressions, “Tammy, Walker’s Barber Shop, Keokuk, IA”, Juror: Aline Smithson, New York Center for Photographic Art, NYC 2013
• McConnell Travel Grant, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA 2013
• Juror’s Honorable Mention, IDentity, Group Show, “Don, The Modern Barber Shop”, Juror: Barbara Tannenbaum, Center for Fine Art Photo, Fort Collins, CO 2013
• Kickstarter Fundraiser via Social Media, raised nearly $3,500 for new work, 2012