Brett Colley
Professor
Printmaking, Drawing, and Foundations
Office: 1221 Alexander Calder Fine Arts Center
Phone: (616) 331-2952
Email: [email protected]
Biography
Brett Colley earned his BFA in Studio Art from GVSU, and his MFA in Printmaking from the School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa.
Over his 25-plus years of teaching Brett has enjoyed working with students in a wide array of creative endeavors, including all levels of drawing, bookmaking, art appreciation, senior seminar, and printmaking. At present Brett serves as the area coordinator for Printmaking, which is also the home base of his personal research.
His recent studio work is engaged with contemporary politics and social movements, celebrating our resistance to injustice and critiquing the abuse of power and inherent violence of capitalism. His projects as both an artist and curator have been exhibited in over 30 states and 7 countries.
Education
MFA, Printmaking, The University of Iowa
BFA, Printmaking, Grand Valley State University
Courses
- ART 155 - Foundations: Introduction To Drawing I
- ART 258 - Intermediate Drawing
- ART 265 - Introduction To Printmaking
- ART 366 - Intermediate Printmaking I
- ART 367 - Intermediate Printmaking II
- ART 401 - Senior Seminar
- ART 467 - Advanced Printmaking I
- ART 468 - Advanced Printmaking II
- ART 498 - Senior Project
Works
Grand Rapids Street Archive (project ongoing)
Found object collection
Installation view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum
2017
Dark Cloud (project ongoing)
Multi-block relief prints in thrift shop frames
Installation view at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art
2013
Suffering the Unattainable
Relief, Screen print, and letterpress text.
Collaboration with Kalamazoo-based poet David Dodd and the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
2016
Cheap Meat
Digital Print
Created for a project with the AIGA, GVSU chapter
2010