Richard Emery Nickolson Indiana Study for Night of the Comet, 1988 ceramic Titled, signed, and dated underneath. Richard Emery Nickolson was born on 21 August 1946 in Washington, DC. He has served as a Professor of Painting, Drawing, Foundations Studies and Critical Thinking at the Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana from 1973 to 2010 and as an Instructor in Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois in 1972-1973. He received an MFA from Indiana University in 1972, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1968. He attended the Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in 1967. He was assigned to the Office, Chief of Military History and the United States Army Combat Artist Team XI in 1970-1971. He has lectured and exhibited widely: from Pont-Aven, France to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and from the School of Visual Arts in New York City to Portland, Oregon. He was represented by the Ruschman Gallery in Indianapolis for over twenty years. His recent work has been drawn from, and heavily influenced by, a variety of international travels during the last fifteen years, including the Breton landscape and “l’architecture industrielle.” ??Nickolson has also had a long-standing interest in the Imagist poets and their relationship to 20th Century American artists. This interest is at the heart of his work both as an artist and as a teacher. In 1997 he was a recipient of a Herron School of Art and Design Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), and was named by the Dean of Faculties as a Founding Faculty Member of the University College, IUPUI. ?? In December 2000 two Solo Exhibitions were featured at the Indianapolis Art Center as part of a larger series of exhibitions and programs titled “The Art of Combat: Artists and the Viet Nam War, Then and Now” in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the end of the War in Viet Nam. In 2002 he was the recipient of an Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (TTA) and in 2003 he was elected to the Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana. He was a recipient of a 2005-2006 Creative Renewal Fellowship administered by the Indianapolis Arts Council and sponsored by the Eli Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis. He has served as a Visiting Professor of Painting, Drawing and Journaling at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in the city of Pont-Aven, Brittany, France in the summers of 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2007. In 2008 he was the recipient of the Harry A. Davis Faculty Award for Extraordinary Commitment to the students of the Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, Indiana, presented by the Indiana University Alumni Association. During the spring semester of 2009 he was invited to serve as the Artist-in-Residence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s College, which is located at the historic site of St. Mary’s City, founded in 1634 by Lords Calvert and Baltimore under charters granted by James I of England, is the Designated Honors College of the State of Maryland. During this time a new series of subtly abstracted drawings and watercolors were produced directly from both historic and contemporary examples of architectural forms. He has previously served as an Artist-in-Residence at: the Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York; the Ossabaw Island Project, Savannah, Georgia; Alfred University, Alfred, New York; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia. © 2012 Richard Emery Nickolson 10"H x 5"Diam.