Jeffrey Dell

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Bio

Jeffrey was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1969. He grew up in Oregon, in a small town called McMinnville, 40 miles south of Portland. In 1987, he began college at Hamline University in St. Paul, studying ceramics, for which he received his bachelors in 1992. In 1990 he took a year off to do a study abroad program in Beijing, China, and he was in Tianenmen Square for the one-year anniversary of the government crackdown of 1989. His senior year, in 1992, he took his first printmaking class, studying with Leonardo Lasansky, and quickly realized his subsequent passions would take him in that direction. Jeffrey had a printmaking assistantship for two years at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and started graduate school at the University of New Mexico in the fall of 1995, where he studied with Lydia Madrid and José Rodriguez. He left New Mexico in 1998, and completed the requirements for the MFA in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Jeffrey received the fellowship at The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, in Venice, Italy. Since then Jeffrey has been teaching printmaking at Texas State University-San Marcos, and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2006. Jeffrey also teaches in Florence in May/June each year, as well as a two-week class in August at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.