About Dedree

Dedree A. Drees, Professor of Computer Graphics and Visual Communications has taught at CCBC Catonsville, MD for forty-one years. Her work is represented in numerous collections, both regional and as far away as New Mexico and Turkey. Her honors include a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study in Belgium and the Netherlands, two NEH grants, and the National Council of Art Administrators Board of Directors Award. She was selected to be in Marquis Who’s Who in American Women 2007, 26th Edition. She received a BS from Skidmore College in 1967, MFA from Penn. State, 1970 and MLA from Johns Hopkins U, 1979. She has completed coursework for the Doctor of Communication Design program at the University of Baltimore and is ABD. Recent graphics projects include design work such as environmental design for the new BWI Airport parking garage and illustration of an Illustrated book “I Am the Word” by Rev. Thomas O’Donnell, Esq. In discussing her work, she says, “I want to make art that is beautiful, that addresses the viewer’s spiritual needs. I want to create works that show, as Blake said,”an infinity in a grain of sand.” I like the idea of an art that is multi-cultural and polyvalent, connecting then and now, here and there, us and them.” Professor Drees work can be seen on the Web at www.dedree.com and the Maryland State Arts Council Registry, and of course, on this blog.