Education

Silvermine College of Art, 1969-71, independent study
Smith College, BA 1967, art history

Work and Teaching
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, acting director, curator, board member, 1985-90
Prescott College, adjunct faculty in art, 1971-77
Yale University Art Gallery, curatorial assistant in the Asian Art department, 1967-69

Selected Exhibitions (* = solo exhibition)
2011   The Crypt Gallery, London, UK, Sensorium
           Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY, Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia
2010   Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM, Sensory Crossover: Synesthesia
           Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, Reshaping Reality
           Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, Of/About/On Paper
           Paper City Project Space, Holyoke, MA, Wonderland
           Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, Through the Skin *
2009   Hub National Center for Craft and Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK, Safe to Touch
           Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Pioneer Women
           New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH, Art Beyond Sight
2008   Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA *
           Courtauld Institute, London, UK, Sculpture and Touch
           DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Touch: An Art Experience for the Senses
2007   Enactive 2007, Grenoble, France, Enaction in Arts
           World Haptics, Tsukuba, Japan
           New Hampshire Institute of Arts, New Hampshire Biennial Manchester, NH
2006   Science Oxford, Oxford, England, UK, Art and the Senses
           Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany *
           Eurohaptics, Paris, France *
           Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, Second Skin *
2005  Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Form is Emptiness *
           Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA
2003   American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons' traveling exhibition, Emotion Pictures
           San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, etc., 2000-2003
2001   Eastern New Mexico University, Portales,NM, Seen, Unseen
           Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI
1999   Westenberg Gallery, Marfa, TX  *
           University of Arizona Art Museum Tucson, AZ, The Sense of Touch *
           Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Memory of the Hand
           Thorne's Gallery, Northampton, MA, Recent Sculptures *
1996   University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, Vis/Ability
1995   Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA, NEFA Sculpture Fellows
           Middlebury College Art Museum, Middlebury, VT, The Art of Touch *
           Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, The Sense of Touch  *
1994   DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, The Art of Touch  *
           Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, Artists Congress II
1993   Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, The Art of Touch  *
1992   Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ *
           Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA, Aspects of Paper
1991   Harpercollins Gallery, New York, NY, Paper--the Essential Material
           Middlebury College Art Museum, BodyStories
1989   Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA, Collages *
1988   Art Complex at Duxbury, Duxbury, MA, Paperworks
1987   Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, NJ, Paper

Grants and Fellowships
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, NM, Fellowship, 2001-2002
Arts Lottery Grant, Northampton Arts Council,  1998
Regional Fellowship in Sculpture, New England Foundation for the Arts,  1997
Professional Development Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council,  1996
Artists' Projects: New Forms, New England Foundation for the Arts,  1995

Selected Reviews and articles
Rosalyn Driscoll:Body Sight by Raymond Lidell, Art New England, Feb-March, 2009
Art and the Senses, ed. Francesca Bacci and David Melcher (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Sculpture and Touch, by Francesca Bacci and Peter Dent, (Courtauld Institute of Art, 2008)
Proceedings of Enactive/Enaction in Arts Conference 2007, (Grenoble, France, 2007)
Human Hand Function
by Susan Lederman, Lynette Jones (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Brattleboro Reformer "Skin Deep" by Christine Holderness, December 2005
Body and Earth by Andrea Olsen (University of New England Press, 2002)
Emotion Pictures (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2001)
Scene/Unseen (Eastern New Mexico University, 2001)
Arizona Daily Star "Please touch" by Pamela Portwood, February 1999
Sculpture "Rosalyn Driscoll: Touching Required" by Marty Carlock, December 1998
Contact Quarterly "Touching Art," 1995
Boston Globe "Winning Display of NEFA Artists" by Christine Temin, 1995
Brattleboro Reformer "Art of touch is enriching," September 1995
The Middlebury Campus "Unusual Exhibit," September 1995
Boston Phoenix"The Art of Touch" by Cate McQuaid, January 1995
Boston Globe "Perspectives" by Christine Temin,  December 1994
Valley Optimist "More than a Feeling" by Gretchen Hitchner, July 1993
Hampshire Gazette "A New Way of Seeing Art," August 1993
Sunday Republican "Sculpture as Metaphor," July 1993
Artists Trust Quarterly "Eyes and Hands," Fall 1993
Valley Forum "Art to touch: a world under hands," October 1993
Places "The Place of Imagination," 1991
Bodystories by Andrea Olsen, (Station Hill Press), 1991

Lectures, presentations
Eurohaptics 2010, (keynote) Amsterdam, 2010
Art on the Brain, Mt Holyoke College, MA, 2010
Art Beyond Sight, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009
Sculpture and Touch symposium, Courtauld Institute, London, UK, 2008
Conference on Consciousness, Ratna Ling, California 2008, 2009
Institute for Human-Centered Design, Boston, MA, 2008
Art Beyond Sight, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007
Enaction in Arts, (keynote) Grenoble, France, 2007
Science Oxford, Oxford, England, 2006
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany, 2006
EuroHaptics, Paris, 2006
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, 2005
McGovern Institute, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2004
Digital Dialogues: Technology and the Hand, MIT Media Lab/Haystack School, Maine, 2002
Boston Architectural School, Boston, MA, 2002
Connecticut Board of Education and Services for the Blind, Hartford, CT, 2002
Inclusive Practices in the Arts, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, 2002
Uncommon Senses: Conference on the Senses in Art and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal, 2000
Clearing the Path: Art and Accessibility in New England, Boston, MA, 2000
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 1999
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 1999
Congress of International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Rome, Italy, 1998
This/Ability: Conference on Disability and the Arts, University of Michigan, 1995
New England Museum Association, Middlebury, VT, 1995
Boston Sculptors' Gallery, Newton MA, 1995
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1994
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1994
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA,  1994


 
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