Kristin Casaletto
ETCHINGS
In the late 1990s, Casaletto moved from Michigan, a thousand miles south, to Mississippi, where exposure to the remnants of Jim Crow, persistent poverty, and the weaving of religious faith into the fabric of public and daily life dovetailed with her interest in conscience, politics, and the complex relationship among corruption, redemption, justice, and injustice.
KRISTIN CASALETTO
EDUCATION
MFA, Painting with further emphasis in Printmaking, Western Michigan University
MA, Art History, Michigan State University.
Graduate Art History, Universita’ di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
BFA, Drawing, Ball State University, Honors College.
BS, Physics, Ball State University, Honors College.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Premonition, Collins Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.
2017
The Past Is Never Dead: Kristin Casaletto, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
2016
Parable, New York Public Library, Muhlenberg Branch, Chelsea, New York, NY.
2014-2015
Parable, New York Public Library, Chelsea branch, New York, NY.
Parable, Muhlenberg Library, Chelsea, New York, NY.
Made in America, Green Chalk Contemporary Gallery, Monterey, CA.
2012
Kristin Casaletto, Etherredge Center, University of South Carolina, Aiken.
2010
Kristin Casaletto, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
Voices & Visions: Kristin Casaletto’s Imagery as Social Commentary, GCSU Art Museum, Milledgeville, GA.
88 Square Feet: The Art of Large-Scale Woodcut, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
2007
Woodcuts, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA.
2005
Red Earth Soliloquy: Ruminations in Print, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
2004
Mississippi Voices: Stories and Visions of the South, Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS.
1999
Unnamed Sources, M.FA exhibition, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
Fortune Five Hundred, installation, WMU.
Project Relocating Hope, installation, WMU and Florence, Italy.
1998
Leaving Limbo: Works on Paper, Terryberry Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.
1988
Some Works, Courthouse Gallery, Muncie, IN.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
ARTbreak: Virtual: Kristin Casaletto and Kae Person, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Thunder, ArtPosts, Grand Rapids, MI. (Artposts are five outdoor miniature art galleries organized by Avenue for the Arts that provide the public with an opportunity to see small-scale artworks in unconventional settings.
2021
92nd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Juror: Karen Hampton.
In Between, Lowell Arts, Lowell, MI.
Haunt, The Standard, Grand Rapids, MI. Juror: Michele Bosak, director, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art.
2020
Boston Printmakers’ Traveling Flat Files, SGCI, San Juan, Puerto Rico (April).
In Between, Studios, Inc., Kansas City, MO.
In Between, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE.
2019
91st Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI.
Past & Present, Frames Unlimited, Grand Rapids, MI.
In Between, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA,
The Art Party, Green Chalk Contemporary, Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA
Party for Democracy, Green Chalk Contemporary, Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA.
Boston Printmakers’ Traveling Flat Files, Southern Graphics Council International, Dallas, TX.
Printing Arts fair, Museum of Printing, Havermill, MA and Boston Print Fair, Cyclorama, Boston, MA.
Voices, Green Chalk Contemporary, Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey. CA.
2018
Good & Mad, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
ArtPrize X, Collins Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.
Methodical, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD (first prize).
Group Show, Georgia Cyber Authority, Augusta, GA.
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Includes NickCave, Faith Ringgold, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, et al; curated by Katie Knight. Traveling to Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, 1/17 to 6/2, Union Station Museums, Ogden, UT, June 15 to Sept. 3, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, 10/5 to 12/30.
2017
Awakening, Green Chalk Contemporary Gallery, Carmel, CA.
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO.
2016
2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Athica, Athens, GA. Juror: Annette Cone-Skeleton, director, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Socially & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. Juror: Eric Avery.
Sense of Place, Honorable Mention, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA; Juror: Michael Rooks, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, national show traveled to Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, CUNY, New York, NY, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
Group Show, Sechrest Gallery, Highpoint University, NC.
Pushing the Press: Printmaking in the South, organized by Georgia Museum of Art with the Lyndon House Art Center, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA; Curated by Didi Dunphy.
2015
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK.
Fighting the Fires of Hate, UC Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MA.
2014
Artist Activist, Mary S. Byrd Gallery, Augusta, GA.
Annual Invitational, Green Chalk Contemporary Gallery Monterey, CA.
One, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY.
Lo Spirito in Volo, Richmond Center for the Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
Speaking Volumes, Transforming Hate, Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History museum, Redmond, WA.
Joseph Campbell: The Artst’s Way,collaboration with The Joseph Campbell Foundation, Opus Archives, Celadon Arts at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA; Curated by Gail F. Enns.
34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition,Bradley Art Galleries, Peoria, IL.
Joseph Campbell: Nature, Myth & Art, Monterey Airport, Monterey, CA.
Woman, Town 220 Gallery, Madison, GA.
Woman Made,Redbird Gallery, Columbia, SC.
2013
Brilliant Art Show, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.
ONE, Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.
2012
2nd National Etching Exhibition, New York Society of Etchers, National Arts Club, New York, NY.
Visual Politics: Art and the American Experience, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA.
Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
XLG: Living Large (two-person exhibition), Town 220 Gallery, Madison, GA
2nd National Print Show, Noyes Center for the Arts and One Horse Press, Evanston, IL.
MAPC Juried Members Exhibition, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, MO.
2011
New Acquisitions of Works on Paper, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
Tempting Equilibrium, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
The Road to Equality: The 1961 Freedom Rides (two-person show with Libby Bailey), Greyhound Bus Station/Freedom Rides Museum, Montgomery, AL.
XLG, Town 220, Madison, GA.
2010
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Project Fellows Exhibition, EFA Project Space, New York, NY.
Prints: Now in 3D, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Dream Prints/Mad Printers, Morris Museum of Art Education Gallery, Augusta, GA.
ASU Art Faculty Invitational, Hudgens Center, Duluth, GA.
(S)edition: Prints as Activism, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition Purchase award, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.
Salon des Refusees, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT.
2009
Generation (two-person show), The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
IconData 2009, Global Virtual Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, SMGT, , April 2009-April 2010.
Sognando la Realta, Mya Lurgo Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland.
Identity, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Washington Printmakers National Small Works 2008, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC.
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. Travels to the following venues through 2010: Copper Village Museum & Art Center, Anaconda, University of Montana-Western, Dillon, Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery, Livingston, Custer County Art, Center, Miles City, Paris Gibson Square Art Museum, Great Falls, Mondak Heritage Center, Sidney, Emerson Center for Arts & Culture & the Helen E. Copeland Gallery, MSU, Bozeman, Montana Museum of Arts & Culture, Missoula, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT.
2008
Cascade Print Exchange IV, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR. Organized by Yuji Hiratsuka.
2007
Another View, In conjunction with Los Angeles Printmaking Society 19th National Exhibition, Weingart Gallery at Occidental College, L.A, CA.
31st Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Industrial Identity: Developing the American South, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA.
Black Line, Contemporary Arts Exchange, Macon, GA.
Adam’s Fault, Gallery 222, Augusta, GA.
Krakow Print Triennial, Stowarzyszenie Miedzynardowe Triennale Grafiki, Krakow, Poland; Curator: Katarzyna Wojtyga.
The Transferred Image, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
Twenty-seventh Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Show, Columbia College, Columbia, MO.
Something about Soul, State of the Art, Augusta, GA.
2005
Intolerance, New Jersey Print Council, Somerville, NJ, (traveling exhibition).
2004
ASU Art Faculty Show, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Augusta State University, GA.
Cultural Crossroads, video screening, Port Gibson, MS.
Janet Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA.
Tamarind Group, E.J. Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Of Art & Artists: Recent Work from the ASU Art Faculty, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA, Southworks, Oconee Fine Arts Center, Watkinsville, GA.
2002
Digital Video Screening, University of New Castle, New Castle, Australia.
Juried Alumni Show, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
Fear-Fun, four-person collaborative multimedia installation and performance, The Multimedia Room, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
Starr Earthwork, thirty-seven-acre earthwork by the World Peace Art Initiative international collaborative group, Starr Commonwealth Campus, Albion, MI.
Points of View, Art Gallery, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS.
World Peace Artists Initiative (WPAI), international collaborative that creates large-scale public artworks and related peace activities in five member nations.
World Peace Artists Initiative Inaugural, Brueckner Museum, Albion, MI.
Roots Uprooted, multimedia digital book piece published in Peter Hyatt Middleton’s digital book Art and Education.
2000-1999
Mississippi Statewide Art Faculty Traveling Show, multiple venues.
1998
Counter/Fit, South Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI.
WMU Printmakers, Rotunda and South Galleries, Kalamazoo, MI.
1997
Ready for the Renaissance (commissioned to paint 12-ft. fresco mural and tempera painting), Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI.
Trajectories, Studio Art Centers International Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Settimo Concorso di Belli Arte, Galleria delle Carmine, Florence, Italy (2nd prize).
1995
Aquinas College Faculty Show, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI.
1992
Earth, Air, Water, Sky, Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, MI.
1991
Arts Alive!, Chrysler Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.
1988
Five Imagists Named Moe, Emmons Auditorium, Muncie, IN.
MUSEUM AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Eli & Edyth Broad Art Museum, E. Lansing, MI.
GCSU Museum of Art, Milledgeville, GA.
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Print Study Collection, Kalamazoo, MI.
Library of Congress Fine Art Print Collection, Washington, DC.
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.
Arkansas State University, Print Collection, Jonesboro, AR.
Augusta University, Permanent Collection, Augusta, GA.
Ball State University Print Study Collection, Muncie, IN.
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Lake, NY.
Georgia Technology Authority corporate collection, Augusta, GA.
Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA.
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI
La Serena Vineyards, Montalcino, Italy.
Louisiana State University Print Collection, Baton Rouge, LA.
Mississippi Humanities Council, Jackson, MS.
Northern Illinois University Print Collection, DeKalb, IL.
One Horse Press, Chicago, IL/Saugatuck, MI.
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archive, New York, NY.
Southern Graphics Council Archive, University, MS.
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy.
SMTG, Krakow, Poland.
University of North Dakota Print Collection, Fargo, ND.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA.
Western Michigan University Prints Collection, Kalamazoo, MI.
SELECTED AWARDS
2021
Top prize, Haunt, The Standard, Grand Rapids, MI.
2018
Top prize, Methodical, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD.
2017
Mayor Wade Troxell of Fort Collins, CO, issued a proclamation decreeing Jan. 20 the city’s official Transforming Hate day, in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate at Ft. Collins Museum of Art.
2016
Honorable Mention, Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of A Augusta, GA. Juror: Michael Rooks, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Louis K. Bell Award for Research Excellence, Augusta University.
2010
Purchase award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State Univ., Jonesboro, AR.
2008-2009
Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program fellowship Award.
Chancellor’s Award for research travel to Morocco and Spain.
2003
Outstanding Alumna Award, Western Michigan University.
1999
Walter Enz Memorial Award, WMU.
1998
University Dames Scholarship Award for Research Excellence.
1994
Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Ball State University.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2019-20
Game Time grant For contemporary art creation, Grand Rapids, MI
2018
Faculty Scholars grant, Office of Faculty Development & Teaching Excellence, AU
2016
Pamplin Professional Impact Fund award, Augusta University.
2015
Pamplin Professional Impact Fund award, Georgia Regents Universi.y.
2014
Art research grant for Made in America exhibition travel, GRU.
2012
Georgia Humanities Council Grant.
2011
Porter Fleming Grant.
Faculty Research & Development Grants.
2007
Porter Fleming Grant, GA,
2000-2009
Augusta State University research grants
2001-2002
Faculty Development Institute Award.
2000-2004
Mississippi Humanities Council Grant.
2001-2004
University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg matching Grant
2000
Starr Commonwealth grant & residency
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2012
Parham, Roert R., Cover art for the book THE RELENTLESSNESS OF SALVATION, Snake Nation Press.
2010
Snyder, Jeffrey B., PRINTMAKERS TODAY, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., PA.
2002
De Grazia, Diane and Barberson, Eric, et. al., ITALIAN PAINTINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002. Contributing researcher.
Chotner, Deborah, et. al., AMERICAN NAIVE PAINTING, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002. Contributing researcher.
Contributing researcher, Wheelock, Jr., Arthur, DUTCH PAINTINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
CATALOGUES
2016
Pushing the Press: Printmaking in the South. Georgia Museum of Art in partnership with the Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA
Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Socially & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN.
2013
Joseph Campbell: The Artist’s Way, published by Celadon Arts.
34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley Art Galleries, Peoria, IL.
2011
Dixie Icons: Re-Visioning the Dixie Myth. Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
Road to Equality: The 1961 Freedom Rides, Alabama Historical Commission.
2010
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas Stat University, Jonesboro, AR.
20/20 Vision: The Art of Contemporary University Printmaking II, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
2008
20/20 Vision: The Art of Contemporary University Printmaking, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA.
Speaking Volumes Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
4th International Cascade Print Exchange, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
21st Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Communication Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI.
2007
31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradlley University.2006 Southern Printmaking Biennale, North Georgia College and StateUniversity, Dahlonega, GA.
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.
Southworks, Oconee Fine Arts Center, Watkinsville, GA.
SELECTED ARTICLES
2016
Burnaway’s Best of 2016: Exhibitions, Burnaway, Dec. 20, ’16,
2015
Watts, James S.D., Living Arts of Tulsa Exhibit Shows Hate Turned into Art, TULSA WAY, online ed., Jan. 1,
2012
Adams, Lucy, Arts Alive in Madison, AUGUSTA MAGAZINE, p.60, 4/12.
Freedom Riders Get Place in History 50 Years Later, ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES, 5/20/12.
Artwork at the Freedom Rides Museum, MONTEGOMERY ADVERTISER, 5/15/12.
2010
Christian, Amy, Lady Justice, METRO SPIRIT,1/6/10.
Kimelman, Molly, Weighty Topics: UICA Exhibits Tackle Timely Social Issues, GRAND RAPIDS PRESS, Grand Rapids, MI.
Plocha, Ashley, Scratching the Surface: Casaletto Carves Meaningful Art, VERGE, 1/10 issue.
Artistic Look at Hate, HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD, Helena, MT.
Kidston, Martin J., Shedding Light on Hate, HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD, 1/21/10.
Ugliness into Art: Holter Exhibit Transforms White-Supremacy Literature intro.
Donahoe, Emily, Works of Art, HELENDA INDEPENDENT RECORD, p. A8, 1/24/10.
Kovac, Jr., Joe, Words Weave Their Way through Visual Art Exhibit in Milledgeville, MACON TELEGRAPH, 3/21/10.
Galvin, Kathleen, Kristin Casaletto—Stretching the Limits, THE DOWNTOWNER, Louisville, GA, p. 3, Vol. 4, Issue 5.
2007
Quadrino, Carlo, Intervista con Kristin Casaletto, Artista e Docente d’Arte all, Augusta State University in Georgia, 6/19/07.
GENOMARTART (), Salerno, Italy.
2006
Walmsley, Elizabeth and Obethaler, Elke, Technical Studies of Painting Methods, essay in Bellini, Giorgione, TITIAN AND THE RENAISSANCE OF VENETIAN PAINTING, reproduction of Casaletto’s infrared reflectography for catalog, Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Revelation’s Death on a Pale Horse Sprawls across the Heavens in Kristin Casaletto’s Woodcut, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, color photo.
Art Series Brings Up Topic of Religion, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, 8/12/06, color photo.
Norton, Virginia, Justice in the Works: Civil Rights-era Murder Inspired Artist’s Series, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, 8/12/06, Interview & five color images.
Lember, David S. and Fraser, Rolland, Landscape Art: How Geographers and Artists Can Collaborate in the (a) Field, YOU ARE HERE: THE JOURNAL OF CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY, Summer/06.
2005
Bellantoni, Ralph, Transcending Intolerance: Juried Show at Printmaking Council Examines Blight of Bigotry, COURIER NEWS (New Jersey).
SOUTHERN POETRY REVIEW MAGAZINE, Summer 2005, cover image.
Howard, Parish, Red Earth Soliloquy: Ruminations in Print, NEWS AND FARMER/ WADLEY HERALD/ JEFFERSON REPORTER, 9/8/05. Review, 3 color photos.
Gallery Hosts Exhibit of Prints Depicting Difficult Southern Themes, NEWS AND FARMER/WADLEY HEARALD/JEFFERSON REPORTER, 9/8/05, color photo.
2004
Garvey, Jim, Small Gifts of Hope, AUGUSTA MAGAZINE, pp. 17-22, 4/04.
2004
Johnston, Mandy, The Fine Print, SYNTHESIS, 2/6, Chico, CA.
KRISTIN CASALETTO
Kristin Casaletto exhibits nationally and internationally and has shown with such artists as Nick Cave, Betye Saar, Sue Coe, and Faith Ringgold. She has won awards, grants, and residencies from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (DC), the Georgia Humanities Council (Atlanta), the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC), and numerous others. Her art is held in university and museum collections such as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Edith and Ely Broad Museum of Art in E. Lansing, Michigan. Recent solo shows were exhibited in New York City; Monterey, California; and at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia. She holds an MFA in painting/printmaking (Western Michigan University), MA in art history (Michigan State), BFA in drawing (Ball State), BS in physics (Ball State). She is a fulltime artist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
