Professor of Painting, Chair of Fine Arts Department
Painting and Drawing
Hartford Art Schoolboothe@hartford.edu V 208 powerboothe.com
Education
BA, Painting, Colorado College
PhD, Institute for Doctorial Studies in the Visual Arts
Doctor of Arts, Honorary Degree, Colorado College
Power Boothe is Professor of Painting at the Hartford Art School and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Hartford. He served as the Dean of the Hartford Art School from 2001 to 2010, where he led a campaign to build the Renée Samuels Art and Technology Center. As Director of the Mount Royal Graduate School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1993 to 1998 he received the Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence. Boothe served as Lecturer in the Humanities at Princeton University from 1988 to 1994 and he was a member of the School of Visual Arts faculty in New York from 1979 to 1988.
Boothe grew up in Lafayette, CA, studied painting at the California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute, and received a BA from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. He came to New York as a student in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1967. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree from Colorado College in 1989, for his mid-career accomplishments, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2016.
Boothe is an abstract artist who has exhibited for over five decades. He is represented in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in NY. His work is also in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the British Museum in the UK.
Boothe has received an NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has received awards for his designs for experimental theater, dance, and video productions, including a Bessie Award for set design, a Film/Video Arts Foundation Award for film, and several Art Matters Grants for theater. In addition, he has been awarded a Yaddo Artists’ Colony residency, a McDowell Colony residency, and an Asian Cultural Council Grant for travel and study in Japan.