1984 Wind Challenge Artist
Dean Dass studied art, philosophy and anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa, B.A. 1978. His M.F.A. is from The Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1980.
He has taught at the University of Virginia since 1985. For almost thirty years Dass have exhibited his works on paper, paintings, artist’s books and sculpture throughout the United States and abroad. Dass has received an Individual Fellowship from the State of Pennsylvania Arts Council (1985), the State of Virginia Commission for the Arts Printmaking Prize (1988), the State of Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Fellowship (1994), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Individual Fellowship (1999), as well as several research grants from the University of Virginia (1989, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012). In 2003 Dass received the All-University Teaching Award at the University of Virginia. He was the only candidate for this award nominated by students.
