EDUCATION
2007, M. F. A., Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
2003, B. F. A., Painting, Arizona State University (ASU), Summa cum Laude
2001, A. G. S., Painting, Scottsdale Community College (SCC), High Honors; the President’s List
1997, Art Gymnasium Diploma, Luka Sorkocevic, Dubrovnik, Croatia, High Honors
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008
Shemer Art Center and Museum, Faculty and Staff Biennial, Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Center for the Arts, Resident Artist Show, Phoenix, AZ
BRIO Fine Arts Center, Go Figure, Scottsdale, AZ (Juror: Josie Taglienti)
Shemer Art Center and Museum, Landscaped, Phoenix, AZ (Curator: Lindsay Palmer)
2007
Phase 4 Studios, EDNA DAPO, Blackout Exhibition Series, Tempe, AZ (Solo)
Bradley University and Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, 31st Bradley Intl. Print and Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, IL (Juror: Judith K. Brodsky)
Studio 12N, Artworks for Youth Auction, Manhattan, NY (Curator: John V. Lombardo)
Vernissage Art and Archives Gallery, Arizona State University - Department of English, Come Home to English, Tempe, AZ
2006
Alexander Annex Gallery, AFTERMATH - paintings, drawings and prints, MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition, Savannah, GA (Solo)
Marcella Geltman Gallery, 15th National Juried Show at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ (Juror: Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY)
Telfair Museum of Art, 12th Annual Art Fair, Savannah, GA
Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta, Atlanta Fall Open Studio Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
Orleans Hall, Art Can Cure, Savannah, GA
Red Gallery, Small Works, Savannah, GA
Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta, Winter 2006 Invitational, Atlanta, GA
Alexander Hall, Fall Open Studio Night Exhibitions, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Alexander Hall, Spring Open Studio Night Exhibitions, SCAD, Savannah, GA
La Galerie Bleue, Do Not Be Afraid of the Floatsam with John Bjerklie and the Happy Flaneurs, Montgomery Hall, Savannah, GA
First Friday Gallery Hop, Do Not Be Afraid to Dance - Traveling Performance and Video Installation in collaboration with John Bjerklie and the Happy Flaneurs, Savannah, GA
2005
Alexander Hall, Fall Open Studio Night Exhibitions, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Alexander Hall, Spring Open Studio Night Exhibitions, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2004
Alexander Hall, Fall Open Studio Night Exhibition, SCAD, Savannah, GA
MonOrchid Gallery, 13th Annual Art Auction: AIGA Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Studio 711, 24th Art Detour including First Fridays, Phoenix, AZ
Studio 711, Studio Art Tours, Guided Tour organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix, AZ
3carpileup Gallery, Isn’t It Grand, Phoenix, AZ
2003
Studio 711, Dapo, Spalding & Lyon, Phoenix, AZ
Step Gallery, Copy Right, Tempe, AZ
Harry Wood Gallery, Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Tempe, AZ (Jurors: James Pile and Betsy Schneider)
2002
Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, A Salon Style Exhibition, Mesa, AZ
2000
SCC College Gallery, Drawing from Within, Scottsdale, AZ
1997
University Center, Luka Sorkocevic Graduate Show, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1996
University Center, Luka Sorkocevic Student Show, Dubrovnik, Croatia
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, V4 B2, Front Cover & 48 (Jurors: Howard Eige, Jan Christensen Heller)
Catherine King, Edna Dapo and The Art of Being Human, Interview, Hearsight Magazine - Desert Perspectives on Contemporary Art, Design & Performance, 5/26/08
Chris Page, Urban landscape gets a hard look at Shemer Show, East Valley Tribune, 1/13/08, A16
2007
NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Volume 70, 34-36 (Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Chairman of Painting and Sculpture and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, NY)
Amanda Tower, SCAD Painters make splash in magazine, The Chronicle, 09/06/07, 1&5
31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition Catalog, Bradley University, the Peoria Art Guild and the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL (Juror: Judith K. Brodsky)
Jennifer Long, Edna Dapo, SCAD Honor Roll of Donors Catalogue, 5
2006
Monique Bos, Dapo forges art from tragedy, The Chronicle, 10/06/06, 1&10
Monique Bos, Thesis Exhibition examines ‘Aftermath,’ The Chronicle, 09/22/06, 6
Monique Bos, Painting students prepare to welcome visitors to studios, 11/10/06, 5&8
Jim Morekis, Aftermath, Connect Savannah - Art Patrol, 09/27/06, 21-22
Bluffton Today, Art Exhibit, Blufftontoday.com
District, A reality check in painting form, Issue 232, 09/22/06, 19
2001
Vortex, A Publication of Scottsdale Community College, 78 &159
1999-2000
The National Dean’s List, 23rd Annual Edition, Volume II, 147
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 - present
Artist-in-Residence in Painting and Drawing, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Teach drawing & painting classes to all levels and assist in planning, programming and implementing a painting curriculum into the class program. Curate gallery shows, handle art budgets and figure models. Adult Classes taught: Drawing into Painting, Beginning Figure Drawing, Intermediate/Advanced Figure Drawing and Painting, Open Painting; Children/Teen Classes taught: Van Gogh, Kaleidoscope of Art, Sculpture.
Art Teacher K-8th grade, Phoenix Advantage Charter School, Mosaica Education, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
Organize art instruction and lesson plans for individual and group projects to six hundred students, and grade. Teach Art Club through 21st Century Grant. Created school’s murals marking 1st-5th grade areas.
2007
Art Teacher 1-7th grade, Murphy Elementary, Phoenix, AZ
Prepared summer classes to showcase student art projects for a final exhibition and presented awards.
2005-2006
Drawing and Design Center Tutor, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Implemented individual attention to undergraduate students in drawing and design issues within 2-D Design, Life Drawing, Drawing I, and Color Theory.
2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Assisted Oil-based Media Exploration class in investigation of oil medium through composition and formal aspects, color, and painting techniques.
2005
Graduate Teaching Assistant, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Assisted Life-Drawing class in anatomy studies, gestures, weighted figure, proportion, planar analysis, subtractive and additive study, sighting and measuring.
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2006
Gulfstream Scholar Endowed Scholarship, SCAD, Savannah, GA (430 applicants)
Travel Award to CAA, Painting Department, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2005
Thomas McCabe Memorial Scholarship for Painting, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2004-2006
Graduate Fellowship Combining Artistic and Academic Merit, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2002-2003
J. Russell and Bonita Nelson Scholarship in Fine Art Painting, ASU, Tempe, AZ
2000-2003
The National Dean’s List Multiple Year Award for Outstanding Achievement
2001
Excellence in Art Vortex, Fine Art and Creative Writing Awards, SCC, Scottsdale, AZ
2000
The Helen Bychinsky Award for Artist of Promise, SCC, Scottsdale, AZ
Academic Excellence in Painting, SCC, Scottsdale, AZ
1999-2000
The National Dean’s List Honorary Award
ARTIST REGISTRIES/MEMBERSHIPS
2006
College Art Association
Georgia Artist Registry, Atlanta, GA
2004
ArtLink. Inc., Phoenix, AZ
2000
Phi Theta Kappa - Psi Gamma Chapter, Intl. Honor Society of two-year colleges
PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES
2008
Color Issues in Painting, lecture and workshop during A.Buha’s class “Painting from Photographs,” Paradise Valley Community College, AZ
2007
Master of Fine Art Thesis Publication: Aftermath and Expressive Works; Two Iterations of the Same Concept, Jen Library, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2006
Fellowship Attendees Report from the 2006 College Art Association Conference in Boston, Alexander Forum, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
LANGUAGES
Fluent English and Croatian
ONLINE PRESS
2008
Catherine King, Edna Dapo and The Art of Being Human, Interview, Hearsight Magazine - Desert Perspectives on Contemporary Art, Design & Performance, 5/26/08
http://www.hearsight.com/articles/c.king/dapo-human.html
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, V4 B2, Front Cover & 48 (Jurors: Howard Eige, Jan Christensen Heller)
http://www.alcovebooks.net/American%20Art%20Collector.2008.pdf
Tower, Amanda, SCAD Painters make splash in magazine, The Chronicle, 09/06/07, 1&5 http://www.thecampuschronicle.com/features/articles/070906c.cfm
2007
31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition Catalog, Bradley University, the Peoria Art Guild and the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL (Juror: Judith K. Brodsky)
http://slane.bradley.edu/bi31/artistlist.php?id=34&page=6
Bos, Monique, Thesis exhibition examines ‘Aftermath,’ The Chronicle, 09/22/06, 6
http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/articles/092806.cfm
BlufftonToday, Art Exhibit
http://www.blufftontoday.com/node/8634
