ArtistBrenda Garand

Brenda Garand is a sculptor born in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She grew up in Hancock, NH, and has also lived in Paris and New York City. Garand received her MFA in Sculpture from Queens College, City University of New York and her BFA in Sculpture from the University of New Hampshire. Selected exhibitions include: National Academy Museum 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art NYC; Reeves-Contemporary 535 West 24th St, NYC; Johnson State College, VT; BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT; Wright State University Art Galleries Brenda Garand “Northern Fiction” Sculpture, Dayton, Ohio; Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH; American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, NYC; Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, The Fuller Building, 57th St. NYC; Atelier Silex, 0 3/4 Galerie, Trois-Rivières, Québec; 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC; The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Usine C, Montréal, Québec; and the Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. Garand is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to France; a Fulbright Berlin Seminar; The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant to Bayeux, France; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship; Dartmouth College Senior Faculty Grant; Vermont Artist in Residence at The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center; and a Vermont Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. Residencies include Yaddo, Ragdale, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Atelier Silex in Québec, and the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, Canada. Garand is a Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College. She has also taught at Queens College, City University of New York, the Chautauqua Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, and The New York Studio School. She has been a visiting artist at Princeton University, Colby College, the Vermont Studio Center, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire, University of North Alabama in Florence, Western Connecticut State University, and Roger Williams University. Brenda Garand lives and works in Vermont.