Biography

Dedree A. Drees is Professor of Computer Graphics and Visual Communications at CCBC Catonsville, Maryland. Her work is represented both regionally and as far away as New Mexico and Turkey. She had a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study art in Belgium and the Netherlands. She received a BS from Skidmore College, MFA from Penn. State and MLA from Johns Hopkins U. She has just started coursework in the Doctor of Communication Design at the University of Baltimore. Current graphics projects include the Baltimore Destination and Planning Guide 2002 and environmental design for the new BWI Airport parking garage. In discussing her work, she says, "I want to make art that is beautiful, that addresses the viewer's spiritual needs. I want to create works that show, as Blake said, 'an infinity in a grain of sand.' I like the idea of an art that is multi-cultural and multidirectional, connecting then and now, here and there, us and them."