EDUCATION 
M.F.A., Painting Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Graduate Fellowship, 1965-6
Teaching Assistantship, 1966-67
B.F.A., Painting Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Merit Scholarship Award, all semesters
Dean's List, all semesters
Commencement Leader, School of Fine Art
Mortarboard, 1965
Other Undergraduate Studies:
Yale University
Scholarship, Norfolk School of Painting, 1964
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Other Post-Graduate Studies:
Arrowmont School, University of Tennessee
Columbia College, Center for Book and Paper Arts
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
North Adams College, Massachusetts
Governor's State University, Illinois
Eastern Illinois University
Illinois State University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS
On The River: New Paintings by Dana Collins, The Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL 2012
New Work: Featured Artist Dana Collins, Quad Cities Botanical Center, Rock Island, IL 2008
Heart's Journey: New Work by Dana Collins, The Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL 2006
Landscape Drawings of Dana Collins, A Special Exhibition, Illinois Valley Comm. College, Oglesby IL 1999
Dana Collins: One-Woman Exhibition, The Prairie Arts Center, Princeton, IL 2001
Ninth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University, Kansas 1984
Annual Invitational, Computer Graphics, Mt. Mercy College, Iowa, 1985
Winner, Young Sculptors Competition, The Sculptors Guild, New York, 1970
Awarded the Helen Simkovitch Award for Sculpture
Sisselman Award, The Berkshire Art Association Annual Juried Exhibition, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1971
Other One-Person Exhibitions:
River Drawings, The Row House Gallery, IL 1993
New Work: Dana Collins, The Art Gallery of Boston, 1980
Sculpture in Plastic: Dana Collins, The Becket Art Center, Massachusetts, 1971
New Sculpture: Dana Collins, Berkshire Athenaeum, Massachusetts, 1979
Pastel Drawings: Dana Collins, McAuley Gallery, Mt. Mercy College, Iowa, 1988
Dana Collins, Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, NY 1967
Group Exhibitions:
Multimedia 70, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1970
Women: An Invitational, The Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, 1970
Plastics, State University of New York, New Paltz, 1970
Faculty Exhibition: The Graduate Faculty, Pratt Institute, NY 1968, 1969, 1970
Berkshire Art Association Annual, The Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, 1975, 1976, 1980
Six Artists (Invitational), Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1974
Women's Art Festival Invitational Exhibition, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA 1975
Six Women (Invitational), Paddlewicker Gallery, Lenox, MA 1976
New Art, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1977
Faculty Artists, Berkshire Community College, Massachusetts, 1978, 1979
Berkshire Art Association Graphics Show (Juried), Berkshire Museum, MA, 1978
Berkshire Artisans Gallery Invitational, Pittsfield, MA 1979
Feminist Arts Festival Exhibition (Invitational), Williams College,Williamstown, MA 1979
Focus on Women (Invitational), Berkshire Community College, MA 1980
Two Women: Two-Person Show, The Art Gallery of Boston, Boston, MA 1981
Visions of Ourselves (Juried), Women in Art, Inc., Orlando, Florida 1984
Group Invitational, Rockford College, IL 1989
New Artists, Anne Thomas Gallery, IL 1991, 1992
New Landscapes, Tri-State Gallery, Platteville, WI 2003
ArtSpace Invitational, ArtSpace, Muscatine, IA 2005
PAC December Exhibition, Prairie Art Center, 2006, 2007
From Both Sides, Matson Library, 2010
Mississippi Artists, Outside the Lines Gallery, Dubuque, IA 2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Illinois Valley Comm. College, Oglesby, IL
Foundation Drawing, Two- and Three-Dimensional Design, Life Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Pottery, Photography, Art History, Visual Communication, 1981-2004
Truman State University, Kirksville MO
Advanced Placement Summer Institute in Studio Art, 1999
College of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Art Appreciation; Humanities, 1991; 1994
Illinois Consortium for International Education, London
Humanities/ Art History, 1987
George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA
Watercolor Painting, 1977
Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA
Sculpture, Ceramics, 1973-74
Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Sculpture, Art History, Continuing Ed. Art Workshops, 1970 - 1980
Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Sculpture, Brooklyn NY
Sculpture, Plastics, 1968 - 1970
Long Island University, The C.W. Post College, School of Graduate Education, Greenvale, NY
Art Education Instructor and Consultant
Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing, Painting, Art Education Media, 1967 - 1968
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mid-West Regional Studio Art Consultant,
The Advanced Placement Program, Educational Testing Service 1993 - present
Reader in Studio Art, The College Board,
Princeton, New Jersey, 1981 - 2004
Recent Workshops in Teaching Studio Art presented at:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Marquette University, WI
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Triton Comm. College, IL
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
“Working on the Water: Plein air Painting by Dana Collins”
Matson Library, 2010
Hegler-Carus Foundation, 2010
"Studio Art: Three-Dimensional Design,"
National Meeting, Advanced Placement Program of The College Board, Los Angeles 2003
"Teaching for Diversity in Studio Art,"
Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, San Antonio TX 1996
Presentation published as Chapter 5 in The Advanced Placement Guide to Studio Art, Educational Testing Service, 1998
"Abstract Expressionism," Long Island Art League, NY
"The Works and Lives of Women Artists,"
Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield MA
Friends of the Library, Princeton, IL
Local Art Organizations, Ottawa, Princeton, Peru, Mendota IL
"An Illinois Garden - Native & Perennial Midwest Plants Through Three Seasons,"
Illinois Valley Herb Guild
"The Meanings of Plants - References to Herbs and Flowers in the Writings of Shakespeare," area garden organizations
Readings from About Her Beauties, book-length prose/poem in progress
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Editor, The Second Berkshire Anthology, Bookstore Press, Lenox MA 1975
Poetry published in:
The New York Quarterly
Rhino, Chicago
The Charlotte Poetry Review, Virginia
Karamu, Eastern Illinois University
The Outpost Magazine, Massachusetts
The Creative Woman, Governor's State University
Berkshire Arts Magazine, Massachusetts
Iris, University of Virginia
The New Press Literary Quarterly, New York
U.S. 1 Worksheets, Princeton, New Jersey
The Pearl Street Journal, Massachusetts
Our Place (Anthology), Massachusetts
The First Berkshire Anthology, The Bookstore Press, Lenox MA
Former Classical Radio Host, "Sunday Morning With Dana Collins," WLRZ, Peru , 1992-1997
Violist, Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra
Listed in Marquis' Who's Who Among American Women, 2006-7, 2008-9, 2010-11
Listed in Marquis' Who's Who In America, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 2010