A teacher, painter and collage artist, Don Crow has been awarded numerous grants and distinctions, including the Pollak Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. Crow has taught at VCU in Richmond and Doha, Qatar, and worked as visiting artist at Oregon College of Art and Design in Portland. Crow’s paintings and collages have investigated tensions between muteness and expressiveness as surfaces and images become subsumed by process and recollection. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife and two cats.