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Education
• Yale, 1968 BA, Fine Art Major; Scholar of the House (year of independent study in graphic design); Honors with Exceptional Distinction. • National Merit Scholar. • Robert C. Bates Fellowship for travel and study in Europe, 1967. • Full Scholarship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, 1968. • First recipient of Yale’s Lohman Prize, for excellence in graphic art. • Altschul Grant, for private study with artist Leonard Baskin. • Currently a Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University • Awarded a Tetelman Fellowship, Yale University, for organizing a symposium on the History of Graphic Design in 1986 Work History • 1997-99, Art Director, Harvard Business Review, bimonthly magazine, circulation 230,000; two full years. • 1975–present, Owner of Lance Hidy Associates, studio for art and design. • 1987–96, Consultant to Adobe Systems on type design, software development and marketing. • 1991–93, Consultant to Eastman Kodak, Center for Creative Imaging. • 1973–74, David R. Godine, Publisher. Art director, production. • 1972-73, Free-lance design, Boise, Idaho. • 1971, Coös County Democrat, Lancaster, N.H. Offset prep, stripping, camera, plate-making. • 1969–70, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston. Co-founder, art director. • 1965–6, Douglas Lynch & Associates, Designers, Portland, Oregon. Design and illustration – summer job, freshman and sophomore years. Faculty Positions • Northern Essex Community College, Fall 1999-present. Half-time faculty in Graphic Design: Graphic Design II, Photoshop, Computer Illustration • University of Kansas, Spring 1997. Hallmark Professor of Graphic Design. Taught classes in poster design and the graphic novel. • Mary Baldwin College, Fall 1996, Staunton, Virginia. Taught Introductory and Advanced Graphic Design. • Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, Maine, 1991-93. Taught computer graphics; consultant to the director, 1990-93. • Boston University, School of Art, Graduate Graphic Design, 1987-89. Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design. Taught advanced graphic communication with images and type combined. Helped set up the first computer graphics lab there, and developed curriculum. Three semesters. • Summer Art School, Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho, 1971-72, Director. Also taught drawing, watercolor painting, and calligraphy, two years. Visiting Artist • University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1983. Major exhibition in the Kuhn Library, public lecture, and sessions with students. • Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, 1990. Art Litho Designer-in-Residence Program, five days, plus a public lecture and exhibition. • Iowa State University, 1991. Computer Graphics – a three-day continuing-education workshop for professionals from Iowa & Illinois. • Kent State University, 1994. Kent/Blossom Summer Workshop; five days of intensive Photoshop work for graduate students. • Dartmouth College, 1994. Three-day summer letterpress & computer workshop, and lecture on The Legacy of W. A Dwiggins. • Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994. Retrospective exhibition, Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and public lecture. • Salem State College, 1994. Lecture and portfolio review. • University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 1995. Two lectures on my work and computer graphics. • Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, 1995. The Samson, Rosetta A. & Sadie B. Feldman Residency. This included a major retrospective exhibition, three days of computer workshops, and a public lecture. • University of Kansas, 1995. Lecture & workshop in computer graphics. • University of Tulsa, 1995. Lecture and workshop in computer graphics. • Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1995. Retrospective exhibition, public lecture, and classes on art and art history. • Hallmark, Kansas City, 1996. Lecture and three-day Photoshop workshop. Developer of Symposia, Workshops, and Exhibitions • Posters as Printmaking, Boston Athenæum, 1981. Guest curator & lecturer. • New American Posters, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., 1985. Originator and co-curator of this museum exhibition with opening lecture. • Contemporary Poster Art, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, 1985. Guest curator, with panel featuring David Lance Goines & Kate Emlen. • The History of Graphic Design, Yale University, 1986; Organized a one-day symposium on the new academic field of graphic design history. The talks were later published in PRINT Magazine, including one entire issue given over to Art Spiegelman to reprint his talk, and be guest editor. The speakers included nationally known scholars and writers, including: • Philip Meggs, Virginia Commonwealth University, author of A History of Graphic Design, now going into its third edition. • Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Steve Heller, art director, New York Times Book Review, prolific author on graphic design history; editor of the Journal of the American Institute or Graphic Art. • Gay Walker, Conservation Head, and Special Collections Librarian at Yale • Alvin Eisenman, Chairman of the Graphic Design Program in the School of Art at Yale, for decades regarded as the finest graduate program of its kind in the U.S. • Margaret Miles, Harvard Divinity School, on meaning in graphic design • Type and Image on Desktop Computers, 1988, World Trade Center, Boston. Co-speaker with Sumner Stone, Type Director at Adobe. • Typography in the Digital Revolution, Dartmouth College, 1989. An afternoon symposium; speakers Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone, and Hidy. • Women Illustrators in New England, Radcliffe College, 1991; Invited by the College to be exhibition curator, and organize an evening symposium. • The Color Revolution; Pre-press on Desktop Computers; Boston World Trade Center, 1991. Sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Art. Co-chair of the committee which put on this all-day event. • Four Photoshop Invitational Workshops, 1989 – 1992. Conceived, organized, and co-taught a series of four invitational computer workshops, three-days each; sponsored by Adobe Systems and Kodak. Leading artists from around the world were flown in, all-expenses paid, to try the new technology. Participants included David Hockney, April Greiman, Eiko Ishioko, Milton Glaser, Jean Michel Folon, Barbara Nessim, Seymour Chwast, Judy Dater, Paula Scher, Tadanori Yokoo, R.O. Blechman, Audrey Flack, Barbara Kasten, Jay Maisel, and many others. • Seven Women Photographers, Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport, MA, 1992 University & Institutional Clients The Library of Congress Yale University George Washington University Boston Public Library Corcoran School of Art Boston Symphony Orchestra Kuhn Library, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County The American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand University of Connecticut Library Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley School of Library Service, Columbia University Morris Library, University of Delaware American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago Sioux City Public Library, Iowa University of Maryland, Baltimore County Maryland Institute, College of Art University of Kentucky Corporate Clients Adobe Systems Eastman Kodak Radius Little, Brown, Publishers Houghton-Mifflin David R. Godine, Publisher Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament Rizzoli International Black Oak Books, Berkeley ASPO / Lamaze ExhibitionsOne-man Shows (Boldface indicates institutional show) 1968, Yale University, Jonathan Edwards College 1972, Fritchman Gallery, Boise, Idaho 1977, University of Virginia, Bayly Museum 1982, The Art Attack, Boise, Idaho 1982, Yale University, Sterling Library 1983, University of Maryland Baltimore County 1983, Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery 1983, Harvard Bookstore Cafe, Boston 1984, Kroch’s & Brentano’s Bookstore, Chicago 1984, Yates Fine Art, Boise, Idaho 1984, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs 1985, Rizzoli Bookstore, Boston 1985, Poster America, New York 1985, Black Oak Books, Berkeley 1986, Yale University, Cross Campus Library 1986, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, Vermont 1986, A Picture’s Worth, Exeter, N.H. 1987, Gordon College, Wenham, Mass. 1987, Northern Essex Community College, Mass. 1987, Anna Jacques Hospital, Newburyport, Mass. 1987, Rivier College, Nashua, N.H. 1987, Marion Art Center, Marion, Mass. 1990, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore 1993, Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, Maine 1993, Zona Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. 1994, The Firehouse Center Gallery, Newburyport, Mass. 1994, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Wash., D.C. 1995, Maryland Institute, College of Art 1995, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 1996, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster 1997, University of Kansas, Lawrence Two-man Shows 1973, Yale University Library, with David Godine 1978, Boston Athenæum, with Stephen Harvard Group Shows 1969, Wellesley College, Young Printmakers 1978, The George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Mass., Calligraphy, Past and Present 1980, University of Kentucky, King Library, with Warren Chappell, Andrew Hoyem, and Jean Evans 1980, International Poster Biennial, Warsaw 1981, Boston Athenaeum, Posters as Printmaking, conceived and curated by Hidy, including 27 artists 1981, Lahti IV Poster Biennial, Finland 1983, Federal Reserve Building, Boston, Lettering Arts Guild 1983, Lahti V Poster Biennial, Finland 1983, Graphics New Hampshire, Phenix Hall, Concord 1983, Idaho Printmakers, Boise 1984, Wenniger Graphics, Rockport, MA, New Eng. Poster Artists 1984-87, Simmons College, And Peace Attend Thee..., travelled nationally 1985, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., New American Posters, conceived and co-curated by Lance Hidy, 1985, Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Colorado State, Fort Collins 1985, Lahti VI Poster Biennial, Finland 1987, Children’s Picture Book Posters, Tokyo, International. Board on Books for Young People 1987, Lahti VII Poster Biennial, Finland 1987, International Poster Biennial, Warsaw 1988, International Poster Triennial, Toyama, Japan 1988, University and College Designers Association 1989, Lahti VII Poster Biennial, Finland 1989, International Poster Biennial, Warsaw 1989, Northampton School of Design, Mass. 1989, Self Image, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1991, Computer Art, Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, Me. 1991, Lahti VIII Poster Biennial, Finland 1991, First Photography Invitational, Firehouse Center, Newburyport Mass. 1994, Digital Art, Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite & Pebble Beach 1995, Four in One, Peter Good, Lance Hidy, William Longhauser, & John Sorbie; Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Co. Sept. 16-Oct. 27 1995, AIGA Best of New England 1996, Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland Selected Lectures (Boldface indicates Institutional event) Yale University, 1968 George Eastman House, Rochester, 1974 San Francisco Public Library, 1976 University of Virginia, 1977 Yale University, 1982 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1983 Boston Public Library, 1983 University of Connecticut, 1984 Yale University, 1986 Gordon College, Wenham, Mass.,1987 Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Mass., 1987 Rivier College, Nashua, N.H., 1987 Marshall University, 3-day conference, Huntington, W.V. Yale University, 1990 Massachusetts College of Art, 1990 Boston Museum School, 1990 Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, 1990 Art Directors of Iowa, Des Moines, 1990 Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, 1990 Society of Printers, Boston, 1990 Apple Advanced Technology Seminars, Boston, 1990 Adobe Invitational, Mountain View, Calif., 1990 MacWorld, Boston, 1990 Boston Computer Society Summer Institute, 1990 Bastarda (Typographer’s Organization), 1990 Seybold Seminars, San Jose, 1990 Baltimore Mac User Group, 1990 Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1990 Boston Bookbuilders Roundtable, 1990 Grafix Conference, New York, 1990 Jeffe Seminars on Desktop Publishing, 1990 Color Revolution, Boston, 1991 Boston Computer Society Summer Computer Institute, 1991 Color Connections Conference, Boston, 1991 Rochester Institute of Technology, Goudy Symposium, 1991 Grafix Conference, New York, 1991 The Color Revolution, AIGA, Boston, 1991 Electronics in the Printshop, Boston, 1991 Internationl Electronics by Design Assoc., Stamford, Ct., 1991 Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, Maine, 1991 Type Director’s Club, New York, 1992 Color Connections Conference, Boston, 1992 Fundamental Computer Graphics (for Federal Employees), Ann Arbor, 1992 Seybold Conference, San Francisco, 1992 Aiga Computer Conference, keynote speaker, Boston, 1992 Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Computer Art Conf., 1992 Grafix Conference, New York, 1992 Talk Photoshop with Lance Hidy, Dynamic Computing, Portland, Me., 1993 Center for Creative Imaging, 1993 MacWorld, Boston, 1993 Grafix Conference, New York, 1993 Critical Trends in Digital Prepress, Tampa, Fl., 1993 New England Graphic Supershow, Boston, 1993 International Design by Electronics Assoc., Wash.D.C., 1993 Concepts, Graphic Art Conference, Orlando, 1994 HOW Design Conference, Boston, 1994 Colophon Club, San Francisco, 1994 Salem State College, Salem, Mass., 1994 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1994 Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1994 Type ’94 Congress, San Francisco, 1994 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994 Highlights for Children, Conference on children’s book art, 1994 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, 1995 University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1995 University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995 Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1995 Bookbuilders Seminar on Computer Graphics, Boston, 1995 Hallmark, Kansas City, 1996 Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, Va. 1996 George Washington University, Wash., D.C., 1996 Washington & Lee Univ., Alumni College, 1996 Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va., 1996 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, 1996 University of Kansas, 1997 Massachusetts College of Art, 1997 Massachusetts College of Art, 1998 Society of Printers, Boston, 2001 Awards W.A. Dwiggins Award, Bookbuilders of Boston; New England’s top graphic arts award The Garden, by Andrew Marvell, designed, illustrated with etchings, and printed by Hidy, was chosen by the Grolier Club as one of the one-hundred best private press books of the 20th century. A Century for the Century was both an exhibition and a catalog. Professional Affiliations American Institute of Graphic Arts Society of Printers, Boston Graphic Artists guild Community Service |