Randolph Artist Bill Ramage
Shows Gallery Retrospective

Randolph artist Bill Ramage will show a retrospective of his drawings at the Christine Price Gallery on the Castleton State College campus from April 9 through May 13. Ramage, Professor of Art at the college, has never given himself a venue in the gallery, which he curates. However, this show marks his retirement after a 28-year span as a faculty member there.

Besides being a long-time department chair of the Art Department, Ramage was a prime mover in the conception and operation of Castleton’s unique standout Soundings class: a program of cultural opportunities including lectures, music and dance performances, and exhibits which run through each academic year. The program just celebrated its 20^th anniversary.

As curator of the Christine Price Gallery in the Fine Arts Center, Ramage has brought six art exhibits to the college every year, offering students, faculty and staff the chance to see the currency of the art world today.

Ramage’s teaching is renowned. An early student of his from Ohio State University sent her own son to Castleton State to be, as she calls it, Ramagized! Ramage has always claimed to be in teaching "for the goosebumps."

Throughout his Castleton career, though, Ramage continued to make his own art: large temporary installations drawn on museum walls; massive centripetal drawings; sculpture; and more recently, a series of wildly colorful abstract drawings. The Castleton retrospective exhibit will include representatives from all these phases of his work.

An opening reception is planned for April 25, 2007 from 4-6 p.m. at the Christine Price Gallery. Ramage’s work may also be viewed any weekday between 8 and 5 p.m.

Though now living in Randolph, the artist will continue to manage the Christine Price Gallery after his retirement from teaching at Castleton.