Jan Dickey (b.1987, Bad Kreuznach, Germany) received an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2017 and a BFA from the University of Delaware in 2009. He also completed a year of training in traditional draftsmanship and composition at the Academy of Classical Design (Southern Pines, NC). He was the recipient of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Residency Award in 2018, the Geraldine P. Clark Memorial Fellowship in 2016, the John Heidi Fellowship in 2015, and a North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grant in 2013. Jan has exhibited nationally throughout the United States and internationally in Tokyo, Japan. Recent artwork will be published in the forthcoming International Painting Annual 9 (Manifest Press).