Adele Henderson Named to Head UB Art Department

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Adele Henderson, associate professor of art at the University at Buffalo, has been named chair of the Department of Art for a three-year term.

Henderson, an accomplished printmaker whose complex, abstract work has been exhibited throughout the United States, joined the UB faculty in 1985.

As chair, she will administer eight undergraduate-degree programs and seven graduate programs in painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, communication arts, computer art, illustration and general studio art.

A 1995-96 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Henderson has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony in Roswell, N.M., and a visiting artist at Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop.

She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and holds a master of fine arts degree from Arizona State University.