" I am more interested in understanding their culture than I was before. I want to make a connection, to REALLY teach this time", said Priede referring to the next generation of Art Students during an interview before coming out of retirement in 2008.

Priede explains the concept of cross contour

to a Drawing I student at JCCC, 2009

Teaching and Professional Experience

Professor, Fine Arts, 2008-Present

JCCC (Johnson County Community College), Overland Park, KS

Adjunct Professor teaching painting and drawing.

Master Printer, Special Projects, 2006

ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions), West Islip, Long Island, NY

Professor, Fine Arts, 1983-2005

JCCC (Johnson County Community College), Overland Park, KS

Courses taught include all levels of painting and drawing.

Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, 1981-1983

Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA

Courses taught include all levels of lithography, etching, relief silkscreen,drawing, painting, and 2-D design.

Artist (New York & Boston) 1978-1981

Traveled in Europe, continued own work, including mixed-medium works on paper.

Professor, Fine Arts, 1964-1978

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Courses taught include all levels of lithography, etching, relief, silkscreen, drawing,

painting, seminar in 20th c. Art Theories; continued to print for ULAE.

Master Printer, 1962-1964

ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions), West Islip, LongIsland, NY,

Printed lithographs and etchings, working with Rauschenberg, Johns, Newman,

Motherwell, Rosenquist, Frankenthaler, Dine, and others.

Education

MA, Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1962

BA, Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1959

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