Courtney Miller Bellairs cmillerb@umn.edu 301-785-8655 BIO Courtney Miller Bellairs is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. She received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Maryland and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. She taught as a lecturer and senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Portsmouth Faculty of the Environment Portsmouth, UK, London Institute, Central Saint Martins School of Art London, UK, and the University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Construction London, UK from 2000-2005, serving as Program Leader for the Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Architecture program 2003-2005. Returning to her alma matter, the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, after 10 years in London, she taught and served as Assistant Director of the Architecture Program and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs 2008-2010. Her passion for architectural education has inspired her to pursue other roles such as International Education Officer for the Royal Institute of British Architects, service on the National Architecture Accrediting Board and National President of the American Institute of Architecture Students. A practicing artist/maker for 20 years, Courtney has a multi-disciplinary practice as an artist, architectural educator, designer and academic leader. Her areas of research and practice focus on: conceptual thinking and processes, visual literacy, design pedagogy and fundamentals, representation and visual practice, drawing and image-making in multiple mediums, color theory, field drawing, integrating the Arts into her teaching, set design, and art, architecture and the church (1950s French Sacred Art and Architecture commissioned by M.-A. Couturier). Courtney Miller Bellairs' conceptual works and paintings explore the relationships between art and architecture and the feelings produced by architecture. Orthographic drawings are important tools for understanding her paintings. Her most notable commission, for the Crown Estate in London, Courtney has exhibited widely in the USA and UK and her pieces are included in private and corporate collections throughout the US, UK, South Africa, Australia and China. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Conceptual Thinking and Processes Visual Literacy Design Pedagogy and Fundamentals Representation and Visual Practice
Drawing and image-making in multiple mediums Color Theory Drawing in the Field Integrating the Arts into the Teaching of Design Art Direction and Set Design Art, Architecture and the Church, 1950s French Sacred Art and Architecture commissioned by M.-A. Couturier COURSES ARCH 1281 Design Fundamentals I ARCH 3250 Discovering Architecture Through Visual Media ARCH 3250 Design Foundations in Architecture ARCH 3250 Ready, Set, Go (explorations in set design) EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, CT Master of Architecture University of Maryland, College Park, MD Bachelor of Science in Architecture Magna Cum Laude TEACHING (select) University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation College Park, MD ARCH 343 Intermediate Architectural Drawing ARCH 400 Coordinator Architecture Studio I (6 TAs) ARCH 401G Graduate Architecture Design Studio II ARCH 402 Architecture Design studio III ARCH 403 Architecture Design Studio IV ARCH 443 Visual Communication for Architects ARCH 448D Exploring Architecture through Visual Media Independent Study in Furniture Design Thesis University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Construction London, UK Visual Studies Design 1: Site Materiality Ergonomics Teaching and Course Coordination Design 2: Site Structure Public Places Teaching and Course Coordination Diploma Design Yale University and Yale School of Architecture New Haven, CT
Teaching Fellow Senior Architecture Design Studio History of Modern Architecture Undergraduate Architectural Drawing History of Art: Renaissance History of Art: Pre-Historic to Renaissance PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Courtney Miller Bellairs Artist and Designer London, Maryland and Minnesota present-1997 Select Projects (see Exhibitions Rock-n-Roll Revivals #42 - #46 Sherwood High School Music Department Sandy Spring, MD Art Director and Set Designer 2017 2012 Courtney Miller Bellairs Studio Silver Spring, MD Private Instruction and portfolio consultation ages 8-adult. 2014 2013 Young Audiences Baltimore, MD Teaching Artist Institute Training Certification 2012 Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle Hyattsville, MD Artist/Renderer for Riverview at Port Towns Design Competition (winning entry) Collaboration with Stephen Bellairs, RIBA AIA London, UK Designed and supervised construction of art deco flat and new writer s studio Long & Kentish London, UK Architectural Designer 1998 David Chipperfield Architects London, UK Architectural Designer 1998 Koetter, Kim & Associates UK Ltd London, UK Architectural Designer 1997-1996 Florance Eichbaum Esocoff King Architects Washington, DC Architectural Intern 1994 Lehman / Smith / Wiseman & Associates Washington, DC Architectural Intern 1991 HONORS AND AWARDS (select) Maryland Federation of Art Annapolis, MD Fiber Options: Material Explorations National Juried Exhibition 2012 Awarded Honorable Mention Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours London, UK Annual Exhibition 1999 Awarded Young Artists Award Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, CT Moulton Andrus Prize for Excellence in Art and Architecture George Nelson Fellowship for Independent Research American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation Scholarship
University of Maryland, College Park, MD Maryland Architecture Alumni Chapter Prize Zoe Gore Perrin National Scholarship Delta Delta Delta Outstanding Scholar Award Top Ten Freshman University of Maryland SOLO EXHIBITIONS Figures in Space Metropolitan Regional Arts Council St. Paul, MN 2017 I See Sandy Spring Museum Sandy Spring, MD 2013 Eloquence of Absence: Urban Scenes Maryland Federation of Art Annapolis, MD 2012 Intellectual Property A/Work Gallery Hyattsville, MD 2011 www.eastcityart.com/reviews/east-city-art-reviews-intellectual-property-at-awork-gallery/ Modern Vintage Yellow Barn Gallery Glen Echo, MD 2011 Annapolis: A Portal City City Hall Gallery Annapolis, MD 2008 only for a day Silver Spring, MD 2007 Courtney Miller Bellairs HOME Institute of Child Health London, UK Architecture Week 2004 Courtney Miller Bellairs Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw London, UK 2003 Reflections on Holiness The Parish Church of St. Mary Woolnoth London, UK 2001 Courtney Miller Fresh Art Business Design Centre London, UK 2001 Inside Outside Institute of Child Health London, UK Architecture Week 2000 Influenced work The Lord Stanley London, UK 1998 Influenced work Norfolk Public Library Norfolk, CT 1997 Spirit, Space, Light Wave Gallery New Haven, CT 1996 Sacred Architecture: Form, Space, Light Yale School of Architecture Gallery New Haven, CT 1995 INTERNATIONAL AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS (select) Art Wander Studio Tour Courtney Miller Bellairs Artist and Designer Chanhassen, MN 2016 and 2017 Fiber Options: Material Explorations Maryland Federation of Arts Annapolis, MD 2012 The Affordable Art Fair London and Leeds, UK 2005 City Intrigue Signatures Gallery St. James s London, UK 2005 The New Domestic Gallery Top Matlock, Surrey, UK 2005 View of the City SE1 Gallery Studio G1 Tea Building London, UK 2004 Summer and Winter Exhibitions WOOLFF Gallery Shoreditch London, UK 2003 Pop Culture Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Eastleigh, UK 2003 Gallery Launch C2 Gallery Contemporary Art & Sculpture Buckinghamshire, UK 2003 British Representative and Figurative Art Galerie Hettlage Grunwald, D 2001 The Discerning Eye London, UK 2000 The Affordable Art Fair London, UK 2000 Annual Juried Exhibition Royal Society of British Artists London, UK 2000 Diminishing Boundaries Pearson Education Harlow Essex, UK 2000
Annual Juried Exhibition Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours London, UK 2000 Annual Juried Exhibition Royal Institute of Oil Painters London, UK 1999 The Discerning Eye London, UK 1999 Annual Juried Exhibition New English Arts Club London, UK 1999 Annual Juried Exhibition Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours London, UK 1999 Something to Build On Stroud House Gallery Stroud Gloucestershire, UK 1999 COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS (select) Art Bank Washington DC 2006 The Crown Estate Headquarters Regent Street London, UK 2005 McGraw-Hill Companies Ltd Canary Wharf London, UK 2003