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The appointment was made by the University Trustees and announced by President George Rupp.
The center, established with a recent $6 million gift to the school from the celebrated American artist, will have state-of-the-art studios in intaglio, lithography, silkscreening, photography and computer art in Dodge Hall on Columbia's campus. It will accommodate up to 200 students a year in graduate and undergraduate work, promote advanced research in printmaking and draw outstanding artists to campus.
Professor Hacklin joined the Columbia faculty in 1989 after serving as director of the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston since 1982. At Columbia, he restored the Master of Fine Arts program and established a rigorous program in visual arts for undergraduates.
A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of Pratt Institute and taught there and at the California Institute of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Union and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he headed the Painting Department. At Glassell, he developed a highly selective residency program for gifted emerging artists.
His paintings, sculpture and drawings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Allen Museum of Oberlin College, the Aldrich Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the North Carolina Museum of Fine Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Currier Museum in New Hampshire. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in this country and Europe and featured in articles in The New York Times, Art News, Art Forum, Arts Magazine, Art International and Vogue.
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