josh graupera
jfgraupera@gmail.com
Instagram: @graupyyy

Current Employment
Creative Arts Coordinator, Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP), 2020-present

Education
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2016
BFA, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, May 2014

Residencies
Directangle Press, Franconia, NH, 2024
Shandaken Projects–Catskills, Catskill, NY, 2024
Electronic Textile Camp, Vicksburg, MI, 2023
Co-facilitator/Artist, Sticky Family #2, Swarthmore College, 2023
People’s Budget Office Residency, Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Co-Initiator/facilitator, seed project, Lancaster, PA, 2020-2024
Co-facilitator/Artist, Sticky Family #1, Friends, Peace and Sanctuary, Swarthmore College, September 2018-June 2019.
PACE Artist, Public Art Community Engagement, Lancaster, PA, April 2018-June, 2019
Residency for Art and Social Change, African American Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
Apprentice Training Program, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
The Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 2014
Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, 2013
The New York Studio School: Drawing Marathon, New York, NY, 2013

Fellowships
Trauma-Informed Practice for Teaching Artists, The Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2021
Cooperative Leadership Institute, Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance, PA, 2020
Project Activate Fellowship, Lancaster County Community Foundation, Lancaster, PA, 2019
Cindi Royce Ettinger Fellowship, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
Movement Media Fellow, Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
Fob Holder Program, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

Awards
Creative Communities Grant, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, 2020-2024
Nominee, Art, and Social Change Residency, African American Art Museum of Philadelphia, 2018
Professional Development and Technical Assistance Grant, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, 2017
Cindi Royce Ettinger Stipend, Second State Press, 2017
Skowhegan Scholarship, 2016
Third Place, First Juried Exhibition, The Starter Kit, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Strohl Visual Arts Scholarship, 2014
Edna Rochow Workman Memorial Award, Best Painting in Oil or Related Medium, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, 2013
Charlotte Street Association, Creative Leadership Award, Lancaster, PA, 2011

Visiting Artist Lectures/Performances
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA September 2024
To Make The Revolution Irresistible Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2024
Artist U National Convening, Philadelphia, PA 2023
Mid Atlantic Print Conference, Kent, OH October 2022
Texas A + M University, College Station, TX March 2021
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA March 2021
University of Washington, Seattle, WA November 2020
Pennsylvania College of Art + Design, Lancaster, PA February 2020
The Ware Center at Millersville University, Lancaster, PA December 2019
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA September 2019
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, New York, NY October 2018
Apolitical my Ars!, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2017
Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA November 2016

Solo Exhibitions
Blockadia.sim, Cindi Royce Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
Prints and Process, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Sanctuario 19121, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Undertones: A BFA Exhibition by Josh Graupera, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, 2014

Group Exhibitions
2024
99$ Show, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Day Jobs + Queer Utopias, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Caminos Por Andar: Latinx Futurism and Expanded Realities, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
5853 Pop Up Gallery (Benefit for the 52nd Street Fridge), Philadelphia, PA
I Am Not A Number, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Expanding Methodologies, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

2023
Space Is The Place, Stop-Gap Projects, Columbia, MO
Superbloom, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
HopeCat Invitational Exhibition, Sharon, PA
Into the Void, No Fine Print, Southern Graphics Council International

2022
99$ Show, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
No Fine Print, Mid Atlantic Print Conference, Kent, OH
Stadium Stompers, Archive of Resistance, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
The Art of Healing, Cedar Works, Philadelphia, PA
Worldbuilder’s Dump, The Tundra, Philadelphia, PA
Somos Semillas, Tec Centro, Lancaster, PA
In the Path of Islam, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Lancaster Landscape Invitational, Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA

2021
Stoop Stories, The Ware Center at Millersville University, Lancaster, PA

2020
Pinch Hitter Projects Inaugural Exhibition, Pinch Hitter Projects Philadelphia, PA
Printmaker Pop-Up, Arthur Ross Gallery

2019
Friends, Peace and Sanctuary Overview, BOOKLYN, Brooklyn, NY
Friends, Peace and Sanctuary: Peace, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Print and Labor, Spanish American Civic Association, Lancaster, PA
Logan in Progress, Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Collective Consciousness, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Journeys, Latino Art Showcase, City Hall Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Distance ≠ Time, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
+VIBES+ (Benefit for Black and Brown Workers Collective and The Attic), Tattooed Mom’s, Philadelphia, PA
We Have The Future, 40th St AIRSPACE, Philadelphia, PA
MEZCLA, Carrick Modern Art, Durham, NC
Random Access Memory, Community Futures Lab, Philadelphia, PA
Surface Forms, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Pussy Grabs Back, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Extended Family, Mid-Atlantic Print Conference, Spalding University, Louisville, KY
Development Without Displacement, Chesapeake Arts Center, Brooklyn Park, MD
For Sale By Owner, Skowhegan, ME
Homebodies Tour, Lancaster/Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn, NY, Richmond, VA

2015
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
OUTCRY!, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
First Juried Exhibition, The Starter Kit, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Prints, Second State Press, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
Apprentice Banner Showcase, Fabric Workshop, and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2014
Three-Point Perspective: Variation in Small Drawings, Mt. Holyoke College, MA
Millersville University, Made In Millersville: Senior Art Showcase, Millersville, PA

Collections
Celebrate People’s History Project, justseeds.org
Directangle Press, Franconia, NH
Pet Riso, Philadelphia, PA
Shandaken: Catskill, Catskill, NY
Risolve, Lancaster, PA
Swarthmore College, Peace Archives, Swarthmore, PA
City of Lancaster, Office of Public Works, Lancaster, PA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Spanish American Civic Association, Lancaster, PA
Millersville University, Millersville, PA