EDUCATION:
Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1980
B.A. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 1973

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES:
Writing Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (Art Criticism), 1997-98, 1994, 1990
Critic in Residence (foundation grant), Delaware Art Museum, Biennial 2000, April 2000
Residency (invited multidisciplinary), Yellow Springs Institute for the Arts, Yellow Springs, PA, 1996

SELECTED ARTICLES:
"Arthur Carles," Art in America, Nov. 2000
"Escape Artist: Maxfield Parrish," Attache (U.S. Airways), Sept. 1999
"Inside Pennsylvania: A State of Art," Attache, May 1999
"City Focus: Local Heroes," ARTnews, Nov. 1998
"Philadelphia's Liberty Belle," American Style, Winter 1998
"On the Road," Philadelphia Weekly, April 29, 1998

SELECTED BOOKS & CATALOGS:
why2k? (poster for exhibition, Year ZERO ZERO / Peter d'Agostino), Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
Mildred Elfman Greenberg: Retrospective (catalog), Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 1996
Willie Cole: Iconic Structures, 1990-1995 (catalog), Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, 1995

Miriam Seidel is currently the Corresponding Editor of Art in America and a founding member of the Working Writers Group

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