title: Grant Drumheller
text: # Grant Drumheller
  
  Grant Drumheller is an American figurative painter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Drumheller earned his BFA (1976) and Master of Fine Arts (1978) degrees cum laude from Boston University. He also studied with Philip Guston, James Weeks and Reed Kay. Drumheller has taught at Boston University, the Art Institute of Boston and is currently Professor of Art at the University of New Hampshire. Originally he painted large works alluding to myth and allegory, but now works on smaller pieces.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  2008
  
  * Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
  
  2004
  
  * Finalist, Artist Advancement Award, Greater Piscataqua Charitable Foundation
  
  2002
  
  * Hatch Fund Award, College of Liberal Arts, Dept of Art and art History. In support of the catalog to accompany the Boston
  * University Show,“A Private View: Paintings by Grant Drumheller”.
  
  1996 New England Foundation for the Arts- NEA Regional
  
  * Fellowship in Painting
  
  1993
  
  * Discretionary Fund Award, UNH.
  
  2001, '98, '95, '93, '91
  
  * Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant, UNH
  
  1992, '89
  
  * UNH Faculty Fellowship, summer
  
  1986
  
  * Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
  
  1983
  
  * National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship
  * Alternate, Prix de Rome in Painting
  
  1982
  
  * The MacDowell Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Fellow
  * Yaddo Art Colony, Invitation
  
  1981
  
  * Blanche Colman Award
  
  1978-79
  
  * Fulbright-Hays Grant, Painting in Italy
  
  1976-78
  
  * Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Boston University
  
  1976
  
  * Harold C Case Scholarship.
  