W. David Powell

Artist and graphic designer. A native of Southwest Georgia, David moved to Vermont after spending time in London and Ibiza, Spain. While in London, he showed jointly with ex-pat Australians at Sigi Krauss Gallery, as well as at a solo show there called Crisis in Modern Art. On his return to Georgia, he founded Wonder Graphics and did album cover art for the music industry. The album cover for Eat a Peach by the Allman Brothers Band was his most widely published of this type of work and was selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 100 album covers of all time. His work from this era was also recently used as the endpapers for the best-selling history of the Allman Brothers Band, "One Way Out," by Alan Paul. A year after returning to Georgia, David moved to Vermont where he has remained since 1972. He founded Porcupine Graphics, a t-shirt printing business in 1975, where he did printing for many Vermont country stores, as well as for Ben & Jerry's, Woody Jackson, and Vermont Castings. He continued to do his own personal artwork throughout these years. After five years as Art Director for Computer Games Magazine in Burlington, he started graduate school at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier where he received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Art. After receiving his degree in 2001, he became a Professor of Art at Plattsburgh State University in New York where he teaches Graphic Design. Powell's work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout Vermont, as well as in Massachusetts and New York. He has recently shown at the Vermont Supreme Court in 2014 and the Julian Scott Gallery of Johnson State College with Peter Thomashow in a show called Powell & Thomashow's Exposition of Matter and Magnetism. Other recent exhibits include a solo show at Adventureland in Chicago in December 2014 and in January 2015, another joint show with Thomashow at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. His work is in the collections of the Fleming Museum, Hampshire College, New York Public Library, University of Pittsburgh, Smith College, University of Vermont's Special Collections and Yale, as well as numerous private collections.