Debora Oden received her M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has served as professor of drawing and printmaking at UNL and at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. She is currently lives in Savannah, GA where she teaches at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2004 she served as the assistant director of the MAPC conference, Printmaking Relevance/Resonance hosted by the University of Nebraska. Her awards include a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Arts Fellowship Award, the Vreeland Award for Fine Art, and the Art on Paper Award from The Print Center, in Philadelphia. Debora recently was awarded the “Triennial Prize” at the 5th Egyptian International Print Triennial, in Cairo, Egypt. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearny. Her work has been exhibited in France, Thailand, Egypt, Poland and Austria. Her work can be found in the collections of The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the University of Dallas, the University of Nebraska, Hallmark Global Services, Grinnell College and the Kohler Art Library. Working with the printing techniques of intaglio and screen-print, Oden’s work emphasizes repeated line, building forms out of ambiguity with shadowy structure and the implication of narrative through the organization of symbolic elements.