Deborah Dancy (b. 1949, Alabama) has received numerous honors and awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Connecticut Commission of the Arts Artist Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, Visual Studies Artist Book Project Residency Grant, The American Antiquarian Society’s William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, YADDO Fellow, Women’s Studio Workshop Residency Grant, as well as a Connecticut Book Award Illustration Nominee.  Her work is included in numerous permanent collections including: The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Museum of Art, Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, General Electric Company, Chemical Bank, J.Crew Inc., The United States Embassy in Cameroon, and The Detroit Museum of Art.