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EDUCATION  (top)

2004 M.F.A., Printmaking, Papermaking, and Installation, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
1997 B.F.A. With Honors, Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Study Abroad, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, and Writing,The Burren College of Art, Ireland


SELECTED AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS  (top)

2012, 2009, 2006
Faculty Research Grant, The University of Puget Sound

2012
Work chosen for Special Print Award, Printmakers Hand II

2011
John Lantz Sabbatical Enhancement Award, The University of Puget Sound

2007
Tacoma Artists Initiative Project Award, City of Tacoma Arts Commission.

2005
Dean’s Faculty Enrichment Award, The University of Puget Sound

2004
The University of WI-Madison Art Dept. Travel Grant
The CAA Student Travel Grant
The Vilas Travel Fellowship

2001 - 2002
University-Wide First Year Fellowship

1997

The Berthe von Moschisker Annual Printmaking Award, The University of the Arts

1996
The Rosenwald Scholarship in Printmaking, The University of the Arts

1994

The Crozier Award for Artistic Excellence, The University of the Arts

1993 - 1997
The University of the Arts Talent Scholarship
The City of Philadelphia Scholarship


SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS  (top)   

2014
(upcoming Oct.) Exhibition with painter Elise Richman at Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2011
Particles
, Zhiguan Gallery, Hankou District in Wuhan, China

2010
Such Fancies
, The Gallery at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Tree,
Installation at The Alternative Media Platform, Arts West Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009
Works with Paper
, The University of WA-Tacoma Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2007

PIN.POINT, Icebox Contemporary, Tacoma, WA

2006
Strands and Molecules, Gallery 76, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA
Project Creo: Digital Divide/Digital Provide, 2-person exhibition which explores the digital revolution, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA

2005
Prints
, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA

Embody
, Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Recent Prints, Edmonds Art Commission Gallery, Edmonds, WA
Duplication, Urban Art Installations in Woolworth Windows, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA

2004
Threads
, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, The Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
Inside Out, exhibition of print and installation work, UW-Marathon County, Wausau, WI

2003
Intersections
, installation, Bascom Gallery, Madison, WI
Origins, The De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

2001-2002
Amoeba
, commission for window installation, Amoeba Music, Berkeley, CA

2000

New Work, exhibition of prints, HEY! Gallery, Oakland, CA
  


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  (top)
2014
Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest,
Curator Margaret Bullock, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2013
New Prints 2013/Autumn, The International Print Center, NY
Double Dozen, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Wonder Women, Gallery 218, Milwaukee, WI
The Tabloids (A Portfoldio), Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
New Prints, Visual Arts Center, the University of Texas at Austin
Look Here, exhibition of work by Tacoma artists, temporary space, Tacoma, WA

2012
New Prints 2012/Autumn
, The International Print Center, NY
New Prints 2012/Summer, selected by Shahzia Sikander, The International Print Center, NY
The Printmaker’s Hand II
, selected by Sam Davidson, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
Tacoma, Naturally
, Alley Cat Artists, Ellensberg, WA
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Art Award
, B2 Gallery Tacoma, WA
Mini Print Annual
, Lessedra Gallery, Sophia, Bulgaria
PAN Group show
, Lessedra Gallery, Sophia, Bulgaria.
PAN Special Portfolio Presentation
, Art at Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand

Printmaking and the Mundane
, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA

2011-2013
East/West Portfolio
, Old Dominion University, UMass Dartmouth, Nicholls State University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and other locations

2011
Vitreography and Paintings on Glass, The SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA
Forces at Play, Runyan Gallery, Newport, OR
Exhibition of Prints by Janet Marcavage and Printmaking students of Univeristy of Puget Sound, Experimental Center Gallery, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
Print Arts Northwest 30th Anniversary Exhibition
, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Patterned Remarks, Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Prints from the PAN Exhibition Collection, Centro Cultural of Washington County, Cornelius, OR
Show and Tell, Faculty Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Terminus: Marking the Line, exhibition of temporary installations along the Prairie Line Trail, Tollefson Plaza, Tacoma, WA

2010
Dreams, Patterns, Tests,
Gallery 2, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
5th Bienal Internacional de Gravura do Douro 2010, curated by Nuno Canelas, Alijó, Portugal
The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation Art Award, 2008-2010, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Regionalism: New Art by North American Printmakers
, curated by JenClare Gawaran and Gualberto Orozco, Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Eugene, OR
The Likeness of Form, curated by Nichole Dement, Arts West, West Seattle, WA
Theme Portfolios: Patterned Remarks, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2010 SGC Conference, Phila., PA
Copy Jam, curated by RL Tillman, Amze Emmons and Jason Urban, Art in the Age Gallery, 2010 SGC Conference, Phila., PA

2009
Qijiang International Print Festival at Qijiang Farmers’ Printmaking Institute Exhibition Hall, traveling to the Chongqing Academy of Fine Arts and the South West University in Chengdu, China
Los Angeles Printmaking Society 20th National Exhibition, juried by Peter Frank, Senior Curator of Riverside Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Print Arts Northwest New Member exhibition, The Washington County Museum, Portland, OR
MAPC Members Salon, curated by Charles Beneke, Morgan Papermaking Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Impressions: 16 American Printmakers, The Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China

2008
Impressions: 16 American Printmakers, The Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
New Prints 2008/Autumn,
The International Print Center New York, NYC
Printmaking Today, review of fine art printmaking, Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, and the Castle of Castiglione Museum, Abruzzo, Italy
Perfect with Pixel, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, School of Art, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
Circle of Friends,
Grand Impromptu Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2007
Stone-Plate-Grease-Water, a survey of international contemporary lithography, at the Y Tabernacl - Museum for Modern Art for Wales in Machynlleth, traveling to Bankside Gallery, London, England, Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland, and Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, South Wales, curated by Paul Croft (catalog)
Inkorporation, curated by CJ Swanson, AOC Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2006
Aesthetics/Analytics, exhibition which explores Art and Science, Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
National Printmaking '06
, juried by Lynne Allen, College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ

The Biology, Chemistry, Physics Invitational Show, SeaTac Airport, Concourse A
SPA at COCA, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
An Odyssey: Printmakers Return, Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, WI

2005
Print Residency Exhibition
, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Seattle Print Arts in Shenzhen, juried by Sam Davidson, Shenzhen Art Institute, China
(catalog)
2005 Mid-America Print Council Juried Exhibiton, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI (catalog)
2005 Friends of Dard Hunter Juried Exhibition, Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Traces, The Papillon Gallery at Monarch Sculpture Park, Olympia, WA
Material Inquiry, invitational at Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN (catalog)


2004
Papel Hecho a Mano
, Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Central Library Gallery, TX

Relevance/Resonance,
Rotunda Gallery, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Members Portfolio Exchange, Seattle Print Arts Exhibition, Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Errata and Contradiction, Harvard University Dudley House, Cambridge, MA
Blueprint, Exhibition of portfolio exchange project, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, California State University-Long Beach, Art Dept. Galleries, Long Beach, CA, The University of The Arts Printmaking Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The 734 Gallery, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, and Southern Graphics Council Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2003
Made in Madison, The Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Centro-Oeste Núcleo: Madison, Museu de Arte de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil
Design 2003, Gallery of Design, Madison, WI
Three Aces, University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, and UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison PRINTS, University of Wisconsin-Marshfield Art Gallery
(In)formation: Identity, Community, Performance, and Visual Culture, Bascom Gallery, Madison, WI

2002
Swap
, The Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
Teacher-Artist/Artist-Teacher, Bascom Gallery, Madison, WI
Somatic: Perception of Science through Art, The Seventh Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

2001

Imprints, exhibition juried by Archana Horsting, Arts Benecia, Benecia, CA
Exhibit A, The Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Ten Years Here, Invitational Art Exhibition, Turn of the Century, Berkeley, CA

2000
New Directions 2000
, juried exhibition,The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY



SELECTED PRINT PORTFOLIOS
  (top)
2013
The Tabloids
, a collection of folded prints, curated by Adriane Herman, exhibited as part of the 2013 Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Milwaukee, WI
Wonder Women,
in honor of Frances Myers, curated by Amanda Knowles and Lenore Thomas, exhibited as part of the 2013 SGCI Conference, Milwaukee, WI

2012
East/West, curated by Brian Kelly, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Ross Janke, Nicholls State University

2011
Printmaking and the Mundane, curated by Janet Marcavage and Joe Lupo, exhibited at the 2011 Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Equilibrium, in St. Louis, MO

2010
Patterned Remarks, curator and participant, presented at the 2010 Southern Graphics Council International Conference in Phila, PA

2008
As You Wish, curated by Melanie Yazzie

2006
Body/Body Problem
, curated by Candace Nicol and May Hariri Aboutaam, presented at the 2006 SGC conference, Genetic Imprint

2004
Members Print Exchange
, Seattle Print Arts
Blueprint, curated by Janet Marcavage and Tom Hughes, presented at the 2004 SGC conference
3D: Diversity, Discourse, and Dimension, SGC Exchange Portfolio

2003
Making Histories: Revolution and Representation
, SGC Exchange Portfolio

2002
Impromptu
, curated by Kate Clapper and Amanda Yopp, presented at the 2002 SGC conference



PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES/REVIEWS  (top)
2014

INK THIS! - Celebrating Northwest printmaking at Tacoma Art Museum, article by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, May 28, 2014

Tacoma Art Museum corrals inventive energy of contemporary Northwest print artists, article by Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, June 27, 2014

TAM displays extravaganza of Northwest Printmaking, article by Dave R. Davison, Tacoma Weekly, June 18, 2014

2013
Simple Equation, Powerful Ideas: Art+Sci in Tacoma,
work noted in article about the Art and Science symposium, by Rachel Moreshead, Post-Defiance, blog, April 16, 2013

2012
Clouds on Broadway,
review of Wooloworth Window installations by Alec Clayton, Weekly Volcano, Aug., 30, 2012
Spaceworks' artists breathing new life into empty Tacoma storefronts,
artwork shown in news feature, Amy Moreno, King 5 News, Aug. 29, 2012
Clouds of Art in Tacoma’s new Woolworth Windows installation,
article by Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, Aug. 14, 2012
Decorative Ephemera: New Installations at Woolworth Windows,
article by Dave R. Davison, Tacoma Weekly, July 25, 2012

2011 Free Arts Month: Patterns, prints and paint at Kittredge, article by Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, Jan. 19, 2011

2010
Printmakers Today, book by Jeffrey Snyder, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA

2009
Foundation Art Award, Jeremy Mangan is the Winner,
article by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, July 9, 2009

2008
Art at Work Month, article by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, October 23, 2008
Circle of Friends, review of group exhibition at Grand Impromptu Gallery by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, Sept. 18, 2008

2007
Art at Work Month,
City Scape, TV Tacoma, television program featured artists working in their studios, aired throughout November 2007
Women Rule
, review of Inkorporation by Alec Clayton
, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, Aug. 23, 2007
Exhibit Incorporates Many Styles of Printing, review of Inkorporation by John Larson, Tacoma Weekly, Aug. 16, 2007
Small Prints Receive Big-time Treatment, review of Inkorporation by Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, Aug. 19, 2007
Installation could use a greater cohesion, review of Pin.Point by
Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune, Apr. 1, 2007

2006
Where Art Lives
, Go! Magazine, The Wenatchee World, article about the history of Gallery 76 by Jefferson Robbins, artwork featured on cover and pages 12-14 of magazine, Mar. 30-April 6, 2007

The Genetic Effect: Artist Displays DNA in Gallery ’76 show
, article about Strands and Molecules by Jefferson Robbins, Go! Magazine,
The Wenatchee World, Feb. 16, 2007
, p. 7
Windows Apart, review of Woolworth installations by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, Jan. 5 – Jan. 11, 2007
, p. 3

2005        
Gallery of Veins
, review of Embody installation by Alec Clayton, Tacoma Weekly Volcano, Apr. 7 - Apr. 13, 2005, p. 3



SELECTED PANELS, LECTURES, AND WORKSHOPS
  (top)
2012
Parallel Lines: Visual Language in Printmaking,
Daedalus Society lecture, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Polyester Plate Printmaking,
full day workshop in conjunction with At Home: American Prints exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2011
The Everyday and Print Culture
, Artist Talk, The Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Particles
, Artist Talk, The Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China

2010
Such Fancies
, Artist Talk, The Gallery at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Picasso’s Innovations as Printmaker
, Lecture, Franke Tobey Jones, Tacoma, WA
Printmaking and the Mundane,
Panel Organizer and Chair, SGC Affiliate Panel, The College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
Prints from the Puget Sound Collection,
Gallery Talk at exhibition curated by Margaret Bullock, Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2009
Printing Patterns With Found Objects,
Third Thursday Printmaking Workshop in conjunction with Joe Feddersen exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2008
Annie Wright School, Artist Lecture and student critique, Tacoma, WA

2005
Prints
, Gallery Talk, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
Embody, Gallery Talk, Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA


2004
Threads
, Lecture, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Inside Out, Lecture with exhibition, UW-Marathon County, Wausau, WI

2003
Origins
, Gallery Talk, De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, WI


RESIDENCIES
  (top)

2005
Printmaking Resident, Hannaher's, Inc. Print Studio, The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2003
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Japanese Papermaking with Karen Stahlecker (scholarship)



COLLECTIONS
  (top)
King County Public Art Collection, Portable Works, Seattle, WA
ArtsWA, work installed at Maier Hall, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Abruzzo, Italy
The Hubei Institute of Art, Wuhan, China
The University of Wales Print Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales
The Permanent Collection of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Christchurch, NZ
The University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder, CO
The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
The Wisconsin Union Directorate, Madison, WI
The University of WI-Madison Kohler Library Book Arts Collection, Madison, WI
Boise State University Art Department Permanent Collection, Boise, Idaho
Arizona State University Print Collection, Tempe, AZ
The University of the Arts Print Collection, Philadelphia, PA
The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Southern Graphics Print Archive, University of Mississippi
The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Mason Gross School of The Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
The Amity Art Foundation, Woodbridge, CT

The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA


EMPLOYMENT
  (top)
2010-present
Associate Professor of Art, Printmaking, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2004-2010
Assistant Professor of Art, Printmaking, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA



PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  (top)
2009-present
Member, Print Arts Northwest

2004-present  
Member, Seattle Print Arts

2004-2008
Member, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Member, The Friends of Dard Hunter

2003-present 
Member, The Print Center
Member, Mid America Print Council
Member, College Art Association

2002-present 
Member, Southern Graphics Council

 


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