CV/EXHIBITION RECORD

EDUCATION:

2004-MAY2007 MFA in Painting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1989-92 BFA in Painting, University of Kansas, Lawrence
1987-89 Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE


TEACHING POSITIONS, RESIDENCIES, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND GRANTS:

2008 DOANE COLLEGE. Crete, Nebraska. Artist and Lecturer-in-Residence.
2004-2007 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA~Lincoln. Hixson Lied Grant
2005 MCCOOK, NEBRASKA. Artist and Teacher ~in~Residence.
2004-2007 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA~Lincoln. Teaching Fellowship
2002 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence
Nebraska City, NE
2001 Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship Grant
Silver~Interactive Media, Nebraska ADDY Awards
2000 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, residency study of myth and logic in Balinese painting.
1999 Lincoln High School, multicultural murals.
Elkhorn Middle School, artist in residence.
1997 Leadership Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb.
The Visual Narrative / Bright Lights Summer Enrichment Program.
Bright Lights Collaborative Mural Project/International Subway Art Museum, Nuremburg, Germany
University of Nebraska/Textiles Dept.~Visiting Artist to Liz Shea
1996-present Nebraska Arts Council/ Artist in the Schools and Communities.
1996 Meadowlane Elementary School, artist in residence.
Zeman Elementary School, artist in residence.
1991-93 Director/Harvest of Arts and Community Mural Project, Lawrence, Kan.
Daniel MacMorris Scholarship for Fine Art, University of Kansas
1989-1991 Editor and Art Director: PINCH MAGAZINE. in collaboration with
William Burroughs and Community of Lawrence, KS.
1988 Pearl Rosenkrans Scholarship for Fine Art, Nebraska Wesleyan University.
1987 Young Women Artist Award, Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women.
Max Pumphrey Grant, Lincoln Foundation, Lincoln, NE.
1986 Sertoma Art Award, Lincoln Public Schools.
Nebraska State Journalism Award, Editorial Cartooning.






SKILLS:

• Proficiency in Technology: Dreamweaver, Maya, Flash, Excel, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator, Writing HTML code, Word and various Office Suite and Internet applications including Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. Familiar with Operating Systems: MS-Windows XP, MS-DOS, Mac OS, and Linux. Research Programs: Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, Morningstar.
• Administration/Teaching: Teaching University courses in beginning and advanced oil painting and drawing. Resident Artist Fellowships in teaching the Art of the Graphic Novel, Textile Design, Grant Writing, Portfolio Building, Web Design, The Art Market, Student guidance in pursuing career as professional artist, Marketing and Gallery Exhibition, Building Non-Profit Organizations, Teaching on contemporary art movements and critical thinking. Writing Grants and Managing Galleries. Residencies in Indonesia, Colorado, and Nebraska. Artist-in-the-Schools-and-Communities for the Nebraska Arts Council, Director for three years to regional Arts Festival in conjunction with the Lied Center of Lawrence, Kansas. Providing an avenue for the arts including; City wide Community Mural Project, Songwriter’s Showcase, Writer’s Conference, and Artist Exhibitions. Board for Lincoln Arts Council, Nominated for Leadership Lawrence, KS. Nominated for Leadership Lincoln. Graduated from Leadership Lincoln/Building Trusteeship in a Community. Proficient in American Sign Language. Minor in Art History with a focus on Contemporary American and European Art and research into the Creative Mind.
• Studio Skills: MFA. Oil Painting, Acrylic, Watercolor, Drawing, Life Drawing, Animation, Photography, Filmmaking, Sound Recording, Screenwriting, Printmaking, Papermaking, 3-D Design in various materials including; marble, ceramics, plaster, wood and metal works. Kiln building, salt kiln firing, electric and gas kiln firing. Video Art, Performance Art, Installation Art.


BOARDS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:

2008 Lincoln Arts Council Board
2004 Haymarket Theatre/ Scene Painter
2001-2004 Lincoln Community Playhouse/ Set Design
1999 Leadership Lincoln/ Building Trusteeship
1994-2001 Gallery Nine Board/ Artist Cooperative
1991-1993 Director/ Harvest of Arts. Developing a Non-Profit Community Arts Festival with the University of Kansas and The Lied Center in Lawrence, Kansas.


PHILANTHROPY:
Habitat for Humanity
National Arthritis Foundation
National Organization for Women
Haydon Art Gallery/ A Non-Profit Educational Gallery for Upcoming Artists

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2008 Doane College, Crete Nebraska. Twenty Year Retrospective.
2007 University of Nebraska~Lincoln, MFA Thesis Exhibition.
2006 Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, Neb., Magnolia Gray (May)




2005 The Night Before Last~presented by Kiechel Fine Art at O’Keefe Elevator Gallery, Omaha, Neb., solo (February/March)
Night of the Boston Terrier, Sophia Georg Gallery, Denver, CO.
2004 Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, Neb., Holiday Art Show (December)
2002 Museum of Nebraska Art, Nebraska Now Series, Kearney, NE, solo (October)
Anderson O’Brien Gallery, Solo Exhibition~ Omaha, NE.
2001 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, solo (June)
Jayne Gallery, Kansas City, Mo. (April)
Museum of Nebraska Art, RSVP (March)
Sophia Georg Gallery, Spirit of the Heart, Denver, Colo. (February)
2000 Works from Bali, Indonesia Residency, solo, Lincoln (October)
1999 Anderson O’Brien Gallery, Solo Exhibition~ Omaha, NE.
Silver Shine Under Red Sky~New Works in Oil, solo, Lincoln (November)
Blue Sea~New Works in Oil, solo, Lincoln (March)
1998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, solo, (hosted by Susie Buffett and Jackson Artworks), Omaha, NE
University Place Art Gallery, Beasties of the Seven Seas, solo, Lincoln
1997 Elder Gallery/ Rogers Center for Fine Arts, Fred Wells Feature Award Show, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
Nebraska Wesleyan University Fred Wells National Juried Exhibition, Lincoln
1996 River Market Regional Exhibition/Juried by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Charno Gallery, Kansas City, MO

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
FowlerHoffman Incorporated, San Francisco, CA.
Beattie Elementary School, Lincoln, Neb.
Doane College, Crete, Neb.
Franklin Mint, Aston, Penn.
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Neb.
Piper Jaffray & Co., Lincoln, Neb.
Dr. William Resnick, Los Angeles, CA
Sterling Financial Investors, Omaha, Neb.
Teleflora, Los Angeles, CA
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha, Neb.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Kiechel Fine Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE.
Anderson O’Brien Gallery, Omaha, NE
Sophia Georg Gallery, Denver, CO.
Adelante Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.

Annotated Bibliography by Wendy Jane Bantam

Hans Hofman Problem: "Seeing" to simplify what is essential to the senses.
Catalogue of the Hans Hofman Exhibition, Kootz Gallery, New York, 1955. What is the creative mind to Hans Hofman?
Readings in American Art 1900-1975, edited by Barbara Rose Communication through painting.
IT IS Magazine, Winter-Spring 1959. Hans Hofman's artist's statement from 1959.
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Mark Rothko Problem: to find universally meaningful subject matter.
On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell. Guggenheim Museum, Berlin/ Berlin, DE
(http:// www.absolutearts.com/artnews/2001/07/07/28819.html) Sublime and beautiful~reduced to the simplest forms.
The following four articles are excerpts in which Rothko discusses his drive and problem solving. They appear in:
Readings in American Art 1900-1975, edited by Barbara Rose.
Possibilities, NO. 1 (Winter, 1947-48)
Interiors, May 1951.
David Porter Gallery, Washington, d.C., 1945
Tiger's Eye, No. 9 (October, 1949)
Diane Walkman, Mark Rothko 1903-1970: A Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue (New York: Harry N. Abrams, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978 ), 39. Rothko looks inward to find meaningful portrayal of spiritual form.
Donald B. Doe, "Mark Rothko, " In the American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), 158. Religious without religious symbolism.
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Jonathan Borofsky Problem: to find a way to be universally connected.
Carnegie Mellon Magazine/ Jonathan Borofsky Nobody Knows His Name, Everybody Has His Number, By Ann Curran
(http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/02spring/borofsky/html.) Problem Borofsky is driven to solve: using sound and repetition to be connected to the "Whole". The "Whole" being nature.
Jonathan Borofsky by Nancy Kay Turner (The Remba Gallery, West Hollywood) Borofsky discusses drive to feel connected to the "Whole."
(http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles 1999/Articles 1199/JBorofskyA.html)
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Lucian Freud Problem: Quest for truth using the naked body.
The Observer (Guardian Unlimited), Peter Conrad. Sunday, June 9, 2002.
(http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4429787-102280,00.html)Lucian Freud discusses reason behind work.
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These are all sources of studies done on the creative mind, creative process, and problem solving. Some titles are self-explanatory, the other titles are summarized in italics.
Vasari, G. [1550] 1959. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects. New York: The Modern Library.
Jung, C.G. 1946. The Fight with the Shadow. Listener, Nov. 7. Deals with darker nature of humanity.
Johnson-Laird, D.N. 1988. Freedom and restraint on creativity. In The Nature of Creativity, edited by R. Sternberg. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 202-219 Choices made in problem-solving.
Perkins, D.N. The Mind's Best Work, Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard University Press. Creativity is not the result of magical creative genius.
Freeman, M. 1993 Finding the Muse: a sociopsychological inquiry into the conditions of artistic creativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Salk, J. 1983. Anatomy of Reality: Merging Intuition and Reason. New york: Columbia University Press.
Gribbin, J.,and M, Rees. 1989 Cosmic coincidences: Dark matter, mankind, and anthropic cosmology. New York, Bantam.
Roheim, G. 1945. The eternal ones of the dream: A psychoanalytic interpretation of Australian myth and ritual. New York: International Universities Press.
Rothenberg, A. 1979. The emerging goddess: The creative process in art, science, and other fields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rob Saunders and John S. Gero. Artifical Creativity: Emergent Notions of Creativity in Artificial Societies of Curious Agents. The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition. The University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.
(http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/study/publications/second_iteration/SaundersGero2001)
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. Assesses the creative act regresses to an earlier primitive state.
Bergson, Henri. The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics (1946). Intuition as "thinking in duration" showing flow of reality. Explains how intuition and intellect are combined in the mind to produce a dynamic knowledge of reality.
Martindale, Colin. The Clockwork Muse. 1990 Presents thought expirament called "Law of Novelty". Affects development of creative syles.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Society, Culture, Person: A Systems View of Creativity. How society, culture, and history generates ideas for the individual.
Holton, Gerald. Einstein, History, and other Passions:The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the 20th Century. January 1996. Imagination and passion and intuition involved in scientific research.