JANET MARCAVAGE installations
 
 
 

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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)

2007

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

2006
Faculty Research Grant, The University of Puget Sound

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 EXHIBITIONS  (top)   

2007

PIN.POINT, Icebox Contemporary, Tacoma, WA

2006
Strands and Molecules, Gallery 76, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA

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)

2008

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
Project Creo: Digital Divide/Digital Provide,
2-person exhibition which explores the digital revolution, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA
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)

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

2004
Members Print Exchange
, Seattle Print Arts
Blueprint, organized 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
, organized by Kate Clapper and Amanda Yopp, presented at the 2002 SGC conference



ARTICLES/REVIEWS  (top)

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



ARTIST LECTURES
  (top)

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)
The Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Abruzzo, Italy
The Hubei Institute of Art, Wuhan, China

The University of Wales Print Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales
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



EMPLOYMENT
  (top)

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



PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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2004-present  
Member, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Member, Seattle Print Arts
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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