Selected Permanent Installations
Forms of Nature: Plant Animal, Human, Hephzibah Children’s Home Oak Park, Illinois
Brooks Smith, Gorton Community Center, Lake Forest, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks: The Oracle of Bronzeville Monument, Brooks Park, Chicago, IL
Ecosystem No 1, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Checkmate, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois
Flock, Columbus Park, Chicago Illinois
Peace and Justice, Peace Park of Lincoln Park and Soka Gakkai International both in Chicago, Illinois
Fr. John Egan, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
St. Patrick Church, Lake Forest, Illinois
John D. MacArthur State Park, North Palm Beach Florida
Just Plain Hardworking, John Egan Urban Center, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Hope, Peace and Wonder, William Beye School, Oak Park, Illinois
Mother and Child, St. Mary's School, Lake Forest, Illinois
Lois and Baby, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Steans, Englewood, Florida
Fables of Our Time, Highwood Public Library, Illinois
Boy Gardener, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe Illinois
The Reader, Northfield Public Library, Northfield, Illinois
Selected Exhibitions (Solo)
2022 Coral, Shells and Ernest, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
2018 Resist! Oak Park Art League, Lake Forest History Center, Lake Forest, Illinois
2017 Cultural Families, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
2016 Farewell to Arms, Oak Park Art League Invitational Artifact Residency
2014-2015 Forms of Nature, Oak Park Conservatory, Oak Park, Illinois
2010 A Sense of Community, Village of Oak Park, Illinois
1997 The Land, Prairie Crossing, Grayslake , Illinois
1994 Drawings and Sculptures, Women's Art Gallery YWCA Cincinnati, Ohio
Joseph Shapiro Gallery, Oak Park Public Library, Illinois
1991 Objects of Myth Sazama Gallery Chicago, Illinois
1990 Gallery 1616, Chicago, Illinois
1989 New Works, Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988 Sculpture Garden Navy Pier Lakeside Group Exhibition
1985 College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois
1984 SCLPTR, Thesis Exhibition Yale University, New Haven Connecticut
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Selected Exhibitions (Group)
2019, 2021, 2023 Terrain Biennial International Art Parks, Guernsey, UK, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago
2023 Don’t “Drag” Me Down: Koehnline Museum of Art Exhibition, Desplaines Illinois
Mycelium Connections: Paluan Corals: The Admiral on the Lake
Deerpath Art League Sculpture Stroll
Palauan Coral Painting, Bridgeport Art Center
2022 Paluan Coral Painting, Arts Club Chicago, Illinois
Coral Paintings, Art Center of Highland Park, Illinois
ARC Gallery, Coral Paintings
2022 Koehnline Museum , Oakton Community College, DesPlaines, Illinois
Betwixt, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
Mac and Irene, Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois
Ripple Effect, Arts Club of Chicago, Artist Member Exhibition, Chicago Illinois
2019 Terrain Biennial International
Art Parks, Guernsey, UK
Chicago Sculpture International, Indiana
2019 Chicago Sculpture International, Valparaiso University, Indiana
2018 Peer, Arts Club of Chicago Members Exhibition, Chicago Illinois
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago Illinois
Art Parks , Guernsey, UK
2017 Cultural Center Exhibition, Lincoln Park, Chicago Park District, Illinois
Hawk and Dove, Krasl Biennial , St.Joseph, Michigan
Mother and Child, ArtParks, Guernsey, UK
2016 Arts Club of Chicago Artist Member Exhibition
Perch, Preen, Brauer Museum, Valparaiso, Indiana
“Checkmate” woodblock, Chicago Sculpture Exhibit, Chicago, IL
“Checkmate” woodblock, “Disapearing Cheshire”, Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL
Hawk and Dove, Krasl Biennial , St. Joseph, Michigan
Prey, Krasl Art Center, St, Joseph Michigan
Farewell to Arms, Invitational Residency, Oak Park Art League, IL
Graze, Terrain, Oak Park, IL
Art Parks, Guernsey, UK
Stones, Irene, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2015 “Nature in Motion”, Lincoln Park Zoo Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Tree Project Checkmate and Flock, Chicago Park District, Illinois
Art Park, Guernsey, United Kingdom
R4, Nicholas Conservatory, Rockford, IL
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
Oak Park Sculpturewalk, Oak Park, Illinois
Redux Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illnois
Art Rapids, Sculpturewalk, Elk Rapids Michigan
Stones, Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois
2014 Arts Club of Chicago
Perch, Evanston Art Center, Sheridan Road at Central, Evanston, Illinois
Grandmother and Baby, Artparks Sculpture Park, Bailiwick of Guernsey, UK
Enlighten, Sculpture Walk, Elk Rapids, Michigan
Hawk and Dove, St. Mary’s Park, St. Charles, Illinois
Perch, Preen, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Biennial Invitational Exhibition, Cashiers North Carolina
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago Illinois
ArtParkS, St. Martin, Guernsey, Great Britain
Art Rapids, Elk Rapids, Michigan
2013 Chicago Sculpture International: 1) Cliffdwellers, 2)Bridgeport Art Center
Art Walk 2013, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2012–2013 Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2012 St. Mary’s Park,
St. Charles, Illinois
2012–2013 International Sculpture Center Exhibition,
Chicago, Illinois
2012 Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,
Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
2012 Oak Park Sculpture Walk, Oak Park, Illinois
2012 Small Sculptures Exhibition,
Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, Illinois
2011 Arts Club of Chicago member’s Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Beverly Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Art Loop Open, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
2008-09 Lake County Museum, Wauconda, Illinois
2007-08 Lincoln Park Community Art Initiative, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Franklin/Margot McMahon, Oak Park Public Library Art Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois
2006-07 Ragdale 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Il
2004-2005 Lincoln Park Initiative, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois
2003 Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
2000-02 William DeBilzan Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
1999 William DeBilzan Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1999-2002 Gallery McMahon, Lake Forest, Illinois
1998 Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois
1996 Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster Indiana
1995 Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Just Plain Hardworking, John Egan Center, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Beacon Street Gallery, Geneva, Illinois
1994 Members Exhibition Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
Benjamin Beattie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Members Exhibition Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois
1993 Just Good Art Hyde Park Art Center
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Sazama Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 New Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
1991 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Just Plain Hardworking Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois
1987-88 These Hands Have Done Alot, Highwood and Highland Park, Illinois
1985 Limelight, Chicago, Illinois
eads Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1983-82 Yale University, New Haven Connecticut
Awards
2022 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award: If Trees Could Talk (IWPA)
2020 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award from the Illinois Women's Press Association
for The Fifth Season
2019 Service Award for the Chicago Tree Project from Illinois Women's Press Association
2010 Peace and Culture Award, Soka Gakkai International, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Rose Philippine Duchesne Society Annual Award, Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois
1995 & 2000 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois
1991 Alex B. Hexter Award - National Sculpture Society, New York, New York
1989 Retirement Research Foundation Grant, Chicago, Illinois
1982-84 Yale University Scholarship, New Haven, Connecticut
1983 Yale Summer School of Art Teacher, Norfolk, Connecticut
1979 Aliza A. Drew Fine Arts Award, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Education
1984 Yale University, Master of Fine Arts Degree
Fellow-Timothy Dwight College
1979 Hamline University, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Academic Honors
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Books and Video
The Fifth Season: The Chicago Tree Project, Hummingbird Press (2020 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award
RESIST!: A Visual History of Protest, Aquarius Press
The Gift of Art: Sculpture Ventures for Young Artists , Yale University Print &Publishing
From a Ball of Clay video, [Cinema Guild, NYC]
If Trees Could Talk (2021 NWPA National Book Award recipient, 2021 Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award), Aquarius Press
Mac and Irene: a WWII Saga, Aquarius Press
Airdrie, Aquarius Press
Art Experience
2017-19 Board Member: Chicago Sculpture International, Yale Chicago, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame,
Ragdale Foundtion, President: Yale Women Chicago, Chicago, Chicago Literary Club, committee
2015-16 Board Member: Yale Chicago
Delegate at Large: Association of Yale Alumni
President: Yale Women Chicago
Vice President: Chicago Sculpture International
2013-14 Board Member, Chicago Sculpture International
Board Member Yale Women/Chicago 2012
Committee Member Chicago Sculpture International Outdoor Committee
2002-2006 Commissioner: Village of Oak Park, Public Art Advisory Commission
2000-03 Committee member: National Museum of Women in the Arts, IL Committee
1998-2006 Board of Directors Member, Oak Park Area Arts Council, Oak Park, Illinois
1998-Present Ragdale Foundation, Cornerstone Scholarship Committee, Lake Forest, Illinois
2002-2004 Commissioner: Village of Oak Park, Public Art Advisory Commission
2000-03 Committee member: National Museum of Women in the Arts, IL Committee
1999-2004 Board of Directors Member, Oak Park Area Arts Council, Oak Park, Illinois
1998 Lecturer, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
1986-1989 Sculpture Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1978 Sculpture Assistant, Hamline University, St. Paul Minnesota
Presentations
2022 Chicago Sculpture Trolley Tour 19th Century Club
Chicago Public Library, A Chicago Aviation History
Winnetka Public Library, Finding Untold Stories
Lake Forest Library, The Luster of Things Gifted
2019 Sculpture Inside and Out, 19th Century Club, Oak Park, Illinois
1968 Happened, Chicago Literary Club, Cliffdwellers, Chicago, Illinois
The Oracle of Bronzeville: Making Gwendolyn Brooks, Little Black Pearl, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Sculpture Inside and Out, Lincoln Park Cultural Center, Chicago Illinois
Sculpture Around Town, Tree Project Trolley Tour
Brooks’ Bronzeville, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, IL
2016 Careers in Art Panel, Yale Alumni Art League, New Haven CT
Gift of Art Workshops, Chapel Haven, New Haven CT,
Oak Park Art League, Evanston Art Center, Ragdale Foundation, Earth Fest,
Oak Park Public Library, Illinois
2015 Basel Miami, Multiculturalism in Fine Art, Yale Alumni Art League Panel
Balance /Unbalance, Chicago Tree Project video Phoenix Arizona
Chicago Tree Project, Oak Park Library September
From a Ball of Clay, Oak Park Conservatory.
Chicago Tree Project Trolley Tour, Oak Park Art League
2014 Yale Club Chicago, “Chicago Sculpture International Trolley Tour”
2013 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Sculpture International panel
2012 International Sculpture Center Conference; Art/Science panel
Lewis University, Illinois
2010 Soka Gakkai International, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Chicago Tonight WTTW, Fermilab exhibition
2007 Oak Park Area Arts Council Artists' Lecture Series, Oak Park, Illinois
2007 Chicago Cultural Center, Ragdale 20th Anniversary Lecture
2000 Illinois State Museum, Springfield Illinois "From a Ball of Clay" video (Cinema Guild)
2000 Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois
1998 Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago, Highland Park, Illinois
1996 Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago, St. Charles, Illinois
1995 Visiting Artist, Saint Xavier College, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1991 WTTW-Channel 11 Just Plain Hardworking Documentary, Chicago, Illinois
1990 WBBM News, Father and Child City of Homewood
Channel Five, Twelve and Seven News, Palm Beach Florida
1989 WLS News Just Plain Hardworking at the Chicago Historical Society
Passport to Chicago; The Artists of Just Plain Hardworking Chicago, Illinois
WBBM News Sculpting Just Plain Hardworking
1988 Lifestyle Cablevision Art of Margot McMahon
1987 These Hands Have Done Alot, Italian American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist, Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Illinois
1986 The Fondu Finish videotape
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Publications
2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Park Monument Chicago Tribune June 7, Sun-Times, The Defender, WTTW,
2016 Chicago Tribune, July 7 Oak Leaves
2015 Angies List Chicago Magazine
Chicago Tribune, June
Wednesday Journal, June
CBS-2 June
2014 chicagotonight.wttw.com/2014/07/23/turning-trees-art
CBS-2 news 11/11/14
2012-13 Chicago Sculpture International Outdoor exhibition catalog
2010 World Tribune, Peace and Culture Award, Tokyo Japan
2006 Wednesday Journal, Jan 4th, "Julian students cuddle up to an art project"
Chicago Journal, January 19, "Beatifying in bronze"
2005 Oak Leaves, October 19th, "Julian Students create atrium art"
1999-11 Who's Who of American Women
2004 Wednesday Journal, March 31, "The Good Priest"
The Catholic New World, March 28 "DePaul Sculpture recalls Msgr. Egan"
Chicago Tribune, February 19, Standing Tall for Social Justice in City
2003 Chicago Sun Times May 12 "Oak Park Artist erecting monument to a giant of a man"
2000 Wednesday Journal Dec. 6 "The Portrait of The Artist"
1999-04Who's Who of American Women
1998 The New World Jan 30 "Growing in Faith"
1995 Chicago Sun Times,Page 12, February 16 Egan Center Honors a Legend , Chicago, IL
1990 The Star, July 8, 1990 Sculpting Formation, Homewood, Illinois
The Economist, Making Father and Child in Homewood, Illinois
Palm Beach Daily News, March 25, Unveiling John D.. MacArthur, Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach Post, March 8, Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach Society, March 26, Palm Beach, Florida
New Art Examiner, March, Chicago, Illinois
1989 Sculpture International Just Plain Hardworking, Washington D.C.
Chicago Tribune, July 26, Tempo, The Chicago Ten, Chicago, Illinois
North Shore Magazine, July, Wilmette, Illinois
The Reader, Artists and Residents, June 23 Calendar, Chicago, Illinois
1989 Highland Park News, May Fables of Our Time , Highland Park, Illinois
1988 Chicago Sun Times, Festival at Navy Pier May 27, Chicago, Illinois
1987 The Reader, Neighborhood News,These Hands Have Done Alot, September , Chicago, IL
North Shore Magazine, One Magnificent Square Mile August, Wilmette, Illinois
Chicago Tribune, The Hands of Highwood, June 19, Chicago, Illinois
Highland Park News, Art to Keep Legacy Alive April, Highland Park, Illinois
Fra Noi, Exhibit Displays...Immigrant May, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Tribune, Portrait Artist February Tempo, Chicago, Illinois
North Shore Magazine, Portrait Artist March, Wilmette, Illinois
1985 News Voice, Eight Artists... August, Lake Forest, Illinois
New Art Examiner, April, Chicago, Illinois
1982 Lake Forester, Library Sculpture November, Lake Forest, Illinois
Winnetka News, Library Sculpture in Memory October, Winnetka, Illinois
1981-89 World Book Encyclopedia, Clay, Chicago, Illinois |
