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| Mary Shaffer |
| Public Collections and Commissions Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Japan Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Blumenthal Performing Arts Center; Charlotte, NC The American Craft Museum; New York, NY Huntington Museum; Huntington, WV Museum Bellerive; Zurich, Switzerland Museum of Decorative Arts; Lausanne, Switzerland The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI The Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, OH Musee de Verre; Sars-Poteries, France Corning Museum of Glass; Corning, NY Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL Stadt Museum; Fraunau, West Germany Glas Museum; Ebeltoft, Denmark Frontrunner Awards for Sara Lee Corporation; Chicago, IL The John Pappajohn Pavilion; Iowa City Hospital, Iowa City, IA Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA U.S. Chancellery in La Paz, Bolivia Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, PA Providence Park Department, Providence, RI Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH ‘Tool-Wall’ Honors 1998 Innovated use of Glass and Sculpture Award, Urban Glass, New York, NY 1995 Visionary,American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1994 Fellowship for Individual Artists.National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1987 Fellowship for Individual Artists.D.C. Commission of Arts and Humanities 1981 Glaspris '81.Kassel Competition, West Germany. 1979 . Huber Grant.Wellesley College.Funded study of art in Czechoslovakia 1977 Glass in Architecture Award.National Endowment for the Arts through the Rhode Island School of Design. 1974 Fellowship for Individual Artists.National Endowment for the Arts. 1972 Citation of Excellence.U.S. Labor Department.For directing manpower program Selected Exhibitions Individual: 2004 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Habatat Galleries, Birmingham, MI Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2002 Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (2000,1998,1996) 2001 Habatat Galleries, MI & FL (1999,1997,1994,1992,1990) Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 Heller Gallery, New York City, NY (1996, 1980, 1978) 1998 William Travers Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997 Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 1995 Troyer, Fitzpatric, Lasserman Gallery, Washington, DC (1993) 1994 Habatat Gallery, Aspen, CO 1991 Rochelle Monique Gallery, San Diego, CA 1988 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY (& 1982,1979, 1977, 1975) 1982 Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland 1980 Mandel Gallery,Los Angeles, CA 1979 Hadler Rodriques Gallery, Houston, TX Just the Two of Us, Fine Arts Gallery,University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Selected Exhibitions Continued Hang Out, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1977 In Memory of, Fine Arts Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY Spilled Milk, Anyart Gallery, Providence, RI 1976 Garbage for Your Eye, Fine Art Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA Keep Off Sidewalk, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 1975 Warren Benedek Gallery, N Gallery G.A.P.,Rome, Italy Group Exhibitions 2002San Francisco Art Fair, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Sculpture in Glass, Walton Arts Center, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Fayetteville, AK. 2001 Arts Midland: Galleries and School of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, TX Breaking the Mold: Conceptual Glass, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico 2000 Shattering Precepts, Dennos Museum, Taverse City, MI; 2001 Millennium Glass, Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY 1999 Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works, Exhibits USA, College Station, Tyler, TX, 1999-2001; “Glorious Glass” 1997-1999, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; "Clearly Sculpture", Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI, 1998 Inaugural Exhibition, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM,; La Verrerie de Biot, Biot, France "Duo"; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ "Glass Exhibition"; Fujiya HR Center, Kyoto, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima Japan " Essence of Water, 5 Sculptors" 1997 “Glass Today by American Studio Artists,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA;“Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; “Calido,”; Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts,KY; “Union of Ideas” Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. l996 “Studio Glass”, Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York, NY; “People in Glass Houses”, Robert Lehman Gallery,Brooklyn, NY; “12 x 12” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; “New Look; Contemporary Women Sculptors, Washington Square,Washington, DC:“Convergence IX”International Sculpture Conference, Providence Park Department, Providence, RL; “Four Decades of Discovery, The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum,” American Craft Museum, New York, NY. 1995 "A Regional Survey from Maryland to Louisiana", Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Kouros Gallery, NYC;Hsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan; "Summer-Spring Show"Grounds for Sculpture, NJ; Glass America, Heller Gallery, NYC; Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1994 Across Borders/Sans Frontieras" Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; "Transparanscene" Palm Beach Community College of Art, Fort Worth, FL; "Three", Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI; "On Site: Sculpture from the Berman Atelier" Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA 1993 American Craft Museum, New York; The Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; The H and W Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA 1992 The Ruffino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; The Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ; Nave Museum, Victoria, TX; Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD; The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Group Exhibitions Continued 1991 Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio, Brazil; Naples Museum, Naples, FL; Duchamp-Villon Art Space, Rouen, France 1985-90 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK;Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA; Kunsthaus am Museum, Koln, Germany; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC: aSwitzerland; Hallands Lansmuseer, Sweden; Kestner Museum, Hanover, West Germany; Kunstindustriemueet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gemeentemuseum, Amhem, The Netherlands; City Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, West Germany; Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Korean Culture Center, New York, NY 1970-85 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY; The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Masur Museum of Art, Monro, LA; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, Anchorage, AK; Stadt Museum, Fraunau, West Germany; Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI; Musee de Verre, Sars-Poteries, France; Musee Chateau d'Annecy, Annecy, France Selected Books Glass Art from Urban Glass, Richard Wilfred Yelle, A Schiffer Art Book 2000; Glass: An Artist's Medium, Lucartha Kohler, Krause Publications, Iola, WI, International New Glass, Dan Klein & Attilia Dorigato, Arenale Editrice, Italy ‘96; A labor of Love: Distinction and Beyond, New Museum of Contemporary Art, l996, NYC: Modern Masters, American Craft Museum, NYC; Bellerive Zurich GLAS, Band I 1945-1991, Zurich, 1993; Artist Confronting the Inconceivable, American Interfaith Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 1992; Contemporary Glasswork: The State of the Art, Catherine Vaudour, Armand-Colin, Paris, 1992; Glass: A Contemporary Art, Dan Klein, Rizzoli, 1989; Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, Susanne K. Frantz, 1989; Glass: State of the Art II, Ferdinand Hampson, Elliot Johnston Publishers, 1989; The Eloquent Object, Marcia & Tom Manhart, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1987; Contemporary American Women Sculptors; Virginia Watson-Jones, ORYX Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1985; Handmade in America; Harry Abrams Press, Barbaralee Diamonstein, NY, 1983; A Marcell Proust, G.A.S. Reflections of Space, Tulio Catalano, Rome, Italy, 1975 Television Coverage Interviews and reviews of work have appeared on NBC, Canadian CBS and the Networks of Germany, France, Switzerland and Japan Videotapes “Mary Shaffer: A Natural Force” Awarded US International Film and Video Festival Certificate for Creative Excellence; Center-Light - Charlotte NC, Shaffer Studios; Point-of-View, Shaffer Studios; The Judy Yougens Lecture Series, NBC coverage Canadian Television; "Mary Shaffer Lecture" Grounds for Sculpture Feb. '99 |
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