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Résumé Summary Mary Brodbeck Woodblock
Prints 610 W. Willard St., Unit D Education 1996-1999 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Master of Fine Arts degree, Printmaking. 1977-1982 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Industrial Design. Teaching Experience Specialist in teaching the traditional methods of Japanese woodblock
printmaking by means of public lectures and demonstrations, workshops,
community education courses, college & university courses,
and private lessons. Position highlights include: Visiting
Scholar, Japan
Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Japan (2006 & 2007); Visiting
Faculty, Frogman’s
Press & Gallery, Beresford,
SD and Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI (2008);
and Part-time Faculty, Kalamazoo Institute
of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (2000-2008). Have been accepted in over 60 national art competitions, receiving 15 national awards. Have had 20 solo exhibitions in Michigan and have participated in over 50 joint or group shows throughout the United States, Canada and Japan. Highlights include: Forest Hills Fine Art Center, Grand Rapids, MI;(2006); Print Shows with Y. Funasaka at Rutan Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (2003, 2005 & 2007); Joint Print Exhibition at Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, OH (2008). Special Projects Sleeping Bear Dunes Portfolio, as a recipient of a three-week artist-in-residency at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park in autumn of 2006, this series of ten color woodblock prints depicts the Lake Michigan shoreline. Reflections of Superior – Artists Under Sail, participating artist and exhibit coordinator for a traveling exhibition based upon a sailing circumnavigation of Lake Superior. Developed brochure and publicity material, wrote all contracts, and secured all exhibition locations. Exhibited in ten locations in Michigan and Ontario, Canada (2001-2004). East Meets West Print Exchange Exhibition,
participating artist and exhibit coordinator for Tokyo/Kalamazoo
print exchange. Accomplishments
include: developing prospectus and catalog, applying and receiving
grant support, publishing article in a national journal (Graphic
Impressions), and promoting, organizing and presenting this 120
piece print show
(2002-2004). Have received six grants and one fellowship including the prestigious BUNKA-CHO Fellowship, a five-month-long Japanese government sponsored program to study Japanese woodblock printmaking in Tokyo with Y. Funasaka (1998). Two National First Prize awards from American Color Print Society, Cheltenham, PA (2005) and Celebrating Contemporary Printmaking, Hudson Gallery, Sylvania OH (2006). Invited to four Artist-In-Residency programs including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, MI (2006) and Isle Royale National Park (2000). Seven United States Patents, furniture (1990-93).
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