Education:

Solo Exhibitions, partial listing:

  • 2010, March 15-November, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA, "Pardon Me", funded by the Eastern State Penitentiary 2010 Season Exhibition Grant.

  • 2010, September and October, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, "14 Years In: Revisiting Life-Sentenced Women" funded by the Leeway Foundation "Art and Change" Grant.

  • 2006, September 8-October 31, Delaware Center for Horticulture, Wilmington, Delaware, Reverse Glass Paintings.

  • 2004, July 19-August 15, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, Reverse Glass Paintings.

  • 2001, October-December, Bucknell University, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, “Portraits of Life-Sentenced Women”, a decade of portraits.

  • 2000,1999,1998,1997, May-November, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA, Installation of Portraits and Voices of Life-Sentenced Women.

  • 2000, October-November, The Hope Collection, Santa Fe, NM, Reverse Glass Paintings.

  • 1999, October, Morpeth Gallery, Pennington, NJ, Reverse Glass Paintings.

  • 1999, Delaware Center for Horticulture sponsored by Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE, Reverse Glass Paintings.

  • 1994, Philadelphia City Hall Courtyard, “I Face Myself/I Face You”, a tent installation with walls as portraits of life-sentenced women with their voices.

  • 1993, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, lecture and slide exhibition of portraits of life-sentenced women.


Group Exhibitions, partial listing:

  • 1995, “Art and the Law”, portrait of life-sentenced Sherri Robinson, West Publishing Annual Exhibition, traveling nationally with the American Bar Conventions. The painting was selected for publication in the ABA Journal.

  • 1991, July-August, Moore College of Art, Levy Gallery, “Doing Life”, Portraits and self-portraits of men and women serving life-sentences at SCI Muncy and SCI Graterford in Pennsylvania.

Grants and Awards, partial listing:
  • 2009, June, Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant funding an exhibition of newly painted portraits to be exhibited at the Painted Bride Art Center.

  • 2005, August, PA Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend Funding Painted Bride Solo Exhibition.

  • 2003, August, Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Award funding a hand made, hand painted tile mural of life-sentenced Rose Dinkins located at 44th and Locust Streets in West Philadelphia.

  • 2001, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Stipend funding apprenticeship with ceramist Bernadette Currin.

  • 2000, The Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Award and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program funding study with majolica ceramist Joyce Nagata and the installation of a majolica tile portrait of life-sentenced Cyd Berger located at 3rd and Poplar in Northern Liberties in Philadelphia.

  • 1998, Puffin Foundation funding life-sentenced women portraits.

  • 1994, New Forms Regional NEA Grant Program, sponsored by the Painted Bride Art Center, Womens Way Discretionary Fund, Bread and Roses Fund, supporting City Hall Courtyard Tent.

  • 1992, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship.

 
  © Mary DeWitt 2009