Three Pair ©2003 J.Maher

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Printmaking, 1996; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Raymond Jonson Prize for Exceptional Academic and Creative Achievement, 1994

M.A., Studio Art, 1981, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

B.S., Art Education, 1976, drawing and printmaking concentration, Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT

Many additional workshops in artist's books, printmaking, and digital imaging

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, selected

2005 The Opposite of Time, Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD

Bunker Hill News, Artistic License, Waterbury, CT

2003 Janet Maher: Prints and Process, Julio Art Gallery, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2000 Janet Maher: Lithograph Collages and Pottery, Elzeard Pottery Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1996 Knot Garden: Prints and Drawings, Fitzgerald Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1995 Unguided Tour: Collages, Nonsequitur Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1994 Janet Maher: Small Works, Albuquerque Children's Museum, Albuquerque, NM

1989 Artists' Windows on Rt. 66, Albuquerque, NM

1987 Pillar of Salt, Ruth Ramberg Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1986 Others' Voices, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

1984 Pages For Paul, Ruth Ramberg Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Images After the Facts, Photogenesis Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1979 Janet Maher: Drawings and Prints, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

1978 Janet Maher: Secret Smiles, Gallery One-Forty-Eight, New Haven, CT

GRANTS/AWARDS, selected:

2006 National Association of Women Artists juried membership, New York

2005 Senior Faculty Sabbatical for Fall, 2006 and Spring, 2007, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Center for the Humanities Faculty Summer Research Grant, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Purchase Award, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Juror's Award, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD

2004 Honorable Mention, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD

2003 Junior Faculty Sabbatical, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2002 Honorable Mention,The Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD

2000/2001 Critics Residency Artist, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

1999 Purchase Award, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

1998 Center for the Humanities Faculty Summer Research Grant, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Center for the Humanities Grant for Student Assistant, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Artist Residency and exhibition, Ida Y Vuelta, 12 artistes du Nouveau-Mexique, Rodez, France

1997 Center for the Humanities Faculty Development Grant, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

1996 Community Service Award, for AUA/Harwood Community Garden, from Adelante Development Group, Albuquerque, NM

1994 Research, Travel, and Projects Grant, University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM

1993 Award of Merit, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM

1992 Staff Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1988 Honorable Mention, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

1987 Award of Merit, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1978 First Prize, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS, selected:

2006 Art MD 2006, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD, juried by Dr. Gary Vikan, Walters Art Museum

Dèja Vu: A New View, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

2005 Focus On the Figure: Barry Johnson, Janet Maher, Andrea Pitzer, Rockville Art Place, Rockville, MD

Annual Members' Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE;

Alternative Visions, Alternative Processes, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD

16th National Drawing and Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (Purchase Award)

Winter Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD (Juror's Award)

2004 Print National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

Original Prints, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Summer Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD(Honorable Mention)

2003 Janet Maher: Correspondence Projects and Paintings by Molly Springfield, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD

Janet Maher and Terry Nauheim: Bunker Hill News, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

Gallery 10 at Galleria Venezia Viva, Venice, Italy

Untitled, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Artscape 2003, Baltimore, MD

Currents, Gallery 10 Artists, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.

Scrolls and Books, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.

2002 Gallery 10 in New York, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY

Printmaking in the Mid-Atlantic Region, The Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD (Honorable Mention)

Loyola College Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2001 Kings, Hummingbirds, & Monsters: Artist Books at Evergreen, Evergreen House, Baltimore, MD

Opened Book: Women's Stories by Washington Area Artists, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Conversation, an invitational project, University of New Mexico, Gallup, NM

Exactitude & Lightness, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD

Critic's Picks: 15th Annual Critic's Residency Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Juxtapose: New Works by Janet Maher, Terry Nauheim, Lyndie Vantine, Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Artscape: Speak, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

PERCENT FOR ART / ART IN PUBLIC PLACES COMMISSIONS:

1990 Los Alamos, ceramic and acrylic site specific entryway, mathematical and scientific theme, for the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos; funded by New Mexico Arts Division Santa Fe, NM

1989 New Mexico Quilt, ceramic tile mural, for Oliver LaFarge Library, Santa Fe, assisted by Marie Stewart, installed by Mark Gay; funded by Santa Fe Arts Commission and Santa Fe Capitol Improvements Program, Santa Fe, NM

PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (lithograph)

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC (drawing)

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (multiple process print)

Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM (lithograph)

Museum of Fine Art, University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM (artist's book)

The Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace Collection, New York, NY (artist's books)

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library and Research Center, Washington, D.C. (Anatomy of Solitude project)

New York Public Library, New York, NY (lithographs)

Oliver La Farge Library, Santa Fe, NM (ceramic tile mural)

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA (artist's book)

Tate Gallery, Library, London, England (artist's book)

University Center for Women's Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University Hospital, Albuquerque, NM (drawings)

University of New Mexico Fine Arts Library, Albuquerque, NM (artist's books)

University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, Los Alamos, NM (exterior ceramic & acrylic work)

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (artist's book)

Drawing Shelter (community project, artist's book, designer, coordinator): Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI; Morton R. Godine Library, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington, D.C. Temple University Library, Philadelphia, PA Rio Grande Valley Library System, Albuquerque, NM School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Flaxman Library, Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection, Chicago, IL (artist's book) Skid Row Access, Los Angeles, CA

Generations (community project, lithographic quilt, designer, coordinator): Albuquerque Museum, Public Art Collection, Albuquerque, NM (Many prints, drawings, artists' books and works in clay are in private collections.)

TEACHING and OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, selected

2003-present Associate Professor, Fine Arts, Studio Arts, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD
(Two-dimensional Design; Printmaking--Introductory, Intaglio, Relief, Alternative Processes, Planographic; Book Arts and Artist Books; Mixed Media; Digital Mixed Media; Drawing I; Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object; Artist Survival Seminar; Clay I and Clay II; Independent Studies; Intro. to Art Media)

2003 Making Connections: Reading As Content, Art As Process, book artist in a team- taught, two-week, six- credit course for middle and high school teachers, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD

1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Studio Art, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2002 Artist Books From the Inside Out, Pyramid Atlantic Summer Institute, conceived of and taught a three-day week workshop for artists and arts professionals, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD

1996-1997 Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts (Computer Arts: The Computer as a Visual Tool), and Continuing Education Department (Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1994-1997 Senior Reference Specialist, Rio Grande Valley Public Library, Main Branch, Albuquerque, NM

1993-1996 Teaching Assistant (solo classes, Printmaking, Drawing,) and Graduate Assistant (Two-Dimensional Design), University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM

1990-1993 Education Coordinator and Assistant to Gallery Director, Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1990-1993 Printmaking and related workshops with children, high school students, homeless artists and writers, and senior citizens in conjunction with community outreach projects I designed and coordinated for Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

1989-1993 Instructor, Albuquerque Senior Arts, Albuquerque, NM, eight-week workshops in various Paper, Book and Box Arts topics

1977-1979 Instructor, Drawing; Hand-built and Wheel Thrown Pottery, adult classes, Y.W.C.A., Waterbury, CT

1976-1979 Art Teacher, Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, CT (designed and established four-year two and three-dimensional art curriculum)