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email: mary@raincollective.com

ARTIST STATEMENT:

In 2005 I purchased a cell phone with a Global Positioning System. It changed my life. I was no longer perpetually lost. The GPS tracks you anywhere on the planet via satellite. For me this was a new kind of freedom.

I started to explore the concept of mapping and how it works. Mapping inevitably brings one to the concept of time. As soon as one conceptualizes time, it becomes mystery and metaphysics. Questions arise about the nature of our being, our place in the universe, our deep connections to the natural world, the earth and each other.

It turns out we really are star dust. We really do belong in the Grand Scheme of Things. We will return to the stars.

*About Venus Rising: The “hour-glass” graph is reproduced with permission of Guy Ottewell, author of the Astronomical Calendar. The Calendar is published once yearly and distributed by Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Besides being beautiful, it is a wealth of information about our universe.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

2000-2007:  Life Drawing Artist’s Cooperative, Traffic Zone, 3rd Avenue North, Mpls Mn
2004-2005:  Writer’s Workshop, Minneapolis, Mn
1969:  BS  Art Education, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Mn
1983:  MA Human Development, St. Mary’s College, Winona, Mn

ART COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

2006-present:  Rain Collective (18 member artist collective) NE Minneapolis, Mn.
2004-2006:  Keg House Arts Collective (19 member artist collective) NE Minneapolis, Mn.
2004-present:  Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, Minneapolis, Mn.
1999-present:  Minneapolis Drawing Co-op; Traffic Zone Center for Art, Minneapolis, Mn.

EXHIBITIONS:  SOLO

Upcoming Exhibitions:  2008:  Mn Nat'l Wildlife Refuge Center,
                                                       The Crane and the Lodestone

2003:  Homewood Studio, The Wind in Her Hair

EXHIBITIONS:  GROUP

2007:  Susan Hensel Gallery: Leap of Faith juried show Featured Artist

2007:  Open Book Minneapolis, Minnesota: Situations juried show

2006:  Intermedia Arts WARM (Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota) 25th  annual juried show
            Conversations:  About Roots

2005:  Figure Show Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, Mn.

2003-2006:  Annual Figure Show, Traffic Zone Center for Arts, Minneapolis, Mn

1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003:  Studio Show, 700 North Washington Building, Mpls, Mn.

2004-2005 Keg House Collective Studio Show

2004-2006:  Art-A-Whirl Show, Keg House Collective (group show)

2003:  Homewood Studio Anniversary Show

1985:  Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota Gallery Show 1984:  Mentorship Show
            Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota Gallery (honorable mention)

1982:  Minnetonka Center for Arts