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Bio
As a Colorado native, the American Southwest's
creatures, cultures, and landscape of light and stone are constant influences in my work. The underlying patterns, processes, and miracles of the natural
world, as well as sojourns in Europe and Asia,
ceramist/painter parents,
experience with a wide variety
of media, and insights from readings ranging from science to poetry, are strong
influences as well.
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An introduction to the book
arts during my BA studies at Reed College in Oregon led me to the Central
School of Art and Design in London, England, and to Ireland, to pursue a
postgraduate M.Phil degree researching the lettering in early Irish manuscripts
and its potential for contemporary design.
The expatriate experience was
invaluable. Having a base in London
for seven years gave me the opportunity to travel throughout Britain and
Europe, absorbing ancient sites, other cultures, and the treasures of many
great museum collections and exhibitions. While based in the British Isles, I
worked with Irish traditional music groups and with The Dolmen Press.
I taught for several years as a Visiting Lecturer for the Postgraduate
Graphic Design program at the Central School, where I developed a short block
course, Design Contexts, which emphasized the social and environmental considerations
in design.
In enameling (glass fused to metal at high heat), I found a medium
in which I can integrate multiple layers of imagery, letterforms, and
meanings. Large-scale enameling for
wall pieces and murals involves applying powdered glass to sheet copper or
steel, using various techniques, and firing the piece for several minutes. I repeat the process many times, applying
layer upon layer of images.
I’ve been freelancing in art
and design, carrying out mural projects (Colorado and West Virginia), and
teaching at high school and college levels, since returning to Colorado. In recent years, the landforms, colors, and
life in desert canyon country have been strong inspirations. As Artist-in-Residence at the North Rim of
the Grand Canyon in 2006, I focused on the abundance of life in widely varied
microhabitats around water at the Canyon: seeps and springs, tinajas, flowing streams, the river, precipitation, and extremely arid areas in which life forms
exhibit amazing strategies for flourishing with very little water. Water as essential to life is both
scientific fact and spiritual metaphor.
The work inspired by this sojourn continues to unfold.
In my site-specific mural and
mixed-media projects, my aim is to create welcoming, meaningful spaces,
integrating concepts, qualities of materials, and the site's architecture,
function, and setting—natural and historical—to define, enhance, and evoke a
spirit and sense of place. The work often includes an interactive element,
engaging intellectual as well as emotional/aesthetic responses.
My enameled metal and
mixed-media works incorporate layers of images and often text, growing from the
inherent qualities of glass, metal, wood, and found objects, and from my other
pursuits: reading, writing and observing; environmental and arts issues;
hiking and camping in amazing places; and friendships with remarkable people. My work is grounded in the nature of place—my studio is in the
home my father built into bedrock at the edge of the Garden of the Gods in
Colorado—and it’s nourished by travels: viewing ancient masterpieces in situ in Ireland, Britain,
Afghanistan, India, China, and the southwest USA; backpacking; communing with wildlife—from the American West to
the Galapagos Islands. My work is a way
I explore and celebrate the natural world and human inquiry, spirit and wonder.
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SELECTED COMMISSIONS
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Colorado Council on the Arts/Art in Public Places
program
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2003
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Enameled murals
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Pueblo, CO
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2001
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Enameled murals,
pierced- steel fences
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO
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1998
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Enameled mural and
courtyard design
Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO
In collaboration with Gernot
Heinrichsdorff, landscape architect
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Selected other commissions
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2003
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Enameled
copper donors' mural
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Colorado Springs, CO
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1998
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Enameled
copper donors’ mural
Pikes Peak Community College
Colorado Springs, CO
Concrete animal-sculpture
bench
Starsmore Discovery Center
Colorado Springs, CO
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1995-1996
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Enameled copper signs;
concrete animal-sculpture benches
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Colorado Springs, CO
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1995
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Enameled
steel interpretive signs
Great Sand Dunes National Monument, CO
In collaboration with The Porcelain
Company, Seattle, WA
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1992
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Enameled copper and steel murals
Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
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1983
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Tabernacle
panel and cross in enameled copper and carved oak
De La Salle Novitiate, Dublin, Ireland
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1982
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Enameled steel illustrated herb garden signs
Michelham Priory
East Sussex, England
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (*Solo shows)
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2007
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Grand Canyon Artists-in-Residence
Kolb
Studio
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
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2005
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Ancient
Memories
Sedona Spirit Fine Art
Sedona, AZ
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2003
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Neo Geo Revisited
Gallery of
Contemporary Art
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO
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2002
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Word,
Text, and Story
Sangre de Cristo
Arts & Conference Center
Pueblo, CO
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2000
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Artesia: an invitational show of 50 of the region’s most influential artists
Business of Art Center
Manitou Springs,
CO
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1998
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Something
New: 3 contemporary regional artists
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, CO
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Crafts National 31, 1997
Zoller Gallery
University Park, PA
Beyond the Surface
International
Marblers’ Conference
Istanbul, Turkey |
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1995
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Great
Expectations: 5th Enamelist Society Juried Exhibition
D’Art Gallery
Norfolk, VA, and
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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1994
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*Landscapes
of the Heart
The Downtown Studio Gallery
Colorado Springs, CO
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1992
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*The
Matter of Spirit
Fairmont State
University
Fairmont, WV
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1991
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Rhino Rock
Wildlife
Bonham's
London, England
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1988-2007
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Group exhibitions in 10 galleries &
museums
Pikes Peak Region, CO
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1985
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Sixty Alphabets (traveling
exhibition)
Exeter, England; Reykjavik, Iceland;
New York City, Chicago, Denver, USA
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1983
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Chicago Calligraphy 83
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest IL
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1982
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Lettering in Enamel
Central School of Art and Design
London, England
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RESIDENCIES
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2007
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Artist-in-Residence
Rocky
Mountain Land Library
Salida, CO
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2006
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Artist-in-Residence
North Rim
Grand Canyon National Park,
AZ
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1992
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Artist-in-Residence
Fairmont State
College
Fairmont WV
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TEACHING
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2007
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Adjunct
Faculty
Colorado
State University-Pueblo
Pueblo, CO
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2006-present
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Adjunct Faculty
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO
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1992-present
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Adjunct
Faculty
Pikes Peak Community
College
Colorado Springs, CO
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1986-1990
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Art
Teacher
The Colorado Springs School
Colorado Springs, CO
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1983-1985
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Instructor
Bemis Art School
Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, CO
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1980-1983
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Visiting
Lecturer
Central School of Art & Design
London, England
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1983-present
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Workshop
presentations in design, enameling, & calligraphy
Illinois and Colorado
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RELATED
EXPERIENCE
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2001-present
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Co-founder
and Board Member,
A New Deal for the
New Deal Association
New Deal mural conservation project supported in part
by grants from
El Pomar Foundation and Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado
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2001-2002
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Artist
member, Design Team
West Meadow Drive Streetscape Project
Vail, CO
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1999-2004
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Member,
Steering Committee
America the Beautiful Millennium Legacy Trail
Art Bench Project: Project supported in part by grants from
The
National Endowment for the Arts
and
The Colorado Council on the Arts
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1999
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Participant, Enamelist Society Delegation to People’s
Republic of China
Participation supported in part by a grant from
The
Colorado Council on the Arts
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1998-2001
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Art
Commission of the Pikes Peak Region
Chair, 1999—2001
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1980
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Curator, "From
Penstroke to Print"
Irish
lettering exhibition, in conjunction with A Sense of Ireland
City-wide festival,
London, England
Sponsored by the Irish American
Cultural Institute
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SELECTED LECTURES
/ PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
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2007
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"The Manitou Post Office Mural”
Denver
Westerners
Colorado Springs, CO
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2005
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"Bringing 'Em Back From The
Dead"
Southwest Art History Conference
Taos, NM
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2002
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"Text and Image"
Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center
Pueblo, CO
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2000
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"A Sense of Place: The Voice of the
Land in Southwest Art,"
Southwest Community Colleges Humanities Association
Santa Fe, NM
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1999
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"Public Art at Pikes Peak"
Southwest Art History Conference
Taos, NM
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1994
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"Celtic Art"
SW Community
Colleges Humanities Association
Colorado Springs, CO
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1992
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"The Matter of Spirit"
Fairmont State College/City of Fairmont, WV
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1988
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"Illustration &
Storytelling"
National Council of Teachers of English Conference
St. Louis,
MO
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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2005
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"American
Beauty"
Orion, March-April
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2001
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"Chaos, Creation,
Collaboration and Cactus"
Writing Nature
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1999-2000
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“Making Something Light Up”
Orion Afield, Winter
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1999-2000
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"You Are Here"
Monthly art / heritage column
The
Colorado Springs Independent
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1998
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"The View from
Above"
The Colorado Springs
Independent, November
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1998
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"Infinite Nature:
Architectural Enameling with Landscape Architecture"
Glass on Metal, April
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1991
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“The Battle to Save the
Burren”
Irish America, September
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1981
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"Celtic
Calligraphy" (co-author, Liam Miller)
The Celtic Consciousness, ed.
R. O’Driscoll, Dublin
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PUBLISHED REFERENCES
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Sixty Alphabets
GSE Briem
Thames & Hudson, London, 1986
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A
Practical Guide to Lettering
Rosemary Sassoon
Thames & Hudson, London, 1985
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The Irish Hand
Tim O’Neill
Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1984
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EDUCATION
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1980
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M. Phil.
Central School of Art & Design
London, England
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1973
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B. A.
Reed College
Portland, Oregon
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Advanced
Studies:
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Enameling
Patrick Furse
Central
School of Art & Design
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Calligraphy/Letterforms
Berthold
Wolpe
City & Guilds of London School of Art
Lloyd J. Reynolds
Portland Art Museum School
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Palaeography
Dr. T. Julian Brown
University of London
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GALLERIES
REPRESENTING PAT MUSICK
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The
Great Southwest
76
South Sierra Madre Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
(719)
471-7772
cajswap@aol.com
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Cucuru Gallery
2332
West Colorado Avenue
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80904
(719)
520-9900
www.cucuru.santuario.com
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