Collections

Corporate Collections:
Arter and Hadden
Baldwin - Wallace College
Ballinglen Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
Cardinal Federal Savings and Loan
Case Western Reserve University
Cuyahoga Community College
Eaton Corporation
Hahn, Loeser and Parks, LLP
Ivesco Ltd. - commision
Kaiser Permanente
Key Bank
Lexus Corporation, Atlanta Georgia - commission
Metro Health Systems
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
Squires, Saunders and Dempsey Corp.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
The Art Studio - Metro General Hospital
The Butler Institute of American Art
The Chesterfield
The Cleveland Art Association
The Cleveland City School System
The Hallinan - Newman Collection
The Nestle's Corporation
Tranzonic Cos.
University Hospitals
University Print Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Ursuline College
Walter & Haverfield, LLP
Numerous Private Collections

Born:
January 6, 1936, Cleveland, Ohio. Asian-American
 
Education:
1957 B.A. (Art), Baldwin - Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
1963 M.A. (Art History/Studio), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
1965-75/95 The Cleveland Music School Settlement
1960 Oberlin College (Graduate Seminar)
1959 Tanglewood Music Festival School, Boston Mass.
1956 Mexico City College
1954-63 The Cleveland Institute of Art
1950-53 The Cooper School of Art

Travel Study:
Germany, Prague, Ireland, North Africa, Mexico, Turkey, and Greece

Teaching and Administrative Experience:
1988-2005 Director of Continuing Education - The Cleveland Institute of Art
1975-88 Director of the Evening Program - The Cleveland Institute of Art
1964-2005 Faculty (drawing/painting) - The Cleveland Institute of Art
1962-64 Instructor - The Cleveland Museum of Art
1957-87 Faculty/Chairperson, The Cleveland City Schools
John Marshall High School/Carl F. Shuler Junior High School/West Technical High School

Educational Distinctions:
1997 Ohio Art Education Association - Distinguished Art Educator - State of Ohio
1997 Ohio Art Education Association - Northeastern Region - Distinguished Art

Educator:
American Council of Learned Societies Grant - Teaching
Pace Grants for Teaching - two
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Grant - 1972
The Cleveland Education Grant - 1985
'Printmaking in the Secondary School'
West Technical High School - Hall of Fame - Faculty
Four Nominations - Master Teacher - Jennings Foundation
Citation Cleveland City Council - Ohio City Project

2009 Euclid Art Association (April)
2009 Ursuline College (June)
2001 Expressions of Faith - Old Stone Church
1994 Colored Pencil Society of America
1993 Hoosier Salon - Indianapolis, Ind.
1992 Scholastic Art Awards - National New York
Numerous Scholastic Art Awards - Cleveland and Kent State
1985-84-83 Governor's Art Exhibition
Numerous Regional shows - Boston Mills/Cain Park/Art by the Falls/Gates Mills
1989 Indiana State Fair Art Show

2010 Six week artist fellowship – Ballinglen Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland – (March/April)
2000 Jurors Award - Works On Paper - The John J. McDonough Museum - Youngstown State University
1993/83/79 Juror's Mention for Painting, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show
1984 Jurors Discretionary Award - Three Rivers Festival, The Carnegie-Mellon Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1982 One of four top awards in Painting, The Butler Institute of American Art Midyear National Exhibition
1982 Award for Painting - Religious Arts '82
1981 "Seven + 7" Ohio Art Council Award
1978 Francis C. Baker Memorial Award, 21st National Chautauqua Art Exhibition
1978 Named by "Cleveland Magazine" - one of the 78 interesting people in Cleveland
1974 $1000. Purchase Award, Hallinan - Newman Center
1968 Fred Epple Award, Hallinan - Newman Center
Jewish Community Center
Baldwin - Wallace College, "IMAGES"

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010 St. Peter’s - Community Church (October)
2009 Kendall at Oberlin, Oberlin, Ohio (Feb./March)
2005 Silver Fox (November)
2002 The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
2001 Memory and Metaphor: The Art of William Martin Jean - Past Into Present, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio
1997 Visual Vocabularies - Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio
1993 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
1989 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1977 Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio
1972 Artists Cooperative Gallery, Shaker Heights, Ohio
1971 Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio
1966-68 Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007-11 "Works on Paper " New York
2009 Ursuline College – Wasmer Gallery – June/July – 2009
2008 Two Person Show: Silver Fox Gallery and show house opening (May)
New York Print Fair – The Amory – New York
Cleveland Print Fair, The Print Club of Cleveland
The Los Angeles County Museum
The Arts of Pacific Asia, San Francisco
2001-2000-1999-1998
1991-90-87-85-80-75-73
"The Midyear National" The Butler Institute of American Art
2001 WXYC Inaugural Exhibition curated by the Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Asian Visions - Beachwood Museum, Beachwood, Ohio
2000 Trails of Narratives - Here, Here Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Abstract Art, Three Cleveland Painters - Hawken School, Gates Mills, Ohio
Visual Dialogues - The Cleveland Playhouse Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
ACLEW International Touring Exhibition - U.S. - Hungary - Russia
1999 9-9-99 - Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
C.I.A. Invitational - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
The Art And Soft Of It - Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
1998 Artistic Evolution 30 Years - 30 Artists - Sandusky Cultural Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
1997 Intown Club, Cleveland, Ohio
1994 SPACES - Creating in Crisis: Making Art in the Age of AIDS, Cleveland, Ohio
1993 Sandusky Cultural Arts Center, Sandusky, Ohio
1993-90-86 through 78-76-74-65-57
The May Show, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1992 "Structural Luminism" - The Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio
"Off the Wall", The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Artists Inspired by Architecture, The Great Northern Corporate Center, Great Northern, Ohio
1991 Wrestling with the Angel", Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
Quartet - The Mansfeld Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
"The Brilliance of Mixed Media" The Grand Southern Hotel, Columbus, Ohio
1988 Great Northern Corporate Center, Geometry and More, Collage: An Exhibition of Assembled Images, Great Northern, Ohio
1986 All - Ohio Juried Exhibition, Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
1984 "Non-Objective" The Nationwide Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1984-82 Religious Arts 82/84 - Cincinnati, Ohio
1983 "The Glory of God", Lima, Ohio
1982 "The Cleveland Institute of Art" 100 Years, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1981 Distinguished Alumni, Mather Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
The Art on the Block - The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 The Fawick Gallery, Baldwin - Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
The Cleveland Playhouse Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 4th Annual Juried Painting, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
1978 Lowell Nesbitt Looks at Cleveland - Park Centre Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1975 Small Grand Painting, NOVA, Cleveland, Ohio
1974-75 Annual Drawing Show NOVA, Cleveland, Ohio
1964 'Boston Printmakers', The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
1963 85th Annual Print Exhibition, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Community Participation and Involvement:
President – Print Club of Cleveland – The Cleveland Museum of Art 2009- 2011
Program Chair: The Print Club of Cleveland- the Cleveland Museum of Art 2007-2009
Acquisition Committee – The Cleveland Museum of Art – 2011-12
Newman Religious Art Exhibition - Honorary Chairperson (20 years)
N.O.V.A. Artists Advisory Group (3 years)
Community/Professional Theatre
Several television and radio appearances
Founder - City Artists at Work
Boards: NOVA/PrintClub/Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts/Cleveland Artist Foundation/The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve/The Sculpture Center

Selected Publications/Media:
MUSE: literary journal – 1/08 – page 23 – image – www.the-lit.org
Print Club Imprints – July 2010 "An Irish Diary" William Martin Jean
Cairn House – Bright’s Creek Realty - 2009
Carolina Home & Garden – fall 2008 – "Artful Living in Bright’s Creek" pages 104 - 113

Catalogues:
City Artists At Work 1997-2000 - Blurb.com
The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve - Cleveland, Ohio 1997
Artistic Evolution - 30 Years/ 30 Artists - Sandusky Cultural Arts, Sandusky, Ohio 1997
Jubilee - Annual Report - St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, Ohio 1997
Hallinan Newman Collection. Visitors Guide - Diocese of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio 1997
Creating in Crisis - Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio 1994
The Pyramid Series and Other Grid Oriented Works - The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio 1989
Twenty Five Cleveland Painters - 4th Annual NOVA Painting Catalogue, Cleveland, Ohio 1979

Articles:
Collage No Longer an Art Orphan - The Plain Dealer - Helen Cullinan - 1988
Art Review - The Akron Beacon Journal - Dorothy Shinn - December 3, 1989 Akron, Ohio
Abstract Art Made Easy in National Gallery Show - Jacqueline Hall - The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio - August 26, 1984
Exploring Compelling Relationships - The Plain Dealer - Dan Tranberg - April 1, 2000
City Artist at Work, Open House Promotes Emerging Studio District - The Plain Dealer, Steven Litt - October 22, 1998
Art - Days in Plague Time - Free Times - Amy Sparks Bracken - June 1994
Art Teacher also Drawn to the Stage - Sun Star - Helen Rathburn - August 1983 He's Artistic in Many Ways, School, Canvas or Stage - Sun Star - Rich Haase - April 1, 1993
Geometry and More - The Plain Dealer - Helen Cullinan - 1988
I do something even better than creating art, I teach it, - The Plain Dealer August 14, 1978
Images - Designer splitting his image - The Plain Dealer - Helen Cullinan - October 11, 1979
Artist canvasses both painting and theater - Sun Star - Chris Studor - August 30, 1978
Cleveland artists seek district to work, live - The Plain Dealer - Olivera Perkins - April 12, 1999
Painting, teaching between the acts - The Plain Dealer - Helen Cullinan - May 17, 1992
Structural Luminism enhances Ninth Street Studio - The Plain Dealer - Helen Cullinan April 2, 1992