Phone: 828-227-2553
Email: MDEWITT@wcu.edu
Office Address: FPAC 137B

Education:

• M.F.A., Illinois State University

Publications & Presentations:

One person exhibitions:

• Waters of Superior Gallery, Duluth, MN
• Nordstrom Gallery, LaCrosse, WI
• Duluth Art Institute, MN
• Robert Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Group Exhibitions:

• MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
• Northfield Art Guild, Northfield, MN
• Duluth Art Institute
• Lizzard’s Gallery, Duluth, MN
• Galeria de Arte La Madera, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
• College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
• Union of Writers and Artists(UNEAC), Pinar del Rio, Cuba
• Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
• American Indian Learning Resource Center/University of Minnesota Duluth
• Steensland Museum of Art, St. Olaf College, MN
• Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
• Shaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, MN
• Petrozavodsk Cultural Center, Russia
• Tarkio College, MO
• Art Center of Minnesota, Wayzata, MN
• Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Worthington Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Gilman Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Collections:

• Western Illinois University
• Illinois State University
• Knox College
• Merrill Lynch, New York
• A&L Management, Duluth, MN
• St. Mary’s/Duluth Clinic Health Systems, Inc., Duluth, MN
• Jules Sanford Attorney, Monrovia, CA
• Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth
• University of Wisconsin-Superior
• Bellas Artes, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
• UNEAC, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
• Numerous private collections in country and abroad

Awards/Grants:

• Max Beckmann Painting Fellow, Brooklyn Museum School, NY
• Numerous grants for exhibitions and arts administration to include: Institute of Museum and Library Services; Minnesota State Arts Board; Illinois Arts Council; Knight Foundation; Luce Foundation; Tweed Tuohy Foundation; Cherokee Preservation Foundation
• Invited panelist, National Assembly of State and Local Art Agencies/National Endowment for the Arts Symposium “International Artistic Exchange Programs: States on the Global Stage”
• International Art Symposium, Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), Pinar del Rio, Cuba;
• Artist-in-Residence, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
• Grant review panelist-Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation
• McKnight Foundation, Illinois Arts Council
• Numerous arts advisory and mayoral commission appointments
• Juror
• Art fundraiser on local, state, national levels
• Legislative watch team and arts advocacy leadership role as studio artist, curator, arts administrator, community activist on local, state, and national levels