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Martin Dewitt
School of Art and Design
Founding Director and Curator of WCU’s Fine Art Museum, Painter/sculptor

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
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