Martin DeWitt
Founding Director and Curator of art museum, painter/sculptor

Education: MFA, Illinois State University

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 ResourceCenter/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.