MARIANITA STEVANS

EDUCATION

University of Delaware, M.F.A.

College of Notre Dame, B.A.

Corcoran School of Art

Moore College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2/11

311 West Martin Street Gallery, Raleigh, NC “Real People Strange Places”, 1/10

Gormely Gallery, Baltimore, MD, “Cells & Psychology”, 3/09

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Progress Energy Center, Raleigh, NC, Regional Artist Showcase Exhibition, 8/11

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, Art of the Auction, 5/11

Progress Energy Center, Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Artists Exhibition, 3/11

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, “Seeing the Figure”, Juror, Beverly McIver, 1/11

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, “Small Wonders”, 12/10

Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC. “People You May Know”, 10/10

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, “Color”, 6/10

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, “Member Show”, 3/10

Progress Energy Center, Raleigh, NC North Carolina Artists Exhibition, 2/10

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, “Faculty Exhibition”, 9/6 & 9/5

Soho 20, NY, NY “6th Annual International Exhibition of Women’s Art”, 10/5

Hope Street, Providence, RI, “Unlikely Portraits”, 3/4

Government House, Annapolis, MD, “The Best of Maryland”, 2/3

Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, 5/3

Main Line Center for the Arts, Haverford, PA, 10/2

HONORS & AWARDS

United Arts Council, Regional Artist Project Grant, Raleigh, NC

First Place Painting, NC Artists Exhibition, Juror, Peter Nisbet, Chief Curator, Ackland, Museum of Art

New American Paintings, Mid Atlantic Issue: Juror: Terry Sultan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran, Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Yale University Library Archives, Anne Truitt: The Materials and Techniques of the Contemporary Artist, Graduate Research Project

President’s Woman of Excellence Award, University of Delaware

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Delaware

Full Tuition Scholarship, University of Delaware

Emily Sartain Fellowship, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, Member

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Internship

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Law Offices of Sally B. Gold, Baltimore, MD

Medtronic, Birmingham, AL

Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Canton, MA

PUBLICATIONS

New American Paintings, The Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA, Juror, Terry Sultan, Curator of the Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. April 1998 edition.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC, 

Instructor, Painting and Drawing, 2009-present

St. Michael the Archangel, Cary, NC 2008-2009

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. 

Adjunct Professor, September 2001 to May 2006

College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Professor, 1995-1998

Howard County Community College, Columbia, MD, Instructor, 1993-1995                       

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC: Committee Head and Curator of “Seeing the Figure”, an exhibition featuring internationally prominent artists from outside of the state. Duties included fund raising, employing and coordinating with graphic designer for all media related materials, doing radio and television interviews promoting the exhibition and writing copy for local print media.

Eastern Carolina University, Visiting Artist and Lecturer

Fano Textiles, Textile Designer/Owner, Line Represented by Frederick Miley, Design Centers, Washington, D.C. &  San Francisco, CA

Brushworks, Textile Designer, Washington. D.C.

Ontogeny, Inc., Art Consultant, Potomac, MD

Member, Portrait Society of America

Member, FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

CONTACT INFORMATION

919.623.4600 / Website: marianitastevans.com