Mary Bruns Art Instruction
Credentials
P. O. 7289
Cave Creek, AZ 85327-7289
cell: 480 862.9757 fax: 480 488.7813
email: marybrunsfineart@gmail.com
web: marybrunsart.com
Education
M. F. A. 1985 Painting California State University-Los Angeles
M. A. 1982 Printmaking California State University-Los Angeles
B. F. A. 1971 Art & Art Education K-12 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Exhibitions
2015 Celebration of the Artists, 2015. West Valley Art Museum, Peoria, AZ. March 23-
May, 14, 2015.
2015-2016 2015 Southwestern Invitational, Yuma AZ., West Valley Art HQ, Surprise, AZ.,
Prescott College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ., Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ., Coconino
Center for the Arts, Flaggstaff, AZ., Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
2014-15 Vision Gallery, 10 East Chicago St., Chandler, AZ.
2014 Surprise Invitational, Arts HQ, Nov., Dec., Surprise, AZ.
2014 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Something Old, Something Blue, Something Funky, Something New, Dallas, TX. July- August.
2014 HQ, Surprise, AZ. Blank Canvas Exhibition. June-August.
2014 Avondale City Hall, Avondale, AZ. July – September.
2014 Surprise City Hall, Surprise, AZ. April – July, 2014’
2014 West Valley Arts Council Exhibit, First Place, Surprise, AZ.
2014 Surprise City Hall, Surprise, AZ.
2014 Avondale Public Library One Woman Show, Avondale, AZ.
2014 The Art Department, Scottsdale, AZ.
2014 Avondale, AZ City Hall. January – March.
2013-14 One Woman Show, Avondale Library, Avondale, AZ. Dec-Jan.
2013 Glendale Gallery, 9380 W. Westgate Ave, Glendale, AZ.
2013 Surprise City Hall, exhibit October- December, Surprise, AZ.
2013 Xanadu Gallery, 7039 East Main Street, #101, Scottsdale, AZ.
2013 West Valley Arts Council, Art of the Southwest, Surprise, AZ.
2013 monOrchid Gallery, 3rd and Roosevelt, Phoenix, AZ. Summer
exhibition, Thermal Phoenix.
2013 Laguna Art, Laguna Beach, CA.
2013 monOrchid, Summer Group Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ.
2013 Laguna Art, Laguna Beach, CA.
2013 Easy Street Gallery, Carefree, AZ.
2013 Wildfire Gallery. Cave Creek, AZ.
2012 Laguna Art, Laguna Beach, CA.
2012 Chandler Center for the Arts, “Go Figure”. September-October.
Chandler, AZ.
2012 Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ. Revolving exhibition.
2012 Mesa Arts Center 2012 calendar. Mesa, AZ.
2012 The Art Department, Scottsdale, AZ.
2011 Royal Palms Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ
2011 Mckinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX. August.
2011 Vision gallery, Chandler, AZ.
2011 Herberger Theater, Phoenix, AZ. September.
2011 Tempe Center for the Arts. Tempe, AZ. January-September.
2011 Annual Members Exhibit. McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas.
2011 Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ.
2011 Mesa Arts Center Calendar, 2011, “EQUINE” cyanotype.
2010 Tempe Cultural Services, Tempe Library.
2010 Mayo Clinic Center for Humanities in Medicine, Phoenix, AZ. November, 2010- January, 2011.
2010 Vision Gallery, Chandler, Az.
2009 “Pin Up”. Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA. Nov. 19.
2009 Mesa Arts Center 2010 Calendar. Cyanotype print. “Adobe Moon”
2009 OCCCA. By The Running Foot. Dec. 5-19. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA.
2009 Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ. Nov-Dec.
2009 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas Texas. August 1-29.
2009 Tempe Cultural Services/Community Galleries. Tempe, AZ.
2009 An Affair with the Arts. West Valley Museum of Art. March, 2009
2008 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Sept., 2008
2008 Works on Paper. Long Beach Arts. Long Beach, CA. Aug. – Sept.
Honorable Mention.
2007 Long Beach Arts, National Open. Long Beach, CA. Nov-Dec
2007 Long Beach Arts, Room With A View”, Long Beach, CA.
2006 – 2007 Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ. Painting exhibit. 8/2006-3/2007
2006 Long Beach Arts, National Exhibition. Long Beach, CA.
2006 Northland Pioneer College. PVCC Faculty exhibition.
2005 Faculty Exhibit. Paradise Valley Community College
2004 Art Link. City Hall Phoenix, AZ.
2004 National Drawing Exhibition. Wiford Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2004 Taos Soc. of Portrait Artists. Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM,
2003 New American Drawing 2003. Fred R, Kline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2002 Art Link Exhibition. City Hall. Phoenix, AZ.
2002 Art for the Parks, International Juried Competition. Jackson Hole, WY. Mini 50.
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Atlanta, GA. Permanent collection.
2001 Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA.
1997 Margaret Cunniggham Women’s Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Spring--solo exhibition of cyanotypes.
1995 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN. Solo Exhibition.
1994-95 Nashville International Airport
1994 Cheekwood Museum of Art. About Face Exhibition. Nashville, TN.
1994 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN. Group Exhibition.
1993 CGR Advisors Collection Exhibition. 950 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA. Permanent.
1992-93 Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA.
1992 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Southern Women Artists.
1991 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Solo Exhibition.
1991 North Georgia College, Dahlonega, GA. Solo Exhibit.
1990 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Group Exhibition.
1990 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Drawings on Paper.
1990 Brenau College, Gainesville, GA. Eleven Women Artists.
1989 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Group Exhibition.
1986 Bridge Street Gallery, L.A. City Hall, L.A. ,CA.
1983 Hollywood Heritage Exhibition. L.A., Ca. Honorary Mention.
Juried Exhibitions
2002 Art for the Parks. Mini 50. Jackson,WY.
1993 Cheekwood Museum of Art National Painting Competition, Nashville, TN.
1988 Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. Juror: Barbara Haskell, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., N.Y.
1988 Berkeley Art Center Exhibition. Berkeley, CA. Jurors: Allen Stone, Allen Stone Gallery, N.Y. , Theresa Heyman, Director and Curator of Prints and Photography, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA., and Rolando Castellon, Mary Porter Besson Gallery, UC Santa Cruz and Rolando Castellon Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1986 Power Exhibition. Robert’s Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Southern California Women’s caucus for Art. Juror: Mary Jane Jacob, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., CA. (catalogue with photograph)
1986 Images 86. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA. Juror: Suzanne Muchnic Art Critic, L.A. Times. (catalogue)
1986 Expressions of the Human Figure, Muckenthaller Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA. juror: Roland Riess.
1986 Cross-Pollination. Women’s Building, L.A. City Hall, L.A., CA. Juror: Bettye Saar and Sheila de Bretteville.
1985 Orange County Art Association, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA. Juror: Dr. Wm. Otton, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA. (catalogue)
1984 Palos Verdes Art Association, L.A. Printmaking Society, Palos Verdes, Ca. Jurors: Walter Askin, artist and professor of fine art, California State
university, L.A. and Ruth Weisberg, artist and professor of fine art, University of Southern California, L.A.
Bibliography
Jan Ernst Adlmann. “Drawing Flourishes”. Albuquerque Journal/North. Albuquerque, NM. March 14, 2003. John Villani, “Artists are Making Impressions at Artlink”. Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ., October 31, 2002, 36.
John Carlos Villani, “Arts for the Parks”, Arizona Republic. Phoenix, AZ. , August 1, 2002,32. Vanderbilt Register,
“Women’s Center Features Cyantypes”, January 13-19,1997, 4. Bonnie Arant Ertelt, “Telling Tales”, Tennessean, Nashville, TN. September, 1995, 58. Susan Chappell, “Faces and Places”, Nashville Banner, Nashville, TN. September, 1995, C- 1,2. Bob Battle, “O’More plans automotive design center”, Nashville Banner, March 22, 1995, D-1. Susan Knowles, “Canvassing the Nation”, Nashville Scene, Nashville, TN. November, 1993. Alan Bostick, “Slow Down”, The Tennessean, Nashville, TN. November 11, 1993,7. Bill Alexander, “Mary Bruns and Clark Ashton, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, Georgia”, Art Papers, Atlansta, GA. July-August, 1992, 53. Sheldon Cohen, M.D. , The Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia , Atlanta, GA. “Alzheimer’s and Art”, front cover , inside full page with artist comments and interview. May 1990, pp.274-276. Exhibitions catalogue,1986. Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, 19.
Cross Pollination, booklet brochure, 1986, interview announcement. .
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Collections and Commissions
St. Joseph’s Hospital , Chewelah, WA. Mount Carmel Hospital, Colville, WA.
Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, WA. Providence Health Care, Spokane, WA. Holy family hospital, Spokane, WA.
First Tennessee Bank, Lebanon, TN.
CGR Advisors, Atlanta, GA. Musuem of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA.
“Cross Pollination”, Women’s Center from 1986--free sets to:
Human Relations Commission for L.A. County UC Santa Barbara Gallery & Women’s Center Women & Their Work, Inc., Austin, TX.
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, N.Y. Valley Arts Guild.
Franklin Furnace, N.Y.C. San Gabriel Valley YWCA University of Alaska at Fairbanks Arizona State University, School of Art CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. Alcoholism Center for Women, L.A. Compton YWCA Overseas Education Fund (2 sets) Washington, D.C. and L.A. Pasadena City College, Campus Center L.A. Women’s Foundation Crittenton Center for Young Women and Infants, L.A. California Institute of the Arts, Art Library Moorpark College Center for Visual. Studies, SPARC Gallery Korean Youth Center, L.A. L.A. Harbor College, University of California at Irvine, Women’s Resource Center.
L.A. Mission College, Career Planning Center.
Internal Revenue Service, the Equal Employment Opportunity Office,
Casa Nuestra, Transition Home for Women and Children City of Thousand Oaks, Arts Commission U.C.L.A. Center for the Study of Women Public Arts Advisory
Council, County Administration Center, San Diego.
Eastern Michigan University, Women’s Studies Program Women Artists News, N.Y.C.U.C.L.A. Art Library International Women Artists Archive, Hadley, MD. Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Torrance YWCA, CA.
Wisconsin Arts Board Women’s Council National Council of Jewish Women, L.A. Self-Help Graphics, East L.A.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.
Many private individuals whose names are withheld.
TEACHING:
1972 Adult Education Classes, Longmont, CO.
1974-75 Coronado Middle School, Thornton, CO.
1993-94 Watkins Art College, Nashville, TN.
1994-97 O’More College of Design, Franklin, TN.
1995-97 Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
2002-2006 Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ.