Tom Rice
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Education

University of Georgia, Master of Fine Arts (1987)

Tyler School of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (1983)

Pennsylvania Stat University, (1978-80)



Teaching

Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1993-present)

Assistant Professor of Art, Whittier College, Whittier, California (1990-1993)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1987-1990)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania (1987)

 

Solo Exhibitions

"Realms of the Invisible" Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, Michigan (December 2006)

"Road Maps and Street Signs" Light Fine Arts Gallery, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2002)

"Mixed Media Paintings" Diekama/Hamann, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2001)

"Television Gone Mad" Galerie Blu, Pontiac, Michigan (1999)

"Reel Life" Greater Kalamazoo Arts Council, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1998)

"Open Studio: TV Gone Mad" installation, Light Fine Arts Gallery, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1997)

"Video Series" Light Fine Arts Gallery, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1996)

"Season of All Souls" Space Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1994)

"For All the Martyred Saints" Whittier College, Whittier, California (1993)

"Scary Monsters and Earthly Delights" The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1990)

"The Art of Silverpoint" Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Arkansas (1989)

"The Art of Silverpoint" Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (1989)

"The Art of Silverpoint" Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan (1989)

"The Art of Silverpoint" Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1987)

"Recent Paintings" Light Fine Arts Gallery, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Michigan (1987)



Biennial and Small Group Exhibitions

"Biennial 2004" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (2004)

"Biennial 22" South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana (2003)

"Go West!" ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1999)

"Gallery Artists Preview" Galerie Blu, Birmingham, Michigan (1998)

"The 7th Dimension" Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio (1995)

"Los Angeles Multi-site Biennial" Barnsdell Art Park, Los Angeles, California (1993)

"Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings" Huntsville Museum or Art, Huntsville Alabama (1993)

"Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings" Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Massachusetts (1993)

"Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings" Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1993)

"Silverpoint Etcetera: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings" Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (1992)


Invitational Group Exhibitions

"Faculty Show" Little Cities Art Gallery, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2004)

"Summer Faculty Exhibition" Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee (2003)

"Summer Faculty Show '01" Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee (2001)

"Its All Academic" Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester, Michigan (2001)

"Body and Soul" Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester, Michigan (1999)

 

Juried Group Exhibitions

"West Michigan Area Show" Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2003)

"Independence Edition" of Independent Exposure Presented by Microcinema, Inc/Black Chair Productions, Strange Brew Coffeehouse, Springfield, Ohio, (2002)

"West Michigan Area Show" Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan

"Independence Edition" (video screening) of independent Exposure, Presented by Microcinema, Inc/Black Chair Productions Seattle, Washington (2001)

"West Michigan Area Show" Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (2001)

"2D, 3D and 4D" Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska (2000)

"Our Town" Birmingham Community House, Birgmingham, Michigan (1999)

"Michigan Fine Arts Competition" Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, Michigan (1998)

"Annual Juried Art Exhibit" John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana (1998)

"18th Michigan Artists Competition" Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, Michigan (1997)

"Annual Juried Art Exhibit" John G. Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indian (1997)

"97 Kalamazoo Area Show" Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Kalamazoo, Michigan (1997)

"National Works on Paper Exhibition" St. John's University, Jamaica, New York (1995)

"8th Annual Michigan Art Competition" Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, Michigan (1995)

"94 Kalamazoo Area Show" Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1994)

"BACA 9th Annual Juried National Exhibition: Part II works on paper" Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, California (1993)

"Kalamazoo Area Art Exhibition'89" Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1989)

"9th Annual Michigan Artists Competition" Battle Creek Museum of Art, Battle Creek, Michigan (1988)

"Lagrange National XI" Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, Lagrange, Georgia (1986)

"Graduate Sculpture and Painting Exhibition" University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (1986)

"National Aquas Open '84" Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1984)

"April Salon" Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah (1984)

 

Awards and Honors

Lucasse Fellowship, Kalamazoo College, Awarded for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Work (2002)

2 cash awards, Birmingham Community House, Birmingham, Michigan (1999)

First Prize, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, "Michigan Fine Arts Competition" (1999)

Cash Prize, Art Center of Battle Creek, "18th Michigan Artists Competition" (1997)

Grand Prize, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "97 Area Show" K&M Machine Fabricating, (1997)

Purchase Award, "La Grange National XI," Chattahoochee Valley Art Association (1986)

 

Residencies

The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest IL, Artist Residency Fellowship (2002)

Ox-Bow Summer Arts Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professional Artist in Residency (1997)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship (1996)

 

Corporate and Public Commissions

Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1987)

Executed eight drawings for the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Association to honor member os the armed forces who served in Vietnam. The drawings were reproduced on polished black granite.

Xerox Corporation, two paintings for conference rooms in the Harrisburg Pennsylvania Branch (1984)

Borough of Lemyone, Pennsylvania, two paintings for Borough office (1983)

 

Collections

Diekema/Hamann Architects, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Xerox Corporation, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange, Georgia

Dr. Kendall Taylor, Author, Washington DC.

Dr. Timothy Light, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Thomas Lynch and Associates: Manufacturers Representatives, St. Petersburg, Florida

Dr. Billie Fischer, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dr. Seamus Lagan, Whittier, California

Alison South and John Bell, Mill Valley, California

 

 


 

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