| 1989 |
M.F.A. University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI |
| 1988 |
M.A., Art Education University
of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. |
| 1972 |
B.A., Art Education University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI. |
| 1994- |
Associate Professor of
Art, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
| 1989-1994 |
Assistant Professor of Art/Chair, Mount Senario
College, Ladysmith, WI |
| 1983-1987 |
Art Teacher, Grades 1-8, Rio Community School
District, Rio, WI |
| INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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1998
Three Person Invitational Exhibit sponsored by the University
of
Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, St. Jerolimus Gallery, Island of
Hvar, Town of Stari Grand, Croatia.
1996
"Global Focus: Women in Art and Culture", Permanent
Collection
Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
D.C., Juried by Nancy Cusick
1995
International Invitation Exhibit, Elite Gallery, Moscow, Russia,
Jurors: Nancy Cusick, Maxine Cable
"Global Focus: Women in Art and Culture", United Nations
4th World Conference on Women, Exhibition and slide Registry,
Beijing, China,
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| NATIONAL AND REGIONAL EXHIBITIONS |
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2001
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Quincy Art Museum, Quincy, Illinois
2000
Lakeview Museum, Peoria, Illinois
Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Rend Lake, Illinois
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, November, 2000-January
2001
1999
"Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium", juried
traveling exhibit. Juror: Clare Henry
Illinois State Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
"One Person Show" Invitational, South Suburban College,
South Holland, Illinois
Women's History Month Group Exhibition, DeKalb, Illinois
Three Person Show, UWC Sauk County Campus, Schwalbach Gallery,
Baraboo, Wisconsin
1998
"Spirit of the Heartland" KiP Gallery, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
Women's History Month Group Exhibit, DeKalb Womenís Center
1997
"Faculty Salon", NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois.
"Change Becomes Us", Commonwealth Gallery, Madison,
Wisconsin
Invitational 2-Person Show, UWC Sauk County Campus, Schwalbach
Gallery, Baraboo, Wisconsin
"photograpHERs", Juried group exhibition, A.R.C. Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
"photograpHERs", Invitational, Edgewood College Gallery,
Madison, Wisconsin
1996
"Vicinity 96" Juried exhibition, Norris Gallery, St.
Charles, Illinois
"Seeds of Snow", Mount Senario College, Ladysmith,
Wisconsin
"Trilogy", DeKalb Area Womenís Center, DeKalb,
Illinois
"photograpHERs", Invitational Group Exhibits:
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Blatz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July,
1996.
Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion, Iowa, May, 1996.
McMillan Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, February, 1996. |
Collaborative Installation, Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery,
Athens, Georgia
"Figures", Invitational Exhibit, NIU Art Museum Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois
"Faculty Salon", NIU Art Museum Gallery, NIU, DeKalb,
Illinois
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Smith, Craig, "The Midwest Connects Works of Six Artists",
Pasatiempo: Santa Fe's Weekly Arts and Entertainment Magazine,
The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM. June19-25
Smith-Shank, Deborah: "Space for Womenís Artwork
within the Male Tradition", Arts and Learning Research;
1997-1998, Volume 14, Pages 67-71
Weinstein, Michael, "Birthing Room", Artbreak,
New City, June, 1997
Maraniss, Jim, "Women Photographers take the Spotlight",
The Capital Times, Feb. 28, 1997, p1D
Pearson, Julee, ìFiguresî, The New Art Examiner,
February 1996, p. 45
Lynch, Kevin, "Visual Artís Glass Ceiling is
Cracking" and "DiRicci Makes Effort to Show Women Artists",
The Capital Times, October 2, 1996, p. 1D, 6D.
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All art reflects what it is to be human, but the figure
confronts the question directly. In a culture dominated by figurative
images of youth, I am particularly concerned with examining where
elders fit in the artistic dialogue.
My "Snow" series is a body of work that questions
traditional stereotypical images of aging and exhibits qualities
that are not part of the cultureís concept of being an
elder. My work explores the ageless beauty of the figure in many
incarnations both idealized and externalized and creates a transition
to a completely different interpretation of the figure. My series
represents real elders, not "secondary" ideas of what
is real by media images, in retaliation to the young, sex-saturated
images of the American mass media.
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