Marjorie A. Alexander - Resume

1. Teaching
2. Grants
3. Exhibitions
4. Collections
5. Honors
6. Publications

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois: MFA (studio arts, painting)

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois:  BA (painting)

Private study with Burgoyne Diller, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

 

Academic Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant, art education, University of Illinois

Research assistant, Published “Study of the near environment” University of Illinois

High School Art Teacher, Champaign and Urbana, Illinois

High School Art Teacher, St. Anthony Park, Minnesota

Artist-in-Residence, Design, Housing and Apparel Department, University of Minnesota

Split Rock program, University of Minnesota (classes in handmade paper and watercolor painting)

Workshop teaching:  Art associations and schools, St Paul, and Minneapolis, Minnesota

Technical consultant: Zabbaleen Paper Project, Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE) Cairo, Egypt

Technical consultant and teacher: HEART government program, Jamaica, West Indies

Technical consultant and teacher: CTI Papye Sent Lisi Project, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies

Juror, student work: Jeonju Hanji Fashion exhibition sponsored by the Jeonju Fashion Association (two years)

Guest lecturer: Jeonju University, South Korea

 

Professional Positions

President, International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA)

Advisory Board Member, Friends of Dard Hunter, a national paper and book organization

Art Chairman, Minnesota branch, The National League of American Pen Women, Inc.

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Grants

Career Opportunity grant, Minnesota State Arts Board

Royal Dutch Government Zabbaleen Handmade Paper Project, Cairo, Egypt

Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation, St. Lucia Papermaking Project

Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI) Crookston, MN

Two grants, Organization of American States (OAS), Jamaica Handmade Paper Center, Kingston, Jamaica. West Indies

Blandin Foundation, Feasibility study using Minnesota fibers for paper

 

Exhibitions 

Juried:

Paper Art Fest, 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria, “Forest Ghost” (textured wall piece)

“The Future in Paper” (three wall works on paper), Le Vigan, France

“26” annual WARM exhibition, (an acrylic painting) Minneapolis, MN

“Make an Impression” (embossed paper), Georgia Tech American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA

“Miniartextil” (an installation) Cultural Association Arte&Arte, Como, Italy

“Paper Dreams” (two installations) Rancho Palos Verdes Art Center, California, US

Deggendorf Stadt Museum (an installation) Deggendorf, Germany

“Papier Museum” (an installation) Vienna, Austria

“Paper Road”, Santa Maria Della Scala, Commune di Siena, Italy

Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Biennial Sculpture, (an installation)

 

Invitational and Solo

Jeonju, South Korea, invited to exhibit hanji garments, Jeonju Hanji International Fashion Show (seven consecutive years)

Douglas-Baker Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Open Book Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

Robert C Williams American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, Georgia

Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN.

Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul, MN

Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN

Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

Bolivar Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

The Ewart Gallery, The American University, Cairo, Egypt

Japan Paper Academy, Kyoto, Japan

Dahlhoff Larsen Fond Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

De Kunststichting, Tilburg, the Netherlands 

Exhibiting Artist, Douglas-Baker Gallery, Minneapolis for over twenty years.

Exhibiting Artist, Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul for ten years.

Exhibiting Artist, Susan Parke Gallery, Urbana, Illinois.

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Collections

Weismann Art Museum, University of Minnesota, (1 acrylic on shaped canvas and 1 paper installation)

University of Illinois, acrylic painting

American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA (embossed paper)

Museum “Louvre It or Leave It”, Minneapolis, MN (large paper installation)

Sofi Arts Center, Jeonju, South Korea (2 paper pieces)

Ewart Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt ( acrylic painting)

Imadate Art Museum, Imadate, Fukui, Japan (paper sculpture)

Jamaica National Gallery of Art, Kingston, Jamaica, W.I. (paper pulp painting)

Work in many corporate and private collections

 

Other honors

Juror and presenter of top award: Jeonju Hanji Fashion competition, Jeonju, South Korea

Curator, Members Exhibition, Friends of Dard Hunter National Papermakers Organization

Co-Curator, “Paper: Trivia & Treasure” exhibition, The Goldstein, The Museum of Design, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Moderator, Symposium, “Paper and the New Millennium” participants representing the major paper industry, alternative fibers, environmentalists, forest products and paper conservation.

Papermaking workshops using indigenous plant fibers in Perth, Sidney, and Melbourne, Australia; Burnie, Tasmania; and Auckland, New Zealand.

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Publications

Co-editor, International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) Bulletin  (with H. Alexander)

Article “Edible Paper” IAPMA Newsletter

Handcrafted Paper & Paper Products Made From Indigenous Plant Fibers. Publisher Maralex Studios  English version

Handcrafted Paper & Paper Products Made From Indigenous Plant Fibers, Publisher, center for Environment and Development Arab Regions and Europe (CEDARE) Cairo, Egypt  Arabic version

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