Susan
Montgomery
62 Parson Street, Easthampton, MA 01027
smontgomery@wsc.ma.edu
EDUCATION:
1993 M.F.A.,
Painting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1990 B.F.A.,
Printmaking, Cum Laude, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
HIGHER EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Adjunct Art History and Fine Art Faculty, Westfield State
University, Westfield, MA Spring 2009 – Present.
Courses: Art Survey I,
Art Survey II, Design Fundamentals and Works on Paper, (Upper level Painting).
Adjunct Art Faculty, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA
1999 – Present
Courses: Printmaking I
and II, Drawing I, Watercolor and Advanced Watercolor, Two-Dimensional Design,
Introduction to Studio and Introduction to Drawing. Independent Study and
Honors Components.
Art Instructor, Summer Institute for the Gifted at Amherst College,
(SIG), MA Summer 2009
Pre-College enrichment
in Drawing and Painting.
Coordinator for the Massachusetts State High School Art Teachers
Professional Development Workshops,
Gardner, MA. 2007 Responsibilities
include: Hiring instructors, coordinating with over twenty High Schools,
advertising, ordering materials and arranging for catering.
Temporary Director of the High School and Kids Art Camps; Mount
Wachusetts Community College,
Gardner, MA. 2007
Art Instructor for Teen Program: Mount Wachusetts Community
College, Gardner, MA.
Summers: 2008, 2007, 2006
Art Instructor for Kids Art Camp: Mount Wachusetts Community
College, Gardner, MA.
Summers: 2007, 2005
Massachusetts State High School Art Teachers Professional Development
Workshop Instructor,
Gardner, MA
2008 Color
Reduction Relief Printing
2007 Drypoint and
Carborundum printing
2006 Stenciling
and Masking Techniques in Printmaking and Watercolor
2005 Safer
Techniques in Etching
2004 Monotype
Printmaking with Akua-Kolor
2003 Matting and
Framing
Adjunct Art Faculty, Lesley College, at Mount Wachusett Community
College, Gardner, MA 2003
Course: Introduction
to Studio.
Art Instructor, The English Language and Culture Institute, Zespol
Skool, Siennica, Poland. July 2001
Courses: Painting,
Drawing, Photography and Sculpture
Director of Fine Arts/ Instructor, Westover Job Corps, Chicopee, MA
1994-1999
Courses: Painting,
Drawing, Sculpture and Printmaking.
Innovate, plan and
implement all aspects of the art program and facilitate trips to museums,
galleries and performances.
Art Instructor, Holyoke Housing Authority Art Program, Holyoke, MA
1995, 1996
Art program for youth
ages 14 - 18.
Art Instructor, Academic Study Associates, held at Amherst College,
Amherst, MA 1993-1995 summers
Course: Pre-College
Enrichment in Drawing and Painting.
Teaching Assistantship Instructor, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 1990-1993
Courses: Drawing 1,
Two- Dimensional Design, Advance Drawing Problems, Basic Drawing (Non-Majors),
Figure Drawing, Intaglio (Assistant), B.F.A. Guest Thesis Member, Independent
Study in Drawing.
Continuing Education Instructor, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 1992
Course: Aqueous Media
Painting (Acrylic/Watercolor)
Co-Developed Youth Art Program, Hartford, CT 1989-1990
After School art
program for students from Quirk Middle School.
Developed Art Program, Hartford, CT 1989
HOME; a women and
children's shelter and help center.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
One / Two/ Four Person
Exhibitions:
09/09 “Radium”, Dwight Hall, 2nd
floor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
03/05 “Relative Art”, Northampton Center for
the Arts, Northampton, MA
04/02 “Crosscurrents “, Artspace, Hartford,
CT.
11/01 “Radium Girls”, Grubbs Gallery,
Williston Northampton School, MA
07/01 “Drawings and Prints”, Zespol Skool, Siennica, Poland.
05/99 “Peripheries of the Playground, Chapter 2”,
Hampden Art Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA
04/99 “Thalassa...Waterborne”, Upstairs at
Johnson’s, Newbury Street, Boston, MA.
11/98
“Peripheries of the Playground,
Chapter 1”. CCRI Gallery, Community
College of RI,
Providence, RI
10/96 “Susan Montgomery-Drawings”, Conference
Room Gallery, WJCC, Chicopee, MA
05/93 “Fairy tale Revenants”, M.F.A. Thesis
Exhibition, Herter Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA
09/92 “Animals to Ashes, Ashes to Animals”,
Student Union Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA
01/92 “The Life Cycle of Sleeping Beauty”,
Amherst Community Gallery, Amherst, MA
05/90 “B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition”, Joseloff
Gallery, Hartford Art School, CT
Group and Juried Exhibitions:
05/10 “Wonderland”, Paper City Upstairs
Gallery, Holyoke, MA
05/10 “Pioneer Women at Wonderland”, Paper
City Gallery, Holyoke, MA
04/09 “Pioneer Women”, Tabla Rasa Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
05/09 “Group Dynamics”, Critique Group,
Hampden Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA
02/08 “Little
Women II”, Grubbs Gallery, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, MA
12/07 “Little
Women I”, Nashawannatuck Gallery, Easthampton, MA
01/05 “Women Artists”, Alchemy Gallery,
Hartford, CT
12/04 “Small Works Show”, Northampton Center
for the Arts, Northampton, MA
01/04 “The Paper Show”, Northampton Center
for the Arts, Northampton, MA
04/01 “Zea Mays Non-toxic Printmaking
Exhibition”, Zea Mays, Arts and Industry, Northampton, MA
03/00 “Evidence
of Feminism Exhibit B” Wheeler Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
07/98 “Coleman Candidates Exhibition”, Boston
University Art Gallery, MA
04/98
“Pine Street Artist Group Show”,
Grubbs Gallery, The Williston Northampton School,
Easthampton, MA.
03/98 “Image and Verse”, Lowell Street
Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Juror: Carl Belz
07/96
“Rejects: Art made from Found
Objects”, Art Bank, Partnership for the Arts in Western Massachusetts,
Shelburne, MA
05/96 “Coleman Candidates Exhibition”, Boston
University Art Gallery, MA
08/94
“Art Bank Exhibition”, Art
Bank, Partnership for the Arts in Western Massachusetts,
Shelburne Falls, MA
06/94 “All Media Summer Exhibition”,
Contemporary Artists Center, North Adam's, MA,
Jurors:
Claire Bell: Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, Ivan Karp: Director, OK
Harris
05/94 “Objects/ Something Else Invitational”,
Gallery 52, Cooperstown, NY
03/94 “Ideologies: 10 Women Artists”, Hampden
Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
10/93 “Night”, Kubiak Gallery, Oneonta, NY
12/92 “Graduate Students Art Exhibition”,
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
12/92
“13 at the Midway: M.F.A.
Candidate Exhibition”, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
03/91 “UMASS Graduate Students”, Worcester
Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA
12/91 “Graduate Students Art Exhibition”,
Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
07/90 “Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Exhibit”,
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, *2nd Prize
05/90
“Goldfarb 2nd Annual Juried
Exhibition”, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT,
*Honorable
Mention
Public Art Projects:
1998
“Gears of Discovery”, 30’x15’
mural, sponsored by the Holyoke Cultural Council and Boys and Girls Club,
Holyoke,
MA
1997 “Portrait of the Game”, 120’x7’ mural,
sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club, Holyoke, MA
1996
“Toepfert Community Gardens Mural”,
104’x15’, sponsored grant from HUD, Holyoke, MA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
The Boston Drawing
Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Blanch E. Coleman
Award, Mellon Trust, $2,500, Boston, MA 2002-03
Professional
Development Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council,
Boston, MA 2001
Blanch E. Coleman
Award, Mellon Trust, $5000, Boston, MA 1998-99
Holyoke Arts
Lottery Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Mural, Holyoke, MA. 1998
Jurors Choice Award,
Lowell Street Gallery, Juror Carl Belz, Cambridge, MA. 1998
Member of the
steerage committee, The Pine Street Artist Group, Florence, MA 1997-98
Award from the
Mayor and Commissioners of Holyoke, Toepfert Mural, Holyoke, MA 1996
Housing and Urban
Development Youth Art and Sports Grant, Holyoke, MA 1995-96
Fulbright Finalist 1993-94
Teaching
Assistantship Award, UMASS at Amherst. 1990-93
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES:
1999
Gallery talk at Hampden Gallery, UMASS, Amherst, MA.
1998 Gallery talk at the Community College of Rhode Island, Providence,
RI
1997 Visiting Artist, Easthampton High School, Advanced Art class,
Easthampton, MA
1997 Guest Lector, Career Ed. Program, Hopkins Academy, Amherst, MA.
1996 Lecture on the Toepfert Community Gardens Mural, Holyoke, MA
1996 Studio Visit/Lecture, Brattleboro High School art class, Florence,
MA
1996 Studio Visit/Lecture, Drawing 1 Class, UMASS, Amherst, MA
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
2000-01 Mural Consultant, Hopkins Academy,
Hadley, MA
1992-93 Gallery Director, Amherst Community Arts
Center Gallery, Amherst, MA
1990 Gallery Assistant, Joseloff Gallery,
Hartford, CT
1990 Printer, Hand printed color etchings for
artist Scott Prior, Hartford, CT
1990 Assistant Printer, Offset Multi-color
lithographs for artist George McNeil. Hartford, CT
1989 Frame shop Manager, Artist Alternative,
Hartford, CT
