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Return to: Mara Adamitz Scrupe Biography
Residency awards, grants, substantial commissions, and fellowships:
Barbara L. Bishop Endowed Chair in Art, 2003 - 2007, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia.
The Agnes Scott College, Public Art Commission, Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia (2006)
The Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, Project Commission, County Cork, Ireland (2005)
The Sirius Art Centre, Artist in Residence, County Cork, Ireland (2005)
The Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Houston, Texas (2005)
The Pedvale Open Air Museum, Artist in Residence, Riga, Latvia (2005)
The International Art Workshop of Jadertina, Artist in Residence, Zadar, Croatia (2005)
The Loldia Foundation (London, England) in support of a collaborative site project involving pupils of The Loldia Primary School, Naivasha, Kenya (2004)
Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship (2003-04)
Margaret Hall Silva Foundation support for a site-specific project for GrandArts, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri (2004)
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (site project commission 2003)
Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on the Arts and Humanities, Small Projects Grant (2003)
Savannah College of Art and Design site project commission for project entitled Etherea (2002)
Sculpture Biennial at Evergreen House/Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (curated by Mary Jane Jacob 2002)
Europos Parkas Open Air Museum Artist Residency and commission of new site-specific installation, Vilnius, Lithuania (2001)
Arts Link/CEC International Partners Grant New York, New York (2000)
The Irish Museum of Modern Art Artists Work Programme Fellowship (2000)
Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture site project commission (2000)
Neuberger (New York) Museum Biennial of Public Art, (1999)
Convergence Festival of the Arts outdoor site project commission, Providence, RI (1999)
The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist As Catalyst Grant (1998)
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship (1998)
John Michael Kohler Art Center and Museum project commission (1998)
Abington Art Center and Sculpture Garden, Philadelphia, PA (site project commission 1998)
The Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (1997)
The Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia (project commission 1997), The John J. Humphrey Best of Show Award of the Three Rivers Arts Festival/Carnegie Museum (1996)
The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Residency Grant (1989 and 1994)
Artist-In-Residence Fellowship Finalist (1995)
ART OMI, New York, NY; Sculpture Space, Inc., Artist-In-Residence Fellowship, Utica, New York (1986 and 1994)
The Miami University of Ohio National Outdoor Sculpture Competition Winner (1993)
The Mildred Victor Memorial Prize of the National Sculpture Society Centennial Exhibition (1993)
MacDowell Colony Fellowship Award and Travel Grant, Peterborough, NH (1993)
University of California at Riverside National Site-Specific Sculpture Competition Winner (1990)
ACTS Institute Fellowship Award Winner, Kansas City MO (1990)
Djerassi Foundation Fellowship Woodside, CA (1990)
Artists Space Grant Recipient, New York, NY (1988, 1989)
Vermont Studio Colony Resident Artists Award (1989)
Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts Artist-In-Residence Award, Saratoga, CA (1988)
The Ruth Chenven Foundation Fellowship Recipient, New York, NY (1987)
Minnesota State Arts Board Project Grant Recipient (1985, 1986)
COMPAS Community Arts Fund Project Grant Award St. Paul, MN (1985)
Film In The Cities Performance Program Workshop Grant with Rachel Rosenthal St. Paul, Minnesota (1984).
Recent Books, Articles & Reviews:
Mara Adamitz Scrupe: Suspicious Science, Land Forum, Issue #13, Spacemaker Press, Fall 2002
Mara Scrupe: Scientific Scintillation, Landscape Architecture Magazine, November, 2001
Mara Adamitz Scrupe: New Talent Comes to Lithuania, Laina Magazine, October, 2001
Mara Adamitz Scrupe: Suspicious Science, Sculpture Magazine, October, 2001
The New Tech Garden, by Paul Cooper, Published by Mitchell Beazley Miller's, London, 2001
One Hundred Years of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2000
Viewpoints: Readings in Art History, edited by Carole Gold Calo, Published by Prentiss Hall Publishers, 2000
Mara Adamitz Scrupe: Proposal for Annie's Park, Landscape Forum #06, Spacemaker Press, Fall 2000
Neuberger Biennial of Public Art, Sculpture Magazine, March 2000 Outdoor Sculpture With a Festive Air, The New York Times, Sunday, July 25, 1999
Papers and Presentations:
The Post-Industrial Farmer, 10th Annual Environmental Film Festival, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2002, Program: Fragments of a Life
Toward A Moral Paradigm: The Vocation Of The Artist In The 21st Century, College Art Association, 88th Annual Conference, New York, February 23-26, 2000, Session: The Curse Of Sameness: Homogeneity In The Global Art World
Report From The Hinterlands: Environment, Audience, And Public Art In The New World, Arts Now Conference, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1999
Recent Published Essays:
The Intangible Trail, Public Art Review, Fall 2001
Environment, Audience, and Public Art in the New World (Order), International Sculpture Magazine, March, 2000
Finding Courage Off The Beaten Path, Mid-America College Art Association, 1998
Education:
MFA degree from Bard College, New York
BA degree from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
I reside with my husband on our farm in Virginia, where I have lived and maintained a studio for the past 18 years. My office and drawing studio are located in Washington, DC.
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