Jolene Powell, MA, MFA
EDUCATION: Boston University, MFA, Painting. Boston, Massachusetts
2001
Western Carolina University, MA, Painting, Cullowhee, North Carolina
1998
West Virginia Wesleyan College, BA, Painting Buckhannon, West Virginia (Magna Cum Laude)
1996
TEACHING FACULTY EXPERIENCE: McCoy Associate Professor of Art Director Gallery 310 Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
2013 – Current
McCoy Associate Professor of Art and Department Chair Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
2007 – 2013
Assistant Professor of Art Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
2002 – 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia
2001 – 2002
Teaching Assistant to John Walker Director of the Masters of Fine Arts Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 – 2001
Teaching Assistant, (Introductory Drawing and Elective Advanced Painting) Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 – 2000
Adjunct Faculty Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
1998 – 1999
Teaching Assistant (Drawing I for majors, Instructor of Record) Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
1997-1998
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COURSES TAUGHT: Painting I Intermediate Painting Advanced Painting Senior Capstone Drawing I Drawing II Life Drawing Freshman Seminar Art Appreciation Flat Design Solid Design Block Printing Etching Monotype Spanish Masters (Honors) Art of the Louvre (Leadership) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Visiting Artist at Delta State University Cleveland, Mississippi Visiting Artist for the MFA program at Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC
2008 and 2009 2007
Assistant to Exhibitions Coordinator, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts
1999 – 2000
Director, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina
1997 – 1998
Co-Director, Belk Gallery, Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina
1996 – 1997
Assistant to Curator/Director, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia
1994 – 1996
Governor’s Intern, The Cultural Center, Charleston, West Virginia Intern, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York City, New York
1995
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SERVICE Service to the Art Department at Marietta College • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Secured funding and developed Gallery 310, an on-campus exhibition space Designed, developed and helped to implement new Studio Art, Graphic Design and Art History curricula Consulted with department faculty on designing and implementing assessment, mission, and recruitment documents Consulted with department faculty on designing and implementing Sophomore Review and capstone surveys and exam Executed program review documents and presentation Art History Faculty Search Committee (Chair) Art Department Faculty Search Committees, (three searches for three positions) (Member) Taught in the First Year Experience Program (four years) Taught Capstone (eight years) Coordinated all applicants for our Fine Art and Talent Scholarship (eight years) Curated exhibitions in the Marietta College Atrium Art Gallery Coordinated Visiting Artist Program Consistently advised more than twenty student advisees each semester Worked with Advancement and donors to secure artwork for the Permanent Collection Hosted national artists for three summer-school workshops Organized annual Art Department field trips Organized Fine Art Scholarship Contest Established Marietta College chapter of Kappa Pi, International Honorary Fraternity Service to Marietta College
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Elected to Faculty Council (faculty governance) Appointed Member of the President’s Planning Committee (two years) Appointed by the President to ad hoc Admissions Committee Assisted in establishing Assessment Institutional Learning Outcomes (Critical Thinking and Artistic Literacy) Served on the Review, Tenure and Promotion Committee (Member) Served on Faculty Development Committee Appointed by the President to serve on the Provost Search Committee Appointed by the Vice President for Administration and Finance to the Director of Human Resources Search Committee Appointed to Leadership Program Advisory Board Served as Art Consultant, Confluence Magazine Provost’s Diversity Committee (Member) Investigative Studies Committee (Member) Faculty Development Committee (Member) Assessment Committee (Member) Communication and Mass Media Faculty Search Committee, (three searches) (Member)
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Economics, Accounting and Management Faculty Search Committee (two searches) (Member) Leadership Program, Director of Experiential Education and Service-Learning Search Committee (Member) Served as Faculty Sponsor of the Recycling Club (two years) Served as Faculty Secretary, Omicron Delta Kappa Academic Honorary (two years) Founding Member of the Campus Sustainability Committee Served as Visiting Artist/Instructor, Art Camp for the Center for Families and Children
Service to the Community • • • • • • • •
Regional Juror, Winston Scholarship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Visiting Artist, Ohio Valley University, Parkersburg, West Virginia Juror, Washington County High School Art Competition, Marietta, Ohio (two years) Juror, West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Annual Student Exhibition, Buckhannon, West Virginia Juror, Taylor County Arts Council’s Annual Memorial Day Art Exhibition, Grafton, West Virginia Prize Juror, Artsbridge’s Annual Charity Auction, Parkersburg, West Virginia Donated paintings to annual fundraiser auctions for the Marietta College Music Department, Artsbridge and EVE Shelter (Woman’s Home, Marietta, Ohio), Appointed by the Mayor as a committee member on the Marietta Tree Commission, Marietta, Ohio
SCHOLARSHIP ARTIST RESIDENCIES: Anina Porter Fuller, Great Spruce Head Art Week, Maine
2013
Heliker-LaHotan Foundation Residency, Great Cranberry Island, Maine
2009
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
1997
GALLERY AFFILIATION: ENO Gallery, Hillsborough, North Carolina SELECTED SOLO EXIBITIONS: Landscapes: Paintings by Jolene Powell Gould Academy Gallery, Bethel, ME
2013
Simplicity and Suspense Narthex Gallery, New York, New York
2011
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Landscapes Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut
2009
Landscape…Memory and Magic The Cultural Center of Fine Arts, Parkersburg, West Virginia
2003
Abstract Landscapes Hermann Fine Arts Gallery Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
2002
Recent Works Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia
2001
Landscapes Renaissance Theatre, Lynchburg, Virginia
2001
MFA Exhibition 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2001
Light and Air Open Court Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2001
Recent Works Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
1999
Landscapes City Lights Gallery, Sylva, North Carolina
1999
Portraits Rodwell Gallery, Waynesville, North Carolina
1999
Personalities and Paint Broadway Arts Building, Asheville, North Carolina
1998
SELECTED GROUP EXIBITIONS: Juried Exhibition Juried by Lois Dodd, Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York
2013
Artful Teaching, Work by College and University Painting Faculty, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2012
Maine as Muse Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, New York
2012
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10th Annual American Landscapes Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
2010
Summer Exhibition Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine
2010
National Exhibition 2010 Monotype Guild of New England Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
2010
Inspirations by Studio B Parkersburg Art Center Parkersburg, West Virginia
2009
Small Work Kathryn Gallery, Columbus, OH
2008
Re-Order/Re-Present Hermann Fine Art Gallery Marietta College Gallery, Marietta, Ohio Juror: Fred Jesser, Independent Artist and Curator
2008
The Ohio Annual Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, Ohio Juror: Mark Chepp, Director Emeritus, Springfield Museum of Art.
2007
Exhibition 280 2007 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia Jurors: Michael Rush, Director or the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and Mark Masuoka Director and Chief Curator at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art The Artist’s Life: Three Artists Return Sleeth Gallery West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia
2006
5th Annual American Landscapes Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland Juror: Stephen Doherty, Editor and Chief of American Artist
2005
New Art 2005 2005 MPG Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Juror: Linda Norden, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum Photowork ’05 2005 National Juried Exhibition Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York Juror: Apsara DiQuinvio, Curatorial Department, Whitney Museum of American Art
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24 Seasons A Day Melvin Art Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida
2004
Drawing from Perception Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Juror: Charles Cajori
2003
Arches Juried Print Exhibition Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2001
Southern Spectrum Juried Exhibition, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1998
West Virginia Juried Exhibition The Cultural Center, Charleston, West Virginia
1997
COLLECTIONS (PUBLIC AND CORPORATE): • • • • • • • •
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Broadway Arts Center, Ashville, North Carolina Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia Hermann Fine Art Center, Marietta, Ohio Ohio Valley Eye Physicians, Marietta, Ohio Osborn Photographic Illustration, Williamstown, West Virginia The Mountain Company, Vienna, West Virginia Ullman Design, Marietta, Ohio
ADDDITIONAL INFORMATION AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS Marietta College Faculty Research Award 2012 2 Innovative Teaching Awards, Marietta College 2010 Named McCoy Professor, Marietta College’s highest teaching award 2007 AsiaNetwork Consultancy Grant 2006 Marietta College Faculty Research Award 2006 Constatin Alajalov Scholarship and Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 1999 – 2001 Boston University Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 1996 – 1998 Western Carolina University Residency Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center 1997 Fine Arts Talent Scholarship, Hatfield Fine Arts Award 1992-1996 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Kappa Phi, Psi Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Pi, Sigma Alpha Iota, Morter Board, West Virginia Wesleyan College
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: College Art Association Omicron Delta Kappa Kappi Pi, International Art Honorary EXHIBITION REVIEWS: Melissa Starker, “Professors Show What They Know,” The Columbus Dispatch, November 13, 2011 Franklin Einspruch, “Maine as Muse: Art Inspired by Maine at Lohin Geduld Gallery,” The Sun New York, May 25, 2011 Rebecca Mahoney. “Art on the Edge of Abstraction,” The Ledger, Lakeland, FL, February 16, 2004 Dave Payne, Sr. “Art Show Response Amazes Residents,” The Parkersburg News, Parkersburg, WV, March 28, 2004 Jud Yalkut. “The Reality of Drawing from Perception,” The Dayton City Paper, Dayton, OH, April 8 –15, 2004 Dave Payne, Sr. “Coloring Her World,” The Parkersburg News, Parkersburg, WV, September 14, 2003