RESUME
EDUCATION
1973-1975: MFA, (Painting); University of Illinois
1969-1972: BFA, (Painting), Drawing, Ceramics, Art History); University of Michigan (Magna Cum Laude)
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS
2023: Award: Arts Educator of the Year; Rockford Area Arts Council, Rockford, IL
2023: Nominated for Visual Arts Teacher of the Year, Rockford Area Arts Council
2022: Nominated for Visual Arts of the Year, Rockford Area Arts Council
2020-21: Best in Show: Rockford Biennale; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2001-03: Award; “Art from the Heart”; Community AIDS Network/Akron
1988: Ohio Arts Council Special Grant to produce the Amnesty International poster “Human Rights Now!” for
the world concert tour
1987: Award in Painting (May Show), Cleveland Museum of Art University of Akron Faculty Grant (jointly with
Donna Webb)
1983: Ohio Arts Council Grant: “Seven+7”; Honorarium for Collaboration with Ohio poets; Award in Drawing
(May Show), Cleveland Museum of Art; Gamut Prize in the Visual Arts; Cleveland State University
1981: Ohio Arts Council Individual Arts Grant (drawing; Award in Drawing (May Show), Cleveland Museum of Art
SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS
2025: Group Show: The Ocean Between VIII, Olivia Gallery, Chicago IL
2025: One Person Show, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
2024: One Person Show: “Paradise and intuition,” The Beloit Art Center, Beloit, WI
2023: Group Invitational, "Rockford Famous," City Hall, Rockford Il
2021: One Person Show: Spring ArtScene; Octane; Rockford. IL
2021: Winners, Two Person Show, 317 Art Collective; Rockford, IL
2020-21: Rockford Biennale, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2015: Juried Alumni Show; University of Michigan School of Art and Design; Ann Arbor Michigan
2014: One Person Show: Seedboat Gallery; Silver City, NM
One Person Show Spring ArtScene; Garrison Lofts Rockford, IL.
2012: Two Person Show; Seedboat Gallery; Silver City, NM
2007: Group Show; Seedboat Gallery; Silver City, NM
2005: Man & Beast; Group invitational; Emily Davis Gallery; University of Akron
War and Peace; Group invitational; Cleveland State University Gallery
2004: The Buddha Project; invitational Show; Cleveland, State University Gallery
2000-01: Group Show; Threshold Gallery; Santa Monica, CA
1999: One Person Show; Joy Horwich Gallery; Chicago
Traveling Group Exhibition in China; Guangzhou Art Institute; Xian University; Xian University
1992: Group Show; Western Michigan University; Eastern Michigan University
Three Person Show; Carnegie Gallery; University of Cincinnati, OH
1988: Art and the Law; National invitational; sponsored by the West Publishing Company; opened at the ABA Annual Meeting; Toronto, Canada; traveling to Temple University (PA), Virginia Commonwealth University, Rose Art Center (Brandeis University)
Sur la Table; invitational exhibition; Center for Contemporary Art; Cleveland, OH
Drawing from Our Own Perspectives; invitational Statewide Show; School for the Visual Arts; Columbus, OH
Judith Meyer/A Ten Year Retrospective; VOX Gallery; Akron
1987: Individual & Collaborative Work; (with Donna Webb); Studio 828; Akron
One Person Show; Joy Horwich Gallery; Chicago
1984: 4th Annual Painting Exhibition; Lake Erie College; Painesville, OH
1983: 31st Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University; Muncie, IND
One Person Show; College of Wooster, OH
Two Person Show; Joy Horwich Gallery; Chicago
1982: The Works; Ohio Arts Council Traveling exhibition (OH and VA)
SELECTED COMMISSIONS / COLLECTIONS
Federal Reserve Bank; Cleveland, OH
Voinovich Companies; Cleveland, OH
Sunar Hausermann Corp; Cleveland, OH
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; Akron OH
Nationwide advertising Corp; Cleveland, OH
Akron Art Museum/Ohio Art Council Poster Design
Krieger and Associates; Boston MASS
President’s Mansion Collection; Cleveland State University
Amnesty International; New York, NY
Seedboat Gallery; Silver City, NM
Mountain Air productions; Silver City, NM
BP America; Corporate Office; Cleveland, OH
Deleganese Companies; Akron, OH
Mercy Hospital; Grand Rapids, MI
Women’s Cancer Center; Muskegon, MI
Individual Collectors including; Dr. Paul Gatewood, Howard Walton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sting, Peter Gabriel,
Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen presented Human Rights, NOW! artwork in person or via telephone requests
INTERVIEWS / JURYING / PUBLICATION
2025: NPR WNIJ interview w/Yvonne Boose
2020: Interviewed on Teacher’s Lounge on NPR’s WNIJ with Peter Medlin
2009-13: “Artist Lecture Series/An Evening with the Artist”; organizer, poster designer and facilitator
1991: Juror and Visiting Artist; University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
1989: Juror: Cleveland institute of Art; Student Juried Show
1988: Poster and Holiday Greeting Card for Amnesty international; New York and distributed worldwide
PAST/PRESENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Cleveland, OH: James Corcoran Fine Arts; Fine Artco; The Bonfoey Gallery
Akron, OH: John Davis Gallery, The Vox Gallery
Chicago, ILL: Joy Horwich Gallery
Santa Monica, CA: Threshold Gallery
Silver City, NM: Seedboat Gallery
Grand Rapids, MI: Corporate Portfolio
