Kathleen Dunn Jacobs
IG kathleendjacobs
Education:
LESLEY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN. Boston, Massachusetts.
2012 Master of Fine Arts: PAINTING, Visual Art, and Critical Thinking
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS. Amherst, Massachusetts.
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Major: Painting × Minor: Art History.
OLD LYME ACADEMY OF ART. ESSEX, CT.
Completion of Course Studies in Painting, Drawing and Art Material Science.
WESTFIELD UNIVERSITY, Westfield, MA
1980 - 1984 Business Management, Accounting, Marketing.
Solo Exhibitions:
2023-2024 GARVEY RITA GALLERY, Orleans, MA, “Selected Works”
2021 VNA GALLERY, Wilton CT, “Landscape Paintings: Seeking Serenity”
2018 MAIN STREET GALLERY, “New Painting, Monotypes of Ireland & Wellfleet, Wellfleet, MA
2017 MAIN STREET GALLERY, New Work, “Taking Notice of the Landscape”, Wellfleet, MA
OXBOW GALLERY, “New Paintings” Northampton, MA
OXBOW GALLERY, “Holiday Smalls” Group Exhibition. Northampton, MA
2016 KENDALL GALLERY, New work, Wellfleet, MA
2016 HAMPDEN GALLERY, University of MA, “Deconstructed Landscapes” Amherst, MA
2015 KENDALL GALLERY, New work, Wellfleet, MA
SIX SUMMITT GALLERY, “Seeing the Land” Ivoryton, CT
2014 SOUTHEBY’S FRONT GALLERY, “Recent Work”, Orleans, MA
KENDALL GALLERY, "New Work, Landscape Collage- Pier Series” Wellfleet, MA
GALLERY 10, Truro Center for the Arts, “New Work” Landscape paintings, Truro, MA.
CONSERVATION GALLERY, “Reconsideration of Nature, Landscape Paintings”, Truro, MA
2013 KENDALL GALLERY, "Reconstructed Landscapes; A Reconsideration of Nature” Wellfleet, MA
2009 EASTHAMTON CITY ARTS, "Figure & Landscape” Easthampton, MA
2006 ELUSIE GALLERY, “Landscapes with Figures,” Easthampton, MA
2006 EASTHAMTON CITY ARTS, Easthampton, MA "Figure & Landscape”
2007 HOSMER GALLERY, Northampton, MA “Recent Landscapes” –Juried exhibition.
2004 ELUSIE GALLERY, Easthampton, MA
“Small Paintings: Seeing Nature” Group Exhibition.
2000 -2019 KENDALL GALLERY, Wellfleet, MA Annual Summer Solo Exhibitions.
2000 COOLEY DICKENSON GALLERY, Northampton, MA
“Postcard a Day, Watercolors from France & Italy” Invitational.
WELLFLEET TOWN LIBRARY, Wellfleet, MA
“New Works: Oil Paintings
2000 HAMPDEN GALLERY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Charcoal Drawing &, Paintings: Figures & Interiors-BFA Exhibition
Group Exhibitions:
2024 GARVEY RITA ART & ANTIQUES, Orleans, MA, Dec 16 – Jan 20, 2024 By the Sea, By the Sea: Selected works by Eric Aho, Rick Fleury, Margaret Furness, Megan Hinton, Kathleen Dunn Jacobs, Henrietta Dunn Mears (1877-1970), Vollian Burr Rann (1897-1956), Benjye Troob and others...
2023 GARVEY RITA ART & ANTIQUES, Orleans, MA, Sept – October, Points of View...The exhibition will feature works by Julia Felsenthal, Megan Hinton, Kathleen Dunn Jacobs, Virginia Mayo and Abe Storer.
2021 CONCORD ART “Faculty Show”
2019 MELANIE CARR GALLERY: Essex, CT, Smallish: an exhibition of small work
CONCORD ART: Concord, MA, Invitational Group Exhibition + Auction.
2018 MELANIE CARR GALLERY: Essex, CT.
“Spatial Contextual Awareness, Kathleen Jacobs and Rick Fox”
CONCORD ART: Concord, MA.
"Responding to Place." Work by Bernard Chaet, Lois Dodd, Elizabeth O'Reilly, Rick Fox, Kathleen Jacobs, Wolf Kahn, Stuart Shills, SaraNoa Mark, Allen Whiting, Kib Bramhall, John Walker, Andy Karnes, James Urbaska, Susan Howland.
HAMPDEN ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS:
Amherst, MA. "50 Shades of Red.” Invitational Exhibition. Fifty Artists.
2016 STOCKMAN GALLERY, “Elemental Landscapes, Kathleen Jacobs & Suzan Scott”
New Britain, CT,
HAMPDEN ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS:
Amherst, MA. "50 Shades of Red.” Invitational Exhibition
2015 UMASS, HAMPDEN GALLERY, "Eyewitness" - Amherst,
GALLERY A3 Juried by John R. Stromberg, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, Amherst,
WAREHOUSE XI Gallery, “Reclassified”, LUCAD Biennial Exhibition, Somerville, MA
BLACK BIRCH VINEYARD, “Landscape Studies: David Hardy, Kathleen Jacobs, Elizabeth Lehman, David Marshall” Southampton, MA
2014-2015 Lesley University Hall, “Intuitive Space Idealized Visions: Dana Pasila/Kathleen Jacobs, Cambridge, MA
2014 SIX SUMMIT GALLERY, Ivoryton, CT, "BY NIGHT" Invitational
SIX SUMMIT GALLERY, Ivoryton, CT, “Vivification”
2014 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, MAIN GALLERY, Truro, MA
“Reflections of Now” Juried Exhibition with artist jurors: Richard Baker & Sarah Lutz
Gallery 10, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA “Faculty Show” Landscape paintings.
2013 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION, “Nature Morte" Group exhibition Provincetown,
2013 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, MAIN GALLERY, Truro, MA
Fall Group Exhibitions, Truro, MA.
2013 LESLEY UNIVERSITY GALLERY, Cambridge, MA “Objectified"
WALKER GALLERY AT THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER, Provincetown, MA
"All Town Exhibit" Group Exhibition
GALLERY A3, Amherst, MA "In Dialogue", Invitational
UNIVERSITY HALL GALLERY, Group Exhibition-MFA Exhibition Cambridge, MA
2012 MFA Graduate Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston, LUCAD, Boston MA.
2011 GALLERY A3, Amherst, MA “In Dialogue" Invitational
2010 EASTHAMPTON CITY ARTS, Easthampton, MA", Small Works" Group Invitational
2000 -2019 KENDALL GALLERY, Wellfleet, MA Group Exhibitions.
2000 HAMPDEN GALLERY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Drawing Marathon Exhibition”, Amherst, MA
HERTER GALLERY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Juried Invitational: Drawings, Painting and Sculpture”
2000 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, Main Gallery, Amherst, MA
“Five College Drawing Juried Invitational”
1999-WHEELER GALLERY, University of MA, Amherst, MA
Juried Invitational: “Evidence of Feminism; paintings and sculpture”
teaching:
2020-Present: Grounding Stone Farm Artist Retreat: Landscape Painting and Drawing
2016 – Present, Strabo Tours; International Painting/Drawing Workshop Instructor to Europe
2015-2020
CONCORD ART: Concord, MA. Instructor, Drawing, Painting, Color, Art History
“Small Format Landscape Painting: Seeing Color from Nature with Kathleen Jacobs.”
Three Day Workshops combining Studio Work and Plein Air Painting.
2016 - 2018 SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER, Cohasset, MA, Painting Instructor/Visiting Artist
2016 - 2020 CULLOWHEE MOUNTAIN ARTS, South Carolina; Painting Instructor
2016 – 2019 WAYNE ART CENTER, Philadelphia, Painting Instructor.
2015 - 2017 BLUEWAY ART ALLIANCE, Florence, MA, Founder, Director, Painting Instructor
2011 - Present TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
Painting/Drawing Instructor,
2003-2004 B’NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION SCHOOL, Northampton, MA
Visiting Resident Artist: Painting Instructor
1996 - 1999 GUILD STUDIO SCHOOL, Easthampton, MA, Painting Instructor
Publications/news
2018 iNK CT; Spatial Contextual Awareness, Kathleen Jacobs and Rick Fox
https://inkct.com/Ink-Calendar-Page/spatial-contextual-awareness/
2016 Amherst Bulletin “ Blueway Alliance looks to Forge Artistic Community”: https://www.amherstbulletin.com/Archives/2016/02/26artBlueway-hg-022616
2015 Ivoryton: Six Summit Gallery show opens Aug. 22 https://www.middletownpress.com/arts/article/Ivoryton-Six-Summit-Gallery-show-opens-Aug-22-11810863.php
2013 Interview with Chris Volpe “Tranquility Amidst Chaos”: http://christophervolpe.blogspot.com/2013/09/tranquility-amidst-chaos-interview-with.html
Curated Exhibitions
2019 Mel Carr Gallery, “Smallish: An Exhibit of Small Works” Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT
Katheen Jacobs, Nancy Gruskin, E.B Lehman Stuart Shils, Martha Wakefield
2013 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts: Amherst, MA.
“50 Shades of Red”, Co-curated with Trevor Richardson and the Director of the University’s Hampden Gallery, Anne LaPrade Seuthe.
2012 TWO PAINTERS, (two friends): Main Campus Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts
Stuart Shils, Ken Kewley, Truro, Massachusetts.
Visiting Artist/Lectures:
2018 MELANIE CARR GALLERY: Essex, Connecticut.
In conjunction with 2-person exhibit: Kathleen Jacobs + Rick Fox: Spatial Contextual Awareness.
2016 CONCORD ART: Concord, MA. Public Lecture, “A Reconsideration of Nature in the Post 9/11 Age of Climate Change - In conjunction with three-day workshop.
2015 MAIN STREET GALLERY: WELLFLEET, MA,
"RECREATING THE LANDSACPE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
2013 BOSTON COLLEGE: Boston, MA. “Reconstructed Landscape Paintings:
A Reconsideration of Nature In the Post 9/11 Age of Climate Change
Grants/Awards:
1996 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: Amherst, MA
Chancellor Talent Award/Full tuition scholarship
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: Amherst MA
ART FUND SCHOLARSHIP : La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France
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Related professional experience:
2020 – 2022 CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART, Director of Education, Manchester, NH
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2015 – 2020 CONCORD CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS, Concord, MA, Marketing and Education Directory, Event Coordinator.
2016 – Present STRABO INTERNATIONAL, NY: Painting Workshops Instructor
2015 - 2017 BLUEWAY ART ALLIANCE, Florence, MA, Founder/Director
2011 - 2015 TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Truro Center for the Arts, Marketing Director/Event Coordinator/Painting Instructor, Truro, MA
1986 -2011 Barron & Jacobs, Inc, Northampton, MA, Principal/Marketing & Publicity Director