Mary Jo McConnell Education
1937 Born Cortland, NY
1955 Teaching blind children clay at Perkins School for the Blind
1955 Earned a scholarship to New Paltz
1959 BA Art History, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1975 Printmaking, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 Scientific Illustration, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Group Exhibits
1991 Krakow, Poland, International Print Triennals
1988 Marblehead, MA, Marblehead Arts Festival Jurors Exhibit
1989 Bhopal, India, Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints
1989 Chiba, Japan, Takaharu Akabane
1994 Krakow, Poland, International Print Triennals
2001 Boston University “Strange Attractor: In the Orbit of the Artist”
2008 Gettysburg, PA, Gettysburg Festival
Shows
1993 Christopher Brodigan Gallery, Groton, MA
1994 Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
2002 Clara Wainwright Studio, Boston, MA
2003 Christopher Brodigan Gallery, Groton, MA
2003 Teri Jo Gallery, Marblehead, MA
2003 The Gardener Gallery, Berkley, CA
2004 Teri Jo Gallery, Marblehead, MA
2008 The Studio, Marblehead, MA
Sept. 2009 Dowling Walsh, Rockland, ME
Oct. 2009 Montseratt School of Art, Beverly, MA 
Apr. 2010 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA 
Jun. 29, 2010 PBS Frontline/World Documentary 
Jul. - Aug. 2010 Frying Pan Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Publications
1992 “Fostering the Green Aracari” American Federation of Aviculture
Teaching
1997-1998 Consultant,Aid to Artisans, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Lectures
1996 Universitas Cendrawashi, Indonesia
2002 Wainwright Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Groton School, Groton, MA
2003 Berkeley, CA
2003 Terri Jo Gallery, Marblehead, MA
Sept. 2009 Dowling Walsh, Rockland, ME
Oct. 2009 Montseratt School of Art, Beverly, MA
Apr. 2010 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Jun. 29, 2010 PBS Frontline/World Documentary
Video
2003 “The Gardener”
2006 “The Clever One” Frontline
Book References
2001 “Leaving a Trace” by Alexandra Johnson, New York: Little, Brown
2003 “Bower Birds” by Frith and Frith, Australia
2004 “Obsessions” by Steve Calloway, London: Mitchell Beasley