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 B.A. Art History, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1975 Printmaking, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 Scientific Illustration, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Exhibits
Group
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
Solo
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
Publications - 1992 “Fostering the Green Aracari” American Federation of Aviculture
Teaching – 1997 Consultant, Aid to Artisans, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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
Video – 2003 “The Gardener”
2006 “The Clever One” Frontline
Book References to
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
Mentors
Mrs. Frederic Bartlett
S. Dillon Ripley
E.O. Wilson
Oliver Sacks
Vincent van Gogh
Alfred Russell Wallace
Leonardo da Vinci
Beryl Markham
Virginia Woolf
Education
1937 Born Cortland, NY
1955 Teaching blind children clay at Perkins School for the Blind
1955 Earned a scholarship to New Paltz
1959 B.A. Art History, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1975 Printmaking, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993 Scientific Illustration, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Exhibits
Group
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
Solo
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
Publications - 1992 “Fostering the Green Aracari” American Federation of Aviculture
Teaching – 1997 Consultant, Aid to Artisans, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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
Video – 2003 “The Gardener”
2006 “The Clever One” Frontline
Book References to
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
Mentors
Mrs. Frederic Bartlett
S. Dillon Ripley
E.O. Wilson
Oliver Sacks
Vincent van Gogh
Alfred Russell Wallace
Leonardo da Vinci
Beryl Markham
Virginia Woolf
