John D. Wittersheim
Siena Heights University
1247 Siena Heights Drive
Adrian, Michigan 49221
(517) 264-7865

Present - 9/79
Present Professor of Art/Head of Metalsmithing and Sculpture
Siena Heights College, Adrian, Michigan

Education and Related Experiences:

9/79 - 5/78
Master of Fine Arts, Metalsmithing Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

9/74 - 4/76
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Metalsmithing and Ceramics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

9/71 - 4/74
Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan

Commissions:

Historian and Principle Coordinator Member for ”Millennium Project”, Sculpture. Lenawee County, Michigan 2000

Sisters of the Precious Blood/ Salem Heights Motherhouse; Liturgical Ornaments. Inai Studio Project. Dayton, Ohio 1999

St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church; Liturgical Ornaments, Inai Studio Project. Lewisville, Texas 1997

Lenawee Historical Museum; Reproduction of the Roof Finial, Adrian, Michigan 1996

Monroe Street Methodist Church; Altar Cross, Toledo, Ohio 1993

Carmelite Monastery; Liturgical Ornaments, Inai Studio Project. Baltimore, Maryland 1991

Chapel of St. Catherine; Liturgical Ornaments, Inai Studio Project. Garden City, Kansas 1990

St. Perpetua Church; Altar Cross, Pontiac, Michigan 1989

Dominican Chapel/marywood; Liturgical Ornaments, Inai Studio Project. Grand Rapids, Michigan 1985

Assisting Craftsman for Cranbrook Community Mace, (designer Richard Thomas), 1977

Designer and Craftsman; Bracket Fixtures For Weaving, Detroit Renaissance Center (weaving Designer, Gerhardt Knodel), 1977

Exhibitions And Related Experience:

• Peninsula Art School - Regional Sculpture Exhibit Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI. 2002
• Hillsdale College – Sculptors of Michigan, Daughtery Gallery, Hillsdale, MI. 2001
• “Krasl Sculpture Invitational- Regional”- Krasl Gallery. St. Joseph, MI 2000
• “Group Exhibition”- Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts. Flatlanders Gallery and Croswell Opera Theater Gallery; Blissfield, MI and Adrian, MI 1999
• “Suspended In Space” - Paint Creek Center for the Arts. Rochester, Michigan. 1997
• “The Fire Of Hephaistos” Lecturer. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. 1996
• “The Made House: Michigan Artists Design for the Home” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1996
• “Four For Four” - Flatlanders Gallery, Curator of Furniture Exhibition, Blissfield, Michigan. 1995
• “Detail of a Plumb Bob” - Flatlanders Gallery, A Solo Exhibition, Blissfield, Michigan. 1995
• “Metalwork” - Croswell Opera House Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Adrian, Michigan. 1995
• “Artists Who Teach” - Flatlanders Gallery, Group Exhibition Blissfield, Michigan. 1994
• “Starting Point: Stone” - Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. 1990
• “Time, Material, Process” - Retrospective, Studio Angelico Gallery, Siena Heights College, Adrian, Michigan. 1989
• “The Art and Architecture of the Birdhouse” - Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, Michigan. 1988
• “Two Views In Metal” - Stubnitz Gallery, Adrian College Adrian, Michigan. 1987
• “Workers In Metal” - Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan. 1987
• “Metalsmiths, U.S.A.” - Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California. 1985
• “Michigan Metalsmiths” - Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Michigan. 1984
• Michigan Tech University, One-man Exhibition, Houghton, Michigan. 1983
• “Metalsmithing The Michigan Influence” - Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 1982
• Metalsmithing Juror, Ann Arbor Street Fair, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1980-82
• Five Week Japan Workshop, Tokyo, Japan (Parson School of Design, New York) 1981
• “Cutting Edge” - A National Traveling Exhibition, Louisville, Kentucky. 1981-82
• “Metalwork In Michigan” - Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan. 1981
• “Young Americans: Metal” - Museum Of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York. 1980-81
• University Of Michigan, Union Gallery, Two-man Exhibition, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1980
• “Three Cranbrook Graduates” - Sarnia Public Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. 1980
• Michigan Silversmith’s Guild, Group Exhibitions, Detroit
• Bank and Trust Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. 1978-80
• Michigan Silversmith’s Guild, Board Member and Exhibition Chairman. 1978-80
• J. Walter Thompson Building, Two-man Exhibition, Dearborn, Michigan. 1978
• Cranbrook Summer Shows, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 1977-78
• Sterling Silversmith’s Competition, Levers House, New York, New York. 1977
• Cranbrook Metalsmith’s Invitational, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1977
• Metal and Clay, Student Exhibition, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 1975
• Michigan Students Ceramic Invitational, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 1975
• Designer and Craftsman, Henry Ford Community College Mace 1974
• Demonstrating Craftsman, Art Train. 1973
• Eshelman Library Gallery, Two-man Ceramics Exhibition, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan. 1972