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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
Silversmiths Guild, Group Exhibitions, Detroit
- Bank and
Trust Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. 1978-80
- Michigan
Silversmiths 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
Silversmiths Competition, Levers House, New York, New York.
1977
- Cranbrook
Metalsmiths 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
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