Steve Whittlesey
Complete Resume
2017 - Group Exhibition, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, acquisition of In-House to the museum collection
2016 - July - August, group exhibition, Cape Museum of Fine Arts
2014 - December 6, 2014 - July 12, 2015, Crafting a Collection: Fuller Craft Museum Recent Acquisitions, Brockton, MA
2013 - October 12 -February 9, 2014, Made in Massachusetts, Studio Furniture of the Bay State, group exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
2012 - November 2 - February 16, 2013, "Your Personal Hangups" invitational exhibition, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, curated by Gail M. Brown
2012 - August 12 - September 23, solo exhibition, Post Office Gallery, N. Truro, MA
2012 - May, 2012- May, 2013, Visitors, a sculptural installation at the Slocum River Project, South Dartmouth, MA
2012 - May 16 - Nov. 2, The River Project 2012 - Thoughts and Processes, group exhibition, Gustin Gallery, South Dartmouth, MA
2011 - June/July, group exhibition, DeDee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
2010-2011 - group exhibition, In the Unequal Cross-Lights, Contemporary Sculptors Respond to the Whaling Museum Collections, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
2010 - October, public lecture and teaching week-long creative design workshop at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2010 - September-October, We, Us, You and I, three-person exhibition, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River
2010 - June – Six Degrees of Separation, Group Exhibition, MIT, Compton gallery, Furniture Society Conference 2010
2010 - March – For North Bennet Street, Group Exhibition, Gallery Naga
2009 - Nov-Dec – Group Exhibition, Art Gone Green, The Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College
2009 - Oct-Nov – Group Exhibition, Wood-O-Rama, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY, 2nd place award
2009 - Oct – Jan 2010 – Group Exhibition, Generously Odd: Craft Now, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY
2009 - July-Aug, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2009 - May 28 – June 26, All Media Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River
2008 - Oct – Nov, group exhibition, Green Design Center, Mashpee, MA
2008 - July-Aug, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2008 - Jan-March – group exhibition, 29th Annual Contemporary Craft, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, Michael Monroe, juror. Award winner.
2007 - Aug – Sept, group exhibition, Fiber National, Juried, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA
2007 - Sept – Nov, solo exhibition, New Bedford Museum of Fine Arts, New Bedford, MA
2007 - Feb – May, “Trashformations II” traveling group exhibition, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth
2007 - Feb – Mar, 'Quiet Time,' group exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, curator Diane Katsiaficas
2006 - Sept - Oct “Trashformations II,” group exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2006 - May - July, “Old Friends, New Work,” Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
2006 - Jan-May “Trashformations II,” group exhibition, Copia Center, Napa, CA
2005 - Nov - Jan, group exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum
2005 - Oct.20, 7:30 p.m., featured in Chronicle, WCVB Ch 5, Boston
2005 - November, “Under Cover” group exhibition, NAGA gallery, Boston
2005 - May-Oct, “Point of View–Artist’s Collections” group exhibition, Museum of Craft & Design,N.C.
2005 - Jan-May, Group Exhibition, “Trashformations II,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2004 - July-Sept, group online exhibition, "Distinguished Chairs" jurors Roseanne Somerson, Michael Monroe
2004 - Oct - Jan, group exhibition, “Outrageous Home,” Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2004 - June - July, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2004 - April – July, group exhibition, "The Perfect Collection" Fuller Craft Museum
2003 - 2004 - Nov - Feb, survey exhibition, "The Maker’s Hand -Studio Furniture 1940 - 1990," Boston Museum of Fine Arts
2003 - Sept- Dec, group exhibition, "Craft Transformed–Program in Artisanry 1985-2002," University Art Gallery, UMASS Dartmouth, New Bedford
2003 - Sept - Oct, group exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge
2003 - June-July, group exhibition,"Naughty: Erotic Art - Furniture For Sex," John Elder Gallery, NYC
2003 - June - September, group exhibition, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2003 - June-Sept, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Me.
2002 - Oct-Nov, group exhibition, Artworks Gallery, New Bedford
2002 - Oct-Nov, group exhibition, "The Chair" curated by Sam Maloof, Worcester Center for Craft
2002 - May-June, group exhibition, "Max 24" Wide," Gallery Naga & Clark Gallery, Boston
2002 - April-May, solo exhibition, John Elder Gallery, 529 W2 NYC
2001 - May, group show, "Le Bain," Gallery Naga, Boston
2000 - December, group show, What Artists Collect, New Bedford Museum of Art
2000 - September, group show, Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, MA
2000 - June-August, solo show, Art Works at Dover Street, New Bedford
2000 - April, solo show, John Elder Gallery, New York City
2000 - April - May, group show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2000 - May, PBS, Boston, featured on Greater Boston Arts
1998 - Jan - Feb, solo show, John Elder Gallery, New York City (see review American Craft Magazine, June-July, 1998)
1997 - 2001, traveling group show, "Trashformations" - eighty artists working with reclaimed materials, curated by Lloyd Herman
1997 - October, group shows, "Living Room, Dining Room, Gallery," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, and Naga Gallery, Boston
1997 - Summer, Installation, "Close to Home" at the Fuller Museum, Brockton, Ma. (See review, Sculpture Mag.)
1997 - April, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1996 - July-August, group show, “Artists Choose Artists,” Peter Joseph Gallery, N.Y.C.
1996 - April, group show, Gallery Naga, Boston
1996 - Feb - March, group show, “Sit on It,” Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1995 - June-July group show, “Yankee Mystique,” Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis MA
1994 - December - January, solo show, Snyderman Gallery
1994 - Nov -Dec, featured artist, annual salon show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
1994 - October, group show, "Lighting", Naga/Clark Galleries,
1994 - August, group show, “New Directions in Crafts,” Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston
1993 - November, "Furniture Fantasy", group show, Susquehanna Art Museum, Pa.
1993 - May, Triennial, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton
1992 - December, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Phildelphia
1992 - November, two-person show, Outside-In Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 - May, group show, “Selections from the Peter Joseph Gallery,” Gallery Naga, Boston
1991 - October, "Contemporary Furniture Makers of the Northeast," Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton NJ
1991 - May, "Chairs" group show, Gallery Naga & Clark Gallery, Boston
1991 - May, group show, Objects Gallery, Chicago
1990 - December, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1990 - July-August, "Eight Artists, Eight Visions," group show, deCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
1989 - December, "Contemporary Furniture: 13 Major Figures", Gallery Naga, Boston
1989 - December, "American Studio Furniture" group show, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
1989 - October, solo show, Heller Gallery, New York City
1988 - April, "Elegant Wit", group show, Gallery Naga, Boston
1988 - August, "Bits and Pieces" group show, Fuller Art Museum
1988 - Gallery at Workbench, New York City, two-person show
1987 - Gallery at Workbench, group show
1986 - Gallery at Workbench, two-person show
1985 - Elements Gallery, group show
1984 - December, group show, Gallery at Workbench
1982 - Solo show, paintings & sculptural furniture, Horticultural Hall, Boston
1982 - Group show, paintings, Gallery 281, Boston
1973 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston
1972 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Brockton Art Center
1965 - M.F.A. Columbia University, Program in the Arts
1962 - B.A. Columbia University, School of General Studies
Grants, Awards
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
2008 - Jurors' Choice Award, Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Mesa Arts Center
1999 - June, Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist Award
1993 - Sep - Dec., Artists’ Residency Program (National Endowment of the Arts), La Napoule, France
1992 - National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1967-68 - Fulbright Grant to Spain
Education
BA, MFA - Columbia University
Teaching:
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Professor, Artisanry Dept. 1992-2010
Cape Cod Community College – 1988, Life-Drawing Instructor
Brockton Art Center (now the Fuller Museum) - 1972, Creative Woodworking, Instructor
Parsons School of Design -1966, Life-Drawing Instructor
Rutgers University, Newark - 1966, Painting, Introduction to Art Instructor
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - creative woodworking workshops, most recent: June, 2014
Visiting Artist Lectures:
2010 - Public lecture, week-long seminar, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
1991 - Program in Artisanry, UMASS Dartmouth
1990 - University of the Arts, Philadelphia
1990 - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1989 - Harbourfront Studios, Toronto, lecture, weekend workshop
1988 - RISD – Studio furniture program
1988 - Cape Cod Community College – College speaker series
1988 - Program in Artisanry, UMASS Dartmouth
Awards/Grants:
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
1999 - June, Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist Award
1993 - September - Dec., Artists’ Residency Program (National Endowment of the Arts), La Napoule, France
1992 - National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1967 - Fulbright Grant to Spain, one year
Collections:
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Daniel and Jennifer Dietrich
Pat and Judy Coady
David and Elisabeth Reese
Lisa Bonet
Jacqueline Onassis
Jay and Linda Sandrich
Ruth and Rick Snyderman
Roger and Pat Milgrim
Ruth Raible
Bonnie Erickson and Wayde Harrison
Anne Winkelmann
Joseph and Peg Dietzgen
Dudley Moore
Barbara Lee
Pam and Curtis Johnson
William Mackey
Ann Bora
Bernice Wollman
Delta Burke
Marc and Dd Swan
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
James and Sheila Barry
Brian and Claire Hochleutner
Megan and George Bonnevie
Susan and Frederick Thorne
Thomas and Heidi Sarles Whittlesey
William and Karen Watt
Raoul de Jesus
Media:
Cape Cod Art, Profiles in Art: Steve Whittlesey, 2013, five images, text
Tables, Linda Kopp, editor, Lark Crafts, Sterling Publishing, NYC, 2011, two image
Found Object Art 2, Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing, 2009, nine images/text
Lark Books, 500 Tables, R. Hemachandra, editor, four images
New England Home, March/April 2008 issue, feature article
New Bedford Standard Times, 12/21/07, Tales from the Wood, by Catherine Carter, feature article regarding solo exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum
American Craft Magazine, “From Salvage to Transcendence,” Dec/Jan 2007
The Minnesota Daily, 3/5/07, “Quiet Time/Love’s Labour”
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, 8/10/07, Fiber National, Lancaster Museum of Art, review
Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/19/07, review of Fiber National exhibition at Lancaster Museum of Art
WCVB TV, Channel 5, Chronicle, feature in conjunction with Fuller Museum exhibition
Boston Globe, 1/30/05, “Recycle, Reuse, Display” write-up Fuller show
Boston Globe, 1/27/05, “Objectively Speaking,” image, write-up
Boston MFA Publications, 2003, “The Maker’s Hand - American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990,” written by Ned Cooke and Jonathan Fairbanks, published in conjunction with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts furniture exhibition.
Cape Cod Times, Dec. 28, 2003, Cape Furniture Maker, by Andre Van der Wende, Review of Boston MFA furniture show, artist interview.
Boston Globe, November 23, 2003 "The Maker’s Hand" by Christine Temin
New Bedford Standard Times, November 16, 2003 "The Maker’s Hand" by David Boyce
New Bedford Standard Times, October 12, 2003 "Craft Transformed" by David Boyce
The Crafts Report, July, 2003, "Ten Years Later with Furniture Artist, Stephen Whittlesey," Monique Holloway
Fine Woodworking Magazine, April 2003, Image of work & review of Worcester Craft Center Exhibition, "The Chair," Curated by Sam Maloof
Woodwork Magazine, October 2002, Review and images of the John Elder Gallery solo
"Scratching the Surface, Art & Content in Contemporary Wood," a book by Michael Hosaluk, published 2002
New Bedford Standard Times, 4/10/2002, "Funky & Elegant," by David Boyce, a review of the 2002 John Elder Gallery solo show
Boston Globe, 5/10/01, Gallery Naga Exhibit, Review by C. Temin
Boston Globe, 10/2/00, Duxbury Museum Exhibit, Review by C. Temin
Boston Globe, 1/24/2000, "Perspectives - Showing the Public Publicly Funded Art," Temin
Greater Boston Arts, a television program devoted to three contemporary artists, first aired: April 19, 2000
American Craft Magazine, June-July ‘98, article by Michael Rush about solo show at John Elder Gallery, NYC
Sculpture Magazine, Jan-Feb ‘98 review of installation, "Close to Home" at the Fuller Museum, by Ann Wilson Lloyd
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 1, 1995, Review of solo show at Snyderman Gallery by E. J. Sozanski
Art New England, Dec.‘94 - Jan.‘95, Profile of Stephen Whittlesey by Lois Tarlow,
New York Times, 10/27/91
Woodwork Magazine, cover story, Spring ‘91 issue
Design Spirit, Winter 1991, Feature article, Old Wood, New Visions, Marc Swan
The Oral History Collection, Columbia University,R.Polsky, l990
Boston Globe, 7/18/90, “DeCordova’s Good Idea” Christine Temin
Cape Cod Life Magazine, Apr-May ’90, “Sculpting Emotion” by Marc Swan
Art and Man Magazine, 12/’88 – 1/89
Artforms – An Introduction to the Visual Arts, Duane and Sarah Preble, fourth edition, Harper & Row
Christian Science Monitor, 10/3/88 “Art is a Chair” by Ellen Steese
Metropolitan Home, Nov ’88, “A Show of Hands” by Lisa Hammel
Boston Globe, 10/2/88, “Making Like the Medici” Christine Temin
“Contemporary American Craft – A Collector’s Guide” by Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City
Home Magazine, July ‘88
House Beautiful, July ‘88
Woodshop News, Apr ‘88
Newsday Magazine, Feb ‘88
Boston Globe, 4/22/88
New England Monthly, Mar. ‘88
Boston Globe, 2/19/88
Metropolitan Home, Dec., ‘87
House and Garden, July ‘87
House Beautiful, Apr. ‘87
American Craft Magazine, cover story, Dec ‘86/Jan ‘87 issue
Best Report, Apr. ‘85
House Beautiful, Apr. ‘85
NY Times, 2/10/85, article w/images
Workshop Magazine, Jan. ’85, Elisabeth Goldman
The New Yorker, 11/26/88, write-up of the Workbench exhibition
New York Magazine, 11/12/84, image/write-up of the Workbench exhibition
Complete Resume
2017 - Group Exhibition, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, acquisition of In-House to the museum collection
2016 - July - August, group exhibition, Cape Museum of Fine Arts
2014 - December 6, 2014 - July 12, 2015, Crafting a Collection: Fuller Craft Museum Recent Acquisitions, Brockton, MA
2013 - October 12 -February 9, 2014, Made in Massachusetts, Studio Furniture of the Bay State, group exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
2012 - November 2 - February 16, 2013, "Your Personal Hangups" invitational exhibition, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, curated by Gail M. Brown
2012 - August 12 - September 23, solo exhibition, Post Office Gallery, N. Truro, MA
2012 - May, 2012- May, 2013, Visitors, a sculptural installation at the Slocum River Project, South Dartmouth, MA
2012 - May 16 - Nov. 2, The River Project 2012 - Thoughts and Processes, group exhibition, Gustin Gallery, South Dartmouth, MA
2011 - June/July, group exhibition, DeDee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
2010-2011 - group exhibition, In the Unequal Cross-Lights, Contemporary Sculptors Respond to the Whaling Museum Collections, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
2010 - October, public lecture and teaching week-long creative design workshop at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2010 - September-October, We, Us, You and I, three-person exhibition, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River
2010 - June – Six Degrees of Separation, Group Exhibition, MIT, Compton gallery, Furniture Society Conference 2010
2010 - March – For North Bennet Street, Group Exhibition, Gallery Naga
2009 - Nov-Dec – Group Exhibition, Art Gone Green, The Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College
2009 - Oct-Nov – Group Exhibition, Wood-O-Rama, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah KY, 2nd place award
2009 - Oct – Jan 2010 – Group Exhibition, Generously Odd: Craft Now, Lexington Art League, Lexington KY
2009 - July-Aug, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2009 - May 28 – June 26, All Media Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River
2008 - Oct – Nov, group exhibition, Green Design Center, Mashpee, MA
2008 - July-Aug, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2008 - Jan-March – group exhibition, 29th Annual Contemporary Craft, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, Michael Monroe, juror. Award winner.
2007 - Aug – Sept, group exhibition, Fiber National, Juried, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA
2007 - Sept – Nov, solo exhibition, New Bedford Museum of Fine Arts, New Bedford, MA
2007 - Feb – May, “Trashformations II” traveling group exhibition, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth
2007 - Feb – Mar, 'Quiet Time,' group exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, curator Diane Katsiaficas
2006 - Sept - Oct “Trashformations II,” group exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2006 - May - July, “Old Friends, New Work,” Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
2006 - Jan-May “Trashformations II,” group exhibition, Copia Center, Napa, CA
2005 - Nov - Jan, group exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum
2005 - Oct.20, 7:30 p.m., featured in Chronicle, WCVB Ch 5, Boston
2005 - November, “Under Cover” group exhibition, NAGA gallery, Boston
2005 - May-Oct, “Point of View–Artist’s Collections” group exhibition, Museum of Craft & Design,N.C.
2005 - Jan-May, Group Exhibition, “Trashformations II,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2004 - July-Sept, group online exhibition, "Distinguished Chairs" jurors Roseanne Somerson, Michael Monroe
2004 - Oct - Jan, group exhibition, “Outrageous Home,” Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2004 - June - July, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2004 - April – July, group exhibition, "The Perfect Collection" Fuller Craft Museum
2003 - 2004 - Nov - Feb, survey exhibition, "The Maker’s Hand -Studio Furniture 1940 - 1990," Boston Museum of Fine Arts
2003 - Sept- Dec, group exhibition, "Craft Transformed–Program in Artisanry 1985-2002," University Art Gallery, UMASS Dartmouth, New Bedford
2003 - Sept - Oct, group exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge
2003 - June-July, group exhibition,"Naughty: Erotic Art - Furniture For Sex," John Elder Gallery, NYC
2003 - June - September, group exhibition, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2003 - June-Sept, group exhibition, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Me.
2002 - Oct-Nov, group exhibition, Artworks Gallery, New Bedford
2002 - Oct-Nov, group exhibition, "The Chair" curated by Sam Maloof, Worcester Center for Craft
2002 - May-June, group exhibition, "Max 24" Wide," Gallery Naga & Clark Gallery, Boston
2002 - April-May, solo exhibition, John Elder Gallery, 529 W2 NYC
2001 - May, group show, "Le Bain," Gallery Naga, Boston
2000 - December, group show, What Artists Collect, New Bedford Museum of Art
2000 - September, group show, Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, MA
2000 - June-August, solo show, Art Works at Dover Street, New Bedford
2000 - April, solo show, John Elder Gallery, New York City
2000 - April - May, group show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2000 - May, PBS, Boston, featured on Greater Boston Arts
1998 - Jan - Feb, solo show, John Elder Gallery, New York City (see review American Craft Magazine, June-July, 1998)
1997 - 2001, traveling group show, "Trashformations" - eighty artists working with reclaimed materials, curated by Lloyd Herman
1997 - October, group shows, "Living Room, Dining Room, Gallery," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, and Naga Gallery, Boston
1997 - Summer, Installation, "Close to Home" at the Fuller Museum, Brockton, Ma. (See review, Sculpture Mag.)
1997 - April, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1996 - July-August, group show, “Artists Choose Artists,” Peter Joseph Gallery, N.Y.C.
1996 - April, group show, Gallery Naga, Boston
1996 - Feb - March, group show, “Sit on It,” Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1995 - June-July group show, “Yankee Mystique,” Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis MA
1994 - December - January, solo show, Snyderman Gallery
1994 - Nov -Dec, featured artist, annual salon show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
1994 - October, group show, "Lighting", Naga/Clark Galleries,
1994 - August, group show, “New Directions in Crafts,” Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston
1993 - November, "Furniture Fantasy", group show, Susquehanna Art Museum, Pa.
1993 - May, Triennial, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton
1992 - December, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Phildelphia
1992 - November, two-person show, Outside-In Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 - May, group show, “Selections from the Peter Joseph Gallery,” Gallery Naga, Boston
1991 - October, "Contemporary Furniture Makers of the Northeast," Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton NJ
1991 - May, "Chairs" group show, Gallery Naga & Clark Gallery, Boston
1991 - May, group show, Objects Gallery, Chicago
1990 - December, solo show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia
1990 - July-August, "Eight Artists, Eight Visions," group show, deCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
1989 - December, "Contemporary Furniture: 13 Major Figures", Gallery Naga, Boston
1989 - December, "American Studio Furniture" group show, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
1989 - October, solo show, Heller Gallery, New York City
1988 - April, "Elegant Wit", group show, Gallery Naga, Boston
1988 - August, "Bits and Pieces" group show, Fuller Art Museum
1988 - Gallery at Workbench, New York City, two-person show
1987 - Gallery at Workbench, group show
1986 - Gallery at Workbench, two-person show
1985 - Elements Gallery, group show
1984 - December, group show, Gallery at Workbench
1982 - Solo show, paintings & sculptural furniture, Horticultural Hall, Boston
1982 - Group show, paintings, Gallery 281, Boston
1973 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston
1972 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Brockton Art Center
1965 - M.F.A. Columbia University, Program in the Arts
1962 - B.A. Columbia University, School of General Studies
Grants, Awards
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
2008 - Jurors' Choice Award, Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Mesa Arts Center
1999 - June, Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist Award
1993 - Sep - Dec., Artists’ Residency Program (National Endowment of the Arts), La Napoule, France
1992 - National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1967-68 - Fulbright Grant to Spain
Education
BA, MFA - Columbia University
Teaching:
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Professor, Artisanry Dept. 1992-2010
Cape Cod Community College – 1988, Life-Drawing Instructor
Brockton Art Center (now the Fuller Museum) - 1972, Creative Woodworking, Instructor
Parsons School of Design -1966, Life-Drawing Instructor
Rutgers University, Newark - 1966, Painting, Introduction to Art Instructor
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - creative woodworking workshops, most recent: June, 2014
Visiting Artist Lectures:
2010 - Public lecture, week-long seminar, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
1991 - Program in Artisanry, UMASS Dartmouth
1990 - University of the Arts, Philadelphia
1990 - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1989 - Harbourfront Studios, Toronto, lecture, weekend workshop
1988 - RISD – Studio furniture program
1988 - Cape Cod Community College – College speaker series
1988 - Program in Artisanry, UMASS Dartmouth
Awards/Grants:
2013 - Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist award
1999 - June, Mass Cultural Council Individual Artist Award
1993 - September - Dec., Artists’ Residency Program (National Endowment of the Arts), La Napoule, France
1992 - National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1967 - Fulbright Grant to Spain, one year
Collections:
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Daniel and Jennifer Dietrich
Pat and Judy Coady
David and Elisabeth Reese
Lisa Bonet
Jacqueline Onassis
Jay and Linda Sandrich
Ruth and Rick Snyderman
Roger and Pat Milgrim
Ruth Raible
Bonnie Erickson and Wayde Harrison
Anne Winkelmann
Joseph and Peg Dietzgen
Dudley Moore
Barbara Lee
Pam and Curtis Johnson
William Mackey
Ann Bora
Bernice Wollman
Delta Burke
Marc and Dd Swan
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
James and Sheila Barry
Brian and Claire Hochleutner
Megan and George Bonnevie
Susan and Frederick Thorne
Thomas and Heidi Sarles Whittlesey
William and Karen Watt
Raoul de Jesus
Media:
Cape Cod Art, Profiles in Art: Steve Whittlesey, 2013, five images, text
Tables, Linda Kopp, editor, Lark Crafts, Sterling Publishing, NYC, 2011, two image
Found Object Art 2, Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing, 2009, nine images/text
Lark Books, 500 Tables, R. Hemachandra, editor, four images
New England Home, March/April 2008 issue, feature article
New Bedford Standard Times, 12/21/07, Tales from the Wood, by Catherine Carter, feature article regarding solo exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum
American Craft Magazine, “From Salvage to Transcendence,” Dec/Jan 2007
The Minnesota Daily, 3/5/07, “Quiet Time/Love’s Labour”
Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, 8/10/07, Fiber National, Lancaster Museum of Art, review
Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/19/07, review of Fiber National exhibition at Lancaster Museum of Art
WCVB TV, Channel 5, Chronicle, feature in conjunction with Fuller Museum exhibition
Boston Globe, 1/30/05, “Recycle, Reuse, Display” write-up Fuller show
Boston Globe, 1/27/05, “Objectively Speaking,” image, write-up
Boston MFA Publications, 2003, “The Maker’s Hand - American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990,” written by Ned Cooke and Jonathan Fairbanks, published in conjunction with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts furniture exhibition.
Cape Cod Times, Dec. 28, 2003, Cape Furniture Maker, by Andre Van der Wende, Review of Boston MFA furniture show, artist interview.
Boston Globe, November 23, 2003 "The Maker’s Hand" by Christine Temin
New Bedford Standard Times, November 16, 2003 "The Maker’s Hand" by David Boyce
New Bedford Standard Times, October 12, 2003 "Craft Transformed" by David Boyce
The Crafts Report, July, 2003, "Ten Years Later with Furniture Artist, Stephen Whittlesey," Monique Holloway
Fine Woodworking Magazine, April 2003, Image of work & review of Worcester Craft Center Exhibition, "The Chair," Curated by Sam Maloof
Woodwork Magazine, October 2002, Review and images of the John Elder Gallery solo
"Scratching the Surface, Art & Content in Contemporary Wood," a book by Michael Hosaluk, published 2002
New Bedford Standard Times, 4/10/2002, "Funky & Elegant," by David Boyce, a review of the 2002 John Elder Gallery solo show
Boston Globe, 5/10/01, Gallery Naga Exhibit, Review by C. Temin
Boston Globe, 10/2/00, Duxbury Museum Exhibit, Review by C. Temin
Boston Globe, 1/24/2000, "Perspectives - Showing the Public Publicly Funded Art," Temin
Greater Boston Arts, a television program devoted to three contemporary artists, first aired: April 19, 2000
American Craft Magazine, June-July ‘98, article by Michael Rush about solo show at John Elder Gallery, NYC
Sculpture Magazine, Jan-Feb ‘98 review of installation, "Close to Home" at the Fuller Museum, by Ann Wilson Lloyd
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 1, 1995, Review of solo show at Snyderman Gallery by E. J. Sozanski
Art New England, Dec.‘94 - Jan.‘95, Profile of Stephen Whittlesey by Lois Tarlow,
New York Times, 10/27/91
Woodwork Magazine, cover story, Spring ‘91 issue
Design Spirit, Winter 1991, Feature article, Old Wood, New Visions, Marc Swan
The Oral History Collection, Columbia University,R.Polsky, l990
Boston Globe, 7/18/90, “DeCordova’s Good Idea” Christine Temin
Cape Cod Life Magazine, Apr-May ’90, “Sculpting Emotion” by Marc Swan
Art and Man Magazine, 12/’88 – 1/89
Artforms – An Introduction to the Visual Arts, Duane and Sarah Preble, fourth edition, Harper & Row
Christian Science Monitor, 10/3/88 “Art is a Chair” by Ellen Steese
Metropolitan Home, Nov ’88, “A Show of Hands” by Lisa Hammel
Boston Globe, 10/2/88, “Making Like the Medici” Christine Temin
“Contemporary American Craft – A Collector’s Guide” by Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City
Home Magazine, July ‘88
House Beautiful, July ‘88
Woodshop News, Apr ‘88
Newsday Magazine, Feb ‘88
Boston Globe, 4/22/88
New England Monthly, Mar. ‘88
Boston Globe, 2/19/88
Metropolitan Home, Dec., ‘87
House and Garden, July ‘87
House Beautiful, Apr. ‘87
American Craft Magazine, cover story, Dec ‘86/Jan ‘87 issue
Best Report, Apr. ‘85
House Beautiful, Apr. ‘85
NY Times, 2/10/85, article w/images
Workshop Magazine, Jan. ’85, Elisabeth Goldman
The New Yorker, 11/26/88, write-up of the Workbench exhibition
New York Magazine, 11/12/84, image/write-up of the Workbench exhibition
