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Steve Whittlesey
Studio Furniture and Sculpture Created with Salvaged Materials since 1962

Complete Resume

Stephen Whittlesey
1560 Main Street
West Barnstable, MA 02668
508 954 3577 (studio)
508 362 2230 (home)

2007 - Sept - Jan, featured artist, group exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum
2007 - Feb - Mar, 'Quiet Time,' group exhibition, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, curator Diane Katsiaficas
2006-07 - Nov.- Jan, Book Arts Exhibition, University Art Gallery, UMASS Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2006 - Sept - Oct “Trashformations,” 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,” group exhibition, Copia Center, Napa, CA
2005 - June-Aug, “The Other Side - A Tradition of Alternatives,” online group exhibition, curated by Seb Hamamjian, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design
2005 - Nov - Jan, group exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum
2005 - Oct.20, 7:30 p.m., featured on Chronicle, WCVB Ch 5, Boston
2005 - November, “Under Cover” group exhibition, NAGA gallery, Boston
2005 - March-May, group exhibition, “Scratching the Surface,” Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge
2005 - Jan-May, Group Exhibition, “Trashformations,” 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 - Nov - Feb,2004, 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, 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
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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
1992 - November, two-person show, Outside-In Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 - May, group show, “Selections from the Peter Joseph Gallery,” Gallery Naga, Boston
1992 - Present, Head of the Graduate Wood, Furniture Design, & Interdisciplinary Studies Studio, Artisanry Department, UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford campus
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
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
1985 - Elements Gallery, group show
1984 - December, group show, Gallery at Workbench
1982 - Solo show, paintings & sculptural furniture, Horticultural Hall, Boston
1973 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston
1972 - Group show, sculptural furniture, Brockton Art Museum
1965 - M.F.A. Columbia University, Program in the Arts
1962 - B.A. Columbia University

Awards/Grants:

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

Media:

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, December 28, Cape Furniture Maker, by Andre Van der Wende, Review of Boston MFA furniture show, interview with artist.
Boston Globe, November 23, "The Maker’s Hand" by Christine Temin
New Bedford Standard Times, November 16, "The Maker’s Hand" by David Boyce
New Bedford Standard Times, October 12, "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," by Asa Christiana
Woodwork Magazine, October 2002, Review and images of the John Elder Gallery solo show
"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
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
The Oral History Collection, Columbia University,R.Polsky, l990
American Craft Magazine, cover story, Dec ‘86/Jan ‘87 issue
New York Magazine, 11/12/84