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SELECTED EXHIBITS:
2009 The Book as Art, Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA Feb. 15 to
May 31
2008 5th
International Book & Paper Arts Triennial, Columbia College
Chicago
Center for Bookand
Paper Arts, Chicago, IL catalog
2008
Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME
Artist Books, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME
Transparent/Opaque,
Abecedarian
Gallery, Denver, CO
Reading,
Writing, & Defining, USM, Lewiston, ME
Haystack:
Creative Process, Haystack gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Artists
Books, SUNY Oneonta, NY
Altered
Books, Minneapolis Central Library, MN
2007 Carver
Hill Gallery, Rockport, ME, 3 person show
Work
of the Hand, Center for ME Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Belfast
Poetry Festival, Phoenix Row Gallery, Belfast, ME
Book
Arts Show, Cambridge Artists’ Co-operative, Cambridge, MA
2006 Works with Paper: Artists’ Books, Univ. of the South, TN catalog
Hotel
Lenkerhof, Lenk, Switzerland
Book
as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, book
Contemporary
Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, catalog
The
Inspired Hand III, Atrium Gallery, USM/LA, Lewiston, ME
Poetry in Belfast, William Ryan
Gallery, Belfast, ME
Work
of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Fiber
& the Book Artist, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
2005 WordArt, Univ. of Cincinnati
College of Design, Cincinnati, OH
Work
of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Festivo, The William Ryan
Gallery, Belfast, ME
Center
for Book Arts 30th Anniversary Portfolio, Center for Book Arts, NYC
Response
and Resonance, Wellesley College Special Collections, MA catalog
The
Intensive Spirit, Steamboat Springs Arts Council, CO
Book
& Paper Show, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Book
Arts Show, Cambridge Artists’ Cooperative, Cambridge, MA
Books
by Hand, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME
2004 The
Inspired Hand, Atrium Art Gallery, USM, Lewiston, ME
Work
of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Book
as Art XV, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2004
Artist Members Juried Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, NYC
Word
& Image in the Contemporary Artist’s Book, Colby College, ME
Paper
Into Art, U. of Maine Presque
Isle, ME
Matter
& Spirit, Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
HIDDEN
WORDS:
Jan Owen and Martha Hall, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport,
ME
20/20
Envision, Maine Crafts Association, U of New England Art Gallery, Portland,
ME
2003 Bright
Hill Center National Book Arts Exhibition, Treadwell, NY
Truth
in the Inward Being, All Souls Congregational Church, Bangor, ME
20/20
Envision, Maine Crafts Association, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville,
ME
5th
Biennial Book Arts Show, Cambridge Artists' Cooperative, Cambridge, MA
Faculty
Exhibit, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Turtle
Gallery, Deer Isle, ME group shows
2002 International
Calligraphy Exhibition, Osimo, Italy and traveling
Biennial
2002,
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
Flag
Books, Oregon Book Arts Guild, OO
50th
Anniversary Exhibit, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
24th
Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2001 Book
as Art XII, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Book
Arts: Images & Words, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, MA
Calligraphic
Enigma, Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT
Faculty
Exhibit, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Turtle
Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Faculty
Exhibit, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
Krause
Gallery, Providence, RI
Women
in the Arts, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2000 Paper
and Arts Biennial 2000, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Book
Arts, Flaxman Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Book Show, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
The
Inspired Hand, Atrium Gallery, Lewiston, ME,
Turning
the Page, Newport Library Arts Center, NH
Print
Exchange, Bangor Heritage Centre, Northern Ireland
Bound
& Unbound, Books As Art, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, U. of Central
Arkansas, AK
Book
as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1999 Transforming Material, the Gallery at Vinalhaven Press,
Vinalhaven, ME
Book Arts: Images and Words, Cambridge Artists
Cooperative, Cambridge, MA
Arrowmont
National ‘99, Gatlinburg, TN
American Art, www.guild.com
1998 Book
as Art XI, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Bangor Symphony Orchestra Family
Concerts; brush marks on paste paper accompanying
'Rite of Spring' and projected above orchestra
Artists
Books, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
The
Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
1997 Paperwork, Maine Coast
Artists, Rockport, ME
Figuratively
Speaking, The Chameleon Collection, Great Barrington, MA
The Artist Book,
1997 National Juried Exhibition, Fine Art Center en Taos, Taos, NM
Perspectives:
the Art of the Book, Portland Museum of
Art, Portland, ME
Belle
Lettere, International Calligraphy Exhibition, Tower of Malta,
Padua, Italy,
Handmade
Book Show, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
No
Boundaries: A Collection of Artist Books ,Cambridge Artists Cooperative, MA
1996 Book
as Art VIII, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Crafts
National 30, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
REPRESENTATION
Joshua
Heller Rare Books, Washington, DC, catalog, www.JoshuaHellerRareBooks.com
Carver
Hill Gallery, Rockport, ME
www.CarverHillGallery.com
COMMISSIONS
2009 Percent for Art, Bangor Courthouse, Bangor, ME
2005 Percent
for Art, Knox Country Courthouse, Rockland, ME, 3 calligraphic panels
with legal text
1997 Framed
book with text by Maine authors commissioned by the Maine Broadcasting
Company and presented to the Bangor Public Library
Private commissions
AWARDS
2003 First
Prize, Truth in the Inward Being, All Souls Congregational Church, Bangor, ME
2002 First
Prize, Il Santo Dei Voli San Giuseppe da Copertino, Gruppo per le Arts
Applicate di
Osimo, Italy, international calligraphy exhibit
1995
Visual Arts Fellowship award given by Maine Arts Commission, juried
1995
First Prize, "Craft America," Silvermine Guild Arts Center,
New Canaan, CT
Judge:
Kate Carmel, Curator, Museum of American Craft, NY, NY
1993 Judge's
Merit Award, "Makers
'93," Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, ME
Judge:
Jonathan Fairbanks, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress; National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C.; Houghton Library, Harvard University, MA; Portland Museum of
Art, ME; Special Collections: Wellesley College, MA; Yale University, CT;
Bowdoin College, ME; Swathmore College, PA; Rochester Institute of Technology,
NY;Univ. of South Florida, private
collections.
SELECTED TEACHING
Arrowmont
School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
August, 2001
Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
July,1998, September, 2000, May (MCA weekend, 05)
Oregon
College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR, August, 1998, 2002, 2006
Sitka
Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR, 2006
New
England school residencies
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2008 500
Handmade Books, Lark Books
2006 The
Book as Art, Artists Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington,
DC; book of the Museum’s exhibition, Krystyna Wasserman, curator
Beyond
Words, Artists’ Books, Sewanee University of the South, TN, exhibition
catalog, Arlyn
Ende, gallery director
2005 “Jan
Owen,” Bangor Metro, May premier issue
2004 “Art
Lives, Cover to Cover,” Village Soup Times, 2/4/04 by Shanna McNair
Art
Review, Maine Sunday Telegram, 2/22/04 by Phil Isaacson
“Exhibit
Raises Old Question,” Maine Sunday Telegram, 2/8/04 by Bob Keyes
“Artist
Books,” Maine Sunday Telegram, 2/15/04 by Bob Keyes
2003 “A
Spirit Lifting Look at State of Crafts Arts,” Maine Sunday Telegram,
12/28/03 by Phil Isaacson
WABI-TV
interview, September
2002 Letter Arts Review, selected work, Sept.
2001 Fiberarts
Magazine, profile, Jan/Feb
The
Art and Craft of Handmade Books by Shereen LaPlantz, Lark Books
1998 "Artist
Portfolio - Jan Owen" Somerset Studio, interview by Sharilyn
Miller, Sept/Oct.
"Colors
Light Up Words", interview by Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News,
Feb. 5
"Books
as Art", review of group show by Suellen Dean, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg,
SC
1997 Belle
Lettere, a book of the international calligraphy exhibit, published in
Italy
"Museum exhibit state of the art of the
book" by William David Barry, Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland,
ME
Paper
Art, by Diane Maurer-Mathison, Watson-Guptill Publications, NY 1997
"Book
artist shares her craft" by Anne Geller, The Franklin Journal,
Farmington, ME May
"Pageless books: the sensuous art
of Jan Owen", by Donna Gold, Maine Times,
Brunswick,
ME Apr. 17
1996
"Book as Art: Jan Owen," by Alicia Anstead, Bangor Daily News, July
"Jan Owen - Book Artist," by
Maryanne Garbowsky, Emily
Dickinson International Society Bulletin, spring issue
EDUCATION
Calligraphy and book arts classes in United
States and England
Johns Hopkins Evening College, Baltimore, MD, 1969-70
DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, B.A., 1969
ORGANIZATIONS
String bass player with Bangor Symphony Orchestra, 1974 to 1994
Board of Directors, Bangor Region Arts
Council, 2002 - 2003
Board of Directors, Bangor YWCA, Bangor, ME
2000 - 2004
Board of Directors, Maine Crafts Association, Deer Isle, ME 1991
to 1997
Board of Directors, Friends of the Bangor
Public Library, Bangor, ME 1991 -1994
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