Michael Twery Artist
507B 13th St.
:Lynchburg, VA 24504
(434) 665-1748
twerymm@netzero.net
MTartspace.com

EDUCATION

San Francisco Art Institute – MFA Painting, 1983 : BFA Painting,1981.
Rhode Island School of Design – 9/73 – 12/75. Painting & Drawing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visual Artist – Working and exhibiting professionally since 1976. Painting, drawing, sculpture, installations, murals, commissions
Art Instructor – Lynchburg City Schools 1999-2006     
Bedford County Public Schools, 1995-97
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, 1986 – 2000
Lynchburg Parks & Rec. Dept., 1993-94
Va. School of the Arts, 1989-91
Central Va. Community College, Spring 1988
Artist-In-Residence – Bedford Co. Public Schools, Va. 1999,1987
Amherst Co. Public Schools,Va. 1997-98
Wytheville Comm. College, Wytheville, Va. 1990
Campbell Co. Elem. Schools, Va., 1985-87         
Arts Administrator – Va. School of the Arts, Art Dept. Chair, 1989-91
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Visual Arts Coordinator, 1987-89

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011  3 Person Show, Caldwell Co. Arts Council, Lenoir, NC
“Glowroom” Installation, Rivermont Studio Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
2010  “The Twery Family” Group Show”, Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg,VA
2009  Two Person Show, Avenue Arts Studio Gallery, Lynchburg,VA
1st Annual Juried Art Show, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA
2008 “Shape of Light” , 921 Mainstreet Gallery, Lynchburg,VA
Featured Artist- Sage Moon Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
“4 Directions”  Solo show at Beeswax Candle Co., Lynchburg, VA.
2007  The Really Big Shoe Show-group show, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, Va.
1997 “The Glowzone” Mini Installation, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.
“Riverviews Artists”, Three group shows at Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, Va.
1996  “Glowtime” Solo exhibition with installation and performance, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, Va.                         

1993  “Glow in the Dark”, Solo Exhibition with installation and performance, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Va.
1992  Residency fellowship with solo exhibition, Va. Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Va.
1990  Two-person show, Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley,Va.
“Wytheville Community College – Artist in Residence”, Solo exhibition, 28 works in seven locations, Wytheville, Va.
1989 “First Retrospective” Solo Show, Lynchburg Art Club, Lynchburg, Va.
“Lynchburg Artists” Group show, McGuffey Art Center, C’ville, Va.
1988 Three-person show & residency, Va. Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Va.
1987 Two-person show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Va.
1985 Solo Exhibition, Dillard Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.
Two-person show, Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Va.
1984 “The Subject is Objects-Bay Area Still Life Painters”, Hearst Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, Ca.
1982 Group Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Group Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca.

 

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

2011  Book Illustration, Darden School of Business, UVA
Mural Triptych, Dahlia Resterant “Cellar”, Lynchburg, VA
2009  “Everyday People”, Public Art Mural for City Hall, Lynchburg, VA
2008  “Poetry in Ocean”, Painted Tile Mural with Dunbar Middle School, Lynchburg, VA
2007  “44 Shoes” Hotel Room Doors, Craddock Terry Hotel, Lynchburg,VA
2006  “Puzzle of Life” Donor Wall Assemblage Mural, Boys & Girls Club, Lynchburg, VA. Also 4 murals with kids 2006-09.
2000 – 2001  “Big Red Barn” & “Bike Race” murals for Amazement Square Children’s Museum, Lynchburg, VA
1999  Painted Tile Mural with Forest Elementary School, Forest, VA
1998  “Botero’s Renoir” mural for Meriwether’s Reserant, Lynchburg, VA
1992  “Abstract Sundial”, residential sculpture, Madison Hts., VA
“Time Capsule” , sculptures for Spartan Foods, Inc.,Spartanburg,SC
1989  “On The Beam” outdoor wall sculpture, Coleman-Adams Construction, Inc., Forest, VA
1978  Commercial Mural, Bob’s Famous Homemade Ice Cream, Wash., DC
OTHER COMMISSIONS INCLUDE WORK FOR: Jubilee Family Development Center, Kid’s Haven, Lynchburg Peace Education Center, Givens Books, and numerous private individuals.

           
SERVICE & AWARDS
 *Arts-in-Education Grant Advisory Panel, Va. Commission for the Arts, Richmond, Va. 1999-2001
*Member of Board of Directors, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg,Va.,99-00         
*Exhibitions Advisory Panel, Amazement Square Children’s Museum, Lynchburg,Va., 1998-99
Weed & Seed Grant for Public Art, Human Services of Lynchburg, 1998
*Four Residency Fellowships – Va. Center for the Creative Arts: 1985, 86, 88, 92.
*Two Study Grants – Va. Commission for the Arts, 1986 & 1987
*First Place Drawing, Va. Beach Boardwalk Art Show, Va. Beach, Va. 1977