MAURA DOERN DANKO
Painter and Educator
3001 Hartswood Drive Allison Park PA 15101 412 213 0894
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, PA January-February 2009
Mutable Glimpses Brew House Space 101 Project Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, March 2008 (Projection and painting)
Views From the Skinny, Skinny Building, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2004-January 2005 (public art project)
Summer Paintings, PENNGallery, Pittsburgh PA, September 2003
Figures, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana IL, Summer 2002
Gallery on the Avenues, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001-2005. (public art project in windows of vacant retail spaces)
Waynesburg College, Waynesburg PA, September 2001, Artist’s Talk.
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA, June 2001, Artist’s Talk.
Figures/in/Interiors, Brew House, Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA April 2000
Courtyard Gallery, Washington Studio School, Washington D.C., January 2000
Parents’ Association Gallery, University of Maryland, MD, Summer 1999
Courtyard Gallery, Washington Studio School, Washington D.C., 1996, Artist’s Talk.
Selected Two-Person and Group Shows:
Doll Project; First Annual Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Summer 2010 (experiment in video)
Body Show: Notes on Human Experience, AIP Gallery, Pittsburgh PA May 2010 (featuring documents of public art projects, experiments in video, and recent paintings)
Finding Meaning, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock PA February 2010 (installation and paintings)
Drawing From Perception, juried by Ruth Miller, Wright State University, 2009
Forbidden Space: Real and Unreal - installation collaboration with Seyhan Sitti, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock PA , November 2008
Grand Allusions, The Painting Center, New York, 2006
Figure/Ground - collaboration with Karen Antonelli, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2006 (culmination of two years of field-drawing expeditions).
Casa, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, 2004
Drawing From Perception, juried by Charles Cajori, Wright State University, OH 2004
Recent Work (With Houston Hill) PENNGallery, Pittsburgh PA, March 2002
Snapshot Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2000
WSS Faculty Show, The Artist’s Museum, Washington D.C. 1996
Six Local Artists, The Washington Studio School Gallery, Washington D.C., 1993
Selected Reviews:
Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, June 2010
Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 2006
Alice Winn, Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2002
Catherine Kizer, The Tunnel, April 2002
“Storefront Galleries”, Caroline Abels, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, November 2001
Angie Santello, Yellow Jacket, September 2001
Alice Winn, Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2000
Conferences:
Edges Open : Navigating Discourse; presented at Academy for Educational Studies Conference, Chicago IL, November 2010.
Dialogue as Process, presentation for AIP faculty, July 2010
Intelligent Seeing: Critical Thinking as a Crucial Cross-Disciplinary Educational Outcome, conference presentation at American Educational Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 2009
Finding Meaning : Narrative and Form, An Experience of Critical Analysis for Students at AIP conference presentation at IADE, Lisbon Portugal, October 2009
Modernism and Postmodernism: Ideas about Form, Reality and Randomness – presentation for AIP faculty, June 2009
Breaking It Down: Narrative and Form, or Finding Meaning, presentation for AIP faculty, June 2008
Awards:
Student Choice Award, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 2009.
First Prize, Juror’s Award. Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, NC, Juried by Terrie Sultan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1999
Purchase Award, 18th Annual National Exhibit, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, 1999
Fred T. Gruber Book Award for Drawing, The American University, 1986
Selected Collections:
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA
Waynesburg College, PA
The Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, PA
Masonic Village, Sewickley PA
Private Collections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, West Virginia
Professional Experience –Selected Teaching:
Instructor: The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA. 1998–present. Theories of Contemporary Drawing Applications, Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism, American Art History, Survey of Art History, Aesthetics
Adjunct Faculty: Washington Studio School, Washington, D.C. 1995-1998. Painting, Drawing, Printmaking.
Adjunct Professor: Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD. 1988-1992. Drawing.
Lecturer of Art: Charles County Community College, La Plata, MD. 1987-1988. Art Appreciation; Art Survey.
Professional Experience: Selected Arts Administration:
Program Coordinator: Art and Learning Center, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, 1993-1998. (Director, Parents’ Association Gallery – 1994-1998).
Project Coordinator: Montgomery County Arts Council, 1990-1992.
Highlighted Projects:
Body Show: Notes on Human Experience, Guest Curator, AIP Gallery, Pittsburgh, Spring 2010
Seminar Series : Finding Meaning, student discussions on visual analysis, April-September 2009
Faculty Forums, coordinated faculty presentations to students at Art Institute of Pittsburgh , 2007-2008
Guest Curator, The Body Show, AIP Gallery, June 2003
Multiple Figures, workshop at The Washington Studio School, June 2000
Education:
Master of Fine Arts, Painting. The American University, Washington D.C.
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art. Providence College, Providence, R.I.,
Additional Coursework: University of Maryland
