Jill Specks Ceramics Painting/Mix-Media/Drawing Purses Resume Artist Statement For information or comments, contact: Jill Specks 2626 N. Lakeview, Chicago, IL 60614 Phone: 773.750.5763 Email: jsjs@rcn.com	Résumé Education Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - Masters Degree University of IL, Chicago, IL - BA, Design Faculty award for excellence in painting Graduated with honors and highest distinction Creative Background •Ceramics...Painting...Pastel &Charcoal Drawing...Mixed Media...FIFI MISSOURI purse line •Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL - studio •Evanston Art Center Co-op Gallery (former member) •Marketing Chair, North Side Affiliates group of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago •Board Member, MARBERT Art Foundation •Teaching Experience: Gallery 37 (City of Chicago program) Teaching Artist; selected city of Chicago schools and Cabrini Connections program; Project •ASTRO (foundation for arts training for foster kids) •Publications: Trends in Contemporary Sculpture, Chicago Artists Coalition Newsletter 2004-2005 World Council for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA; 2nd Biennial International; Juror - M. Parmenter,Director and Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Boxheart  Gallery (also National Invitational Show), Pittsburgh, PA Viridian Artists/Chelsea, NYC; Juror – R. Rosenblum, Guggenheim Museum, NYC BJ Spoke Gallery; National Invitational, Long Island, NY; Juror – David Ebony, Associate Managing Editor and News Editor, Art in America  Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
JURIED EXHIBITIONS 2004 Korean Cultural Center; National Invitational - Group Show, Los Angeles, CA; October Holter Museum of Art - Group Show, Helena, MT; Juror - Larry Thomas, Dean of San Francisco Art Institute; drawings and printmaking in permanent collections of NYC Metropolitan Museum, Whitney NYC, Oakland Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; fellowships from NEA; SECA award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - cultural Specialist to the National Museum of Jordan The Sculpture Salmagundi VIII - National Invitational, Rocky Mt. Art Center, NC 47th Annual National Art Invitational - Juror: Michael Crane, Curator of American Art, Detroit Institute of Art;Rocky Mt., NC New Jersey Center for Visual Arts: International Invitational -Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator and Chair of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY) 2003 College of Lake County Gallery - Group Show, IL Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (gift shop) Pieces Gallery, Highland Park, IL Maryland Federation of Art, Small Works Invitational, MD Evanston Art Center Holiday Show, Evanston, IL; Juror - M. Buchen, Illinois Artisans Program. Hinsdale Art Center, Adornments, Hinsdale, IL; Jurors - Board of Directors 2002 California State University Gallery, Ink and Clay, National Juried Group Show; Suzanne Baiaerman, Juror - Curator of crafts and decorative arts, Oakland Museum, CA; Darrel Couturier, Juror - Owner, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Jan 3 - Feb 10) Girardot National Invitational, Cape Girardeau, MO; Juror: Barbara Thompson, Chief Curator, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA California State University Gallery, Ink and Clay, National Juried Group Show; Suzanne Baiaerman, Juror - Curator of crafts and decorative arts, Oakland Museum, CA; Darrel Couturier, Juror - Owner, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Jan 3 - Feb 10) Plain Arts IV International Juried Exhibition (Pittsburgh State U. - H. Krug Gallery); Jurors: Sandra Blain, Professor of Ceramics, U. of Tennessee, Director Emeritus, Arrowment School of Arts and Crafts, Awarded American Craft Council Honorary Fellow; Alfred University, NY State College of Ceramics, Center for Art and Culture, Gent, Belgium. Chicago Cultural Center Shop; holiday show;Chicago Women Made Gallery, National Juried Show, Chicago, IL; Juror: Melanee Cooper, Founder, Art Mecca Gallery and dealer exhibitor at SOFA, Chicago, IL Holter Museum of Art, ANA 30, National Juried Show, MT; Peter Schjedahl, Juror --- New Yorker magazine critic; art writer for Village Voice and New York Times; teacher at Harvard University; recipient of Mather Award for distinguished art criticism and a Guggenheim Grant Bloomingdale Museum, National small works Exhibition; Melissa Ganje, Juror - Curator;IL Elmhurst Art Museum, group show; IL Lill Street Gallery, Holiday Show, 3rd floor gallery; IL Three Arts Club, National Juried (3-person) Show, "Tradition and Innovation"; IL 2000 6TH Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards, International group show:, Taiwan, June Mitchell Museum, National Juried Show, June; Governor's Award for Excellence; Trinidad, CO Mauch Chunk Historical Society, 6th annual juried, "The Sacred Mountain", Jim Thorpe, PE Millennium Arts Center 3rd Inaugural, Washington DC Bristol Art Museum, National Juried Show, RI 1999 ART FORMS GALLERY, National Juried Show : Phili. PA ; Ivan Karp, Curator, founder of OK Harris Gallery/NYC and founder of Brooklyn Museum/NY; Castelli Gallery/NYC; author, international lecturer Three River Arts, National Juried Show, Pittsburgh, PA; Murray Horne/Curator, Wood St. Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, and, Margery King/Assoc. Curator, Andy Warhol Museum New York Artists Equity Assoc. Millennium Exhibition, NYC Westmoreland Art Nationals, Youngwood, PA; National Juried Show; James Crable/ Professor, J. Madison U.; Richard Dana/Executive Director, Washington Area Arts Consortium/Co-Director, Central Asian Cultural Exchange/ Exhibition Chair, Arlington Arts Center; Cohn Drennan/Director, US Dept. of State's Art-in-Embassies Program; Kristina Masathem/Professor, Mary Washington College/Board of Exhibition, Fredericksburg Cntr. for Creative Arts Holter Museum of Art, ANA 28, National Juried Show, Helena, MT; Peter Plagens, Juror --- Newsweek critic; NEA & Guggenheim Fellowships in painting; in collections of MCA, San Diego, CA and Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C. -- AWARD RECIPIENT Art Institute of Chicago gift shop "Open Spectrum", regional group show, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville IL Brickton Gallery, Regional group show, Park Ridge IL