Michael Twery
13th
507B
St.
Lynchburg,VA 24504
(434) 665-1748
Artist
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 College Fall 2013
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.
1997“The Glowzone” Mini Installation, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College,
Lynchburg, Va.
1996
1993
1992
1990
1989
1988
1987
1985
1984
1982
“Glowtime” Solo exhibition with installation and performance, Olin
Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, Va.
“Glow in the Dark”, Solo Exhibition with installation and
performance, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Va.
Residency fellowship with solo exhibition, Va. Center for the
Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Va.
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.
“First Retrospective” Solo Show, Lynchburg Art Club, Lynchburg, Va
“Lynchburg Artists” Group show, McGuffey Art Center, C’ville, Va.
Three-person show & residency, Va. Center for the Creative Arts,
Sweet Briar, Va.
Two-person show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Va.
Solo Exhibition, Dillard Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.
Two-person show, Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College, Lynchburg, Va.
“The Subject is Objects-Bay Area Still Life Painters”, Hearst Gallery,
St. Mary’s College, Moraga, Ca.
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
2014 “Banner Year” collage wall hanging for library, with Linkhorne Middle
School students, Lynchburg, VA.
2013 “Jaguar Paw Raised Bed Garden” outdoor sculpture with mosaics,
with Linkhorne Middle School students, Lynchburg,Va
“Open Books” library mural and “Words of Wisdom” outdoor
mural with T.C. Miller Elementary students
2012 “Building Bling” outdoor sculpture project with Linkhorne Middle
School students
Painted Wood Sculptures with T.C.Miller Elementary/Soaring Eagles
Academy, public art project
“Animal Kingdom” ceramic tile mosaic, With students at T.C.Miller
Elementary
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
*Member of JRCAH Board of Directors, since Dec. 2013
*Artist-in-Partnership with Lynchburg Humane Society, 2011-2012
*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