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PAT MUSICK
49 Maple St. #123
Manchester Center, VT 05255
Tel: 802-362-4273
Cell: 802-688-5110
Email: camus@camusart.com
www.camusart.com
www.sculpture.org
www.nesculptors.com
EDUCATION
University of Southern California
University of Denver
Dartmouth College
Syracuse University
Cornell University
DEGREES
1973
Master of Arts
Cornell University
Post-Doctoral Study
at University of Texas
Medical Branch
Selected Biography
1974
Doctor of Philosophy
Cornell University
MUSEUM PERMANENT ACQUISITIONS
The Place Where They Cried, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College Museum, NY
Huracan. The Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
Treasure. The Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
Lady Xoc. The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO
Awoha-li 12. Irving Art Center, Irving, TX
Kiva Gate. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Winddancer. The Bert Chernow Collection, Housatonic Museum of Art, Housatonic, CT
The Crossing. Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
Time's Totem. The Zimmerli Museum, Rutger's University
Grupo. Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Epilogue 22. The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Earthmark. The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Vessel 8. The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Epilogue D-18. The Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR
Thoughts Through the Window. Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO
Epilogue 13. The Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
Tlinget Chorus. Monarch Sculpture Park, Tenino, WA
Great Circle Stanzas. Ozarks Woodland Sculpture Garden, Forum, AR
PERMANENT PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
Crosslake Presbyterian Church, Crosslake, MI
Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
First Congregational Church, Manchester, VT
Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT
Allen Community College, KS
The Arkansas REP Theater, Hot Springs Convention Center
Butler Library, Arkansas Public Library System, AR
Cornell University School of Human Ecology, Ithaca, NY
Arkansas Sheriff's Youth Ranch, Alma, AR
The Arkansas Aerospace Education Center
Baptist Medical Systems CARTI , Little Rock, AR
Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR
Community First Bank, Eureka Springs, AR
The Donald J. Reynolds Center For Aging, Little Rock AR
James Blair Law Offices, Springdale, AR
Greenwood and Associates, Fayetteville, AR
Hilton Hotel Corporate Headquarters, Memphis, TN
International Center For transportation Studies, Rome, IT
The May Company, Houston, TX
The Tyson Foods Corporate Headquarters, Springdale, AR
University of Arkansas, Morrillton, AR
Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville, AR
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OUTDOOR SCULPTURE OR SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
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The Fells Historic Estate & Sculpture Garden, Lake Sunapee, NH
Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, VT
Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT
Salem Art Works, Salem NY
Schick Gallery, Skidmore College NY
Southern Vermont Art Center, VT
Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden, Montpelier, VT
Chaffee Art Center, Rutland VT
Salem Art Works, Salem NY
Sculpturefest, Woodstock, VT
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Wildwood Center for the Performing Arts, Little Rock, AR
Monarch Sculpture Park, Tenino, WA
Buffalo Bayou ArtPark, Houston TX
Chatanooga State Community College Sculpture Garden V, TN
Irving Arts Center Sculpture Garden, Irving, TX
Ozarks Woodland Sculpture Garden, Forum, AR
Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH
Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
PUBLISHED WORKS
THE PIERO AFFAIR WITH SIDE TRIPS
NO NEW THING UNDER THE SUN:
ONE ARTIST'S CHOSEN JOURNAL
PAT MUSICK
the power to move us, even in these world weary
Within each of her refined constructions, the
ist using all the tools at her disposal to create a
ture and nature, man and the earth, forever and
…for extraordinary beauty.”
— Don Bacigalupi, PhD
Director of the Toledo Museum of Art
ks Pat Musick poses universal questions in
l language. Restating Romeo’s plea:
“I look for universal
expression... the collective
unconscious. That is, those
ideas that are the same or
similar over time, distance,
cultures. There is no new
thing under the sun.”
— PAT MUSICK
ourse,
ON THE COVER:
y and destiny is, perhaps as it should be, in the
”
— Townsend Wolfe, Director and Chief Curator
Arkansas Art Center (retired)
o on the history of art, the hidden-stream
of her childhood environment, and keen
nitially jarring, ultimately lovely works are a
ion of a universal theme of art: to paraphrase
we come from? What are we? Where are we
y take an important place in this collection and
Musick’s work.”
— Ellen A. Plummer
Executive Director, Arkansas Art Center
Sun image: Detailed close-up of
magnetic structures on the sun’s
surface, seen in the H-alpha
wavelength on August 22, 2003.
(Swedish 1-m Solar telescope (SST)
operated by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Science, Oddbjorn
Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik,
Luc Rouppe van der Voort).
Printed with permission.
Epilogue 8, is in the permanent
collection of the Baum Gallery,
University of Central Arkansas,
Conway, AR
Cover design: LMWDesign.com
PAT MUSICK
NO NEW THING UNDER THE SUN: ONE ARTIST’S CHOSEN JOURNEY
utes to an understanding of the creative processes
T MUSICK, over a 40 year period. Essays and
ment her drawings, paintings and sculpture as
wo to three dimensional considerations. Musick,
n the permanent collections of 48 museums
s in the United States has an MA and PhD
niversity, has taught at the University level,
e books. Her work has progressed from an
gurative style to abstract. The current work of
ne reflects harmony and peace in the environment.
PAT MUSICK
NEW THING UNDER THE SUN:
E ARTIST’S CHOSEN JOURNEY
NO NEW THING
UNDER THE SUN:
ONE ARTIST’S CHOSEN JOURNEY
STONE SONGS ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS
2013-16“Our Fragile Home” touring exhibition to The Southern Vermont Art Center,
Manchester, VT; The Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT; The Brattleboro Museum
and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; and College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA;
The University Art Gallery of Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant Michigan.
2014-15 Mid-America Tour to Arkansas,Texas, and Louisiana “Our Fragile Home” exhibition
2014 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury VT
2014 The Gallery at Equinox Village, Manchester Center, VT
2013
Governor’s Gallery, Statehouse, Montpelier, VT
2012
Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012
Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art, Chester, VT
2011
The Gallery at Equinox Village, Manchester, VT
2009-10“From the Forest” touring exhibition to the Feick Gallery, Green Mountain College;
Southern Vermont Art Center; Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT; and Lamont Gallery,
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2009
Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State University, NH
2008
Alexandria Louisiana Museum of Art
2007 Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden NH
2005-06“Yokes on the Trail of Tears” touring exhibition to Tyson Foods Corporate Headquarters,
Springdale, AR; Columbia College, Columbia, SC; Old Statehouse Museum, Little Rock AR;
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO
2005 Sculpturefest, Woodstock, VT
2003-04“Yokes on the Trail of Tears” touring exhibition to UACC, Batesville; Baum Gallery, UCA, Conway:
UACC Morrillton; University of the Ozarks, Clarksville; University Museum UofA Fayetteville and
the Delta Museum, Helena, MT
2003
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2000
Aumonerie Saint Jacques, Gordes, France
1999
Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway AR
1998-99 Texas Tour: Abilene, Houston, Longview, McAllen, Odessa, San Angelo,Wichita Falls
1998
Miami University, Oxford, OH
1998 Albrecht -Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
1997 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
1997 Charles B. Goddard Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma
1995
Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
1995
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
1992
Midwest Tour: “PAT MUSICK: EPILOGUE SERIES” Walton Arts Center,
Fayetteville, AR; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Springfield (Missouri) Art
Museum; Huntsville (Alabama) Museum of Art
1989
Tulsa Center for Contemporary Arts, Tulsa, OK
HONORS
2015 Tertium Quid series accepted into the NASA Permanent Art Collection.
2013
Recipient Vermont State Governor's Gallery Honoree
2011
Archives housed at Cornell University Kroch Library of Archives and Rare Manuscripts.
2004
Best in Show The Chaffee Arts Center Spring Members Exhibit, Rutland, VT
2003 Assistance Grant, Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts
2003 The Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture
2003 Assistance grant from the Happy Hollow Foundation
2001
The Jeffrey Childs Willis Award, National Association of Women Artists
2000
Arkansas Blue Cross/Blue Shield “Ageless Hero” award
1998First Place, Visiting Artist Fellowship and construction of monumental outdoor
sculpture, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1998
Connemara Conservancy Foundation Grant
1997
Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant
1997
Assistance Grant, Arkansas Arts Council
1992Gold Medal for EPILOGUE SERIES catalog, Southeastern Museums Association
1987-88Touring Grant from the Arkansas Arts Council and National Endowment of the Arts
1983
Gold Medal Pizzo Calabro International Invitational, Pizzo Calabro, Italy
1944
Fine Arts Scholarship, University of Southern CA