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John McDonald
Gulfport, MS
Tele: 228-547-5178
Web site: www.johnmcdonaldstudio.com
Resume Highlights
Ellen Battel Stockel Award (1975) - Yale Summer School for Music and Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts (1976) - University of Georgia
Master of Fine Arts (1978) - Yale University
Ford Foundation Grant (1978)
Southern Arts Federation Grant (1978)
Mississippi Arts Commission Grant (1988)
Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship (1989)
Mississippi Arts Commission (1996) Project funding for “ Promenade” Mural
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2005)
New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Grant (2006)
Mississippi Arts Commission Mini Grant (2006)
Business Recovery Grant - Mississippi Arts Commission (2008)
Featured in Art in Mississippi 1790 -- 1980 by P. C. Black. Published by Mississippi Heritage Society (1998)
“Open Studio Press Award”, Cambridge, MA. Published series - New Paintings
Landmark mural “Promenade” - Bay St. Louis, MS. A 1500 ft.² trompe l'oeil historical narrative (1997)
Commissioned by Congressman Gene Taylor to portray Marine Corporal Roy Wheat, the only Mississippian to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the Vietnam War (2003)
Elected Honorary Board Member - “Arts Hancock County” (2003)
Lead auction artist, George Ohr Museum, Biloxi, MS (twice since 1999)
Exhibited widely, including Mississippi Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, George Ohr Museum of Art, Still-Zinzel Gallery, Heriad-Cimino Gallery - New Orleans, LA; Painting Center, New York, NY
Landscapes and portraits in many private and public collections, including Mississippi Museum of Art and Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Over the years reviewed in a host of newspapers and periodicals, including Atlantic Constitution, New Art Examiner, Art Papers, Southern Quarterly, Country Roads and Sun Herald
Instructor of drawing and painting-college and university level periodically since 1978-University of New Haven, University of Southern Mississippi, and William Carey College
Worked in art inventory and installations at Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, Rothko Foundation, and Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY (1980-1985)
A coast native (born 1952 , Gulfport), I returned in 1986 to maintain a full-time studio in Bay St. Louis, MS, at 126 Main Street for 18 years - now relocated with studio in Gulfport, Mississippi.