Award-winning college art + art history + professional practices professor teaches YOU how to be an artist!

Jack's resume

JACK MICHAEL

Professor of art, Blue ridge community college
Private art / art appreciation / art professional practices instructor


EDUCATION
2020 M.F.A. [magna cum laude] (Department: Drawing, Painting, & Printmaking) from Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA



2010 B.A. [cum laude] in Art from Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN



TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021 Art Professor, Blue Ridge Community College [Courses taught: Painting I, Art Appreciation]
Featured Speaker/Presenter, Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference

Juror & Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC
Visiting speaker, Community Psychology Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2020 Adjunct Instructor, Painting I, Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC (Hybrid course)
Part-Time Instructor, Introductory Studio (How to Be an Artist), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (asynchronous online course)
Adjunct Instructor, Foundations of 2D Design, Brevard College, Brevard, NC (seated course)
Visiting Artist & Professional Development Lecturer, Clemson University, Clemson, SC (via Zoom)
Visiting Artist, Brevard College First-Year Program in Studio Art
Social justice & extremism research panelist, Southern Poverty Law Center

Social justice & extremism research panelist, PERIL at American University
Lead panelist, Studio & Research Success for Graduate Thesis Year, conducted via Zoom for Georgia State University
Instructor of Record: Introduction to Studio, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (both seated and online formats)
Printmaking Studios renovation crew & committee, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2019 Instructor of Record: Introduction to Studio, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Workshop Instructor: Blind Embossing Native Plants, Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland
Guest speaker for PrintAustin, Link & Pin Gallery, Austin, TX
Instructor of Record: Introduction to Printmaking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Workshop Instructor: Silkscreen and Flocking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Hiring Committee Member for Department of Drawing, Painting, & Printmaking (Printmaking Department Chair search), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2018 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
Instructor of Record: Introduction to Printmaking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Workshop Co-Instructor: Waterbased Monotype, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Co-curator, The Economy of a Woman’s Touch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Ghada Amer, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Exhibition Designer, The Economy of a Woman’s Touch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Ghada Amer, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Non-profit Strategic Planning Committee Member, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Atlanta, GA
Academic Steering Committee Member, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Workshop Instructor: Copperplate Etching, The Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
Workshop Instructor: Linoleum Block Printing, Boys & Girls Club, Bisbee, AZ
Research Presenter, Art History Graduate Symposium, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Laboratory Assistant: Printmaking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2017 Graduate Laboratory Assistant: Printmaking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer in Printmaking, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2016 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Center for Visual Arts, Clemson University
Juror, Pressing Matters annual group show for Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Atlanta, GA
Founder/Owner/Curator at Paper Plane Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Founding Organizer, #LIFTCollegePark public art initiative, Atlanta, GA
Flatstock Silkscreen Print Specialist, Danger Press, Atlanta, GA

2015 Manager and Press Designer, Park Slope Press + Gowanus Print Lab, New York, NY


HONORS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES
2021 Recipient of the FATE (Foundations in Art, Theory & Education) Educator Shout-Out Award


2020 Nominee, Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture

2019 Residency, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia
Residency, Burren College of Art, County Clare, Ireland
Residency and master class, The Ionion Center for Arts & Culture, Kefalonia, Greece

2018 Kathleen G. Williams Award of Excellence, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Funded studio/teaching residency, The Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
Transnational project collaboration, Border Arts Corridor, Douglas, AZ/Agua Prieta, Mexico

2017
Graduate Supplemental Funding Award, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Winnie Chandler Scholarship in Art & Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Full-tuition MFA fellowship, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2016 Nominee, Businessperson of the Year (founder, Paper Plane Gallery), City of College Park, GA
 Nominee, ARTS ATL Luminary Awards 

2009
Powell Arts Fellowship for self-directed international project, awarded by Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN



2008 Robert Bowden Shepherd, Jr. Arts Award given for excellence in studio practice, awarded by Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN



SELECTED GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(*indicates a solo show)

2021 Flag for National Days of Rest, Unrequited Leisure AIRSpace Gallery, Tallahassee, FL* (forthcoming May 2021)
Flag for National Days of Rest, Unrequited Leisure AIRSpace Gallery, Nashville, TN* 

The Relief Conspiracy, The Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME

2020 I’m looking forward to tomorrow, Good News Art Gallery, High Springs, FL

Ernest G. Welch MFAs Show, Social Distance Gallery, Cincinnati, OH/online

2019 Recall, Recollect, Reconstruct, Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto Japan
Ongoing Conversation, Kyoto Shibori Museum, Kyoto Japan
Echoes of Gathering, The Ionion Center for Arts & Culture, Kefalonia, Greece*
Atlanta Print Biennial, KAI LIN Gallery, Atlanta, GA
White Trash Mountain, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA*
Print As Partnership, Exhibition & Portfolio, SGCI, Dallas, TX
ARTIFICE & ARTIFACT, Grange Hall Gallery, Serenbe, GA*
Viscosity: Women of Print, Link & Pin Gallery, Austin, TX
GREAT HOPE, Annex Gallery at Monterey Peninsula College
TRIBUTE, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA


2018 Viscosity: Women of Print, Noise Gallery, Bloomington, IN
The Economy of a Woman’s Touch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Ghada Amer, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA

HALT HORIZON, CenterForm Gallery, Atlanta, GA*

GREAT HOPE, Tiny Town Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Here & Then, The Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ*

20th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA

GREAT HOPE, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
 The Graduate Art Forum Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Tenable Folly, Soup Experimental, Tallahassee, FL 

2017
ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, Murmur Gallery, Atlanta, GA 

Flash Show, Screaming Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ink Only, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL


2016 The Imaginary Million, Wonderroot, Atlanta, GA

Utopia/Dystopia, Paper Plane Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Social Mediated, Artspace Gallery #1, Atlanta, GA*

New American Works, Paper Plane Gallery, Atlanta, GA 

SGCIBFF, Beulahland, Portland, OR 

SGCI Members Exhibition, Portland, OR 

STRONGHOLD, traveling group show, United States

MIX TAPE, Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2015 Apartment Gallery #1: First Date, New York, NY


PUBLICATIONS
(** indicates my scholarly work being featured rather than a feature on my visual work)
** Value(s) Creation: Cultural Manifestations of Value Creation in Contemporary Printmaking (a short documentary + stop-motion animation film directed, shot, produced, & edited by me; published by Southern Graphics Council International for the 2021 national conference)
Under the Bridge Magazine, Issue #12: Printmaking, Winter 2021
** “Meadow in the Metropolis”, introductory essay for Grass Roots: Steven L. Anderson exhibition catalogue*, August 2019
Ruminate magazine, Issue #51: Consume, June 2019
SEED PLOT: Experiments in Creative Consciousness, Blurb Publishing, 2017

Haiti: Blind Architect, Blurb Publishing (in conjunction with Sewanee: The University of the South), 2008

Haiti: Before Knowing Remembers, Blurb Publishing (in conjunction with Sewanee: The University of the South), 2007


MAJOR COLLECTIONS
The Ionion Center for Arts & Culture
The New York Public Library

The National Museum of Women in the Arts 

The Book Arts Collection at Wellesley College 

The University Gallery, Sewanee, TN

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA



PROFESSIONAL Memberships
SGCI (Southern Graphics Council International)
FATE (Foundations in Art Theory & Education)
SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference)

North Carolina Community College AFA Association