PETER W. MICHEL, Sculptor   *  36 Kellogg Street  *  Clinton, NY 13323
315-853-8146  *  315-859-1480 fax  *  peter@petermichel.com   (e-mail)

RESUME

Folk Circle Mandala

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007 Bagg's Square Festival of the Arts,  Utica, NY   RESONANCE CENTER ALL STAR SHOW
       
2006 Capitol City Charter School,   Washington, DC

Hart's Hill Inn,  Whitesboro, NY   Utica Community Visioning Event
    Waterville High School,  Waterville, NY    Waterville Community Visioning Event
    Underground Cafe,  Utica,  NY
    Art in Public Places,  Stamford,  CT,  FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING  
         
2005   Montessori School of Syracuse Gallery,  Syracuse, NY   ART IN MY LIFE
    Windsors Gallery,  Dania,  FL
    Eastlake Conference Center,  Lenox, MA  THE LABYRINTH SOCIETY ANNUAL GATHERING EXHIBIT
  Hotel Utica,  Utica, NY    BREAKTHROUGH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM CELEBRATION EXHIBIT
       
2004     Sculpture Space, Utica, NY   "CHAIR-ITY AUCTION SHOW"  (04-05)
     
2002  Sculpture Internationale,  Atlanta, GA
         
2001    Ribbon Cutting Exhibition, Fiber Instrument Sales Office Building,  Oriskany, NY
    "A World Wide Public Art Project:  Celebrating Fathers and Sons"  Exhibit,  
      Planners Network National Conference,  Rochester, NY
         
2000   Oakton Sculpture Park,  Oakton Community College,  Des Plaines, IL  
    Chicago Navy Pier.  Chicago, IL   PIER WALK 2000   
     James Thompson Center - Atrium,  Chicago, IL   PIER WALK MAQUETTE EXHIBITION 
       
1999 Wandell Sculpture Garden, Meadowbrook Park,  Urbana, IL
      Chicago Children's Museum,  Chicago, IL   MAQUETTE EXHIBITION
    Chicago Navy Pier. Chicago, IL  PIER WALK '99
    Edith Barrett Art Gallery,  Utica College,  Utica, NY   ONE PERSON SHOW     
    Vedanta Galley,  Chicago, IL   PIER WALK MAQUETTE EXHIBITION     
1998 Web Site Published    (http://www.borg.com/~michelpw  now:  www.petermichel.com)   
    Sculpture Space, Utica, NY  "CHAIR-ITY AUCTION SHOW" (97-98)  
    Studio Show,  Clinton, NY   
       
1997 Utica Films Gallery, Utica, NY
    Ward Nasse Gallery,  New York, NY,   UNSEEN REALMS
    Murdoch Residence,  Washington, DC
    Details Studio Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
    Circa Now Gallery,  Houston, TX
         
1996 Downtown Syracuse Art & Craft Festival, Syracuse, NY,  NATIONAL JURIED SHOW
    Gardner & Son Gallery, New Hartford, NY
    Hamilton College, Clinton, NY,  SCULPTURE SPACE "CHAIR-ITY" AUCTION SHOW (91-96)
         
1995 Artist Avenue CD-ROM
    Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY,  ART SHOP  Artist of the Month
    Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY,  "IN & OUT THE WINDOW"
    Village Green, Hamilton, NY,  BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION of CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE
       
1994 Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA,  CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE at CHESTERWOOD
    Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD,  "EYE to EYE: THE PAINTED PORTRAIT"
       
1993 Munson Williams Proctor Institute,  Utica, NY,  Members Rental Gallery Show
       
1992 Central NY Community Arts Council Gallery,  Utica, NY,  (TWO PERSON SHOW)
       
1991 Kirkland Art Center,  Clinton, NY
    Parkside Gallery,  Clinton, NY
    Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY
    Kussmaul Gallery, Granville, OH
    Fireland Association of the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
    Cooperstown Art Association Gallery,  Cooperstown, NY
       
1990 Genoa Gallery, Skaneateles, NY
       
1989 Kirkland Art Center,  Clinton, NY  (ONE PERSON SHOW)
       
1987 Cooperstown Art Association Gallery,  Cooperstown, NY
    Norwich Art Guild,  Norwich, NY
       
1985 Ghariany Executive Showroom,  Houston Design Center,  Houston, TX
    Gallery McArthur,  Houston, TX,  TEXANS ... NEW DIRECTIONS '85
    Pinnacle Gallery,  Rochester, NY,  A LITTLE EROTIC '85
    Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX,  HOUSTON ARTISTS' GIFT SHOP SHOW
    Houston Independent School District Administration Building, Houston, TX
       
1984 Consulting Services Group Offices (ONE PERSON SHOW)
       
1983 The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR,  Juror:  Henry T. Hopkins
    The Houston Festival, Houston, TX,  THE BAYOU SHOW, OUTDOOR SCULPTURE
    First Congregational Church grounds,  Houston,  TX
       
1982 Dillon Residence,  Houston, TX  (ONE PERSON SHOW)
       
1981 Evergreen Park,  Bellaire, TX,   PLAYGROUND OPENING
       
1980 Art League of Houston,  Houston,  TX,   JURIED SHOW
       
1979 Miller Outdoor Theater,  Houston,  TX,  FOLKFEST I
    Astrohall,  Houston, TX,   SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

1991    First Prize,  Cooperstown Art Association,  Vivian Raynor:  Juror of Awards
1989    Artists Grant,  Artist Space, New York, NY
1987    Barrett Sculpture Prize,  Cooperstown Art Association,  Cooperstown, NY
            Committee's Choice Award,  Norwich Art Guild,  Norwich, NY
 
SELECTED COMMISSIONS

Work has been commissioned by the Academy of Gymnastics in Houston, by the Houston Festival,
the Houston Folk Arts Council, the Houston Hunger Project Committee and a number of private individuals.

COLLECTIONS

Work is found in private collections in Germany, Japan, Korea, South Africa, and throughout the US

ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND TV COVERAGE

Mohawk Valley Living,   Channel 4 TV,  Utica, NY      June, 2005  
Jessie Gray,  "Community Art At Its Best,"  The Clinton Courier,  Clinton, NY  April 27, 2005
Greg Kline, "Art Flourishes at Meadowbrook"  The News-Tribune, Champaign, IL  November 10, 1999
Steven Shipp,  "Website of Peter W. Michel, Sculptor"  briefme.com  e-magazine July 19,1999
Pier Walk ’99  Opens on Navy Pier    Chicago Sun Times  May 6, 1999     
"Clinton Sculptor is Art Shop Visiting Artist"  Munson Williams Proctor Institute Bulletin,  Utica,  NY Summer 1995
"Art on the Square"  Hamilton Tribune,  Hamilton,  NY   May 17, 1995
Jonas Kover,  "Forging a Connection"  Observer-Dispatch ,  Utica,  NY  May 7,  1995
Jonas Kover,  "Region's Artists Display Their Work"  Observer-Dispatch,  Utica,  NY  April 26, 1995  
Charles Kershner,  "Art Imitates Life,"  The Clinton Courier,  Clinton,  NY   April 5, 1995
Ray Mark Rinaldi,  "Chesterwood's '94 Showcase - An Eclectic Mix,"  Albany Times Union,  Albany, NY    September 4, 1994.  
Peg Churchill Wright,  "Delightful Stockbridge Exhibit Shows Sculpture Evolution in U.S.,"    
         Schenectady Gazette,  Schenectady,  NY   August 4, 1994
Jonas Kover,  "Sitting Pretty,"  Observer-Dispatch ,  Utica,  NY   June 14, 1991
Robert Shaffer, "Creative Self"  The Clinton Courier ,  Clinton, NY   September 13, 1989
"11 pm News,"  Channel 4 TV,  Utica, NY  September 10, 1989.   Opening at the Kirkland Art Center.
Front page photo,  Village Life,  West University,  TX     February 2, 1985    
"PM Magazine"  Channel 39 TV,  Houston,  TX   6:30 pm  March 22, 1983.   Views from the Bayou Show.  
Patricia C. Johnson,  "Festival Art Show Leaves One With a Big Hooray,"  Houston Chronicle,   Houston, TX  March 19, 1983
Thomas McEvilley,  "Review:  The Houston Festival,  Visual-arts Section,"  Artforum,  October 1983. 
Sharon Trakas,  "A Tale of Beauty, Beasts and the Bayou,"  1983 Houston Festival,  March 1983 
Nancy Stanley Chisholm,  "Geometric Jewelry"  Houston Chronicle,   May 4, 1983  (Photo background)
"Live at Five,"  Channel 13 TV,  Houston, TX   September 21, 1979   Pre-Folkfest IV activities
"10 pm News,"  Channel 2 TV,  Houston,  TX   September 14, 1979  Opening ceremonies at Astrohall, 
          Southwest Conference on Children. 

CATALOGS AND PUBLICATIONS

The Sculpture of Peter W. Michel - A Photographic Portfolio, First Edition    Blurb,  2008.
The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art 6,   Guild Publishing,  2008.
The Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art 22,   Guild Publishing,  2007.  
Artwalk at Oakton,   Oakton Community College,  2005.
The Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art 20,  Guild Publishing,  2005.
Anita Woolfolk,  Educational Psychology,  Eighth Edition,  Allyn & Bacon,  Boston,  2001  pp. 62-63, 472-3, 660-1.
The Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art 16 ,  Guild Publishing,  2001.
3-D Chicago,  PIER WALK '99:  The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition,  Navy Pier - Chicago, Illinois, USA -
          May  5 - November 1, 1999,   
Chicago,  IL  2000.
Jane Ingram Allen,  The Hamilton Connection:  A Bicentennial Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture,  Hamilton Bicentennial
          Committee,  Hamilton,  NY   1995.
Elliot Offner,  Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood  1994,  Chesterwood Museum,  Stockbridge,  MA  1994

EDUCATION
 
1986-94  Studied Computer Aided Design as part of work as an architect 
1982-01  International Sculpture Conferences, (Oakland, Washington, Providence, Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh 
1976-82  Sculpture,  The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts,  Houston,  TX 
1962-64  Graduate Study in Urban Design,  M.I.T.,  Cambridge,  MA 
1962  B. ARCH,  Department of Architecture,  M.I.T.,  Cambridge,  MA 
1959 A.B. in Fine Arts,  Oberlin College,  Oberlin,  OH 


SELECTED TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS

2001        "Public Art as a Tool for Community Activation"  Planners Network National Conference,  Rochester, NY
1999        SLIDE PRESENTATION,  Utica College
                GALLERY TALK TO THE DOCENTS of the MUNSON WILLIAMS PROCTOR INSTITUTE,  Utica, NY
1990        ARTS-IN-EDUCATION PROGRAM,  Slide lectures at Clinton High School
1975        ARCHITECTURAL THEORY & CRITICISM,  Boston Architectural Center
1970        EXPERIENCING ARCHITECTURE,  Boston Center for Adult Education
 

All images and text Copyright  (c) 1998-2006 Peter W. Michel

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Posted 3-19-98    updated   2-13-08