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Mary Jane Parker

A native New Orleanian, Mary Jane Parker’s work is mixed media combining printmaking and painting techniques with glass and bronze sculpture. She received her BFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in studio art and her MFA from Illinois State University, Normal, in studio art with an emphasis in printmaking. Parker was the recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 1990 and 2001 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2006. She was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Award for Excellence in Works on Paper in 1990. Ms. Parker used an NEA Independent Study Fellowship to travel along the pilgrimage route in France and Spain. In addition, she studied color woodcut in Florence, Italy, on a Surdna Foundation Fellowship.

Parker has exhibited work nationally and internationally and is represented in New Orleans by Arthur Roger Gallery. An installation entitled “Skycharts” was exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans. She was recently included in the New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art” and “Homegrown: Southeast,” an invitational exhibition organized by the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Parker serves on the board of the CAC as the Visual Arts Coordinator. Ms. Parker is the chairperson of the visual arts department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Art (NOCCA). She is also a member of the teaching faculty.
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