PATRICIA RAIN GIANNESCHI: Teaching Artist; MFA 2017, MAAE, 2004, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Teaching Artist, Department of Art Education, SAIC (2013-14); Teaching Artist; Studio Teacher IATSE#476 2012-present, 2017, Artist Technician; 20th Century Fox, “EMPIRE”, Teaching Artist Chicago Public Schools 1990-2012; 1978 BFA, UC, Berkeley; 1978 BFAE, UC Berkeley; Exhibitions: Jan. 2018: WET PAINT 2018 National MFA Exhibition, Zhou Brothers Art Center, Chicago; Jan 2018; New American Painters: Studio Visit Exhibition in Print, 2017 SAIC MFA Thesis Exhibition, Chicago; 2017, Main Street Museum; 2016, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, Vermont; Throop Street Show LRMFA Group Exhibit, 2009, Chicago Cultural Center; 2003, Chicago Cultural Center; 1990-2000, Gallery 1633, Chicago; Publications, 2017, “ Becoming RAIN; Art, Spirit & Social Justice”, 2004, “Becoming Women; Art & Leadership for Adolescent Girls”, Flaxman Library SAIC Chicago; 2004 AIC “The Last Flowers of Manet”; 2000, “Magic In America” AIC; 2017 “Just Words” & Just Words II” Poetry SAIC Special Collections Library, 2015 “Six Days At The Mouse House” RR-22 MUSIC Production; 2001 “I & I”, FFB Productions, Chicago; 1981-1988 Feature Paintings; MGM/Gerber, Chicago; Awards, 2010, LA Music Awards; 2002 & 2003 William Carr Oldendorf Award, Ox-Bow; 2001, Robert Rauschenberg Power of Art Award, Washington, D.C.; 1998 & 1999, Illinois Alliance for the Arts; Grants; 2006-2012, (6) Oppenheimer Family Foundation Teacher Incentive Grants, Chicago; 1996-2012, Illinois State University; 1993-2009, Chicago Foundation For Education, Chicago; 1991, Rochelle Lee Grant, Chicago; 1981 Illinois Arts Council, Chicago; Commissions, 2000, Kraft Foods, Chicago; Commissions: 2003-2009, AIC, Performance Art; “Artists in the Galleries”, Chicago; 2015-Present; Chair: Caucus for the Spiritual in Art Education, NAEA; 2013 Elementary Chair, Caucus for the Spiritual in Art Education; NAEA
Fellowships, 2010 & 2012, Intuit Gallery, Chicago www.praingianneschiart.com