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Mary Barnes_______________________________________________________Post Box One marybbarnes@gmail.comSedgwick, ME 04676 www.marybarnesart.com
207.610.2344
GRANTS - AWARDSIndividual Artist Grant, Connecticut Commission – National Endowment of the ArtsCharles Voorhies Memorial Drawing Award, Pacific Northwest College of ArtWilson and Johnson Scholarship; Portland Art MuseumMUSEUM EXHIBITIONSFour in Maine: Drawing, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2011Inspiring Sensitivity, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT 1993
Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1978, 1981
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME 2016, 2018, 2021Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME 2012, 2014, 2016Poetics, Pascal Hall, Rockport, ME 2014North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME 2013Ten High Street Gallery, Camden, ME 2012Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY 2012Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT 2011Moss Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine 2008Houston North Gallery, Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada 2003, 2005Studio 45, Brooklyn, NY 2004
Water Street Gallery, Seamen’s Church Institute, New York, NY 2001
JURIED - INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS (selected)Summer Dreams, Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, Maine 2022Sam Shaw MDI Open Northeast Harbor, Maine 2019-2021Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME 2012, 2018Artemis Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME 2013, 2014Peninsula Painters, Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor, ME 2011Ten High Street Gallery, Camden, ME 2010, 2011Patterns of Nature, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME 2010Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME 2010Gallery Artists, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME 2006, 2008, 2010Handworks Gallery, Blue Hill, ME 2006, 2009Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME 2009Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 2009Deer Isle Art Association, Deer Isle, ME 2009, 2010, 2021Never Routine: Women in Their Daily Lives, Grace Institute, NY, NY 2008Points of View, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007Landscapes and Beyond, MF Adams Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 200525th Anniversary BWAC Exhibition, City Hall, Brooklyn, NY 2005
Painters, Musicians and Sculptors, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 2004
PERFORMANCEPechaKucha, Camden Opera House, Camden ME 2009Habitat, Stonington Opera House, Stonington, ME 2009
Quarryography, Stonington Opera House, Stonington, ME 2008
PUBLIC COLLECTIONSRalph Lauren CorporationKaiser Permanente FoundationOrbanco Financial Services CorporationPhilip Morris Corporation
State of Washington - Light Works Collection
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS List available upon request
EDUCATIONColumbia University M.F.A.Pacific Northwest College of Art B.F.A.
Colorado College B.A.
TEACHING PROFESSIONArtsfest, George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill Maine 2017Community Arts Program, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 2010Sound & Sight Drawing Workshop, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 2007LandEscapes, Mount Desert Island, ME 2006Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY Faculty 1997 - 2005Wesleyan University, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Middletown, CTVisiting Faculty 1992, 1994 - 2003 Thesis Advisor 1994 - 2004Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT Faculty 1986 - 1995Connecticut Prison Association, Correctional Art Program, Hartford, CT 1991 - 1993North Branford Intermediate School - North Branford, CT Visiting Faculty 1991Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR Faculty 1981 - 1983COMMUNITY SERVICEWorld Ocean Observatory Trustee 2019 - presentBlue Hill Heritage Trust, ME Director 2009 – present (Pres. 2010 – 2015)Somesville Landing Corporation Director 2012 – present, TreasurerBlue Hill Coop, ME Art in the Café Curator 2008 - 2019Volunteers of Hancock County Jail, ME Art Exhibition Coordinator 2007College of the Atlantic, ME Trustee Arts Committee 2007Brooklyn Working Artist’s Coalition, NY Director 2000 - 2005
