Resume
Mary Fortuna
www.maryfortuna.com
EDUCATION
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
Foundry Workshop 1993 - 1996
EMPLOYMENT / PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004
Exhibitions Director 2004 to April 2014
Contemporary Arts Council/Art Detroit Now 2009 – 2012
Detroit Artist’s Market Exhibition Advisory Committee - 1998 – 1999
Detroit Institute of Arts/Friends of Modern Art Forum for Contemporary Art 1995 – 1997
Detroit Focus Exhibition Committee – 1994 –1996
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Exhibition Committee – 1997 - 1999
Ground Up, Bi–Monthly Arts Journal Founder, Editor 1995 - 1998
Artists Cooperative, The (A.C.,T.) President 1992 –1993; Secretary 1993 – 1994
One and Two Person Shows
2015
Mythos, ArtNxT Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2013
She Towers Above, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
2006
New Work, Flatlanders, Blissfield, Michigan
2003
Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers, BBAC, Birmingham, Michigan
2002
Hanging Garden, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
1995
Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina, Willis Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
1993
Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts, Willis Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
1992
On and Off the Wall, Artist’s Cooperative, The, Detroit, Michigan
Selected Group and Juried Shows
2021
Personal Myths, Tales and Icons, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2020
Tree of Art, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2019
Big Group, Small Works, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Modern Female Archetypes, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Fiber Without Borders, Glen Arbor Art Center, Glen Arbor, Michigan
Actual Size, Detroit Culture Club, Detroit, Michigan
On Press – Printmaking Residency Invitational, Signal Return, Detroit, Michigan
2018
Small Works, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Chasing the Running Stitch, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, Michigan
Dia De Los Muertos, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Artists Who Sew, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Gilda Snowden Exhibition, The Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan
First Place Award Regional Sculpture Biennial Exhibition, Marshall Fredericks Musuem, Saginaw, Michigan
Art in the Peaceable Kingdom, Michigan Artists Gallery and Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2017
Kovan/Fortuna/Songer, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, Michigan
Channeling Picasso, Michigan Artists Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Sacred Spaces, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2016
100x100: 100 Sculptors, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Michigan
Insane, TOCA, Chicago, Illinois
Myths of the North Woods, Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix, Michigan
Borders, River House Arts at Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio
Detroit Little Libraries, MOCAD Mobile Homestead, Detroit, Michigan
The Dark Side, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan
Traverse Higher Art Exhibition, ECCO Center, Traverse City, Michigan
Gallery Artist, Higher Art Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
Gallery Artist, Michigan Artists Gallery, Traverse City, Michigan
2015
It’s Like Toys In Here, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts, The Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan
Women’s Group Invitational, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2014
New Strategies – The Chess Show, Popp’s Packing, Hamtramck, Michigan
If You Build It, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Forced Collaboration, Popp’s Packing, Hamtramck, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts, The Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Detroit @ CTAC, Crooked Tree Art Center, Petoskey, Michigan
2013
U Build It, Public Pool, Hamtramck, Michigan
Under the [Inspired] Influence, Northville Art House, Northville, Michigan
Group Show, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan
2012 Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, MOCAD, Detroit Michigan; Traveling exhibit
Weasel Camp 3, Flatlanders, Blissfield, Michigan
Natural Structures, K & K Entenmann Gallery, Esslingen, Germany
2011
Slippery Weasel Society: Seven, Cass Café, Detroit, Michigan
2010
In Spite of the Evidence, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Weasel Camp 2, Popp’s Packing, Hamtramck, Michigan
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby Traveling Exhibit-Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Detroit Works, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
International Bongo Bongo Brigade, Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2009
Year of the Weasel, Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan
Changing Cities: Pure Detroit, Art Channel Gallery, Beijing, China
Aus Detroit, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan
Vienna Art Fair With Galerie Lisi Hammerle, Vienna, Austria
Collected, Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, Michigan
2008
Changing Cities: Made in Detroit, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Germany
Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz, Galerie Lisi Hammerle, Bregenz, Austria
Changing Cities, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan
Changing Cities: Detroit, Three Walls, Chicago, Illinois
Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition, Bohemian National Home, Detroit, Michigan
2007
Azutunarasharedo, Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Harvest, Alley Culture, Detroit, Michigan
2005
Wall to Wall Sculpture Invitational, Flatlanders, Blissfield, Michigan
2004
Group Show, Street Level Gallery, Highwood, Illinois
2003
DAM Members Invitational, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, Michigan
Selecti, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, Michigan
Alumni Exhibit: Cardew, Fortuna, Peet, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future, Street Level Gallery, Highwood, Illinois
2000
Past, Present, Future - DAM 2000, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, Michigan
German Art / Michigan Art, PCCA, Rochester, Michigan
1999
Content Contained, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998
Undefining Sculpture, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, Michigan
Assemblage, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, Michigan
1997
Beneath Nature, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan
Sculpture Pontiac ’97, Pontiac, Michigan - Co-curator
1996
In Residence, Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, Michigan
Art from Detroit Western Illinois University Macomb,Illinois