Résumé

Orie Shafer
Born in 1951, Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

• Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1985 (Post Masters Work)
• MA, Art Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1978
• BA, with Distinction, Art Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1973
• Manchester College, North Manchester, IN, 1969-1971

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1979 - 2016

2016

• (May – June) POP Goes Purdue Invitational Exhibition, Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN
• (March-April) 2nd National Juried Exhibition: Art + Science, Indiana University East, White Water Art Gallery, Richmond, IN
• (March-April) On or About Rockwell Kent Exhibit, Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN

2015

• (November-December) Three person Sculpture Exhibit, Jasper Community Art, Jasper, IN
• (August-September) Two person painting exhibit, Hugh N. Ronald Gallery, Arts Place, INC, Portland, IN
• (August) 16th Annual Juried Show, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
• (June – August) 71st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Museum, Terra Haute, IN
• (May – June) The Selfie Show: An Art Exhibition of self Portraits, Museum of New Art, Troy, MI
• (January- February) Orie Shafer Lectures to Myself, Artist as Scientist, South Shore Art Gallery, Munster, IN

2014

• (July-September) Orie Shafer; backs, women, and lectures to myself, Something Special Gallery, Lafayette, IN
• (June-August) 70th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Museum, Terra Haute, IN
• (February – March) 24th Minnetrista Annual Juried Art Show, , Minnetrista Museum, Muncie, IN
• (January – February) - About Face: A Juried Portrait Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Ivy Tech Community College – Southwest, Evansville, IN

2013

• (Dec 2013 – Jan 2014) – Open Space: Art about the Land, Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson, IN
• (Nov) – SkyFest: Astronomy & the Arts, The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
• (Oct - Nov) - Art about the Land, Art Association of Henry County, New Castle, IN
• (Sept - Oct) - 70th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
• (Sept - Oct) – Open Space: Art about the Land Exhibit, Minnetrista Museum, Muncie, IN
• (June - July) – Featured artist, Red Poppy Art Gallery, Lafayette, IN
• (June - Aug) – 69th Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Museum, Terra Haute, IN
• (April - June) – Group Exhibit, Red Poppy Art Gallery, Lafayette, IN

2012

• (Sept - Nov) – Winter Salon, Soo Rye Art Gallery, Rye, NH
• (Aug - Sept) – Group Exhibition, Red Poppy Gallery, Lafayette, IN
• (June - July) – 68th Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Museum, Terra Haute, IN. Merit Award
• (May - June) – Photowork ’12, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
• (May) – Abstract Photo Exhibition, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• (March) – ‘Landscapes’, Light Space and Time on Line Gallery, Jupiter, FL

2011

• (June - July) – Paducah Photo 2011, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
• (Feb - Mar) – Orie Shafer Recent Work, Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN

2010-11

• (Dec - Jan) – “Precious” Group exhibition, Soo Rye Art Gallery, Rye, NH
• (Dec - Jan) – The Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson, IN

2010

• (Nov) – Art Association of Henry County, New Castle, IN
• (Nov) – Dreams and Melodramas, Artists’ Own Gallery, Lafayette, IN
• (Sept - Oct) – Open Space: Art about the Land Exhibit, Minnetrista Museum, Muncie, IN
• (Sept – Oct) – 2010 Realism Biennial Exhibit, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN
• (Feb) – Featured Artist for Editions Limited Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
• (Jan - Feb) – ‘Fields of Vision’, Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO

2009

• (Sept) – Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Recent work for the Permanent Collection Committee, Lafayette, IN
• (Apr-June) – Space 237, Spring Show, Toledo, OH
• (Apr-May) – X-Power Gallery, 2009 International Exhibit, Hollywood, CA
• (Jan-Mar) – The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, “Art for the New Century”, Lafayette, IN

2008

• (Nov-Dec) – 12 X 12 Group Show, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
• (Oct) – The Showroom Gallery Group Show at HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
• (Oct) – Art of Democracy Show, “Farewell to the Wasteland”, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
• (July) – Infusion Gallery, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
• (Feb) – Ross Fine Arts, Group Show, Lafayette, IN

2006

• (Sept) – Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, “Lectures to Myself Continued”, Lafayette, IN
• (June) – Tippecanoe Arts Federation, “Barbarian Migrations”, Lafayette, IN
• (May) – Truckee Meadows Community College, War Series, Reno, NV

2005

• Kirkland Art Center, War Series, Clinton, New York
• Northern Iowa University, Barbarian Migrations, Cedar Falls, Iowa
• Purdue University, Alumni Exhibition, West Lafayette, IN
• Lafayette Museum of Art, They Practice What They Teach, Lafayette, IN
• Lafayette Museum of Art, Indiana Now, Lafayette, IN

2002

• Wells Cultural Center, One-person show, Lafayette, IN

1992

• Indiana State University Map Show, Terre Haute, IN

1991

• Designers’ Show House, Marion College
  
• Dinner works, Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY

1990

• The American Art Clay Company’s Indiana Vase Exhibition III
  
• Patrick King Contemporary Arts, One person Show, Stratum Paintings and Assemblages, Indianapolis, IN

1989

• Lectures to Myself 1979-1989, I One person Show, Indiana State Museum,
  Indianapolis, IN
• Goldberg and Feldman Fine Arts, Carmel, IN

1988

• Wabash Valley Exhibition, Seldon Swope Museum of Art, Terra Haute, IN. Grand Prize

1985

• Indiana Arts Association Gallery, Munster, IN
  
• Clemson National Print and Drawing Show, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  
• 70th Indiana Artist Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
  Indianapolis, IN.  Grand Prize

1984

• Group Show, Patti Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
  
• Recent Acquisitions, The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY
  
• Permanent Collection, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
  
• G.W. Einstein Co. Inc., New York, NY  

1983

• Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  
• Patti Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA 
  
• Dobrick Gallery, Solo Show, Chicago, IL
  
• 69th Indiana Artist Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
  Indianapolis, IN, Grand Prize

1982

• Two Person Show, Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN
  
• Two Person Show, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
  
• Second Biennial, Michiana Regional Art Center, South Bend, IN
  
• Drawing Exhibition, Rockland Community Center, Suffern, NY
  
• Dobrick Gallery, Solo Show, Chicago, IL

1981

• Six Indiana Artists, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  
• 68th Indiana Artists Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.  Gallery Award
  
• Rockford International ’81, Rockford College, Rockford, IL
  
• Art Association of Richmond, Solo Show, Richmond, IN
  
• Stewart Center Gallery, Solo Show, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

1980

• Painting and Sculpture Today, National Invitational, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
• American Drawings 11, Portsmouth Community Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA.  Purchase Award, Touring with Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition  1982
• International Exhibition of American Prints and Drawings, Porter Fine Arts, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA. Gallery Award
• 42nd Annual Exhibition of American Painting, Society of the Four Arts, Plam Beach, FL.  Purchase Award
  

1979

• One Person Show, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• President West Lafayette Police Department Merit Commission, West Lafayette, IN 2011 – 2016
   
• Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Department, Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) Aux Patrol, Lafayette, IN 2011 - 2016
   
• ]Art Department Chair/ Teacher, (Aug 1976 - Retired May 2008) West Lafayette School Corporation. Painting and Photography.
   
• Art Department Chair/Teacher (1973-1976) Tippecanoe School Corporation. 
   
• Awards:  Lilly Fellow 1985, Golden Apple Teacher 1994.

WRITING EXPERIENCE

• Contracted Art Columnist Journal and Courier, Lafayette, IN 2009 - 2016
   
• Arts Feature Writer for Lafayette Magazine, Lafayette, IN 2010 - 2016 
   

UNITED STATES NAVY

• Commander (2001-Retired 01 Oct 2006)