PATRICIA FALLON
Resume 02.27.2009

Born November 2, 1939, Cartagena, Colombia, South America, to Captain Carlos Fallon of Bogotá, Colombia, and the U.S.A., and Maureen Byrne Fallon Laird of New Orleans, LA. U.S.A.

U.S. Citizen, Certificate of Citizenship on file at the U.S. State Department

MFA painting, minor print, 1982, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

BFA printmaking, minor paint, 1980, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio

BA philosophy, minor art, 1962 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Chairperson the Art Department 2007-2010
Professor, Ursuline College, 2000-current
Associate Professor, tenured, 1995, Ursuline College.
Art Department Chair, Ursuline College, 1998/2001.
Assistant Professor Art, Ursuline College, 1989-1994.
Art Department Head, Ursuline College, 1989-1991.
Adjunct Professor Art and Art History, Ursuline College, 1983-1989.
Director Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, 1983-1990.


Curated exhibitions, set up exhibit schedule with the institution of an Art Review Panel; raised funds and worked with an active Gallery Council; operated bi-annually as a Museum Extensions’ Gallery exhibiting Cleveland Museum of Art collections; created all PR announcements for exhibits and installed all but CMA shows at the 40'x50' Gallery which has class A1 top AMMS Security classification; wrote and received grants for exhibits, speakers and films; instituted the first continual public education program around each local exhibition and focused on giving all artists forum as well as honoraria and, on exhibiting a wide range of artistic endeavor. Support staff consisted of work-study students

Graduate Assistant Kent State University Art Dept., Drawing II and Printmaking I 1981-82.
Teaching Assistant Cleveland Institute of Art, Art History, September 1976-May 1980. Corrected papers,
tests and ran a Friday seminar for the basic 2-year art history survey course.
Project Director, Cleveland in New York Program, NOVA (New Organization for the Visual Arts)
May 1978 to February 1980. Under the auspices of the consortium of John Carroll University,
The Cleveland Institute of Art, the Mather Gallery (Case Western Reserve University), the Center for Contemporary Art and NOVA. The goal of the project was to place a selected exhibition of Cleveland Artists in important exhibit space both in Cleveland and New York City and to bring national attention to Cleveland visual arts. I was initially given the group of selected artists and a budget of $5000. At the end of the project I reported on an in-kind and hard-cash budget of $83,000 that was used to catalogue the show in color, and exhibit it, simultaneously at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the neighboring Contemporary Center in Cleveland and, one month later, at the Parsons Institute, in New York City where, in addition to the grand opening reception, there was a private catered preview for the business community provided for by TRW. Art in America carried full-page national ads for the four artist show: VISUAL LOGIC. Curated THE PRINTMAKER’S WORK: 6 DECADES OF CLEVELAND PRINTMAKERS, with honoraria, for NOVA (a Cleveland Visual Arts Org.) exhibit opened at Bonfoey Gallery and traveled throughout the region, for two years, by Ohio Arts Council. Under my leadership a select committee of printmakers planned this pedagogical exhibition over a two-year period. With the help of International Press, we produced a special portfolio of fine arts postcards included in the fine, rag-paper catalogue embossed on the cover with the title. Twenty artists participated. The exhibit was further supported by a lecture and demonstration series including the participation of students from the Cleveland Public Schools. 1976-1978.
Researched and executed commission of wall graphics for GREAT HERA a local graphics firm; working primarily in offices and for restaurants, designed and painted walls or murals. 1977-1979.

Coordinated 9 ARTISTS, a woman’s invitation selected from viewing 2500 slides of Northeast Ohio women artists. Supporting programs included: Alice Neel for a week of lectures and slides, local video artists and performance artists and sculptors from AIA (then a woman’s co-op) in Chicago, and the film WOMAN HOUSE. I worked with a select group of woman artists in Cleveland to coordinate this under the auspices of NOVA and with the cooperation of the Cleveland Institute of Art and special poster donation from Emerson Press.

Instructor of Painting, Shaker Heights, Adult Education, 1974-1976.
Instructor of Painting, Valley Arts Center, Chagrin, Ohio, 1973-1974.
(moved to Cleveland from New Jersey/NYC area, January 1973)

2008     Selected to host a presentation, and also to give a multi-media presentation on Advocacy in the Arts and teaching morality to the School of Visual Arts.
Annual Conference at the Algonquin Hotel, NYC.

2007      Mini-grant award of $500. From The School of Arts & Science to continue studio body of work in progress plus registration fee for Visual Arts Conference in NYC October 2008.

Faculty Development award $1330. To attend College Arts Assoc. Conference in 2008.

Asked to be on a panel “Defrag Ohio” discussing business entrepreneurship, Lorrain Com. College for a conference by Ohio Learning Network involving State Schools and Case Western and local groups working to increase creative ideas within the business community.  May 2007

2000-2010 Marquis Who’s Who, International, American Women, in the U.S. and in Midwest Who’s Who International Biography CD 1998 to 2007, Who’s Who of Teachers

2006- Received one of five mini grants ($500) given to the School of Arts and Science in recognition of continuing work on BFA curriculum, development of a new course and research for a new course during the summer months.

Chaired and facilitated discussion for informal breakfast group of Council of Independent Colleges for ‘New Dept. Chairs.’

2005 Received one of five mini-grants ($500.) given to the School of Arts and Science in recognition of my work developing curricula for a future field service site in Arizona. Consultant to the Bellows Foundation on a proposed Field Center Site in Patagonia, Arizona. Consultant to the Bellows Foundation regarding a proposed Field Center Site in Patagonia, Arizona.
Selected 9 scholarship winners from 21 applications to  the Lebanese-Syrian Jr. Women's League/

Selected 9 scholarship winners from 21 applications to the Lebanese-Syrian Jr. Women's League.

2004-on Consultant to the Bellows Foundation regarding a proposed Field Center Site in Patagonia, Arizona.  My work was helping with the basic curricula for various field centers & editing brochures.

2003-1990 Member Editorial Advisory Board, On Drawing, Collegiate Press. Two editors are selected from 12 regions in the U.S.A., mine was the mid-west.

2002 received a grant award of $1200. from Ursuline College to plan, administer and provide for a Faculty Workshop for FT and adjunct Faculty to discuss and model the new curriculum format

Joseph Jankowski Painting Award, $250. The Hallinan Show, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College.

2001-2005 received release time to support the development of a BFA degree

2001 Invited to juror Geauga and Cuyahoga County ( equivalent of Scholastic Art Shows for grades 9 through 12.)

Invited to participate in seminar group on spirituality, Catholicism and Teaching in a Catholic College; supported by the Rhodes and Lily Foundation dealing with Catholic Educators and their Identity as Catholics, papers were written and read and discussed at Ursuline College.

Merit Stipend ($500.) for course development and curriculum additions, Ursuline College.

2001–2000 Represented the Art Dept. on the Teagle Grant collaboration with Notre Dame in Cleveland.

One of two artists invited on the Grace Lee Nims show, 30 minutes on NPR (Nat. Pub. Radio) to discuss their work being exhibited at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Alumni “ Summer Exhibition. (Daughter, Hadley, was the other artist/exhibitor invited on the program).

1999 Professional Merit Stipend ($250) for outstanding service and exhibitions, Ursuline College.

1998 Awarded $1200. Faculty Development to attend F.A.T.E. Conference in Colorado (Foundations in Art and Art Theory) conference, sponsored by the College Arts Assoc.

1998-1997 Merit Stipend ($1650.) Ursuline College for outreach work and exhibitions above and beyond normal academic expectations (traveling sabbatical work in exhibits, and speaking at the gallery, in several courses at the College, and the west side Kiwanis on the Homeless.)

1997-1996 Awarded a full sabbatical to pursue research on the homeless and produce images, and lectures, dealing with street people and the homeless.

1997-1986 Fellow, Ohio Humanities Council, 1986-1997.

1995-Faculty Development Award ($1200.) given to attend National CAA Conference, Chicago, 1995.

1994-Merit Stipend ($800.) For exhibitions, conference presentations, and for being selected by Evan Turner, departing director of the Cleveland Museum, one of 300 artists out of a field of 1350, for inclusion in the last May Show. The piece was 5’Hx10’W.

Juried as first selected project “Public Art and the Neighborhoods” of four selected from twenty-three project teams exhibited at SPACES Gallery I was the concept originator and worked with a team of 2; I took and collected slides, and prepared a power-point/graphic- manipulation of past-present-future images of a selected area in central Cleveland.

Professional Development Award to attend ($900) for College Arts Assoc. Conference, St. Louis, MO. where I also presented a paper and power-point show on assessment, the liberal arts student and faculty in relation to the studio faculty. Published in their bi-annual national publication.

1993 Paper and power point slide presentation on The Value of a Liberal Arts Education to the Visual Artist” selected for the the 7th Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Visual Artists Algonquin Hotel, New York City, sponsored by The School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C. (Published in Conference Journal).

1991 Merit Stipend, Ursuline College, ($700.) for the quality of work of exhibitions and participation in department and college work and affairs-specifically the new Ursuline Studies Program.

1989 Faulty Development Award ($2000. Ursuline College) to travel and draw the stones, arches, and people on the pilgrimage route from Roncevalles to Santiago de Compostella, and in Barcelona, Spain, over two summer months.

1989-87 Alumni Trustee, Cleveland Institute of Art

1982-81 Graduate Assistant (books, tuition, and stipend) taught Drawing II and Printmaking I.

1980 selected for Admissions Portfolio Review, with Honoraria ($200.), Cleveland Institute of Art, 1980 selected for the Gund Exhibit, Graduation and during the Summer, Cleveland Inst. of Art.

Awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the FAVA Gallery”/All Ohio Show, ($250), Oberlin, Ohio

2nd prize Trumbull County Annual Tag Day Art Show.

Selected Exhibitions

2009 ALL ABOUT FOOD: ADDICTION, CULTURE & SYMBOLISM exhibition with program at Tri-C East.  Requested 8 paintings and prints and drawings from me, and 5 of my student’s work.  2/6-3/3

2008  Planet Earth Exhibit, June/July 2008 Wasmer Gallery, invited to show some work as part of a group exhibition dealing with earth and water.

Exhibited Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College 8 pieces as part of a body of work dealing with The Apple as metaphor

Exhibited at Ursuline College display, one painting, along with a published sketchbook of blank pages interspersed with  color images from 8 local artists of which I was one (Juried) February/March 2008.

Exhibited Wasmer Gallery, one large work “Troubled Apples” as part of a group exhibit about Planet Earth
June/July 2008.

Exhibited more “Apples “ from a continuing body of work, 4 new paintings and one new pastel.  Wasmer Gallery,  September 2008.

2006 15 prints selected for the exhibition Printmakers Work shown at Lakeland Community College, Cl. Ohio Oct-December

Exhibition of Darfur works at private political gatherings October/November

Faculty Exhibition Spring, Wasmer Gallery (4 large works on the Sudan & Iraq)

Exhibition of 3 large social/political works on Darfur at the 321 Gallery, Galleria, downtown Cleveland, Ohio late Spring

Commissioned to do a large painting landscape abstract of flowers .

Commissioned to do double portrait of local musician and his bride.

2005 Faculty and Student Exhibition, Ursuline College, Wasmer Gallery, Feb-March.

Selected for the Salon d’refuse Show in Galleria at Cleveland, Fall 2005

Selected to be on the MOMA NYC digital on-line Gallery, Fall 2005 to current time;

Exhibiting work at The Town Fryer, Cleveland, Ohio

2004 DRAWING FACULTIES: selected area print and drawing faculty from Baldwin-Wallace, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland State University, and Ursuline College. August 28-October 18, 2004. 9 prints, large and small, intaglio and viscosity.

Art Department Faculty Exhibition, January/February, body of work: 7 pieces.

Selected to be one of the artists taking a full page in a 6”x8” calendar book where each full page flanked a weekly calendar page= 52 artists for 52 weeks. Produced the Academy Graphic Communication Inc. and sold, or given, as a 2005-6 Daily Calendar showcasing local talent.

2003 Hallinan Religious Art Exhibition, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, two works, juried.

Selected to be one of the artists taking a full page in a 6”x8” calendar book where each full page flanked a weekly calendar page= 52 artists for 52 weeks. Produced the Academy Graphic Communication Inc. and sold, or given, as a 2003-4 Calendar showcasing local talent.

TRI-C WESTERN Campus: Parent/Teacher Associations, 8 artists (3 families) each with a body of work Curator, Barbara Chira, Gallery Director, Sept. 2003.

2002 Archives of Western Reserve Members Portrait Exhibition

Doubting Thomas Gallery, Tremont, Ohio, selected, with daughter, to hang in exhibition where
artists’ photos and work hang together as outstanding artists.

Commission for a portrait of actor Sean Fallon Walsh (not related)to hang in the lobby of
the Celtic Theatre he helped found, Los Angles Area.

Hallinan Religious Art Exhibition, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, January/February,
Joseph Jancosky painting award. ($400.)

2001 LAZOS CULTURALES, exhibition of a body of work as part of a contemporary exhibition of local and state Hispanic artists, Lake Erie College, August 31 through Sept. 28.

Archives of Western Reserve Art Members Self-Portrait Show, May

2000 Cleveland Institute of Art, Alumni Exhibition, juried, summer.

1999-2000 “Touring International Exhibition of 115 Northeast Ohio Artists. Sponsored by The Lake Erie Council, begins in Toledo, Ohio goes to: Budapest, Hungry; Poznan, Poland; Toledo, Spain; Nikopol, Ukraine; Tomsk, Russia, The Ukraine and, Toyohashi, Japan. May 15, 1999-Jan. 15, 2000.

1999 The Hallinan Show: Religious Art Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio

There but for the grace of…Temporary Shelters. An invitational exhibit dealing with the Installation of shelters and images. Each selected artist, architect, or urban designer, had a 10x10’ space to work with. Bernice Steinbaum curated the exhibition, Steinbaum-Krauss Galleries, Greene St. N.Y., N.Y., and Florida. November/December.

1998 In Town Club, Solo exhibition of prints and drawings, omeless, Cleveland, OH, September, opening exhibition schedule for the year.

Mandel School of Social Service, Case Western Reserve, invited to exhibit. homeless prints, October/November.

1997 Iconography of the Late 20th Century, Sabbatical Solo Exhibition of 18 months work on the streets with the homeless including 50 prints, drawings and several large site installations including a 12 ‘ 15 shadow show, digital and analog presentations, taped street conversations and sounds, and a power point presentation including slide manipulations. Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, May 9-June 29.

1996 Two prints in the Homeless Exhibition sponsored by the Northeastern Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Cleveland, and exhibited at The Black Box, Cleveland, May, Cleveland State University, June, and Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Cleveland Contemporary Center, May through July.

1995 “TRANSFORMATIONS” faculty exhibition, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College.

NEWMAN RELIGIOUS ART EXHIBITION, Juried Group Show, Hallinan Center, Case Western Reserve University, June.

Christmas Invitational, Powerhouse Gallery, Flats

EAST WEST ALTERNATIVE GALLERY INVITATIONAL, Group Show, July/August. “Neighborhood Destinations” a public art project sponsored by the Committee on Public Art and presented at SPACES Gallery. Awarded 1st place of 23 teams. April.

1993 MAY SHOW, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Curator: Dr. Evan Turner, Director. (one of 300 artists exhibited of 1300 submitted) June 9-September 5.

Faculty Exhibition, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College.

Holiday Invitational Exhibition at the EIO GALLERY Cleveland, Powerhouse.

1992 FALLON: CONSTRUCTED VISIONS CONCERNING PEOPLE, Solo exhibition East/West Artists’ Coop. Artist Talk, October 16.

ARTISTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Willoughby Fine Arts Center, Willoughby, Ohio, July.

ART IN ARCHITECTURE, invitational exhibit at the Great Northern Mall Corporate Gallery, body of work of varied artists, 8 pieces: Fallon) March-May

1991 FALLON AND HOFFMAN, NEW WORKS, East/West Coop Gallery, September.

FALLON AND PINCHOT TRAVEL AND WORK, Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, March.

East/West Coop Gallery, Group Show, December
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FALLON AND FRATE, Karamu Gallery and Theatre Arts Complex, January.

1990 FALLON, FRATE, THURMER. Atrium Gallery, National City Bank, September

Valley Arts Center Group Invitational (5 pieces, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, October.

1989 Beck Center, Group Show, invitational, July.

Center for Contemporary Art benefit, invitational.

Ursuline College Faculty Exhibit.

1988 Malachi House, benefit, invitational, Cleveland, Ohio.

AAO Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Juror, Barbara Haskell (Curator Whitney Museum)

Bay crafters Gallery, Bay Village EAST/WEST GROUP.

1987 The Shaker Square Invitational Alumni Show, Cleveland Institute of Art.

The Atrium Gallery, 3-person: Fallon, Frate, Thurmer, National City Bank,
Cleveland, Ohio.

1986 THE PORTRAIT: 5-artist exhibit, Washer Gallery, Ursuline College.

Invitational Shaker Square Alumni Show, Cleveland Institute of Art.

1985Benefit for the Center for Contemporary Art, Invitational.

Benefit Leukemia Foundation, Invitational.

Shaker Square Exhibition, Invitational, Cleveland Institute of Art.

1984 Faculty Exhibition, Ursuline College.

NOVA Benefit, Invitational, Cleveland, Ohio.

1983 OHIO PRINTMAKERS, The Bonfoey Gallery, juried, Cleveland, Ohio.

Opening Exhibition, The Collector’s Gallery, Dayton, Ohio.

Annual Shaker Galleria, Invitational, Ohio.

FOUR ARTIST EXHIBITION, Kuban Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio.

1982 Appalachia NATIONAL DRAWING EXHIBITION, Boone, North Carolina, catalogue.

The 26th NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION, Huntington, New Jersey, catalogue.

MFA EXHIBITION, Kent State University Art Department Galleries.

1981 The Canton Art Institution, Canton, Ohio—juried, catalogue.

DRAWING EXHIBITION; WORKS ON PAPER, NOVA, juried, Cleveland, Ohio.

FIVE WORKING ARTISTS: SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio.

20 credit hour MA exhibition—student galleries Kent State University.

FLORIDA IN CLEVELAND, Mail Art Exhibition, Cleveland State University.

1980 WORKS ON PAPER, Bonfoey on the Square, juried

PAPERWORKS: Cleveland Institute of Art. Invitational at Lakewood.

OPENING EXHIBITION, Image Resource Center, Invitational, summer, Cleveland, Ohio.
All Ohio Exhibition, FAVA Gallery, juried, Oberlin, Ohio. Best in Show Award.

23rd Annual TAG DAY ART SALE, 2nd prize, painting catalogue, Trumbull County, Ohio

1979 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, large print, Cleaving, sold 4.

Side By Side By Suitcase, exhibited two small paintings and one etching, with a group first at the
Bonfoey Gallery, Playhouse Sq. Cleveland, and then in Woburne Abbey, just outside of London,
England.

Commissioned portraits in Germany, Colombia, Ohio, Florida and Los Angeles. Large figurative abstract, Chi Roi, 7’Hx8’W, is in the School of Economics, National University of Ireland, Sligo.

My advice is to just keep working because if you are worried about whether your work is great art, or any kind of art at all, you are wasting time. You have to be dead a long time before society figures out what may be your worth to the world. And besides, who knows whether today’s art will be tomorrow’s ‘important work’ or yesterday’s kitsch.