Amy MacLennan, M.F.A.
Associate Professor of Art
Office: Benson Wood
Phone: (618) 537-6986
Education
M.F.A., Painting, Indiana State University (2007)
B.F.A., Photography and Printmaking, Indiana State University (1982)
Select Grants and Awards
2009
Artists and Lecturer Series grants, Hastings College, Hastings, NE, Chandra Glaeseman,
The Marks We Leave Behind, and Nancy Nichols, Poetry and Painting
2008
The Big Read, N.E.A. grant participant
2007
The Big Read, N.E.A. grant participant
Jonathon K. Baker Memorial Award for Black and White Drawing, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Robert F. Schroeder, juror
2006
Mrs. Jo Anne Forbes Award of Honor, 62nd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Patricia Hickson, curator of the Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, Iowa, juror
Best of Show, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Jeff Zimmerman, juror
2005
Best of Show, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate
Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, juror
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Puckett Award of Honor, 61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Susan Rosenberg, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum, juror
2004
Vernon B. Cristee Award of Honor, 60th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Nato Thompson, Assistant Curator at Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art, juror
Residences
2011
Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, MT
Jentel, Banner, WY
2010
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Making the Seen (with Michael Neary), February 2-26, Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, IN
2008
Place/Memory, November 2-25, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
Place/Memory, September 5-October 24, Arts Place, Portland, IN
2007
MFA Exhibition, April 16-21, University Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute,
IN
Place/Memory, December 6-22, Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, IN
2005
Recent Work by Amy MacLennan, Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Select Group Exhibitions
2010
34th Annual Beverly Art Competition, November 5-December 27, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Resident Artists, September 4-24, Warehouse Gallery 1, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Hastings College Faculty Show, March 8-April 11, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
Pastel National, March 19-May17, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
2009
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
2007
New Work by the Midwest Paint Group, September 1 - December 14, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Reflexions Bound artist products Creative Marks: Summer 2007 Visual Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition, June 25-July 4, Visual Arts Gallery, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
Portraits-Examining Self Through Subject: Works From the Indiana State University Permanent Collection, July 9-August 17, University Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
63rd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, David Edgar, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, February 15-March 2, Indiana State University, Robert F. Schroeder, juror
Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, juried, March 9-April 13, Bradley University Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL, Judith K. Brodsky, juror
2006
Corpus, juried, November 15 to December 8, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
62nd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, July 8-September 1, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Patricia Hickson, juror
Three Women Painters, invitational, June 16-July 21, Bicentennial Art Center and Museum, Paris, IL
Rockford Midwestern, juried, May 19-July 23, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Gregory Knight, juror
2nd Annual Self Portrait Exhibition, juried, May 19-June 9, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
SHE, juried, March 17-March 31, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, February 15-March 3, Terre Haute, IN, Jeff Zimmerman, juror
UNO, invitational, January 20-February 3, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
4:2:1, four artist exhibit, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Susan Rosenberg, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Dominic Molon, juror
ISU Select, invitational, Dean Johnson Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, January 28-March 10
2004
60th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Nato Thompson, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Eve Andrée Laramée, juror
Select Collections
Interlochen Center for the Arts Permanent Collection, Interlochen, MI, Boats on Green Lake, 2008, watercolor on paper
Hastings College Permanent Collection, Hastings, NE, PRINTS: Irreconcilable Forms, Related and Implied Forms, Enveloping Forms, intaglio, 2009, DRAWINGS: Car Lights, Fog and Looking East, charcoal on paper, 2008
Indiana State University Permanent Collection, Terre Haute, IN, Self-Portrait with Snake, 2005, oil on canvas