Anita H. Welych 132 CRESLINE DRIVE SYRACUSE, NY 13206 (315) 466-3556 e-mail: [email protected]

ONE-PERSON AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2018 Passenger Pigeons Lived Here, seasonal installation of ceramic passenger pigeons on grounds, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2015 Commemorating Loss: Centennial of Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, permanent installation of ceramic passenger pigeons at BirdNote Foundation offices, Seattle, WA 2014 Commemorating Loss: Centennial of Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, outdoor installation of ceramic passenger pigeons, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, , Ithaca, NY 2012 Michael Flanagan/Anita Welych, Art Association of Oswego, Oswego, NY 2011 Quinceañera: 15 Years of Latina Collaboration, collaboration with Yolanda Daliz, Ros Steiner Gallery, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY Mamanaje/Momage, Arkell Museum Community Gallery, Canajoharie, NY 2009 Mamanaje: Homage to Mothers, with Yolanda Daliz, Cazenovia College Gallery, Cazenovia, NY 2007 Mi Casa, Tu Casa with Yolanda Daliz, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY 2004 Crying Room, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY 2003 Carol Olds and Anita Welych, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art Gallery, Utica, NY Two Installations: Home=Work, Crying Room, Chapman Cultural Center, Cazenovia, NY 2001 Mujeres Latinas: Dos Voces, collaboration with Yolanda Daliz, Community Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY Home=Work, installation in conjunction with Central Book Arts: Traditional to Innovative, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Mujeres Latinas: Dos Voces (Latina Women: Two Voices), Adams Art Center, Dunkirk, NY Mujeres Latinas: Dos Voces, Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY 2000 Mujeres Latinas: Dos Voces, Hartnett Gallery, , Rochester, NY 1999 Mujeres Latinas: Dos Voces, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY 1992 Galeria Círculo, Bogotá, Colombia 1991 Fires of Redemption, Fires of Perdition, Chapman Art Center, Cazenovia, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Vibrant Ground: A Contemporary Take on Nature, with David Porter and Russell Serrianne, Broome County Arts Council, Binghamton, NY En Route, Centre d’Art La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Catalonia, Spain Collage, RoCo Art Center, Rochester, NY 2017 Coming Back Together, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse NY 2016 ReStart, Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 2014 Made in New York, juried NYS exhibit (HONORABLE MENTION) Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY All Things Cazenovia, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2013 The Opera Goes to College, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY 2012 Prehistoric Muses, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY Sabbatical Returns, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY 2011 100 Years of Women Rocking the World, ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse NY 2010 Fit to Be Bound, juried book arts exhibit, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 2009 Faculty Show, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY 2006 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY Collage, invitational exhibit, Scala Art Gallery, New Woodstock, NY Dada Domestique, invitational exhibit, Cazenovia College Gallery, Cazenovia, NY 2005 Say/Hear, Co-Act Community Arts project on Civic Engagement, Syracuse NY 2003 Inaugural Exhibit, Delavan Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY Wheels, Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY 2001 59th Exhibition of Artists, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 2000 But Is It Art? invitational exhibit, Community Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse NY 1999 The Art of the Book, George Waters Gallery, , Elmira, NY Saltonstall Foundation Exhibit, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY Artists Sponsored by the Saltonstall Foundation, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Works on Paper VIII, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV 1998. Proulx, Quinn, Welych, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY (three-person exhibit) Made in New York ’98, juried NYS annual, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Women’s Invitational Art Exhibit, Canalside Gallery, Seneca Falls, NY 1997 Saltonstall Foundation Exhibit, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY Schweinfurth Annual, juried NYS exhibition (BEST OF SHOW), Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY 1996 Third National Juried Exhibition, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1995 56th Exhibition of CNY Artists, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Covering/Uncovering, national juried exhibit (HONORABLE MENTION), Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS 2019 Kappa Pi Professional Grant, Kappa Pi Art International Art Honor Society. Artist-in-Residence, Centre d’Art La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Catalonia, Spain. 2014 HONORABLE MENTION, Made in New York, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY. Artist-in-Residence, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. 2011 S.O.S. GRANT, New York Foundation for the Arts. 2001 S.O.S. GRANT, New York Foundation for the Arts. 1999. S.O.S. GRANT, New York Foundation for the Arts. 1998. PAINTING GRANT, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. 1998, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1991 Artist-in-Residence, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Spain. 1997 BEST OF SHOW, Schweinfurth NYS Annual, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY. 1996. Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY. 1995 Awarded FULBRIGHT TEACHING/RESEARCH GRANT to Colombia. HONORABLE MENTION, Covering/Uncovering, national juried exhibition, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY. 1980 Awarded FULBRIGHT GRANT to Colombia.

OTHER ACTIVITIES 1990 – present Professor of Art, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 2019 Residency, La Rectoria Art Center, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Catalunya, Spain 2014 Residency, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2007 – 2014 Board member, CORA Foundation/ArtRage Gallery 2005 Painting commissioned for Community Foundation’s read ahead literacy initiative 2004 – 2008 Founding member of Co-Act, community arts group engaged in civic dialogue 1994, 1997 – 1999 Master Teacher, New York State Summer School for the Arts 1991 – 1996 Founding member and Director, Altered Space Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1995 Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

EDUCATION , Syracuse, NY MFA in Painting Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Graduate coursework in painting and lithography Cornell University, Ithaca, NY BFA in Painting

SELECTED REVIEWS Vázquez, Julián, L’obra d’artistes dels Estats Units, a Sant Pere, El 9 Nou, June 3, 2019 Shephard, Paul, “Cazenovia College Art Gallery presents ‘Sabbatical Returns’”, Cazenovia Republican, Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Mrozek, Paul, “A Collaborative Effort”, Batavia Daily News, Thursday, September 8, 2011 Rushworth, Katherine, “New Mixes With Old, Oddly, Stars Magazine, Post Standard, Feb.11, 2007 Mellor, Carl, “Styles Council”, Syracuse New Times, July 26, 2006 Rushworth, Katherine, “Niches of N.Y.”, Stars Magazine, Post Standard, July 9, 2006 Myers, Wayne, “Sob story: Cathartic ‘Crying Room’ at Earlville Opera House Art Gallery, Oneida Daily Dispatch, March 4, 2004 Portnoy, Ellen, "Good Housekeeping", Syracuse New Times, January 16-23, 2002 Mellor, Carl, "The Eyes Have It", Syracuse New Times, October 10-17, 2001 Lavatelli, Mark, “In the house: a look at women’s roles in the Latino culture,” Gusto Magazine, Buffalo News, October 8, 1999 Kover, Jonas, “Women artists confront society’s issues head-on”, Utica Observer-Dispatch, Aug. 21, 1998

SELECTED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS 2019 Integration of Science and Art, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY 2018 Art and Nature, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY Now You See Them…Joel Sartore’s Documentation of the Anthropocene Extinction, Great Minds Lecture Series, Manlius and Cazenovia, NY 2017 Science in Art, panel discussion (organized and participated), Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY 2011 But Is it Art? Art and Social Activism, part of “Great Minds, Great Ideas” lecture series, Cazenovia Public Library, Cazenovia and Manlius Public Library, Manlius, NY 2009 Social Engagement: from awareness to action, FATE (Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education) Conference, Portland, OR 2008 Inciting Insight: Social Engagement in College Courses, Design, the Arts and the Political Conference, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Women, Art and Resistance, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, NY 2003 Women in Contemporary Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art, Utica, NY 2000 Panel Moderator, Art and Community, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY 1999 Copyright Issues for Artists, ArtTrends 2000 Annual Statewide Arts Conference, sponsored by the Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations, Syracuse, NY 1995 Under auspices of the Fulbright Commission gave 12 lectures at six universities across Colombia.

COLLECTIONS Birdnote Foundation, Seattle WA Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá, Colombia Embassy of Belgium in Colombia Amiram Magid, former Israeli ambassador to Spain Fundación Luís Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia Convenio Andrés Bello, Bogotá, Colombia Centre d’Art La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Spain