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RESUME
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SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
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2018 Dana Balter's Congressional Campaign Office, Syracuse, NY Wall sculpture installation
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2017 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park , Cazenovia, NY NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION: IN-HABIT: PRACTICE and PLACE
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2015 East Area Family YMCA , Fayetteville, NY MANDALAS in CELEBRATION of COMMUNITY
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2014 Baystate Children's Hospital Specialty Center , Springfield, MA Outdoor wall sculpture installation
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2013 Nails in the Wall, The Gallery at St. Lukes, Metuchen, NJ SPIRITUALITY of the MANDALA
. Jackson Madison County Library, Jackson, TN Wall sculpture installation
. Manhattan Arts International, Online Exhibition: CELEBRATING THE HEALING POWER OF ART
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2012 Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth TX Wall sculpture installation
. New Woodstock Free Library , New Woodstock, NY NURTURING A POSITIVE SPIRIT - The Sculpture of Peter W. Michel
. American Library Association Conference & Exhibition, Anaheim, CA
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2011 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY A SHOW OF HEADS
Texas
Children's Hospital - West Campus, Houston TX, Lobby sculpture
with ceramic artist Morna Simon McGuffey
Beauchamp Library, Syracuse, NY "Community As Family " Outdoor sculpture
Meacham Park, Syracuse, NY "Honoring the Onondaga Creek " Outdoor sculpture
Stanley Center for the Arts , New Corridor Gallery Space, Utica, NY (ONE PERSON EXHIBITION-continued)
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2010 Texas Children's Hospital - West Campus, Houston TX, Outdoor sculpture
. Stanley Center for the Arts, New Corridor Gallery Space, Utica, NY (ONE PERSON EXHIBITION)
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2009 Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, "Two Are Halves of One " Installed
Wilson Art Gallery , LeMoyne College, Syracuse NY (ONE PERSON EXHIBITION)
Thea Bowman House, Utica, NY - INSTALLATION of the "Peace Garden Totem "
Artsweek Participatory Community Totem Project , City Hall Commons, Syracuse, NY
Cooperstown Art Association Gallery,
Cooperstown, NY
Syracuse Hotel,
Syracuse, NY, SCULPTURE in CELEBRATION of
RELATIONSHIP & COMMUNITY on the
occasion of the 10th anniversary of F.O.C.U.S. Greater Syracuse (F orging O ur C ommunity's U nited S trength)
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2008 Unity Church of Positive Living, St. George, UT, INSTALLATION of "Think Peace "
Datura Gallery, Ivins, UT
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2007 Bagg's
Square Festival of the Arts, Utica, NY RESONANCE
CENTER ALL STAR SHOW
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2006 Capitol
City Charter School, Washington, DC
Hart's Hill Inn, Whitesboro, NY
Utica Community Visioning Event
Waterville High School,
Waterville, NY Waterville Community
Visioning Event
Underground Cafe, Utica,
NY
Art in Public Places, Stamford,
CT, FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING
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2005 Montessori School of
Syracuse Gallery, Syracuse, NY ART IN MY LIFE
Windsors
Gallery, Dania, FL
Eastlake
Conference Center, Lenox, MA THE LABYRINTH SOCIETY
ANNUAL GATHERING EXHIBIT
Hotel Utica, Utica, NY
BREAKTHROUGH LEADERSHIP
PROGRAM CELEBRATION EXHIBIT
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2004
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY "CHAIR-ITY
AUCTION SHOW" (04-05)
2002 Sculpture Internationale , Atlanta, GA
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2001 Ribbon Cutting Exhibition, Fiber Instrument Sales
Office Building, Oriskany, NY
"A World Wide
Public Art Project: Celebrating Fathers and Sons"
Exhibit,
Planners Network National Conference,
Rochester, NY
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2000
Oakton
Sculpture Park, Oakton Community College, Des
Plaines, IL
Chicago Navy
Pier . Chicago, IL PIER WALK 2000
James Thompson
Center - Atrium, Chicago, IL PIER WALK
MAQUETTE EXHIBITION
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1999 Wandell
Sculpture Garden , Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, IL
Chicago
Children's Museum, Chicago, IL MAQUETTE
EXHIBITION
Chicago Navy Pier . Chicago, IL PIER WALK
'99
Edith Barrett
Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica,
NY ONE PERSON SHOW
Vedanta
Galley, Chicago, IL PIER WALK MAQUETTE
EXHIBITION
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1998 Web Site
Published
(http://www.borg.com/~michelpw now:
www.petermichel.com)
Sculpture
Space, Utica, NY "CHAIR-ITY AUCTION SHOW" (97-98)
Studio Show, Clinton, NY
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1997 Utica Films
Gallery, Utica, NY
Ward Nasse
Gallery, New York, NY,
UNSEEN REALMS
Murdoch
Residence, Washington, DC
Details Studio
Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
Circa Now
Gallery, Houston, TX
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1996 Downtown
Syracuse
Art & Craft Festival, Syracuse, NY, NATIONAL JURIED
SHOW
Gardner & Son Gallery, New Hartford, NY
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, SCULPTURE
SPACE "CHAIR-ITY" AUCTION SHOW (91-96)
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1995 Artist Avenue CD-ROM
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica,
NY, ART SHOP Artist of the Month
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, "IN
& OUT THE WINDOW"
Village Green, Hamilton, NY,
BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION of CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE
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1994 Chesterwood Museum , Stockbridge, MA,
CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE at CHESTERWOOD
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel,
MD, "EYE to EYE: THE PAINTED PORTRAIT"
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1993 Munson Williams Proctor Institute,
Utica, NY, Members Rental Gallery Show
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1992 Central NY Community Arts Council
Gallery, Utica, NY, (TWO PERSON SHOW)
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1991 Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY
Parkside Gallery, Clinton, NY
Gallery 53 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY
Kussmaul Gallery, Granville, OH
Fireland Association of the Visual Arts, Oberlin,
OH
Cooperstown Art Association Gallery,
Cooperstown, NY
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1990 Genoa Gallery, Skaneateles, NY
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1989 Kirkland Art Center, Clinton,
NY (ONE PERSON SHOW)
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1987 Cooperstown Art Association Gallery,
Cooperstown, NY
Norwich Art Guild, Norwich, NY
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1985 Ghariany Executive Showroom, Houston
Design Center, Houston, TX
Gallery McArthur, Houston, TX,
TEXANS ... NEW DIRECTIONS '85
Pinnacle Gallery, Rochester,
NY, A LITTLE EROTIC '85
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
TX, HOUSTON ARTISTS' GIFT SHOP SHOW
Houston Independent School District Administration
Building, Houston, TX
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1984 Consulting Services Group Offices (ONE PERSON SHOW)
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1983 The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock,
AR, Juror: Henry T. Hopkins
The Houston Festival , Houston, TX, THE
BAYOU SHOW, OUTDOOR SCULPTURE
First Congregational Church grounds,
Houston, TX
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1982 Dillon Residence, Houston, TX
(ONE PERSON SHOW)
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1981 Evergreen Park, Bellaire,
TX, PLAYGROUND OPENING
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1980 Art League of Houston,
Houston, TX, JURIED SHOW
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1979 Miller Outdoor Theater ,
Houston, TX, FOLKFEST I
Astrohall, Houston,
TX, SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN
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SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
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2015 Selected as finalist for public sculpture competition in Danielson, CT
2010 Selected as finalist for public sculpture competition in Camden, NJ
1991 First Prize, Cooperstown Art
Association, Vivian Raynor: Juror of Awards
1989 Artists
Grant, Artist Space, New York, NY
1987 Barrett
Sculpture Prize, Cooperstown Art Association,
Cooperstown, NY
Committee's Choice Award, Norwich Art Guild,
Norwich, NY
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SELECTED
COMMISSIONS
Work has been commissioned by the
Academy of Gymnastics in Houston, by the Houston Festival, the Houston Folk Arts
Council, the Houston Hunger Project Committee; The Thea Bowman House in Utica, NY, The City of Syracuse, NY;
Texas Children's Hospital West Campus; Baystate Children's Hospital Specialty Center: and a number of private individuals.
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COLLECTIONS
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Work is found in private
collections in Germany, Japan, Korea, South Africa, and throughout the
US
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ARTICLES,
REVIEWS AND TV COVERAGE
Gary Walts, "Neighborhood Art" The Post-Standard , Syracuse, NY August 4, 2011
Ashley Kang , "Artistic Expression " The Stand , South Side News Online Syracuse, NY August 2, 2011
David Lassman, "Honoring The Creek" The Post-Standard , Syracuse, NY July 16, 2011
Melinda Johnson, "Taking it to the street, and school, and parks, and creek" The Post-Standard , Syracuse, NY July 14, 2011
Eileen Gilligan, "CNY Artisans Make Gifts From the Heart," Family Times , Syracuse, NY November 30, 2007
Mohawk Valley Living, Channel 4 TV , Utica,
NY June, 2005
Jessie Gray,
"Community Art At Its Best," The
Clinton Courier , Clinton, NY April 27,
2005
Greg Kline, "Art
Flourishes at Meadowbrook" The News-Tribune ,
Champaign, IL November 10, 1999
Steven Shipp,
"Website of Peter W. Michel, Sculptor" briefme.com
e-magazine July 19,1999
Pier Walk
’99 Opens on Navy
Pier Chicago Sun Times
May 6, 1999
"Clinton Sculptor is Art
Shop Visiting Artist" Munson Williams Proctor
Institute Bulletin , Utica, NY
Summer 1995
"Art on the Square" Hamilton
Tribune , Hamilton, NY
May 17, 1995
Jonas Kover, "Forging a
Connection" Observer-Dispatch
, Utica, NY May 7, 1995
Jonas Kover, "Region's Artists Display
Their Work" Observer-Dispatch ,
Utica, NY
April 26, 1995
Charles Kershner, "Art Imitates
Life," The Clinton Courier ,
Clinton, NY April 5, 1995
Ray Mark Rinaldi, "Chesterwood's '94
Showcase - An Eclectic Mix," Albany Times Union ,
Albany, NY September 4, 1994.
Peg Churchill Wright, "Delightful
Stockbridge Exhibit Shows Sculpture Evolution in U.S.,"
Schenectady Gazette ,
Schenectady, NY August 4, 1994
Jonas Kover, "Sitting Pretty,"
Observer-Dispatch , Utica,
NY June 14, 1991
Robert Shaffer, "Creative Self" The
Clinton Courier , Clinton, NY
September 13,
1989
"11 pm News," Channel 4 TV ,
Utica, NY September 10, 1989. Opening at
the Kirkland Art Center.
Front page photo, Village Life ,
West University, TX
February 2, 1985
"PM Magazine" Channel 39 TV ,
Houston, TX 6:30 pm March 22,
1983. Views from the Bayou Show.
Patricia C. Johnson, "Festival Art Show
Leaves One With a Big Hooray," Houston Chronicle ,
Houston,
TX March 19, 1983
Thomas McEvilley, "Review: The
Houston Festival, Visual-arts Section," Artforum ,
October 1983.
Sharon Trakas, "A Tale of Beauty, Beasts
and the Bayou," 1983 Houston Festival ,
March 1983
Nancy Stanley Chisholm, "Geometric
Jewelry" Houston Chronicle ,
May 4, 1983 (Photo background)
"Live at Five," Channel 13 TV ,
Houston, TX September 21, 1979
Pre-Folkfest IV activities
"10 pm News," Channel 2 TV ,
Houston, TX September 14, 1979
Opening ceremonies at Astrohall,
Southwest Conference on Children.
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CATALOGS
AND PUBLICATIONS
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Danijela Kracun and Charles McFadden, Modern Sculptors, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA. 2011 (forthcoming)
Chris van Uffelen, Art in Public, Braun Publishing AG, Salevstein, Switzerland, 2011 (forthcoming)
The Sourcebook of Art, The Resource for Finding and Commissioning Artists 24,
Guild
Publishing, 2009.
The Sculpture of Peter W. Michel - A Photographic Portfolio, First Edition
Blurb, 2008.
The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art 6,
Guild
Publishing, 2008.
The Sourcebook of Architectural &
Interior Art 22,
Guild
Publishing, 2007.
Artwalk at Oakton,
Oakton
Community College, 2005.
The Sourcebook of Architectural
& Interior Art 20 , Guild
Publishing, 2005.
Anita Woolfolk, Educational
Psychology, Eighth Edition , Allyn
& Bacon, Boston, 2001 pp. 62-63,
472-3, 660-1.
The Sourcebook of Architectural
& Interior Art 16 , Guild
Publishing, 2001.
3-D Chicago, PIER WALK
'99: The Chicago International Sculpture
Exhibition, Navy Pier - Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicago,
IL 2000.
Jane Ingram Allen, The
Hamilton Connection: A Bicentennial Exhibition of
Contemporary Sculpture , Hamilton Bicentennial
Elliot Offner, Contemporary
Sculpture at Chesterwood 1994 ,
Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA 1994
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EDUCATION
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1986-94 Studied
Computer Aided Design
as part of work as an architect
1982-06 International Sculpture
Conferences, (Oakland, Washington, Providence, Chicago, Houston,
Pittsburgh ,
Cincinnati)
1976-82 Sculpture,
The Glassell
School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1962-64 Graduate Study in Urban
Design, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1962 B.ARCH., Department of Architecture, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1959 A.B. in Fine
Arts, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
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SELECTED
TEACHING AND PRESENTATIONS
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2009 '"The Story of the Peace Garden Totem" Peace Garden Totem dedication at the Thea Bowman House, Utica, NY
2008 POWER POINT PRESENTATION Jordan-Elbridge Middle School, Jordan, NY
2001 "Public Art as a Tool for Community Activation" Planners
Network National Conference, Rochester, NY
1999 SLIDE PRESENTATION, Utica College
. GALLERY TALK TO THE DOCENTS of the MUNSON WILLIAMS PROCTOR
INSTITUTE, Utica, NY
1990 ARTS-IN-EDUCATION PROGRAM, Slide lectures at Clinton High
School
1975 ARCHITECTURAL THEORY & CRITICISM, Boston
Architectural Center
1970 EXPERIENCING ARCHITECTURE, Boston Center for Adult Education
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