Exhibitions:
2007 “Miniature Show”, invitational, Guilford Art Center , Guilford , CT
2006 “All About Water III”, juried, Tracy Art Center , Old Saybrook, CT
2006 “Daughter/Mother”, collaborative, Women and Family Life Center Gallery, Guilford , CT
2005 “Contemporary Works”, juried collaborative, Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Gallery, Branford , CT
2004-2007 White Space Gallery, New Haven , CT
2004 Wall Street Gallery, Madison , CT
2003-2006 Brick Gallery, Essex , CT
2004-2007 Open Studios by the Sound, CT
2004-2005 Women and Family Life Center Gallery, Guilford , CT
2000-2001, 2004 City Wide Open Studios annual exhibits, New Haven , CT
2002 Gallery at Riverside Press, Essex , CT
1994-present Guilford Art League juried, member & annual Guilford Green exhibits, CT
1994-present Madison Art League juried & member exhibits, CT
1995-2003 Friday Night Painters annual exhibits, Guilford , Madison , and Branford , CT 2002 Connecticut Council for the Arts Invitational Exhibit, Hartford , CT
2002, 2007 Guilford Free Library Gallery , CT
2000 New Haven Paint and Clay Club juried exhibit, CT
1990 New Haven Brush and Palette Club juried exhibit, CT
Professional Associations:
Connecticut Women Artists
National Association of Women Artists
Shoreline Alliance for the Arts
New Haven Arts Council
Madison Art League
Guilford Art League
Connecticut Visual Arts Slide Bank
Shoreline Arts Trail
Connecticut Art Education Association
National Art Education Association
Board Memberships:
2000-2005 Yale Center for British Art Teacher Advisory Board, New Haven , CT
2003-2004 Guilford Handcraft Center Advisory Board, Guilford , CT
2000-2002 Wadsworth Athenaeum Teacher Advisory Board, Hartford , CT
1999-2002 Guilford Handcraft Center Board of Directors, Guilford , CT
Awards:
2006 Best in Show, “All About Water III” Exhibition, Tracy Art Center , Old Saybrook , CT
2006 Guilford Art Center Educational Achievement Award, Lifetime Contribution to Art Education
1995, 2000 State of Connecticut Educator’s “Celebration of Excellence” Award
1997 Madison Art Society Exhibit Award
1994-1995 Hilda Maehling Grant
1995, 2006 State of Connecticut General Assembly Citation in Recognition of Promoting Fine Arts in Education
Education:
1968, B.S., 1970, M.S., 1991, Sixth Year, Southern CT State University , Art Education, K-12
1990-2002 Dan Rice Studio
1984-2007 Guilford Art Center
1986 Fairfield University
1966 University of Rome
1964 University of Madrid
Teaching:
1978-present - Art Educator, K-12, Guilford , CT
Artists Statement
Molly McDonald’s work shows an affinity with Abstract Expressionism, although her approach is more harmonic and grounded in her observations of nature and her consciousness as a woman. Molly has studied with sculptor, Michael Skop; painter Anna Audette; and her mentor, the late Dan Rice. Rice was a graduate of Black Mountain College and a friend of Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Franz Kline.
“Painting is a direct, vital experience for me; it comes from the blood and the breath. A structure begins with my response or remembrance of the sea, the light of the sun, or the birth of my child. Then at a certain point, the color of the paint itself leads me. This generative conversation with the canvas, the oil, the modulated line, the hard and soft edges, and ultimately myself is my meditation.”
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