MARY SMULL 1112 E. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125 267/237- 4805 marysmull@gmail.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/SOLO INSTALLATION PROJECTS
2013 Making it Work, University of Pennsylvania, Kelly Writer’s House, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Manual Autonomy, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Working Hard or Hardly Working, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Reclaiming Unfinished Needlepoint, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Finished Works, Lancaster Public Library, Lancaster, PA
2009 Finished Works, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2014 Writing Lessons, Butter Projects, Detroit, MI
Listening In: Philly Artists Speak, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR and Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2013 B-Sides (part of CITYWIDE), Rebekah Templeton, Philadelphia, PA
Workaoke: A Karoke Opera (in collaboration with Dave Kyu), 15 Minutes of Shame, Gold Standard, Pittsburgh, PA
Benefit show for Ballet X, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Needled, HandMade in America, Ashville, NC
Twenty-First Century Heirlooms, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2012 Unessential Night, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
SPUN Kiosk at Craft Spoken Here, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Division of Labor, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Manifest Destiny/The Gold Rush: A California Hotel, Museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Useful & Beautiful: Rethinking Domestic Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
An Irresistible Impulse, Butter Projects, Royal Oak, MI
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Work, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
Interlace: Weaving Community, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Omission Breath, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Inside/Out: Exploring the Garment, Philadelphia Sewing Collective/Philly Swap, URBN Design, Philadelphia, PA
Inside Twelve, 175 Gallery, Korea National University of the Arts, Seoul, South Korea
Benefit show for Ready to Work, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
More Than Fiber, Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2009 Heaven on Earth, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Loose Canon: Cranbrook Academy of Art 2009 MFA Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
2013 Knight Arts Challenge Grant (CITYWIDE collaboration)
City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy/ Springboard for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Community Supported Art Programming Grant (Grizzly Grizzly in collaboration with Tiger Strikes Asteroid)
Brandford/Elliott Award
2012 Nominee
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Continuing Studies Faculty Enrichment Grant
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2009 Finalist, Daimler Emerging Artist Award
2009 Purchase Prize Nominee
2008 Association for Contract Textiles Merit Scholarship
2007 Helen DeRoy Merit Scholarship
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fallon, Roberta and Rosof, Libby. “Mary Smull podcast on artblog radio – On truth, hard work, and the guilt of the unfinished project.” www.theartblog.org, July 8, 2013
Helton-Gallagher, Chloe. “Division of Labor: Exhibition celebrates the allure of the arduous.” Baltimore City Paper, March 28, 2012
Crimmins, Peter. “Philadelphia fiber arts festival covers needlepoint to hammocks.” Radio interview, WHYY, text available at Newsworks.org, March 2, 2012
No Object Is an Island: Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, exhibition catalogue (Bloomfield Hills: Cranbrook, 2011)
Sorkin, Jenni. “Making Our Selves At Home.” American Craft, 71, no. 6 (December/January 2012): 34-35
Stockton-Moore, Cindy. “Mary Smull: Saving Stitches: The Society for the Prevention of Unfinished Needlepoint.” Ducts.org, 27 (Summer 2011)
Zilber, Emily. “Mary Smull: Selective Memory.” Fiberarts, 36, no. 5 (April/May 2010): 24-25
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 2014
The Maryland Institute College of Art, 2010 – 2013
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 – 2012
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, 2008
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Grizzly Grizzly, collective member, Philadelphia, PA, 2010 – present
CITYWIDE: A Collective Exhibition, committee member, Philadelphia, PA, 2013 - present
Grizzly Grizzly/Tiger Strikes Asteroid Community Supported Art Program, committee member, Philadelphia, PA, 2012 – present
White Box Theatre, Arts Advisory Board Member, 2012
EDUCATION
2009 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, MFA
1995 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, BFA