JANET HASSINGER
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Stephen F. Austin University
College of Fine Art
Nacogdoches, Texas, 2006
M.A. New York University
Program in Venice, Italy, 1983-1984
New York City, 1985-1986
Brandeis University, Post Graduate Teaching Program, 1973
Boston Museum School, Jewelry, Sculpture, Ceramics, 1969-1970
School of Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1976
Printmaking, Watercolor
B.F.A. Boston University School of Fine Arts, 1967
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, Tx, April, 2007
Universidad Autónoma“Benito Juarez” de Oaxaca, Mexico, March, 2007
Abstracciones de Acantilado
Stephen F Austin University , M.F.A. Thesis exhibit 2006
Stephen F Austin University , M.F.A. candidacy exhibit 2004
Mosquito Café, Galveston Tx, 2003
Great Hall, Great Christ Church Cathedral, November 1999
The Art League of Houston, “Silences”, January 1994
Alvin Community College Art Gallery, 1993
Third Coast Gallery, Galveston, Texas, 1992
Bee County College, Simon Michael Gallery, Beeville, Texas, 1992
Carriage House Gallery, Guilford, Connecticut, November, 1990
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1989
Strand Street Theater, Galveston, Texas, 1989
Meridien, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986,1987
Galveston Art Guild, Galveston, 1987
Rachel Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1981, 1986
The River Café, Houston, Texas, 1986
New York University Gallery, New York City, 1985
La Colombe d’Or, Houston, Texas, 1977
Dresser Tower, Houston, Texas 1977
Pomeroy Pavilion, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1975
COLLECTIONS
American General, Nashville, Tennessee
Transco Tower, Houston, Texas
First City National Bank, Houston, Texas
Houston Optical Center, Houston, Texas
Texas Eastern Corporation, Houston, Texas
Southwestern Bell, Houston, Texas
Mr. Alvin Ailey, New York City, New York
Mr. Robert Joffrey, New York City, New York
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
Camp, Dresser & McKee, Boston, Massachusetts
Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas
Residency
Vermont Studio Center, December 2010
JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville ,Texas , Artists in Academics, work by Houston Arts
Faculty, may-July 2010
Gallery 1724, The little show, Salon de refuses, Houston ,Tx July 2010
Susan Hensel Gallery , Minneapolis Minnesota, “A Readers Art” 10th anniversary show,
March/april 2010
College of the Mainland, Texas City, Tx Faculty Exhibit, 2010
The Normal Gallery, “From Johnson” Olympia , Wa 2010
The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake, Flotsam and Jetsam” summer 2009
Buchanan Gallery, opening show, Houston, Tx 2009
Buchanan Gallery, summer group exhibit, 2008
North Harris community College Gallery, summer show
Texas A&M university,Soul Sisters, selected works by women Artists from the collection, J Wayne Stark University Galleries,March,April2007
Kingwood College, juried show, Honorable Mention, spring 2007
Galveston College , Art & Ecology: A collaboration with Artists who Teach Feb,2007
College of the Mainland, Faculty show, 2008, 2006,2004
Santa Fe International Art competition, Texas City, Tx.
Best of Show, & Honorable Mention 2004
Galveston Art League 27th Open Juried Show, Richard Williams, 2nd Prize 2003
Texas City International Art Festival, 1st National Juried, Polly Hammett,
1st Prize,& Honorable Mention2002,
Moody Medical Library, Galveston Women Artists, Galveston, Texas,
April 2000
Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Council San Jacinto Community College, Faculty
Exhibit, Houston, Texas, February 2000
College of the Mainland, Faculty Exhibit, Texas City, Texas, January 2000,2004
Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1998,1999
Texas A&M University, Benz Gallery, three person exhibit, 1996
Local Color, Small Works: A Juried Exhibition, College Station, Texas, 1995
Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston Open Studios, Houston, Texas,
March 1995
Lamar University, Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont, Texas, January 1995
Fine Arts Center, Ninth Annual December Competition, Lubbock, Texas, 1994
College of the Mainland, Faculty Exhibit, Texas City, Texas, 1993,1998, 2000
Boston University, Alumni Exhibit, Juried, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990,1992
Galveston Art League, Nineteenth Annual Competition, Honorable Mention,
Lamar University, Juried, Beaumont, Texas, 1991
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana, March 1991
Galveston Arts Center, “Is there still life in still life or is nature Morte?”,
Invitational, September 1991
Galveston Arts League, Eighteenth Annual Juried, 1991
Purchase Award, Rosenberg Library Collection, Galveston, Texas
Diverse Works, War Show, 1991
Third Coast Gallery, Oleander Show, 1991
Galveston Art League, Artists Choice Show, Invitational, September, 1990
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston’90, Juried by Dian Block of U.N.T., 1990
University of Texas at Tyler, Texas, “Closed Woods…Open Waters”, A Cultural
Exchange, by invitation, September, 1990
Galveston Arts Center, Group Invitational, March 1989
Galveston Arts League, Spring Open Juried Exhibit, April 1989
College of the Mainland, Texas A&M University (Marine Biology)
Faculty Exhibit, 1989
Galveston Arts Center, Studio Tour Artists Exhibit, November 1988
Melancon Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1985, 1988
Laguna Gloria Museum, T.F.A.A. Association, “Texas Realism”, 1987
Galveston Art League, Annual Open Juried Exhibit, Honorable Mention, 1987
Third Prize. 1986
University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, “Opera Images”, 1985
Pinnacle Gallery, “A Little Erotic”, Rochester, New York, 1986
Midtown Art Center, “The New Nude” (catalogue available),
Houston, Texas, 1985
Public Works, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Texas, 1984
Midtown Art Center, A Salute to Houston Artists, 1984
University of Houston, O’Kane Gallery, Houston Woman’s Caucus for Art (date?)
Palazzo Corradini, Ravenna, Italy, Vidoe Artfest, L’Immagine Future, 1983
Palazzo Biscari, Cantania, Italy, Eurovideo, Arte, 1983
Reinike Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana (date?)
Jewish Community Center, Dance, 1985,1984
Neartown Business Alliance, Area Instructors Show
Watercolor Art Society, Houston, Texas, National Juried Show, 1984;
Grumbacher Award, 1982; Honorable Mention, 1981, 1980;
Exhibited 1979, 1978, 1977
Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Sixth Annual, Cash Award (date?)
Dimension X, Art League, Houston, Texas
Audubon Artists Thirty-Ninth National Exhibition, New York City, New York
Jewish Community Center, Juried, 1981, 1976
The Houston Festival, Rock Garden, A Sculptural & Dance Collaboration (date?)
Texas Watercolor Society, Thirty-First Annual, Robert Simmons Award, 1980
National Association of Women Artists, New York City, New York, 1980
Assistance League of Houston, Honorable Mention, 1980
City of Baytown, 13th Annual, Honorable Mention, Merit Cash Award, 1979
Del Mar College, National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, 13th Annual, 1979
Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Museum,
Texas Art Supply Award, 1979
The Art League of Houston, Pastel and Oil Competition, Honorable Mention &
Merit Award, 1979; Exhibited 1978, 1977, 1976
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER, no. 57, May 2010, UK. page 34. by Zach Pearl
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newspdfs/57.pdf
The New Nude, Catalogue, 1985
Houston on Stage, Magazine Cover, February, 1985
Performing Arts, Magazine Cover, March, May, 1980
Houston Artists, Calendar, 1985
Galveston Art League, Artists Choice, International, 1990
Boston University, G.S.U. Gallery, May 1990
REVIEWS
Houston Chronicle 1980
New Orleans 1983
TEACHING
2010 Museum of Fine Arts Houston , Teachers workshop, March 6, 2010
1998-Present Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Watercolor
2005- present International Art Program , College of the Mainland ,Oaxaca Mexico
1989-Present College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas Life Drawing, Beginning Drawing, Design I, Watercolor History of Art, Art Appreciation
1992, 1994 Summer session, The Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Watercolor
1980-1987 Watercolor Art Society, Houston, Texas Occasional classes and workshops: BeginningWatercolor, Intermediate Watercolor, Advanced Watercolor
1979-1988 Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas Beginning Watercolor, Advanced Watercolor, Basic Drawing, Life Drawing, Collage
1978-1980 University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas Basic Drawing, Watercolor
1975-1980 Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas Beginning Watercolor, Life Drawing, Sculpture
1971-1973 Massachusetts Public School System, Lynn, Beverly, Nahant and Marblehead, Massachusetts Substitute Art Teacher
Visiting lectures
Watercolor Art Society, Houston, guest lecture/workshop, 2008
Galveston College, workshop, Feb, 2007
Universidad Autónoma“Benito Juarez” de Oaxaca, Mexico, March, 2007
Other activities
Jurying , Galveston art league Jan 2010
Jurying watercolor art society April 2010
Wash 2007
CURATING
College of the Mainland, Art Gallery, Director, Curator, 1995-Present
The Renaissance Foundation, Artists Loft: Galveston 1994-95
Mardi Gras Museum, “Mardi Gras Indians”, March 1996
The cultural phenomenon of the New Orleans Senegal Indian and Black Culture. Costumes, photographs by Michael P. Smith and Christopher Porche’ West.
“Tales Past”, Mary Jenewein, August 26 – October 1, 1995
New Paintings of Shadows from her childhood
“Reforming Mother Earth”, June 15 – July 1, 1995
“Con-Text”, April 22 – May 29, 1995
The appearance of the written word has become prevalent in contemporary art.
“To Present or Represent”, March 11 – April 17, 1995
A collage exhibit of both two dimensional mixed media and sculptural pieces celebrating the use of an object which transforms into a new illusion.
“A Map of the East: Leo Rubenfein”, Mardi Gras Exhibit, February, 1995
A photographic essay of Rubenfein’s travels throughout the East.
“Water and Light”, November 26, 1994 – January 5, 1995
Landscape images which have special emphasis on both elements.
“Galveston Creates”, October 11 – November 21, 1994
Twenty-five Galveston artists represented.
“On the Table”, September 8 – October 5, 1994
A collection of still life images from ten nationally renowned artists.
“Pure Paint”, July 15 – September 1, 1994
Nonrepresentational paintings which rely on the medium as the essence of process and content. Four Houston artists.