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John Piet :: Unabridged Resume
EDUCATION
MASTER OF FINE ARTS, Wayne State University,
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (Center for Creative Studies),Detroit, Michigan
Honorary Degrees
2001 University of Mayab & University of Merida, Yucatan.
WORK EXPERIENCE AND TEACHING POSITIONS
2001 Sabbatical Leave; Research clay methodology, Mayan language studies, and photographic Site documentation Veracruz, Campeche and the Yucatan and Chiapas 1996-2013
Member : Pre Colombian Society Washington D.C. 1995-20013 [ this didn't exist until 95]
Research and photographic documentation of the Maya Indigenous and of their ruins as archaeology reconstructs 1985-2013
Member: Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts 1996 TO 20O13
Juror; Maximum DrawinGs, Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester, Michigan 1975 [this waas a showI was in once]NOT UNTIL2008
Professor, Art, Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, Michigan [1976-2010]
Set designer[WITH RICK VIAN] for HEAVEN, For Sue Carmen and [OTHER
MEMBERS] OF the Cathartic Circle - Forum for the Contemporary Art of
The Detroit Institute of Arts 1993
Sabbatical Leave, Research Clay Methodology, Mexico. Areas of specific
research: Guanajuanto, Puebla, Oaxaca , Yucatan and Chiapas 1993
Conducted clay workshop, as part of a group for the Iron Wood Alliance,
a group of ethnobiologists, social scientists and artists whose
objective was to explore methods for evaluating alternative raw
materials for the desert barometer Iron Wood. This was an international
joint effort by Mestizo and American Scientists and Artists .This group
was led Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, writer and Director of the Sonoran Desert
Museum 1983-2000
Organized Gallery shows for the Macomb Center for Performing Arts Mount Clemens. 1976-2008
Listed in Who�s Who in American Art [1990 to 2008]
Lecturer, Sculpture/Composite Whole Environment and Installation, Michigan State University 1982-1984
Art Advisory Board of Directors, Channel 56, Public television 1989-94
Member American [THIS DATE IS CORRECTED]
Hannah House
2008 Detroit Artist Market, Det. Mi.
2008 Alley Culture, car models
2008 Art for Life, Hyatt; Regency , Dearborn Michigan
2007 Willis Remembered ; Detroit Artist Market
2007 8 1/2 x 11 Detroit Contemporary Art Gallery
2007 � Willis Remembered�: Detroit Artist Market
2007 Brighton Biennial, Sculpture
2006 City of Brighton, Sculpture Show
2006 Center for Creative ,Alumni show ,Detroit Artist market , Detroit , Michigan
2006 Detroit Artist Market
2006 Sterling Scapes IV , sponsored Sterling Heights , Cultural
Commission funded by Michigan conucil for the Arts and Cultural Affairs
2003 Detroit Artist Market
2003 Actual; Size, Detroit Contemporary Art Gallery
1998-05 Alley Culture, Detroit Michigan
2001 UP FROM THE STREETS. DETROIT ART FROM THE JAMES F. DUFFY
COLLECTION Elaine L. Jacob Community Arts : Galleries, Wayne State
University
1999-06 The Art Museum, University of Michigan
2000 Canvas, Alley Culture Detroit Mi APRIL28-MAY20
2000 Actual Size; Detroit Contemporary Gallery, Detroit Mi.
2000 Dreams, Reflection & Space paintings and sculpture by Rick
Vian & John Piet The Gallery, Marygrove College; Detroit Michigan
1999-08 The Art Museum Project at the University of Michigan, Dearborn
1999 Flora Botanica, Sculpture Exhibition, Belle Isle Botanical Society
1999 Available Space,Alley Culture Detroit Michigan
1999 ON THE WALL, Cass Cafe, Detroit
1999 DTE Bloomfest, Cobo Hall , Detroit Michigan
1999 MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN ,357 THE JOHANSON CHARLES GALLERY
1999 From The Flat Files, center for Creative Studies, Art Gallery
1999 Sculpture on the Wall , Cass Cafe ; Detroit, Michigan
1999 3D@DC Exhibition of Sculptors, Detroit, Michigan
1998 -O8] University of Michigan, Dearborn
1998 The courthouse Show, City of Dearborn
1998 Cornerstone Alliance, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1998-99] Krasl Biennial Michigan Sculpture invitational, St. Joseph , Michigan
1997 SCULPTURE IV, Rochester, Michigan
1997 Sculpture Pontiac 97 supported by Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, Industry, City of Pontiac, & Pontiac Growth Group
1996/97 Urban Landscape Detro
ONE MAN
2001 Side lined neck broken no work
until 2005
Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts,
Macomb
Communitty
College
1985
Macomb
Center for the Performing Arts,
Macomb
Communitty
College
1986 Xochippili Gallery,
Birmingham,
Michigan
1982 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery,
Birmingham ,
Michigan.
1978
Feigansen Gallery,
Fisher
Building,
Detroit
1976
Willis
Gallery
Detroit,
Michigan.
1974
Willis
Gallery ,
Detroit ,
Michigan.
1972
Macomb
Community College,
Mount Clemens,
Michigan
AWARDS / HONORS
2008 Proclamation of Appreciation,
Sterling Heights Cultural Commission
2001 Awarded Certificate of Appreciation for my assistance in The
International
Conference on Maya Culture. by
CONACULTA, INAH, Governor of Yucantan, University of
Yucatan and
Universidad Del Mayab.
2001 Sabbatical ,
Macomb County Community College,
Yucatan
1999/2008 The Art Museum Project,
University of
Michigan,
Dearborn
Michigan, grant recipient
1998 Cornerstone Alliance, Grant
receipient
Benton
Harbor , Mi
1997
Paint
Creek
Art
Center, Grant receipient
1993 Sabbatical,
Macomb Community College,
Mexico
1986 Whirlpool Foundation Grant,
Saint Joseph,
Michigan
1985 Sabbatical,
Macomb Community College,
Belgium,
France and
Italy
1975 Michigan Focus Show, Founders
Prize, Detroit Institute of Arts
1975 National Endowment for the Arts and
Michigan Council for the Arts
combination grant to produce a sculpture for International Theater
Olympiad Sculpture,
Grand
Circus
Park
1975 Key to City of
Detroit.
1974 Founders Prize, Detroit Institute of Arts.
1974 Impermanent Sculpture Grant Kern Block, City of
Detroit
1973-74 Art Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1969-72 Ford
foundation Grants
COMMISSIONS
2008 Sterling Scapes V; Public Art Exhibition; Sponsored by the
Sterling Heights Cultural Commission,
dedicated,
June 17, 2008
2007 �City With A Halo�
City of Brighton,
Michigan
2005 �
Musical Rolls�
St. Joseph
Hospital ,
Pontiac Mi,
1998 �Entrance�
Harmony
Park, RED, WHITE & BLUES CELEBRATION;
City of
Detroit
1993 �Beautiful City�
University
Center,
Macomb
County
Community College
1991 Reconstruction in
Chene
Park - Outdoor Sculpture Carnival
Detroit
Michigan
1986
Saint Joseph
Mercy
Hospital Musical- Rolls
Pontiac ,
Michigan
1984
Chene
Park,
Detroit,
Michigan "Carnival"
1981
Oakland
University, Meadowbrook Festival Grounds,
Rochester
Michigan
Telegraph Exchange.
1976 K-Mart International, Interior
Courtyard Sculpture, Time Myth
1978 Welded Tube of
Canada,
Canada
1975 Grand Circus
Park- Detroit,
Michigan;'' Entrance"
1974
St. Joseph
Hospital ,
Pontiac,
Michigan Commissioned by Dr. Irving,
Doris Burton
1973
Pingree
City
Park,
Detroit,
Michigan
1972 Detroit Bank and Trust, World
Headquarters,
Detroit
Michigan
1972 - 08 Private commissions
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Annual
Garden Show,
Detroit Artist Market
2008 Intergenerational; Hannah House
2008
Detroit Artist Market, Det. Mi.
2008 Alley Culture, car models
2008 Art for Life, Hyatt; Regency ,
Dearborn
Michigan
2007 Willis Remembered ;
Detroit Artist Market
2007 8 1/2 x 11
Detroit
Contemporary
Art
Gallery
2007 �
Willis Remembered�:
Detroit Artist Market
2007
Brighton Biennial, Sculpture
2006 City of
Brighton, Sculpture Show
2006 Center for Creative ,Alumni show ,Detroit Artist market ,
Detroit ,
Michigan
2006
Detroit Artist Market
2006 Sterling Scapes IV , sponsored
Sterling Heights , Cultural Commission funded by
Michigan conucil for the Arts
and Cultural Affairs
2003
Detroit Artist Market
2003 Actual; Size,
Detroit
Contemporary
Art
Gallery
1998-05 Alley Culture,
Detroit
Michigan
2001 UP FROM THE STREETS.
DETROIT ART FROM THE JAMES F. DUFFY COLLECTION Elaine L. Jacob
Community Arts : Galleries,
Wayne
State
University
1999-06 The Art Museum,
University of
Michigan
2000 Canvas, Alley Culture
Detroit Mi APRIL28-MAY20
2000 Actual Size; Detroit Contemporary Gallery,
Detroit Mi.
2000 Dreams, Reflection & Space paintings and sculpture by Rick Vian
&
John Piet The Gallery,
Marygrove
College;
Detroit
Michigan
1999-08 The
Art Museum Project at the
University of
Michigan,
Dearborn
1999 Flora Botanica, Sculpture Exhibition, Belle
Isle
Botanical Society
1999 Available Space,Alley Culture
Detroit
Michigan
1999 ON THE WALL, Cass Cafe,
Detroit
1999 DTE Bloomfest, Cobo Hall ,
Detroit
Michigan
1999 MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN ,357 THE JOHANSON CHARLES
GALLERY
1999 From The Flat Files, center for Creative Studies,
Art
Gallery
1999 Sculpture on the Wall , Cass Cafe ;
Detroit,
Michigan
1999 3D@DC Exhibition of Sculptors,
Detroit,
Michigan
1998
University of
Michigan,
Dearborn
1998 The courthouse Show, City of
Dearborn
1998 Cornerstone
Alliance,
Benton Harbor,
Michigan
1998 Krasl Biennial Michigan Sculpture invitational,
St. Joseph ,
Michigan
1997 SCULPTURE IV,
Rochester,
Michigan
1997 Sculpture
Pontiac 97 supported by
Pontiac
Osteopathic
Hospital,
Industry, City of
Pontiac, & Pontiac Growth Group
1996/97 Urban Landscape
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation ,CIty of
Detroit
1996 Johnson &Johnson & Roy LAND PLANNING,
Ann Arbor,
Michigan
1996 Celebration of
Michigan Sculptors ; J.J.&Roy ,
Ann Arbor
1996 Artstsravganza,
Hunter
Museum ;
Chattanooga
TN.
1996 New Millennium, The
Detroit Artist Market
1996 PRIMO
DEL WILLIS, BOX SHOW-WILLIS GALLERY
.
DETROIT MI.
1995 Third St. Gallery , Weber
Bldg.
Detroit ,
Michigan
1995 Available Space , Weber Bldg.
Detroit,
Michigan
1995 TIME BOMB ! Michigan Gallery
1995
Carbonari ,
Michigan Gallery
1995 Interventions , Detroit Institute of Arts
1994 The
Detroit Show , Objects For and About
Detroit . Center Galleries,
Detroit ,
Michigan
1994 Sketch book Show, Detroit Artist Market
1994 Black and White, Biegas Gallery,
Detroit
Michigan
1994 Boxes,
Willis
Gallery ,
Detroit
Michigan
1993 Sabbatical
1992 Fann Ta Tarab,
Willis
Gallery,
Detroit
Michigan
1992 10th Annual
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition-
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition , Empire -
Fulton
State
Park,
New York
1992 Images Unfold ,
Troy Place,
Detroit Artists Market.
1992 Retro Perspective, Cass Corridor Continuum Exhibition
1992
Detroit Artist Market 60th Anniversary
Exhibition
1992 Drawing in The 90�s , Center for Creative Studies Gallery
1992 Black and White Drawings by Metropolitan
Detroit Artist,
1992 Alumni Exhibition,
Wayne
State
University
1992 Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images, Meadow Brook Art
Gallery,
Oakland
University,
Rochester,
Michigan
1992
Willis
Gallery , 10th Anniversary Exhibition!
1989-91
Michigan Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition I ,
II, & III
Southfield Civic Center,
Michigan
1990 STEEL ,
Willis
Gallery ,
Detroit ,
Michigan
Art for Life,
Galleria
Office
Center,
Southfield
Michigan
Wheathervanes / Whirligigs,
Detroit Artist Market
50
Detroit Artists,
Buckham
Art
Gallery ,
Flint
Michigan
Motor
City Review, Michigan Gallery
Friends for focus,
Focus
Art
Gallery,
Detroit
Michigan
1989
Detroit,
Philadelphia Exchange , Vox Popili Gallery,
Philadelphia
1989 Earthen , Michigan Gallery
1989
Bronze,
Michigan Gallery1989 Art & Architecture of the Birdhouse,
Galleria
Office
Center
Southfield,
Michigan
1986
Krasl
Art
Center,
St. Joseph ,
Michigan
Michigan
Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Michigan
The
Fort Smith
Art
Center,
Arkansas
The
Metropolitan
Museum and
Art
Center ,
Coral Gables,
Florida
1986 Alumni Exhibition,
Wayne
State
University
1985 Sabbatical Leave
1984 �Artists Choose Artists,� Detroit Focus Gallery
1983 Invitational Sculpture Show,
Muskegon
Community College,
Michigan
1982 �
Atlas
Building Artist,� ,
Detroit Artist Market
2- Person Show Hebert and Piet ,
Macomb Community
College
Mt. Clemens
Michigan
1981
Meadowbrook
Art
Gallery,
Oakland
University
1980
Detroit Artists,
Cranbrook
Academy of
Art Museum, Birm. Mi.
1980 �Kick Out The Jams� Detroit Institute of Arts.
Detroit
Michigan
�Kick Out The Jams�
Chicago
Contemporary
Art Museum ,
Chicago,
Illinois
1980 �Art Out There� Contemporary Art
Institute of
Detroit
1979 Barbara Fenderick Gallery,
Washington
DC
1979 �Sculptors Models and Drawing�
Detroit Artist Market.
1978 ��Focus
Detroit� Manufacturers National Bank
Show,
Celebration for the Arts
1977 �
Tradition and Invention� The Fifth
Michigan Biennial, Kresge
Art Gallery,
Michigan State University,
Michigan
Michigan Sculpture 77,
Macomb
County
Community College
1976 �Forsythe
Detroit,
Detroit ,
Michigan
15
Michigan Sculptures,
Michigan
State
University E.Lansing
Michigan
Arts and Crafts, The Society, The
movement , The school,
Detroit
Institute of
Arts,
Detroit
Michigan..
�7 for 76�,
Paul
Sargent
Art
Gallery, Eastern
Illinois
University.
1975 Michigan Focus Show, Detroit Institute of Arts ,
Michigan
�Sculpture Inside and Out�
University of
Michigan,
Ann Arbor.
1974
Detroit Artists Market.
Michigan.
Detroit Bank and Trust Invitational,
Detroit
Michigan
1974 �Environmental Sculpture Symposium�,
Wright
State
University,
Dayton,
Ohio.
�Sculpture Walk� Central Business District Association,Det.,
Michigan
1973
Willis
Gallery,
Detroit ,
Michigan.
Forsythe Saga,
Detroit
Michigan
1972 All
Michigan II , Flint Institute of Arts
1971 All
Michigan I, Flint Institute of Arts
REFERENCE ; PUBLICATIONS
2005 �Man of Steel Hidden behind
Detroit Art and Artist by Rebecca
Mazzei
2005 Metro times �Whats in A Title
2000 Local artists� fill the walls at
Marygrove
College�s Gallery; Detroit Free Press;
Feb.
28, 2000
2000 Dreams ,Reflections and Space;
Marygove
College; Meto Times
Feb.
23, 2000
2000 Dreams, Reflections and Space,
Troy Times Feb.
1999 Art in Detroit Public Places, Revised Edition text by Dennis Alan
Nawrocki
Wayne
State
University Press
1998 2nd Biennial; Sculptural Invitational : All
Michigan
St. Joseph Art Association
1998 Gearing Up For Art:, The Herald Palladium; Southwestern Journal
1998
Krasl
Art
Center Invitational, The
Grand Rapids Press
1997 Sculpture IV;
Paint
Creek
Center for the Arts, with support from
the Michigan Counsil for Artsand cultural Affairs, Oakland Press
1997 Sculpture
Pontiac; PUTTING SCULPTURE BACK ON THE
PEDESTAL
The Eccentric Aug.17/97
1997
Pontiac Sculpts an Artistic Identity; by
Roger Green,
Ann Arbor News Bureau 8i9i97
1997 A
garden of
Sculptural delights in
Pontiac; by Keri Guten Cohen
Free Press Special Writer
1997 The
ins and outs of Sculptures; by Robert Musial, Oakland Press
1997 City of
Angles , by Joy Hakanson Colby;
Detroit News Art Critic
1997 SMOKING MIRROR; Pre-Columbian Society of
washington ,
DC
Report from
Calakmul,
Campeche
Mexico
1996 Interventions; The Detroit Institute of Arts C.D. ROM Macintosh
1995 �
INTERVENTIONS� Cast a fresh eye on DIA regulars, Det. News june 2/95
1995 RETHINKING MUSEUMS, Metro Times July 12- 18
Detroit , Mi.
1995 Familiar art in a new light , Ann Arbor News
june
17,1995
1995 DIA
VIEWS News and Events for the Members of The Detroit Institute of Arts
1994 Professor Helps Mexican Artist Carve a New Niche
at
Macomb Vol.2 NO.3
1993 Sabbatical, Ironwood: An
Ecological and cultural keystone of the
Senoran
Desert by Sara St. Antoine
1992 Sculptor Captures Future with Art,
Detroit News
Collection is Testament to Detroit Art Heyday, Detroit Free Press,
Marshaπ Miro , April 12/92
1992 Video Documentary, Public TV Cable 8
Southfield / Lathrup
Program �Sight� Sculptor John Piet.
1992 Street Scene, Linda Ann Chomin Nov.5/92
1991 Video Documentary, Public TV
Oakland Press, On Art. by Judy Ann Jacobs, Oct.,25
1989 Artists in
Michigan, 1900-1976 A Biographical
Dictionary,
Wayne
State
University Press.
1988 �Best in
Detroit,�
Detroit Monthly
1986 Great Expectations,
Detroit News Magazine
6/1/86
1981 �Art in Public Places, by Dennis Nawrocki,
Wayne
State
University Press.
1980 Monthly
Detroit, � Dreams in Steel � by Mary
Solomon Smyka
�Kick Out the Jams��Detroit Institute of Arts Publication
Barbara Fendrick Gallery ,
Washington
DC
1978 Outdoor Sculpture, Monthly
Detroit Magazine
Arts Magazine, 1/78 �
Islands In The Blight� by Robert Pincus-Witten
1977
Michigan Sculpture 77
Macomb
County
College
Tradition and Invention ,
Kresge
Art
Gallery,
Michigan
State
University.
1976 7 for 76
Eastern Illinois University
1976-77 Arts and Crafts ,The Society, The Movement , The School.
Detroit Institute of Arts
1975 Sculpture Inside and Out ,
University of
Michigan,
Ann Arbor.
International Theater Olympiad, Published by
Detroit
Metropolitan Theater Council.
1974-75
Detroit Focus Show,,
Detroit Mi.
1974 Detroit Bank and Trust Invitational.
1971-72 All
Michigan I & II
Flint Institute of Arts
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