Childhood experiences continue to inform my work. A Louisiana native, I grew up surrounded by bayous, cotton fields and Indian mounds. I loved exploring all of these venues and spent a lot of time looking for arrowheads, digging in the turn rows, and examining wild life in the bayou. Rather isolated, entertainment came from my own invention. I remember a game my sister and I called cool spot. The turn row at the edge of the cotton field was dusty and extremely hot. We would drag the shovel to the turn row and dig deeply till we hit cool, damp earth. Each of us would stand in the hot dust until one of us would break down and jump into the cool spot alleviating our burning feet thus losing the game. In the process of digging we would find an assortment of treasures, broken bottles, old marbles, pottery shards and an occasional arrowhead. These bits and pieces, rough fragments of objects hinted at the history of their former life and created a mysterious narrative. These experiences still hold a certain fascination for me and continue to surface in my work through elements, symbols, and story telling.
education
MFA Painting/Drawing..Louisiana
Tech University, Ruston, LA
1985
MA Art Education Louisiana Tech
University, Ruston, LA
1976
BA Art Education Louisiana Tech
University, Ruston, LA
1975
Additional
Study
Louisiana Tech "Tech Rome" Program
Included study in Rome, Florence, Athens, Paris, Munich, and Amsterdam.
experience
Professor of Art, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2003-present
Associate Professor, School of
Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1995-2003
Assistant Professor, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1992-1995
Instructor, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1990-1992
Art Instructor, Talented Art Program,
Monroe City School Board, Monroe, LA
1987-1989
Art Specialist, Ouachita Parish
School Board, Monroe, LA
1986-1987
Teaching Assistant, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1982-1985
Art Instructor, Lee Junior High
School, Monroe, LA
1981-1982
Assistant Director, Schmidt Gallery,
Monroe, LA
1979-1981
Art Instructor, River Oaks School,
Monroe, LA
1977-1979
Museum Assistant/Art Instructor,
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
1974-1978
exhibitions
Two Person Exhibition, Katherine Amman Vellard and Kevin S. Kennedy, The Enterprise Center, Ruston, LA
2007
20"x20"x20" Compact Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery,
Baton Rouge, LA
Donna... Service With A Smile, invitational exhibition of works on paper, Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA
America's 2000 All Media Competition, national Juried competition,
Northwest Art Center, Minot, North Dakota
2006
Artspace Group Exhibition, Shreveport Regional Art Center,
Shreveport, LA
Twin City Art Foundation 33rd Annual Art Competition,
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Members Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe, LA
Biannual Faculty Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA
Bonefolder
and Brush/Pencil and Pulp, Penland Gallery, Penland, North
Carolina
2005
Outside
the Box: Collection of Pamela M. Baker, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe, LA
Eye Twenty
Group Exhibition, Charles B. Goddard Center for the Visual
and Performing Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma
For Donna,
invitational exhibition,Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
curated by Deborah Luster
Group
Exhibition, Dunbar Art Gallery, Grambling, Louisiana
2003
Eye Twenty
Group Revisited, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Eye Twenty
Group Revisited, South Arkansas Art Center,
ElDorado, AR
2002
Eye Twenty
Group Revisited, River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria,
LA
Group
Exhibition, Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA
Mi Nido,
ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX
Turnrow,
Group Exhibition of Louisiana Artists, Bry Gallery, University of
Louisiana, Monroe, LA
2001
Drawing
in the Fourth Dimension, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000
The 27th
Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Honorable Mention James
Surls, juror, Monroe, LA
Group
Exhibition, Tower Gallery, Shreveport, LA
Fault
Lines, ArtScan: A Contemporary Art Gallery, eight person exhibition
, Houston, TX
1999
Exhibition
of Gallery Artists, Heriard-Cimino Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
1998
Owning
Each Other, national juried exhibition in cooperation with
Amnesty International, the Meeting House for Theology and the Arts,
Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts
Arte Sagrado,
national juried exhibition, Concordia University Art Gallery, Austin,
TX
The Divine
Comedy: Images of Heaven, Hell, and Limbo, national juried
exhibition, John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Arnold, Maryland
Solo show - St. John the Divine Cathedral,
Nave, New York, New York
Solo show - Levee Gallery, Monroe LA
Solo show - Northminster Church Gallery, Monroe,
LA
Installation, Come
Shining collaborative installation with photographer Deborah
Luster and poet C.D. Wright, Poet's Theatre, New York, NY
1997
Installation, Holy
Water: Learning to Float collaborative installation with photographer
Pinkie M.M. Bass, Eastern Shore Art Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
Dix Artistes
De Louisiane, Artists' Alliance Art Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana.
One of 10 Louisiana artists selected to represent the state in this
exhibition during the Festival Internationale
Border
to Border V, The Larson Biennial National Drawing Exhibition,
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
1995
22nd Annual
Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe LA
Twelve
Louisiana Women Artists, The Gallery, Monroe Civic Center,
Monroe, LA
1994
North
Georgia College National Drawing Exhibition, North Georgia
College, Dahlonega, GA
1992
Two Person
Exhibition, The Baton Rouge Gallery,
Baton Rouge, LA
Solo show-Kisatchie Gallery, Shreveport,
LA
Seven
Louisiana Artists, Contemporanea Fine Arts Gallery, Hot Springs,
AR
1991
Drawings
and Prints: A Juried Exhibition of Artists in Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Texas, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge,
LA
Wild Life:
A Group Exhibition, Stoner Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
Eleven
Louisiana Artists, Hoag Gallery, Sangre De Christo Art Center
Gallery, Pueblo, Colorado
1990
Dallas
Women's Caucus for Art Exhibition, ARCO Tower Gallery, Dallas,
TX
20th Annual
Photographs, Drawings, and Prints Exhibition, national juried
exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Juror: Richard
Eagan, Director, Twinnings Gallery, NY
1989
Solo show - Rountree Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana
1988
Louisiana
Competition 1987, National juried exhibition, Riverside Museum,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Juror: Lowrey Sims, Associate Curator, Twentieth
Century Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1987
Twenty-Ninth
Annual Delta Art Exhibition, national juried exhibition, Arkansas
Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Juror: Grace Glueck,
Art News
Editor, The New York Times
1986
Solo show - Stoner Art Gallery, Shreveport,
Louisiana
1985
Solo show - Rountree Gallery, Monroe, LA
Mid-America
Biennial, national juried exhibition, Owensboro Museum of
Fine
Art, Owensboro, Kentucky. Juror: Thomas M. Messer, Director, Solomon
R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1984
Solo show - Bry Art Gallery, Northeast Louisiana
University,
Monroe, LA
1983
Solo show - Galerie Contact, Bordeaux, France
1980
Solo show - Schmidt Gallery, Monroe, LA
awards/honors
Higher Education Art Educator of the Year
Louisiana Art Education Association
2007
Louisiana
Divsion of the Arts, $5000 Artists Fellowship Award
2003
Honorable
Mention, The 27th Annual Juried Competition,
Masur Museum of
Art, James Surls, juror, Monroe, Louisiana
2000
Juror's Special Merit Award, Arte
Sagrado,
Concordia University Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
1998
Attended META, An invitational
one week Artists Retreat in Black Mountain, North Carolina founded
by artist/curator Roger Manley
1996, 1998
Louisiana Higher Education Art
Educator of the Year 1998, Louisiana Art Education Association
1998
Juror's Award, 24th Annual Juried
Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
1997
Commission, the Twin City Ballet,
created three original paintings 25 ft. x 40 ft. for use as backdrop
for their 25th Anniversary performance, Flowers
1996
Award of Distinction and Permanent
Collection Purchase, 22nd Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum
of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
1995
Commission Award, Monroe Symphony
Orchestra Poster Design Competition, Monroe, Louisiana
1986
Honorable Mention, Painting, Louisiana
Exhibition for the Arts, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
1985
First Place, Graphics, Louisiana
Exhibition for the Arts, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
undergraduate programs
studio
jonathan donehoo
Childhood experiences continue to inform my work. A Louisiana native, I grew up surrounded by bayous, cotton fields and Indian mounds. I loved exploring all of these venues and spent a lot of time looking for arrowheads, digging in the turn rows, and examining wild life in the bayou. Rather isolated, entertainment came from my own invention. I remember a game my sister and I called cool spot. The turn row at the edge of the cotton field was dusty and extremely hot. We would drag the shovel to the turn row and dig deeply till we hit cool, damp earth. Each of us would stand in the hot dust until one of us would break down and jump into the cool spot alleviating our burning feet thus losing the game. In the process of digging we would find an assortment of treasures, broken bottles, old marbles, pottery shards and an occasional arrowhead. These bits and pieces, rough fragments of objects hinted at the history of their former life and created a mysterious narrative. These experiences still hold a certain fascination for me and continue to surface in my work through elements, symbols, and story telling.
