EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1978 Master of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing)
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1976 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting/Printmaking)
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1973 New York Studio School, Summer Study Abroad Program, Paris, France
1971-73 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2004 – 2014 Instructor (full-time), School of Visual Art, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
1980 - 2004 Assistant Professor (adjunct), Department of Art and Art History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
1997-99 Visiting Professor, MALS graduate degree program, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
1991, 1999 Visiting Professor, Art Department, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
1979-80 Instructor, Art Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
1977-78 Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
2011 Semi-finalist, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD
2008 The Career Achievement Award, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech
2007 Grant money for research/study abroad teaching, Mexico
2005 Honorable Mention, Masur Museum of Art, 32nd Juried Competition
2002 Humanities Summer Stipend Grant ($3,500), Virginia Tech, for “Tse Hane: Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the American Southwest”
2000 Nominee, the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (I declined nomination)
Nominee, The Diggs Teaching Award, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1999 Finalist, the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1998 Creative Arts Small Projects Grant, Virginia Tech
1994 CEUT Grant (for teaching excellence), Virginia Tech, for collaboration on “Drawing and Writing: Parallel Forms of Expression”
1985 Purchase Award, "Virginia Women Artists"
1983-84 Artist-in-Residence Grant, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
1980 Corporate Purchase Award, The Piedmont Biennial Exhibit, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1978-79 Ford Foundation Grant (stipend and studio), as Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1978 Ford Foundation Grant – Graduate Student Special Projects Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1977-78 Associate Instructorship, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1971-73 Academic Scholarships, Connecticut College, New London, CT
SELECTED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2013 Lecture, “My Work”, for Foundations students, faculty in Architecture and
Landscape Architecture, CAUS, Virginia Tech
2007 Lecture, “Pictorial Strategies”, College of William and Mary,Williamsburg, VA
Lecture, Patrick Henry Community College, Martinsville, VA
2002 Lecture, “Systemic vs. Systematic: Drawing in the Computer Age”
College of Architecture invited lecturer series, Virginia Tech
Workshop and Lecture, “Still life as Story”, Beverly Street Studio School Staunton, VA
2001 Lecture, “Tracking the Anasazi”, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies archeology students, Virginia Tech
2000 Lecture, “Giotto’s Arena Chapel”, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
1999 Visiting Artist , Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Lecture, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
1994 Lecture, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Visiting Artist , Reynolds Homestead Center, Crtiz, VA
1993 Workshop and Lecture, Longwood College, Farmville, VA
1992 Lecture, Staunton Fine Arts Center, Staunton, VA
1990 Visiting Artist , Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
1985 Workshop and Lecture, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Workshop and Lecture, Reynolds Homestead, Critz, VA
1984 Workshop, Piedmont Fine Arts Center, Martinsville, VA
Lecture, Blacksburg Regional Art Association, Blacksburg, VA
Workshop, Culpepper Arts Association, Culpepper, VA
Workshop, for public schools, Suffolk, VA
Workshop and Lecture, Art Association of York/Williamsburg, York, VA
1983 Workshop and Lecture, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Workshop and Lecture, Staunton Fine Arts Center, Staunton, VA
Workshop and Lecture, Winchester Art Council, Winchester, VA.
Workshop, for public school, Sussex County, VA
1981 Lecture, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1980 Visiting Artist, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2004-present Chair, Departmental Scholarship Committee, Virginia Tech
2000 Co-curator, brochure essay and design – “Confrontations of the Heart: Sculpture by Vikki Katen”,
Armory Art Gallery, Virginia Tech, September 7-21, w/ a venue at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Juror – Rockbridge County Art Show, Lexington, VA
Assistant coordinator – New River Ceramics Symposium (a 3- day workshop featuring nationally known ceramic artists), Virginia Tech
1999 Consultant, curator - art purchases and installation, Schiffert Student Health Services, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1998 Juror – Art Exhibit for Regional Public High Schools, Blacksburg High School, Blacksburg, VA
Curator – “Four Women Artists from SW Virginia”, Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996 Juror - "Art by the James", Buchanan, Virginia.
Juror - Fincastle Arts Festival, Fincastle, Virginia.
1991 Director, coordinator - Summer Workshops for Gifted High School Students,
(week-long workshops for students from northern Virginia, with visiting artists in sculpture,
painting, drawing), at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg.
Juror - "Women's Week Exhibit," Armory Art Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
1990-93 Co-Curator - Armory Art Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA:
· “Contemporary Ceramics from Potters’ Collections”
· “Stanley Lewis: Landscapes from D.C.”
· “Deborah Kahn: Recent Abstract Paintings”
· “Paola Borgatta: Figurative Clay Sculpture”
1985 Juror - Virginia Artist in Residence Grants, for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA.
1984 Juror - Virginia Commission for the Arts Grants, for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA.
Juror - Virginia Museum Fellowships, for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
1981 Juror – Halifax County Art Show, South Boston, VA
1990-present Coordinated and presented visiting lecturers and workshops for the Department of Art and Art History,Virginia Tech.
(E.g., lectures by painters James McGarrell, Jack Beal, Sondra Freckelton, Stanley Lewis, Deborah Kahn, Janice Knipe,
Marjorie Portnow; Taiwanese art historian, You-Heng Feng; eco-illustrator and tour guide Margie Scanlon;
computer artist, Julia Hoerner etc.,.)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS (Authored)
2000 Article – “Four Virginia Potters”, Ceramics Monthly, February, 2000
Review – for Harcourt Brace Publisher for the Foundations textbook, Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart, 2001 publication
Exhibition essay, “Confrontations of the Heart: Sculpture by Vikki Katen”, Armory Art Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1999 Museum catalogue essay - “Community in Clay: Four Floyd County Potters”, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA,
3/5-5/11 exhibition; July at William King Art Center, Abingdon,VA
Article published – “Four Potters in Floyd County, Virginia”, Clay Times, vol. 5, no. 4, July/August 1999, pg. 46-48.
1983 Article - “Donna Polseno”, American Ceramics, vol. II, No.1, winter 1983, pg. 66-67, with David Crane.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Sprint Corporate Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Hollins University Permanent Collection, Roanoke, Virginia
Knight Publishing Co., Charlotte, North Carolina
The New York Contact, Orchard Lake, Michigan
Sovran Bank Corporation of Virginia
Bell Atlantic, Arlington, Virginia
Virginia Power, Richmond, Virginia (see "17 Artists - Virginia Power Collects" catalogue, 1988)
C & P Telephone Company, Virginia
Collection of Ruth and Miles Horton, Virginia
Waitzkin Collection, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Tech University Permanent Collection
Capital One Corporate Collection, Richmond, VA
The Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Massachusetts Life Insurance Corporate Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
CSX Corporation
Emmenshuh Architecture, Kansas City, MO
GALLERY REPRESENTATION HISTORY
Meyer-Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM: 2004-08
Reynolds Gallery (Reynolds-Minor Gallery), Richmond, VA: 1984-1996
Beydk Gallery, Kansas City, MO: 1984-87
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
One Person, Two Person
2012 Two-person, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
2010 One-person, McCarthy Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2007 One-person, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
One-person, Patrick Henry Community College, Martinsville, VA
2002 One-person, Armory Art Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
2001 One-person, Art Pannonia Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
1999 One-person, Beverly Street Studio School, Staunton, VA
1998 One-person, Courtyard Gallery, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC.
"Vessel and Wall”, Reynolds Homestead, Critz, VA
1995 "Vessel and Wall", with David Crane, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
(review: Anna Fariello, New Art Examiner, September, 1995)
1993 "Niewald and Crane", Longwood College Gallery, Farmville, VA
1992 One-person, New River Valley Fine Arts Center, Pulaski, VA
"Janet Niewald - Recent Work from Virginia and New Mexico", Staunton Fine Arts Center, Staunton, VA
1991,85 One-person, Reynolds Homestead Gallery, Critz, VA
1990 "Janet Niewald - Recent Work", Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
1989 "Janet Niewald - Oil Paintings and Watercolors", Alleghany Fine Arts Center, Clifton Forge, VA
1988 "Paintings of Janet Niewald", Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1987 "Janet Niewald - New Paintings", Reynolds Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
(gallery representation 1984-1996, with Reynolds Gallery, Richmond)
1985 "Niewald and Hobbs", Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
(review: The Daily Progress, 6/16, 1985)
"Janet Niewald - Recent Work", Bedyk Gallery, Kansas City, MO
(review: Donald Hoffmann, The Kansas City Star, 1/13, 1985) Invitational Group
2014 “Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times”, Moss Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2013 Alumni exhibit, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2012 “Virginia Landscapes Today”, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA
2011 “Nature in the Non-Objective Realm”, the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
New Members Show, Troika Gallery, Floyd, VA
Alumni Show and Auction, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
WVTF Art Show, Roanoke, VA, with 16Hands artists
2010 “185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”
National Academy Museum, New York, NY (400 invited to apply/65 accepted for show) (review: )
2007 “Pictorial Strategies: Annanian, Niewald, White”, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
“Selected KCAI Alumni”, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2006 “Still Life”, Meyer-Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005 “Watercurrents”, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
“Selected KCAI Alumni”, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2004 “Contemporary Realist Painters”, Concord Art Center, Concord, MA (review: )
“179th Invitational”, (2nd for non-members), National Academy of Design, New York, NY
(reviews: The New York Times, The New York Sun,The New York Observer; catalogue)
2003 “Kansas City Art Institute Alumni”, KCAI, Kansas City, MO
“Sense of Place: Five Regional Artists” Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Group show, Studio 11 Gallery, Lexington, VA
2002 “Members and Guests”, Prince Street Gallery, New York NY
“Landscape/Mindscape”, national representation of landscape artists Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences
Long Beach Island, NJ (catalogue, review: )
“Strength in Numbers”, (drawing and ceramic collaborative work) Greenhill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC
Milton Rhodes Gallery,The Sawtooth Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2001 Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Exhibition and Auction,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Area Artists: a Benefit for the Art Museum of Western Virginia,
Market Building, Roanoke, Virginia
2000 “The Virginia Landscape”, the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
(a survey of Virginia’s landscape through 240 artworks from the 17th century to the present) (catalogue)
“Of Darkness and Light: Contemporary Landscape Painting”, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia. (catalogue)
“MATES”, Bedford Gallery, Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia.
1998 “Four Women Artists from Southwest Virginia”, Cudahy’s Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
(painting reproduced in StyleWeekly, vol.xvi, no.41, Oct. 13, 1998)
“22nd Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Eppink Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.(catalogue)
“Ten Artists: Blacksburg Bicentennial Showcase”,
Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
1996 “Women in the Visual Arts”, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia (curator: Sondra Freckelton; catalogue)
1995 “From These Hills II,” William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, Virginia (curator: Robert Berlind; catalogue)
1993 “The Allegorical Table, ”Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia.
“From These Hills,” William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, Virginia (curator: Julia Boyd; catalogue)
1990 "Three Regional Artists", McDade/McMann Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia.
1988 "Real Life," Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida. (catalogue; review: Mary Ann Marger, St. Petersburg Times, 4/22, 1988)
1987 "Virginia Landscape - Five Contemporary Views", Courthouse Place Gallery, Arlington, Virginia.
(curator: Elena Canavier; review: The Washington Post, 7/18, 1987)
"Over the Blue Ridge II," Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Roanoke, Virginia. (catalogue)
1986 "Still Life", Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
1985 "A Centennial Celebration: Highlights from Kansas City Art Institute Alumni," Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
(catalogue)
"Contemporary Still Life, "Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia.
1983 "Virginia Traversed," Squires Art Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia.
1982-86 Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia.
1982-83 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Sales and Rental Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1982 "Interior/Exterior," Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia. (review: Ann Chenoweth, Arts in Virginia, vol. 22, 1982)
1980-present Faculty Shows, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Faculty Show, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
1979 National Invitational, American Arts Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
"Niewald, Hatton, Crane,"
University of Georgia Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia.
1978 MFA Show, Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, Indiana.
"Local Painters", New Images Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana.
1976 BFA Show, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri Competitive (Apply to be Juried)
2014 The Landscape, Tellus Gallery, Lancaster, PA (National; Glen Cebulash, Dorothy Frey, jurors)
2012 Bowery Gallery Juried Competition, NY, NY
2011 First Street Gallery Juried Competition, First Street Gallery, NY (National; Paul Resika, juror)
“Strictly Functional”, National Competition, Market House Craft Ctr.,
East Petersburg, PA (affiliated w/ PA Guild of Craftsmen)
2005 Masur Museum of Art, 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Monroe, LA (National; 61 selected from 637 applicants; Barbara Grossman, juror,
Honorable Mention)
2004 “Drawing from Perception”, Wright State University Dayton, OH (National; juror:Charles Cajori; catalogue)
“2004 Hoyt MidAtlantic Juried Art Exhibition”, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA
(juror: Peter Plagens, art critic for Newsweek; 40 selected out of 453)
2002 2002 National Competition, Bowery Gallery, NYC, New York
(30 selected out of 270 applicants)
Larger Than Life, the Gallery at Jefferson Center
Roanoke, VA (regional competition)
2001 The Roanoke City Art Show, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia
1992 First Street Gallery, NYC, New York (International; 30 of 700 applicants; juror: Paul Georges)
1986 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Reston Art Center, Reston, Virginia
Danville Museum, Danville, Virginia
1985 Portsmouth Art Center, Portsmouth, Virginia
"Virginia Women Artists," Armory Art Gallery, Blacksburg, VA (jurors: Mary Miss, Ellen Lanyon, and MaryAnn Harman;
catalogue by Patricia Mathews, Oberlin College) See traveling venues above.
1982,81 Marietta National Competition, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
1981 Lynchburg Area Art Show (regional competition),
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, Virginia
1980 The Piedmont Biennial (regional competition),
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina (juror: Robert DeNiro, Sr.; catalogue)