RESUME
MARY B. KELLY
7 Hickory Lane, HIlton Head, SC 29928 843 785 8383
EDUCATION
B.F.A. St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN1958
M.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI1968
M.F.A.Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY1976
Post graduate course in advanced computer graphics, Rochester Institute of Technology 1985
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor in painting and drawing, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Summer-Fall 1972
Instructor in Art, Auburn Community College, Auburn, NY 1973 1972-74
Assistant Professor in Art, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY1973-76
Associate Professor of Art, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY1980-84
Full Professor, Tompkins Cortland Community College (tenured 1979) 1984-2000. Presently retired.
GRANTS RECEIVED
TC3 Foundation, Development Grant, Summer 1986.
Kennan Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Short Term Fellow, Summer 1987. Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
NYSCA Grant to support one-hour videotape for WSKG titled "Threads to the Past." Project consultant, Fall 1987-1998.
SUNY-Moscow Exchange Grant, Summer 1988. May-June spent in Moscow completing folk art research at Moscow State University.
IBM League for Innovation in the Community Colleges Grant. Software produced for the IBM System 2, 1988.
Fulbright Exchange Grant. Teaching exchange arranged with Norfolk College of Art and Technology, Kings Lynn, England, to spend one year teaching art and graphic courses, Fall 1989-1990.
Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Program, "Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in Transition." Six-week travel, Summer 1991, sponsored by U.S. Department of Education.
Fulbright Research Award funded by CIES. Two months research in Sofia, Bulgaria, October/November 1991.
IREX Research Grant October, 1992 - Ukraine.
IREX Research Grant July, 1994 - Suceava, Romania.
IREX Research Grant October, 1995 - Ukrainian Museum NYC
Artist in Residence- Spring Island, SC January, 2006.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
One-artist show, "Moscow Series" watercolor, Upstairs Gallery, Outreach program, Ithaca, NY, October 1983.
One-artist show, "Moscow Series" watercolor, Cortland Arts Council Gallery, January 1984.
Three-artist show, "Interwoven Forms," paintings, photographs, sculpture, with Marcia Kelley, Bryna Silbert, String Art Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY, November 1984.
"Interwoven Forms" show repeated at Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 1985.
"Ritual Fabrics," 15 Steps Gallery, Ithaca, NY, November 1986.
Computer Graphics Exhibition, Syracuse University. Exhibited one piece, April 1987.
Featured Artist, League of Sonora Artists Show, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, December 1988.
"Visions of the Goddess," The John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 1989. Exhibited 7 paintings, "Goddess Chapel."
One-artist show, "Watercolours of Norfolk." Castle Acre Gallery, Castle Acre, Norfolk, England, June 1- August 15, 1990.
One-person show, "Goddess Chapel" and 10 watercolors. St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN, September 1991.
Faculty exhibition, Tompkins Cortland Community College, February 1992, October, 1993.
One-person show, "Ancient Paths & Ancient Goddesses", Hilton Head Island, SC, April, 1993.
Two-person show, "Goddess Chapel" Orange Hall Gallery - Lyceum, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY, March 1994.
Two-person show, "Changeless Carpathians", Ukrainian Museum, NYC, October 1995.
One-person show, "Russian Domes", The Gallery at Artifax, Ithaca, NY. March 1995
Group show, "White Nights" Textile Conference, in Exhibition Hall of the Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1995.
One-artist show. "Shrine of the Black Virgins" nine oil paintings and 10 watercolors "Russian Domes" series. Atrium Gallery at Corning Community College, Corning, NY November, 1997.
Faculty Exhibition, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY. 1997,1998, 1999.
Group show "Scenes of the FInger Lakes" The Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY. 1997,1998, 1999.
One-person show "Mythic Muses", Exhibition of 'Shrine of the Black Virgins' and 'Women With Wings' series.
The Fine Arts Gallery, St Mary of the Woods College, Terre Haute, IN. March 1 - 31, 2000.
The Hilton Head Art League Gallery, Hilton Head, SC Featured Artist show. July 2001
Art Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head, SC Seven artist show with Applepie Painters. January 2002.
Roberson Museum, BInghamton, NY Wirtz Gallery "Russian Reflections"
One- artist show. January - April, 2004.
Art Center of Coastal Carolina, HIlton Head Nine artist show with Applepie Painters, April, 2006.
The Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head. With Applepie Painters, Fall, 2006.
The Hilton Head Art League Gallery. Featured artist show, Summer, 2007.
Hilton Head Library, Corridor Gallery two artist show with Rod Kerr, 2007
LECTURES
"Russian and East European Folk Art," one-week seminar conducted at Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL, Summer 1983.
"Goddess Embroideries of Russia and the Ukraine," lecture with slides, WSSA annual convention, Rocky Mountain Slavic Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, April 1984.
Ritual and Ritual Fabrics," lecture with slides, Ukrainian conference, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL, June 1983.
"Goddess Rituals and Goddess Embroideries," University of North Carolina at Charlotte, October 1986.
"Goddess Embroideries of East Europe," slide lecture, Symposium: Goddess Imagery, Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY, February 1987.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," Cleveland Museum of Art, lecture with slides, September 1987.
"Twin Sisters: Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," Cornell University, February 1988.
"Goddesses in the Folklife of Eastern Europe," panel, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, February 1989.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," slide lecture at conference, "Goddess as Muse to Women Artists," SUNY at Cortland, Cortland, NY, June 1989.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," seminar lecture, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, July 1989.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," at symposium "From Mythology to Ms-ology: The Awakened Goddess," Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, October 1991.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," Knoerle Forum. St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN, October 1991.
"Women's Dreams: Women's Work," New York Technical College, Brooklyn, NY, March ,1992."Women's Work, Women's Art," Academy of Sciences, Ethnographic Division, Kiev, Ukraine, September 1992.
"Carpathian Quest" Embroidery Guild of Syracuse, NY, November 1993.
"Russian Goddess Embroideries" at textile conference "White Nights", Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1995.
"The Symbol of the Goddess Berehynia in Hutsul Ritual Costume" lecture at conference on Hutsul Embroidery, Ukrainian Museum NYC, October 1995.
"A conversation with Mary Kelly" Television Interview (Public Access) discussing the series "Shrine of the Black Virgins" at Corning Community College, on the occasion of the exhibition, November, 1997.
"Threads to the Past". one-hour documentary produced by Public Broadcasting Station WSKG, Binghamton, NY. Includes long section on Kelly's research, interviews and illustration of her material. Aired February 27, 1998.
"Blessing, Protection and Fertility: Ritual and Ritual Cloth in Nineteenth Century Czech and Slovak Lands." at Symposium on Ethnic Textiles, the Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA. January, 1999. Kelly also chaired a section of the symposium on Ritual, Ritual Cloths and Clothing.
"Women's Work in Central Asia- Textiles and Jewelery" Lecture at Armstrong College, Savannah GAA. January, 2001
" Women's Work in Central Asia" Lecture at Self Family Art Center, Hilton Head, SC March, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
"Classroom, Computer Graphics," Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 3, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, August 1986.
"Return of the Goddess" Canadian Broadcasting System, produced by Max Allen, presented by Merlin Stone--Radio Series featuring section on Kelly's research. Broad-cast January-September 1986.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," "Stasov and Shabelskaia," Catalog: Goddesses and Their Offspring, Roberson Center, Binghamton, NY, February 1987.
"Fabrics for the Goddess," Threads, Spring 1987.
"The Artist Learns Computer Graphics," Colleague, 1988 - published annually by the State University of New York.
"Eastern European Motifs in the Work of Three Women Folk Artists," New York Folklore, Vol. XV, No. 1,2, 1989.
Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe, (text and 200 illustrations by author). Northland Press of Winona, Winona, MN. 1989. Re Printed, 1996 by STUDIOBOOKS, McLean, NY.
"Russian Batik Artists," Threads, October 1990.
"Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe," 28-31 in Gender, Culture, and the Arts, ed. R. Dotterer, Susquehanna University Studies Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1993.
"Natalya Muradova: Dream Paintings on Textiles" Fiberarts September/ October 1992.
Embroidering the Goddesses of Slovakia, Counted Thread Press, Denver, CO. 1995.
Embroidering the Goddesses of Ukraine, Counted Thread Press, Denver, CO. 1995
"A place To Come To: The Ukrainian Museum" in Piecework, September, October 1995 pp. 68-71.
A visit to the Changeless Carpathians, children's catalog for Ukrainian Museum, NYC - supported by NYSCA Grant, October 1995.
"The Changeless Carpathians" catalog entry in The Changeless Carpathians: Living Traditions of the Hutsul People. Ukrainian Museum Catalog, Oct. 1995.
Chapter 6. "The Ritual Fabrics of Russian VIllage Women" pp. 152-176. in Russia.Women.Culture edited by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren, I Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1996.
"A Holy Heritage: Reading Archaic Motifs on Ukrainian Folk Textiles and the Implications for Women's Studies" pp. 151-159. in Ukrainian Folk Art in International Terminology : Primitive Art, Folklore, Amateur Art, Naive Art, Kitsch...Collective Research from the Reports of the Second Ivan Honchar
Memorial Conference, Kiev Ivan Honchar Museum, Rodovid, 1996.
"Art Showcase featuring the 'Shrine of the Black Virgins Series' of Mary B. Kelly". in The Beltane Papers, Issue 12, 1997. Cover, back cover and i interior text, pp.16-18.
"Goddess Embroideries of Russia and Ukraine" in The Beltane Papers, Issue 13, 1997.
Embroidering the Goddesses of the Greek Isles. Final book in the series (see 1995, above) Counted Thread Press, Denver, CO 1997.
Goddess Embroideries of the Balkan Lands and the Greek Islands
Studiobooks, McLean, NY ,1999.
Chapter 9. "Living TextileTraditions of the Carpathians" in Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertiity. edited by Linda Welters. Berg Press, Oxford, England, 1999.
"Women With Wings" in The Beltane Papers, January, 2000.
"An Eyeglass Case to Applique and Embroider." Piecework, March, 2001 p. 47.
Making and Using Ritual Cloths Studiobooks, Mclean, NY 2004.
“Women of the Vlachs; cultural continuity, cutural change.” Lumea Carpatica, #1. 2001. 31- 40.
“Textile traditions of Old Europe.” Textil Forum, May, 2003, 37 - 39.
“Chuvash Pointed Helmets” Chuvash Art, theoretical Questions and History. Vol. V Cheboksary, Chuvashia. 2003.
“Seasons and cycles of Life: Traditional Motifs in Czech and Slovak Textiles.” Slovo, Vol 7, #1. Czech and Slovak Museum, Summer, 2006. Goddess Embroideries of the Northlands. Studiobooks, Hilton Head, SC 29938. 2007.
