Jake Guzan
Prints & Drawings
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Education
2014-p Master of Fine Arts Candidate, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art: Printmaking, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Teaching Experience
2014-p Graduate Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
(Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Intaglio Printmaking)
Exhibitions
2015 Pylon Taxonomy - ArtsMon, Morgantown, West Virginia
Confluence: 2015 - Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Patent Pending - 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
Juried Student Exhibition - West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
2014 Juried Student Exhibition - West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
2013 “The Machine” National Juried Exhibition – Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois
Heuser Art Gallery Summer Exhibition – Heuser Art Center, Peoria, Illinois
BFA Exhibition – Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, Illinois
Professional Experience
2015 Co-Founder, Side Street Gallery, Morgantown, West Virginia
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
2013-14 Backspace Collective Gallery Internship, Peoria, Illinois
2012-13 Letterpress/Book Arts Assistant, Gold Quoin Press, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2011-14 Broadside Art Editor, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2009-10 Broadside Art Editor, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Professional Activities
2015 SGC International Member - Sphere Conference Attendee, Knoxville, Tennessee
2014 Installed/De-installed artwork for "Time Studies" by Mark Klett – Heuser Art Center, Peoria, Illinois
Installed artwork for "Pickup Lines" by Veronica Bruce & Gaia Nardie-Warner
– Studios on Sheridan Gallery, Peoria, Illinois
2013 Demonstrated intaglio for high school students as a part of Art Open Studio Day – Heuser Art Center, Peoria, Illinois
De-installed artwork for “Maker Leisure Pleasure Seeker” by Paul Komada – Backspace Collective Gallery, Peoria, Illinois
Inland Visual Studies Center Symposium Attendee – Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Installed/deinstalled artwork for “The 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition”
– Prairie Center of the Arts / Peoria Art Guild / Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, Illinois
Installed/deinstalled artwork for “Endpapers” Exhibition – Backspace Collective Gallery, Peoria, Illinois
SGC International Member – Print:MKE Conference Attendee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2012 Installed/deinstalled artwork for “Sense of Place” by Mikhael Antone – Hartmann Center Gallery, Peoria, Illinois
SGC International Member – Navigating Currents Conference Attendee, New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 SGC International Member – Equilibrium Conference Attendee, St. Louis, Missouri
Press Assistant to Oscar Gillespie for the printing of “Get It Out of My Head” by Robert Ernst Marx
– Cradle Oak Press, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Awards and Honors
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Dow P. Mitchell Endowed Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2013 3rd Place, "The Machine" National Juried Exhibition, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, Illinois
Dow P. Mitchell Endowed Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2012 Dow P. Mitchell Endowed Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2011 Dow P. Mitchell Endowed Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2009-14 Fine Arts Talent Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2009 Woodstock Fine Arts Association Scholarship, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Commissions
2014 Archival Box for 500 Teapots: Volume Two, (to be used for Randall Carlson’s tenure review), Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2009 Drawing "Lagoon", for Linda Combes, Woodstock, Illinois
Collections
Bradley University Collections, Peoria, IL