Deborah P. Klotz
Education
M.F.A. Three Dimensional Fine Arts 1993, Massachusetts College of Art Boston, Massachusetts
B.F.A. Sculpture 1989, Massachusetts College of Art Boston, Massachusetts
B.A. Literature, summa cum laude 1984, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts
Selected Exhibitions
2020 PARALLAX Speedwell Projects, Portland, Maine. Solo exhibition.
Your Color, My Line Able Baker Gallery, Portland, Maine
Juried Auctions/Digital Exhibition: Speedwell Projects, The MassArt Foundation
2019 10,000 Hours Speedwell Projects Portland Maine.
Legacy Hess Gallery Pine Manor College, Boston, Mass.
2018 Paper Party Invitational University of Southern Maine Book Center, Portland, ME.
2017 Is This Something? Wedeman Gallery Newton, Mass.
2016 Still Solo exhibition of prints and sculpture, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME.
The Archive Emerges Arnheim Gallery, Boston, Mass. Curator, and participant.
Absence and Presence George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
2015 Absence and Presence Hampshire College New Hampshire
Absence and Presence Curry College, Milton Massachusetts
2014 Traces Solo exhibition of prints and sculpture Jewish Museum Portland, ME.
Faculty Show Lewis Gallery Portland Maine
Let Light Group Invitational, The Jewish Museum Portland , Maine
Art from Art Bakalar Gallery Invitational Exhibition, Fundraiser Boston, Mass
2013 Faculty Exhibition Rose Contemporary Portland, Maine
2010 Translations Arnheim Gallery, Boston Mass
Hausfrau zine Centerfold Silkscreen Designs/fabrication for 2005, 2009, 2010
2009 Sukkah Brandeis Women’s Research Center Brandeis University
2007 Insert and Unintended Use Southern Maine Community College Greenhouse
2006 Clocks Southern Maine Community College Library Gallery
2005 Some Things Take Time Exhibit at Greenhouse, SMCC. Portland, Maine
2004 Collaborations Bakalar Gallery, Mass Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 Tea Group Brandeis Women’s Research Center Gallery Waltham, Mass.
2002 Sculpture and Reliefs Center for the Arts, Bath, Maine Solo exhibition.
2001 Reflections on Motherhood II Lillian Immig Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
2000 Reflections on Motherhood Greenfield State College Greenfield Massachusetts
1999 The Tea Group Now Presidents Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
1997 Cambridge Art Association Artist Books” Boston Massachusetts
1996 Tea Group Warwick Museum, Warwick Rhode Island
Biennial Fuller Museum Brockton, Massachusetts
Wood Signs Danforth Gallery, Portland Museum of Art
1995 Above/Below Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, Maine Solo exhibition
Artistic Nourishment Center for the Arts, Bath, Maine
Mediated Memory Starr Gallery, Newton, Massachusetts
1994 The Computer in the Studio Decordova Museum Lincoln, Massachusetts
1993 Sub/Merge Huntington Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Publications
PBS American Portrait: To Me, Work Means...August 2020 https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/story/16191/deborah-k-falmouth-me-to-me-work-means
Creative Portland, “Deborah Klotz/Parallax” February 2020
French, Leah, “A Lasting Legacy at Pine Manor” Artscope Jan/Feb 2020
Michelman, Elizabeth, “Digging for Answers At Lasell” Artscope, Dec 2016
Kany, Daniel, “Traces…Well Worth Exploring” Portland Press Herald, Feb 9, 2014
Charlot, Edwige “Defying Limitations” Portland Phoenix Jan 23 2014
Gillis, Timothy “Exhibit at Maine Jewish Museum Traces Artist’s Past “ Jan 8,
Camens, Barbara, “Girls Night Out” Exploring Women’s Groups in the Us. Random House August 2002
Shaw, Kathy “Maine Artist” Maine Arts Commission Magazine Spring 2002
Dahl, Emily “Tree House” Brandeis Review Spring 2002
Lannin, Joaanne “Using she Past to Decorate the Present” Portland Press Herald 2001
Temin, Christine “Best of Show” Fuller Surveys Art Scene: Boston Globe sept 1996
Sutherland, Amy “Wood Works” Maine Sunday Telegram Oct 1996
Wright, Virginia “Maine Arts Fellowship Winners” Times Record Sept 1995
Temin, Christine “Holocaust Enters Art of New Generation” Boston Globe Jan 1995
Unger, Miles “Spotlight: Art of the New Generation” Art New England may 1995
Beem, Edgar “Making a Religion of Art” Times Record Feb 1991
Cannon, Kim “Exhibit Challenges Viewers” Times Record 1992
Honors, Awards, Lectures, Residencies
Artist in Residence SPEEDWELL projects, Jan.-March 2020, Portland, Maine
Maine Visual Artist Grant SPACE Gallery, The Kindling Fund Portland, Maine 2020
Visiting Artist Bates College Lewiston, Maine Spring 2018, 2019 Papermaking workshop, lecture, and critiques for Art Department.
Visiting Artist Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine Spring 2018, Spring 2017 Invited as critic in Art Department reviews.
Visiting Artist/ Speaker University of Southern Maine Center for Book Arts Feb 2015
Invited Moderator Boston Arts Academy National STEAM Conference 2014 Fall.
Led workshops on Art/Science/Technology integration of observational drawing and 3-D structures.
Visiting Artist Casco Bay High School Dance Department Fall 2014, Spring 2016
Good Idea Grant Maine Arts Commission 2014 Rags to Riches:Transforming Garments
Visiting Artist for Wayneflete Middle School Papermaking 2009
Artist in Residence Falmouth Public Schools Worked with 400 students for three weeks teaching papermaking and created permanent piece “Lost and Found” for elementary school lobby. 2007
Artist in Residence, Southern Maine Community College Maine, 2005-06
Artist in Industry, residency thru UMass Dartmouth. New Bedford, Mass 2004-05
Invited to create sculptural ornament for White House Tree 2001, 2002, in permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institute.
Regional NEA Individual Artist Award New Forms. NEFA 1996
Individual Artist Fellowship Sculpture Maine Arts Commission 1994
Artist in Residence Do-While Studio, art and technology fall 1993
3-D Graduate Studies Award Mass Art 1993
Dondis Travel Award Mass Art 1989
Phi Beta Kappa Brandeis University 1984
Collaborative Groups
“ARCHIVE” Curate and cultivate a growing collection of collaborative prints on handmade paper created by Mass Art paper and print students. 2009- present.
“Absence and Presence” international printmaking collaborative for Al‐Mutanabbi Street Starts Here 2014- 2020.
Tea Group 1991- present Featured in the book Girls Night Out , and Today show 2004.
Unfolding Poems and Longitude/Latitude: Self published two editioned works in collaboration with 8 artists. Books are at libraries of Bowdoin, Harvard, Mass Art, other public and private collections.
Teaching
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
● Faculty: Senior Visiting Lecturer in B.F.A.program in Fibers, Studio Foundation, and Printmaking Departments. Part time, Current - 1994
● Coordinator and Instructor: Mass Art Papermaking Studio and REMOTE from March 2020 - present.
Teach and develop the all school papermaking electives including: Introduction to Handpapermaking, Papermaking for Imagemakers, Handmade Paper and Book, and Projects in Paper. Taught intersession and summer intensives, WET, and weekend workshops on paper casting, pulp spraying, fabrication, and color, Translations and Illuminations. All courses explore the processing and uses of both Western and Eastern fibers, historical traditions, as well as contemporary, individual and community practices.
● Advise and teach MFA and MSAE graduate students on an independent study basis as well as in studio courses. Current - 2001
Southern Maine Community College
● Adjunct Faculty, Teach: Drawing, 3-D Design and Sculpture, Collage/Installation for freshman thru advanced students. Fall 2005-2020 Designed, wrote, and taught sculpture courses including: Form Study, 3-D Design II, Collage and Assemblage
● Developed and taught Summer Papermaking program 2007-2011 in Structural Paper, and Botanical Paper. Awarded 3 grants to design curriculum.
● Program Area Coordinator for Sculpture/3D Design 2008-2017 Responsible for studio safety and supervision, supplies, overseeing curricular development, manage work study students, and evaluate/observe faculty annually.
● Artist in Residence, 2005-2006. Worked with students, faculty, and staff from entire college community including: Culinary Arts, Heating and Venting, Marine Science, Horticulture, Metal Arts, Construction Technology, and Film and Video
Maine College of Art
Faculty for B.F.A. Foundation 3-D Design and Figurative Clay
Taught workshops and evening courses including Form Study, Botanical and Structural Papermaking 1994-2009 Part time.
Received 10 year Faculty Award