Curriculum Vitae
SUE BLUMENDALE
EDUCATION
MFA PRINTMAKING
Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester, NY
BS ART EDUCATION
Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Papermaking
AWARDS
2010 RoCo (Rochester Contemporary) Members Show Award
2004 Arts and Cultural Council Award, ROCO Members Show
1989 Juror’s Award, Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition
1989 Award of Excellence, WXXI Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase
1987 Juror’s Award, Adams Memorial Gallery (Dunkirk, NY)
1984 Purchase Award, Wallace Memorial Library, Bevier Gallery, RIT
1983 Purchase Award, Intermont College, Virginia
SOLO / GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Solo Exhibition, Axom Gallery, Rochester NY, “Ancestral Personas”
2014 Finger Lakes Community College, Williams / Insalaco Gallery, Intersections/Conversations
2008 Solo Exhibition “Shirts” Little Theatre Gallery, Rochester, NY
2004 Invitational “Given to Abstraction” Mill Art Center
2002 RIT Centennial Exhibition
2002 MCC Art Faculty @SUNY Brockport
2001 Paper Works: Sue Blumendale, Elaine Defibaugh Gallery r
2001 Members Show, Rochester Contemporary
1999 Small Works Invitational, Gallery r
1996 SUNY Resource Ctr, Bausch and Lomb Library, Monroe Community College Faculty Exhibit
1996 Women’s Studio Workshop, Mail Art Exhibition
1992 Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Invitational
1986 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Three Rivers Arts Festival
1989 Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition
1987 Adams Memorial Gallery, Fiber National ’87, Dunkirk, NY
1994 Lucy Burne Gallery, Memorial Art Gallery, MCC Art Faculty Exhibit
1993 Cobblestone Arts Center, Paper Sculptures: “Art in a House”
1993 Wayne County Council on the Arts, Paper Invitational
1993 Montage ’93, International Mail Art Exhibition, MCC
1993 Pyramid Arts Center, Invitational show, Fibrous Extremities
1991 Pyramid Arts Center, Selected Artists Proposal, “Trees”
1990 Tempo, Nazareth Arts Center, Invitational Show
1986 Albany Institute of History and Art, The Rice Gallery, “Painted Surfaces “
1986 Adams Memorial Gallery, Fiber National
1986 Arts Center, Iowa City, National “Paper/Fiber IX “
1989 Dawson Gallery, Rochester, Sue Blumendale and Paul Knoblaugh
1988 Suny Geneseo Art Faculty Show
1987 Dawson Gallery, Rochester, Sue Blumendale and Harold Harris
1984 Dawson Gallery, “Steel” Show
1983 Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia,, Works on Paper
1982 Montpelier, VT, Vermont Women’s’ Caucus for Art, Pocketbooks
COLLECTIONS
Jason and Susanne Smith, Grandma’s Overalls, 2016
Susan and Michael Rowley, Untitled, Soft Pastel, 2010
Margaret Pence, “Tender Tee – Tender Years”, Handmade paper, framed 2009
Karen Sardisco, “Western Wear Shirt” Photocopy, thread 2008
Zerbe Sodervick, In “Vogue” – Family Patterns, Photocopy, threads, 2008
Carol Irvine, “Vested” Cowgirl Dreams, Handmade paper, threads, 2008
Lorraine Wolch, Rochester, 3 color etching, 2000
Elizabeth Struever, Rochester, Soft pastel drawing, “Back Scratch”, 2001
Eastman Kodak, Kings Park Mariposa, pastel on printed paper, 1988
Richard Brush, framed acrylic work “In my travels I have seen…”, 1994
RIT, Wallace Memorial Library, “Blue High”, pastel on paper, 1984
Intermont College, Bristol, VA, “Winter Envelope”, handmade paper, straw, 1983
Starks, Wurzer, Patterson, and Romeo, Architects, intaglio print on hmp, 1986
Shirley Dawson, Pants, 1988
Harold Monacelli, “Travelling Hero Comes Home”, soft pastel, 1996
Dr. Michele Tofany, Pants and framed acrylic paper work “SASE”, 1994
Kelly Burgess, threecolor etching, 1993
Robert and Arlene Green, “SASE” Selfish Whim, 1992
Dr. Michele Tofany, “The Conqueror”, handmade paper, spray paint, and wire, 1991
Punam and Jagdish Rohira, “Nightshade”, pastel on paper, 1990
Tony Wilson, “Desperado”, (Pants series) handmade paper, 1989
Lynn and Steve Baldwin, framed sculptural paper work “SASE”, 1987
James Olson, Albany, “Personal Wrap” and “Untitled”, 1986
RELATED ARTS EXPERIENCES
Breast Cancer Coalition Art Auction – Art Donations, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
Benefit Auction participant, Gallery r, 2011, 2010, 2003. 2002, 2001
Invited artist, Wearable Art, Anderson Alley Artist Studio Tour, April, 2000
Pyramid Arts Center, Art Auction 2001 Volunteer
Rochester River Romance, Papermaking demonstrations, Summer 1999
National Interior Design Exam Grader, PES, Home Assoc. of N. Carolina, 1993
Summer Arts Instructor, “Drawing, Painting”, Cobblestone Arts Center, Victor, 1993
Papermaking Workshop, SUNY Brockport: “Personal Discoveries with Papermaking”
Rochester Art Club, guest artist Memorial Art Gallery, “Paper Sculptures: Playground for Images”, 1989
Non Toxic Printmaking workshop, RIT, 1999
Artist in Residence, Sodus Central School, NY, 1989
Open Studio Tour, sponsored by the Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, 1989
Papermaking workshop to textile students, SUNY Geneseo, 1988
Papermaking workshop to art teachers, Wayne – Finger Lakes, BOCES, 1988
Guest artist/speaker to Art Seminar students, MCC, 1988
Guest artist/speaker to 3-D Design students, SUNY Geneseo, 1988
Guest artist, Palmyra – Macedon School District, Palmyra Elementary School, 1986
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY Visual and Performing Arts,
Adjunct Professor, Drawing 1 and 2, 2D Design, Art Essentials, Watercolor, Art Seminar, Interior Design – Perspective and Marker Rendering
1988 to Present
Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester, NY
Lecturer, 2D Design and Drawing, Printmaking and Papermaking
1996-2012
SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
Art Instructor, Visual Art Experience and Papermaking
199092
SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo NY
Art Instructor, Drawing 1 and 2D Design
199396, 2000
10 Wilsonia Road Rochester, NY 14609 e-mail: susanblumendale@gmail.com