Condensed Resume
Mary Fortuna
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
EMPLOYMENT
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004
Exhibition Director 2004 to 2014
Selected One and Two Person Shows
2013 She Towers Above - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, MI
2006 New Work - Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
2003 Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers BBAC Birmingham, Michigan
2002 Hanging Garden Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
1995 Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina, Willis Gallery Detroit
1993 Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts, Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan
1992 On and Off the Wall Artist’s Cooperative, The, Detroit, Michigan
Selected Group Shows
2015 It's Like Toys In Here Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Women's Mixed Media Exhibit Ellen Kayrod Gallery Detroit, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Watermelon! Hatch Art Hamtramck, Michigan
Popp's Pinewood Derby Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Essay'd III 9338 Campau Gallery Hamtramck, Michigan
2014 New Strategies: The Chess Show Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Forced Collaboration Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
If You Build It Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Detroit @ CTAC Crooked Tree Art Center Petoskey, Michigan
2013 U Build It Public Pool Hamtramck, Michigan
Under the [Inspired] Influence Northville Art House Northville, Michigan
Group Show Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan
Detroit Collective work: Detroit Gallery Detroit, Michigan
2012 Let’s Talk About Love, Baby MOCAD, Detroit Michigan; Traveling exhibit
Weasel Camp 3 Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
Natural Structures K & K Entenmann, Esslingen, Germany
2011 Slippery Weasel Society: Seven Cass Café Detroit, Michigan
Wire Car Cruise Art X Detroit Detroit, Michigan; Traveling exhibit/event, Maker Faire The Henry Ford Dearborn MI
2010 In Spite of the Evidence The Gallery Project Ann Arbor, Michigan
Weasel Camp 2 Popp’s Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby Traveling Exhibit, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection Chicago, Illinois
Detroit Works Media Nox Gallery Maribor, Slovenia
International Bongo Bongo Brigade Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Year of the Weasel Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
Changing Cities: Pure Detroit Art Channel Gallery Beijing, China
Aus Detroit Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan
Vienna Art Fair With Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Vienna, Austria
Collected Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan
2008 Changing Cities: Made in Detroit Galerie Eva Bracke Berlin, Germany
Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Bregenz, Austria
Changing Cities Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan
Changing Cities: Detroit Three Walls Chicago, Illinois
Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition Bohemian National Home Detroit, Michigan
2007 Azutunarasharedo Zeitgeist Gallery Detroit, Michigan
Harvest Alley Culture Detroit, Michigan
2005 Wall to Wall Sculpture Invitational Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
2004 Group Show Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois
2003 DAM Members Invitational Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Selecti Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Alumni Exhibit: Cardew, Fortuna, Peet Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future Street Level Gallery, Highwood, Illinois
Hanging Garden - Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
2000 Past, Present, Future - DAM 2000 Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
German Art / Michigan Art PCCA, Rochester, Michigan
1999 Content Contained Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998 Undefining Sculpture Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Assemblage CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan
1997 Beneath Nature Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan
Sculpture Pontiac ’97 Pontiac, Michigan - Co-curator
1996 In Residence Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Art from Detroit Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois
Selected Professional Activities
2015 Juror, Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum - Peaceful Mackinac Exhibit
Juror, Crooked Tree in Traverse City - Member's Show
Hands On at Hatch Art - Art Workshops for children and adults at Hatch Art, Hamtramck, Michigan - with Alice V. Schneider
2013 Juror, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center – Student Show
2012 Juror, Wild Things Exhibit – Grosse Pointe Art Center Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Situational Awareness Training Session, Art Gallery Discussion - Transcend Creative Group for Lincoln Academy, Rochester Michigan
2011 Panelist, Kresge Art in Detroit Fellowships Detroit, Michigan
2010 Guest Lecturer – Professional Practices Class – Monica Bowman College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
Artist Talk & Demo – Soft Sculpture Class College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan
Juror - Macomb Community College Student Exhibit
Juror - Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
2009 Juror – Mount Clemens Art Fair Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan
2006 Artist Talk - Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan
Artist’s Choice Presentation - Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan
2003 Artist Demonstration - Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan
1997 Sculpture Pontiac ‘97 - Co-curated a multi-site indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibit in Pontiac, Michigan
1993 - 1996 - Ground Up - Founder, editor, publisher - journal dedicated to the Detroit art community
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
EMPLOYMENT
Paint Creek Center for the Arts Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004
Exhibition Director 2004 to 2014
Selected One and Two Person Shows
2013 She Towers Above - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, MI
2006 New Work - Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
2003 Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers BBAC Birmingham, Michigan
2002 Hanging Garden Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
1995 Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina, Willis Gallery Detroit
1993 Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts, Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan
1992 On and Off the Wall Artist’s Cooperative, The, Detroit, Michigan
Selected Group Shows
2015 It's Like Toys In Here Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Women's Mixed Media Exhibit Ellen Kayrod Gallery Detroit, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Watermelon! Hatch Art Hamtramck, Michigan
Popp's Pinewood Derby Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Essay'd III 9338 Campau Gallery Hamtramck, Michigan
2014 New Strategies: The Chess Show Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Forced Collaboration Popp's Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
DAM Garden Party Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
If You Build It Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan
Detroit @ CTAC Crooked Tree Art Center Petoskey, Michigan
2013 U Build It Public Pool Hamtramck, Michigan
Under the [Inspired] Influence Northville Art House Northville, Michigan
Group Show Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan
Detroit Collective work: Detroit Gallery Detroit, Michigan
2012 Let’s Talk About Love, Baby MOCAD, Detroit Michigan; Traveling exhibit
Weasel Camp 3 Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
Natural Structures K & K Entenmann, Esslingen, Germany
2011 Slippery Weasel Society: Seven Cass Café Detroit, Michigan
Wire Car Cruise Art X Detroit Detroit, Michigan; Traveling exhibit/event, Maker Faire The Henry Ford Dearborn MI
2010 In Spite of the Evidence The Gallery Project Ann Arbor, Michigan
Weasel Camp 2 Popp’s Packing Hamtramck, Michigan
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby Traveling Exhibit, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection Chicago, Illinois
Detroit Works Media Nox Gallery Maribor, Slovenia
International Bongo Bongo Brigade Meetfactory International Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Year of the Weasel Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
Changing Cities: Pure Detroit Art Channel Gallery Beijing, China
Aus Detroit Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan
Vienna Art Fair With Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Vienna, Austria
Collected Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan
2008 Changing Cities: Made in Detroit Galerie Eva Bracke Berlin, Germany
Changing Cities: Detroit – Bregenz Galerie Lisi Hämmerle Bregenz, Austria
Changing Cities Museum of New Art Pontiac, Michigan
Changing Cities: Detroit Three Walls Chicago, Illinois
Slippery Weasel Society Exhibition Bohemian National Home Detroit, Michigan
2007 Azutunarasharedo Zeitgeist Gallery Detroit, Michigan
Harvest Alley Culture Detroit, Michigan
2005 Wall to Wall Sculpture Invitational Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan
2004 Group Show Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois
2003 DAM Members Invitational Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Selecti Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Alumni Exhibit: Cardew, Fortuna, Peet Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
8 Mile – Detroit Relics from the Future Street Level Gallery, Highwood, Illinois
Hanging Garden - Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan
2000 Past, Present, Future - DAM 2000 Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
German Art / Michigan Art PCCA, Rochester, Michigan
1999 Content Contained Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, Michigan
1998 Undefining Sculpture Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Assemblage CCS Center Galleries Detroit, Michigan
1997 Beneath Nature Buckham Gallery Flint, Michigan
Sculpture Pontiac ’97 Pontiac, Michigan - Co-curator
1996 In Residence Detroit Artist’s Market Detroit, Michigan
Art from Detroit Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois
Selected Professional Activities
2015 Juror, Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum - Peaceful Mackinac Exhibit
Juror, Crooked Tree in Traverse City - Member's Show
Hands On at Hatch Art - Art Workshops for children and adults at Hatch Art, Hamtramck, Michigan - with Alice V. Schneider
2013 Juror, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center – Student Show
2012 Juror, Wild Things Exhibit – Grosse Pointe Art Center Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Situational Awareness Training Session, Art Gallery Discussion - Transcend Creative Group for Lincoln Academy, Rochester Michigan
2011 Panelist, Kresge Art in Detroit Fellowships Detroit, Michigan
2010 Guest Lecturer – Professional Practices Class – Monica Bowman College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
Artist Talk & Demo – Soft Sculpture Class College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan
Juror - Macomb Community College Student Exhibit
Juror - Blooms, Bugs & Beasts The Scarab Club Detroit, Michigan
2009 Juror – Mount Clemens Art Fair Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, Michigan
2006 Artist Talk - Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan
Artist’s Choice Presentation - Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan
2003 Artist Demonstration - Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Michigan
1997 Sculpture Pontiac ‘97 - Co-curated a multi-site indoor/outdoor sculpture exhibit in Pontiac, Michigan
1993 - 1996 - Ground Up - Founder, editor, publisher - journal dedicated to the Detroit art community
