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Mary
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EDUCATION |
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Art Students League, New York. |
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Black Mountain College, Summer Art
Institute, 1944 |
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University of New Mexico, Mexico, D.F.
Contemporary Mexican Art and Folklore with Frances Tour |
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Private instruction in Japanese brush
painting, Yokata, Japan |
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University of the Pacific Heritage Tour
Fourab Bay College, Sierra Leon, West Africa
University of Science and Technology, Ghana, West Africa
University of Ille, Ife, Nigeria, West Africa |
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The American International College of
London,
Spirit of Western Man |
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Ancient African Heritage (Egypt) Study
Tour II with Dr. Asa Hilliard |
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The New World Festival of African
Diaspora, Brazil, Suriname and Barbados, directed by Richard Long |
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St. Martin Tour, directed by Richard
Long, collage workshop with Romare Bearden |
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Seminar on Cuban Art, 3rd Havana
Biennial, Havana, Cuba |
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Four Weeks Museum and Gallery Tour,
Paris |
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Scandinavian Capitals and Leningrad,
Russia |
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Far East Asian countries with Jake and
Freddie Henderson |
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EXHIBITS |
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Mary Parks Washington. Atlanta:
Remembrances, Impressions and Reflections. Essays by Richard A.
Long and Evelyn Carter. The Auburn Avenue Research Library on
African-American Culture and History, Atlanta, Georgia. March 2, 1996-May
23, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. |
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Remembering Black Mountain College,
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina (group) |
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fine Art
Gallery, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia |
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San Jose Art League, San Jose,
California |
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Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago,
Illinois |
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De Saisst Art Museum, Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, California |
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Kaiser Center Gallery, Oakland,
California |
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Oakland Museum, Oakland, California |
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Berkeley Square Gallery, Oakland,
California |
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ART
SPONSORSHIPS |
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Art Chairman for the San Joe Chapter of
the Links, Inc.
Black on Black Film Festival, San Jose, California
Installation for the three pedestals for the sculptures of Edononia Lewis
at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose, California
Program to introduce Jacob Lawrence and his paintings to the San Jose
community
Co-Chairman, San Jose Artist Studio Tour at the California Art Educators
Conference, San Jose, California |
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Lewis and Waddy, Black
Artists on Art, Vol. 1, Contemporary Crafts, Inc., Los Angeles,
California, 1970. |
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Gumbo Ya Ya;
Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists,
Midmarch Art Press, New York, 1995. |
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Yvonne Daniel, Rumba,
Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba (Indianapolis:
Indiana University Press, 1995) |
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ABOUT
BLACK MOUNTAIN
COLLEGE |
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Mary Parks Washington, "New
Dungarees," North Carolina Literary Review,
Vol. 11, No. 2 (1995): 84-85. |
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Mary Emma Harris, "Mary Parks
Washington," in Remembering Black Mountain
College (Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center),
1996. |
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Statement by Mary Parks Washington. Black
Mountain Reunion. San Francisco, California, March 6-7, 1992. Tape
3 of 4. Filmed by Michael Camerini, Inc. Edited by Ruth Asawa. |
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AWARDS
AND HONORS |
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California Art Educator Association,
1995.
Distinguished Art Educator of the Year. City of San Jose, California.
Mayor's Commendation in Art and Outstanding Services in Art. City of San
Jose, Community Excellence Award Virginia Kiah, National Conference of
Artists Award
Rosenwald Foundation Scholarship, Black Mountain College Summer Art
Institute, 1946 |
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Biographical
information taken from the catalogue Atlanta:
Remembrances, Impressions and Reflections
reproduced with the permission of Mary Parks Washington. |
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