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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005     History Lessons, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York City

2001     Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia,PA

1999     Muses, Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA

1987     South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

1985     The Gallery at Rugg Road, Boston, MA

1980     Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1980+82 Helen Shlein Gallery, Boston, MA.

1969     Sindelir Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

1968     University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

1964     Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY

1961     The Pennsylvania State University Gallery, University Park, PA

AWARDS and HONORS:

2007     Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant

2007     WomensTravel Club Scholarship

2003     The Artist's Resource Trust Fund Grant

1997     New England Foundation for The Arts Fellowship

1985     Outstanding Alumna Award, Massachusetts College of Art

1981     Massachusetts Artists Foundation Grant

1978-80 Bunting Institute Faculty Fellowship, Radcliffe College, Harvard University

1971     National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1962     Young Americans, American Craft Museum, N.Y.C.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS of:

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Arts and Design, New York City

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (promised gift, Wornick Collection)

DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (promised gift, Saxe Collection)

Wilmington Trust, Wilmington, DL

The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Cambridge,MA

The Staten Island Museum,NY

Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania State University, PA

Miami-Dade College, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008    Mend: love, life and loss, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC

2008     6th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2007     Drawing the Line-20th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

2007-08 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis, The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the

             Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2007     Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, M.H.DeYoung Museum, San Francisco,CA

2007     12th Triennial International Textile Exhibition, Central Museum, Lodz,Poland

2006     5th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2005     In the Narrative, Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, Mo.

2005     Fiber-A New World View, National Gallery of the Irish Craft Council, Ireland

2004     Fiber Biennial 2004, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia,PA

2002     For Your Collection, The Attleboro Museum, Attleboro,MA.

2002     Uncommon Threads, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester,NH

2002    Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2001     New Forms in Fiber-Trends and Traditions, Mobelia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2001    Figural Works, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC

2000     Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, Snyderman/Works Galleries,

            Philadelphia, PA

2000    Miniatures-2000, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PA

1999     Fashions and Fabric in the Classical Mode, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1999     Artist Couples, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1998     Modus Operandi, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

1998     Tick, Tick, Tick, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

1996     The Eighth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA

1996    National Showcase V, Alternative Museum, N.Y.C.

1996    Skirting The Issue: The Dress as Sculpture, Nexus Foundation for

            Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA

1993     American Art Today: Clothing As Metaphor, The Art Museum at Florida

             International University, Miami, FL

1992     Artists at Work, The Creative Process Made Visible, Newton Arts Center,

             Newton, MA

1991     Between a Brick and a Hard Place, City Place Gallery, Boston, MA

1990     Classicism Reconsidered, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton,

1990    Raw Vision, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1989     Handmade Paper: Five Approaches, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1989     Explorations in Handmade Paper: A Selection of Work from Rugg Road,

             DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1986     Collected Visions, Women Artists at the Bunting Institute

             Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA

1985     Gallery of the Boston Museum School, Boston, MA

1981     Local Visions: The Urban Environment, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T,Cambridge, MA.

1980     Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA

1976     Fairtree Gallery, N.Y.C.

1976     Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, IL

1975     Homage to the Bag, American Craft Museum, N.Y.C.

1974     Sculpture, Hard and Soft, Boston City Hall Gallery, Boston, MA

1973     Fairtree Gallery, N.Y.C.

1973     Xerox Exhibition Center Corp. Rochester N.Y.

1972     Gimpel Wietzenhoffer Gallery, N.Y.C.

1971     33 Miami Artists, Miami Art Center, Miami, FL

1971    Fabrications, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI 1969 Objects USA

            Johnson Collection of American Crafts, Smithsonian Institution

            (traveling USA & International, 1969-73)

1969    The Excellence of the Object, American Craftsmen's Council, NYC

1968     The History of Collage, Invitational, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

1966     Craftsmen '66, North Carolina Museum of Art Craftsmen USA 1966,

1966     International Exhibitions Foundation, 1966-68 traveling exhibition

1965     Fabric Collage, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C. and Museum West,

             San Francisco. CA; 5 Artist Invitational

1963     Craftsmen of the Eastern States, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C.

1962     J. Blumenfeld Gallery, N.Y.C.

1960     Young Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.C.

SELECTED BIBLEOGRAPHY:

Periodicals:

September/October 2006     Fiberarts, "Sampling, A Showcase of the Human Form"

August 18,2002     (review) Sunday Telegraph,Nashua, NH

August/September 2001     (profile) American Craft, "Marilyn Pappas" by Beth Frankl

May24-31 2001     (review) Philadelphia Citypaper

May, 2000     (review) Philadelphia Inquirer

May 28, 1999     (review) The Worcester Phoenix

May 31, 1998     (review) The New York Times

May 21, 1998     (review) The Hartford Advocate

May 11, 1998     (review) Journal Inquirer

Spring 1997       Radcliffe Quarterly

December 13, 1996     (review) The Boston Phoenix

October 13, 1996     (review) Boston Sunday Herald

September 20, 1996     (review) The Boston Globe

December 1994     (review) The New Art Examiner

September 28, 1994     (review) Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas

June 2, 1992     (review) The Boston Globe

October/November 1991     (review) Art New England

October 3, 1989     (review) The Boston Globe

October/November 1989     American Craft

March 13, 1987     (review) The Boston Globe

1980 (review)     Art New England

1963, '64, '67,     (2 covers) School Art

1962, '64, '66, '69,     (cover) '72, '76 Craft Horizons

Selected Catalogues and Books:

2007     Drawing the Line-20th Drawing Show Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

2007     Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis, The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the

             Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2007     12th Triennial International Textile Exhibition, Central Museum, Lodz, Poland

2002     Uncommon Threads, The Currier Museum of Art,Manchester, NH

2002     Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2001     New Forms in Fiber-Trends and Tradition, Mobelia Gallery,Cambridge, MA.

2000     Miniatures-2000, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PA

2000     Surface-Strength-Structure: Pertaining to Line, curated by Bruce Hoffman,

             Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

1997     Voices and Visions: Arts at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe

             College,1962-1997 , (co-editor and contributor)

1996     The Eighth Triennial, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA

1994     East to West, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

1993     American Art Today: Clothing As Metaphor, The Art Museum at Florida

             International University, Miami, FL, Dahlia Morgan, Curator

1989     Explorations in Handmade Paper: A Selection of Work from Rugg Road;

             by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

1987     Marilyn Pappas, Mixed Media Works, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade

             Community College South, Miami, FL with interview by Jill Slosburg-

             Ackerman and Bernard Toale

1986     Collected Visions, Woman Artists at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe

             College, Cambridge, MA

1984     The Collections, Bank of Boston, Western Massachusetts, N.A. Collection,

             Springfield, MA

1981     Art in Craft Media, The Haystack Tradition, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

             Brunswick, ME

1980     Marilyn R. Pappas, Recent Collages, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe

             College,Cambridge

1976     Craftforms, Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA

1973     Objects: Made in U.S.A., Kent State University, Ohio

1970     The Magic of Fibers, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan

1970     Objects: USA by Lee Nordness, The Viking Press, Inc., NYC

1969     American Art in Florida Collections, Lock Haven Art Center, FL

1968     Collagen, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

1966     Craftsmen: Southeast 66, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

1965     Fabric Collage, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, American Craft Museum N.Y.C

1965     Drawings of the Masters-American Drawings by Bartlett Hayes, Shorewood NYC.

1963     Craftsmen of the Northeastern States, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

1962     Young Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC

EDUCATION:

1952     B.S. Ed., Massachusetts College of Art

1960     M. Ed., The Pennsylvania State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1995          Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Art

1974-94     Professor and Chair, Three-Dimensional Fine Arts Dept.,

                  Massachusetts College of Art

1964-74     Associate Professor of Art, Miami-Dade Community College

1959-64     Assistant Professor of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University

1956-59     Elementary Art Supervisor - State College, PA

1955-56     Elementary Art Supervisor - Cedar Falls, Iowa

1952-55     Elementary Art Supervisor - Needham, MA