Jean Blackburn, Myakka artist and naturalist

Jean Blackburn
700 Myakka Road
Sarasota, Florida 34240
941.322.2716

Jean was born on Anna Maria Island, Florida. She received a BA Degree from the University of Florida and an MFA from the University of Oregon where she was awarded a two year graduate teaching fellowship. She has completed a masters workshop at the Canadian School of Non-toxic Printmaking in Alberta. Jean is currently a painting instructor for the Ringing School of Art and Design in Sarasota and Wildacres NC. She is a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist certified by the University of Florida and serves on Sarasota’s Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Council. Her early adult years were spent sailing and painting throughout the Caribbean, Bahamas and Central America. A small farm in Old Myakka is where she now gardens, paints and lives with her horses and other family members.

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS:

2008 Selected to attend the Fall artist's residency at the reknown Ucross Foundation Ranch in Wyoming
One-person exhibition, Rhea Chiles’ Studio @ Gulf and Pine, Anna Maria FL
2007 One-person exhibition, Mac B Project, Sarasota,FL
2006 Seven, South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL
One-person exhibition, Mac B Gallery, Sarasota,FL
2005 One-person exhibition, Mac B Gallery Sarasota, FL
2004 One-person exhibition, Fine Art Gallery Manatee
Community College, Bradenton, FL
One-person exhibition, The Blue House Gallery,Sarasota, FL
2003 North American Print Biennial, Boston University 2003 Currents in Printmaking, (group show) Roskamp Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sarasota, FL
2002 The Florida National, Florida State Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL
2001 Outside In (group show), Salt Creek Gallery,
St. Petersburg, Florida
2000 One-person exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon
Masters of Manatee, Art League of Manatee County,
Bradenton, Florida
Society of American Graphic Artists, Steven GangGallery, New York City
1999 Monotypes, (two-person show) Manatee Community College, Venice, FL
One-person exhibition, South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL
One-person exhibition, Kathleen Carillo Gallery,
Sarasota, FL
New Treasures, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
1998 National Print Exhibition, Schenectady Museum of Art, Schenectady, New York
A Fan Fantasy, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Animal Stories, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Evocations, (group show) University of Cincinnati Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
1994 Biennial I, Florida Gulf Coast Art Museum, Bellair, FL
One-person exhibition, Sarasota Arts Council, Sarasota, FL
1992 One-person exhibition, Museum of Botany and the Arts, Selby Gardens, Sarasota, FL

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2008
- Profiled on Gulfcoast Journal, PBS Channel WEDU, Tampa, FL
2004
- City of Sarasota, Public Art Commission
2003

Sarasota Season of Sculpture "Cow" Artist, Sarasota, FL
The Fulton Ross Fund-Artists Helping Artists, Mini-grant, Sarasota, FL

2002

Best of Show, Northern Trust Exhibition, Longboat Key Center for the Arts, Longboat Key, FL

1999-2002

Juror, Sarasota County Public Art Committee, Sarasota, FL

1999

Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

1998

First Place, "On a Smaller Scale", Art League of Manatee County, Brandenton, FL
First Place, Town of Longboat Key Exhibition, Longboat Key Center for the Arts, Longboat Key, FL

1997

Critics Choice, SNN Television Channel Six, Sarasota, FL

1995

Award of Excellence, Mainsail Arts Festival, St. Petersburg, FL

1989

Award of Excellence, Beaux Arts, Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami, FL
Grand Prize, Coconut Grove Art Festival, Miami, FL
US-Soviet Union Print Exchange, Irkutsk Museum of Art, USSR

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Disney Corporation, EuroDisney, France
Constructa US, Paris, France
Michael Saunders Corporation, Sarasota, Florida
Whole Foods Market, Inc., Austin, Texas
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Tropicana Corporation, Bradenton, Florida
Tampa Hillsborough Library, Tampa, Florida
City of Sarasota Public Art, Sarasota