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:

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

 
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Jean Blackburn on horseback