Jean Blackburn
700 Myakka Road
Sarasota, Florida 34240
941.322.2716

Jean was born and grew up 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 College of Art and Design in Sarasota and Wildacres, NC. She is a Master Gardener and 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 EXHIBITONS:

2010
Florida Printmakers Invitational, Highlands Museum of Art, Sebring, FL
Bridge, Society of American Graphic Artists Exhibition, Fyre Gallery, Braidwood, Australia
Live Water, one person, Rhea Chile’s Studio @ Gulf and Pine, Anna Maria, FL
One-person exhibition, Ponte Vedre Cultural Center, Ponte Vedre, FL
Scheduled 2010 Water, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Clearmont, WY
2009
All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Two person exhibition, Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
Water and Wood, Two person exhibition, South Florida Museum of Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL
2008
Field and Stream, Allyn Gallup Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
One-person exhibition, Rhea Chiles’ Studio @ Gulf and Pine, Anna Maria, FL
Tinta Fresa, (group exhibition) Art Center Manatee, Bradenton, FL
2007
One-person exhibition, Mac B Project, Sarasota, FL
2006
Seven, (group exhibition) South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL
2006 and 05 One-person exhibitions, 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, MA
Currents in Printmaking, 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, FL
2000
One-person exhibition, Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR
Masters of Manatee, Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, FL
Society of American Graphic Artists, Steven Gang Gallery, 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, NY
A Fan Fantasy, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Animal Stories, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996
Evocations, (group show) University of Cincinnati Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
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 AWARDS AND HONORS:

2009 -Public Art Commission All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fl
2008 -Awarded Artist’s Residency, the Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
-Profiled on Gulfcoast Journal, PBS Channel WEDU, Tampa FL
2004 -City of Sarasota Percent for 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 -Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
1999-2002 -Juror , Sarasota County Public Art Committee, Sarasota, FL
1998 -First Place, On a Smaller Scale, Art League of Manatee County, Bradenton, FL
-First Place, Town of Longboat Key Exhibition, Longboat Key Art Center, 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, FL
Whole Foods Market Inc, Austin, Texas
Museum of South Florida Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Tropicana Corporation, Bradenton, FL
Tampa Hillsborough Library, Tampa, FL
City of Sarasota Public Art, Sarasota, FL
All Children’s Hosp. St Petersburg Fl