Jesse Blake Amar: Resume
159 Plum Street
Greenville, PA 16125

 
Education
1996, MFA in Sculpture, The American University
1991, BA in Art (Sculpture), Swarthmore College
1983 - 1987, Northfield Mount Hermon School
Professional
2001 - present Associate Prof. & Chair, Thiel College
2000 - 2001 Lecturer, Thiel College
2000 - 2003 Instructor of Figure Sculpture in Clay, Chautauqua Institution
2001 & 2004 Honors Program External Examiner, Swarthmore College
1996 - present Guest Critiques, Slide Lectures & Demonstration Seminars,
American University, Haverford College,
Earlham College & Edinboro University
1999 - 2000 Instructor, Edinboro University
1996 Adjunct, American University
1994 - 1996 Teaching Assistant Fellowship in
Sculpture & Drawing
,
American University
1992 - 1994 Fine Arts Department Assistant,
Haverford College
1991 - 1992 Special Instructor in Sculpture,
Dartmouth College
Selected Exhibition Record
2004 *Arcadia, installation
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2004 3rd Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition,
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2003 2nd Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition,
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2003 Landscapes and Sculpture,
Meadville Council for the Arts, Meadville, PA
2003 Academic Alliance Group Exhibition,
Weyers Sampson Gallery, Thiel College, PA
2002 Artists React to 9/11 Invitational Exhibition,
CCVA Chautauqua, NY
2002 1st Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition,
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2001 2001 Juried Exhibition,
Meadville Council for the Arts, PA
2000 *Weyers Sampson Gallery,
Thiel College, Greenville, PA
2000 *Small Works,
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
1999 State of the Art Gallery,
Gloucester, MA
1997 *School Bus Studio Gallery,
Havertown, PA
1996 *Hess Gallery,
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
1996 *MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Watkins Gallery, American University
1996 Washington Figurative Sculptors (group show),
Washington D.C.
1996 Forced Proximity,
Foundry Gallery, Du Pont Circle, Washington D.C.
1995 Artist-to-Artist Invitational Exhibition,
Rock Creek Gallery, Washington D.C.
1995 Washington Figurative Sculptors (group show),
Washington D.C.
1995 National Society of Arts & Letters Finalist Exhibition, Washington D.C.
1994 Washington Figurative Sculptors (group show),
Washington D.C.
1993 Woodmere Art Museum,
West Chester, PA
1993 *Carl Youngman Gallery,
Governor Dummer Academy, Newbury, MA
1991 *Barrows Exhibition Rotunda,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1991 *B.A. Thesis Exhibition, List Gallery,
Swarthmore College, PA
*denotes one person exhibition