All content ©Margaret Sweeney, 2008

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ART  EDUCATION

Thomas Edison State College, BA Art, 1998
Rowan University, 1994 – 1998
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1994
Camden County Community College 1993 – 1994
Bucks County Community College 1982 – 1987
Fleisher Art Memorial, Homer Johnson 1981

 

CONTINUING ART EDUCATION

Fleisher Art Memorial, David Berger 2005-08; Stanley Bielen 2005-08; Giovanni Casedei 2006-08; Paul DuSold 2004-06; Frances Gallante 2005-06; Carolyn Pyfrom 2006-08.

Woodmere Art Museum, Frances Gallante 2007-08

The Stone Ridge B & B Workshop, Dublin, Pa, Still Life in Oil with Christine LaFuente, July 2006

San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, workshop with Frances Galante, June 2006
The Barn Studio, Millville, NJ, Plein Air with Pat Witt, summer 2006

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bo Bartlett, Master Class 2005
Doug Dawson, Pastel Workshop 2005

Woodmere Art Museum, Paul DuSold 2004-08
 


EXHIBITIONS

2008         Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Sketch Club Members Show
2008         Gallery 50, Light and Color (two person show)
2008         Philadelphia Sketch Club, Juried Show, Works on Paper
2007         Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Sketch Club Members Show
2007         Philadelphia Sketch Club, 144th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings
2007         Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia , PA (AWARDS)
2007         Twenty-Two Gallery Café, Philadelphia, PA, “Flowers, A Group Show”
2007         The Mad Batter Restaurant, “Better Than Slides” Two person show
2007         Annex Art Gallery at The Historic Smithville Mansion , “Women of the World”
2007         Philadelphia Sketch Club, “Works on Paper”
2006         Perkins Center for the Arts, Juried Show, “Works on Paper”
2006         Willingboro Art Association, Annual Juried Show
2006         Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey, Annual Juried Show
2006         “Nature and the Landscape”, A Regional Wetlands Competition, Gallery 50, (AWARD)

2006         Aquarian Project, Nature Center of Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey
2006         143rd Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2006         Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
2006         Art of the Flower, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2006         The Art of Access, The Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2005         The Art of Jazz, Peter McPhee Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ
2005         A Taste of Wine, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ, Members Juried Show
2005         Red, Mad Batter Restaurant, Cape May, New Jersey, three artists
2005         Woodmere Art Museum 65th Annual Juried Show
2004         Woodmere Art Museum Members Show
2004         Open Juried Show, CMCAL, Cape May Court House PAC
2004         Eudamonia, 10 Women Artists, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ
2004         Open Juried Show, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
2003         A Story of Survival, Solo Show, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ
2003         Alice Steer Wilson Invitiational, Chalfonte, Cape May, NJ
2003         A Touch of Humanity; The Artists, The Regulars, The Alternatives High Street Design, Millville, NJ
2003         Open Juried Show, CMCAL, Cape May Court House PAC
2003         The Lilies, Mad Batter Restaurant, Three Person Show, Cape May, NJ
2002         Evening Serenade Garden Party, Access to Art, The Doctors’ Inn, Cape May Court House, NJ
2002         28th Annual Cape May County Senior Citizens' Juried Art Show, Cape May Court House, NJ
2002         Open Juried Show, CMCAL, Cape May Court House, NJ
2001         Open Juried Show, CMCAL, Cape May Court House, NJ
1995         Egress Gallery, Philadelphia, Solo Show



AWARDS

Aurelius Renzetti Memorial Award for Oil Painting, Fleisher Art Memorial,  2007
Best Oil/Acrylic Painting, Regional Wetlands Competition, “Nature and the Landscape”, Gallery 50 2006
Special Merit Award for Portrait Painting, Fleisher Art Memorial,  2006
Best of Show, 28th Annual Cape May County Senior Citizen’s Juried Show 2002
Nina Scull Award for Figure Painting, CMCAL Open Juried Show, 
Cape May Court House, NJ 2004
Honorable Mention, Woodmere Art Museum Members Show 2004
 



AFFILIATIONS

Cape May County Art League, President 2003, 2004 and 2006
Ocean City Arts Center
Ocean City Fine Arts League
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts
The American Artists Professional League
Woodmere Art Museum
Represented by:
Patina Gallery, Route 9, Clermont, New Jersey

4 Walls Gallery, 501 High Street, Millville, New Jersey
 

All content ©Margaret Sweeney, 2008